A special, one-time program created on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
The Canada Council funded New Chapter as part of a historic re-investment in the arts. The highly-competitive program attracted over 2,000 applications – from which 200+ exceptional projects have been selected. Together, these projects showcase the diversity of artistic expression across our country and will create a lasting legacy for all Canadians.
These are three of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. With this $35M investment, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
Ces projets sont les trois des 200 projets exceptionnels soutenus par le programme Nouveau chapitre du Conseil des arts du Canada. Avec cet investissement 35 M$, le Conseil des arts appuie la création et le partage des arts au cœur de nos vies et dans l’ensemble du Canada.
Cris Derksen – The Orchestral Powwow Project
with members from Symphony NS
For her third studio album, Orchestral Powwow, Cris Derksen paired up with Tribal Spirit Music and traveled, researched, worked and collaborated with powwow groups to create a cinematically symphonic and truly Indigenous album. She’s a classically trained cellist and composer whose music braids the traditional and contemporary. Derksen weaves her classical background and her Indigenous ancestry together with new school electronics to create genre-defying music. In her words “what excites me most about this project is bringing our Indigenous music to the centre of the European model and we as Indigenous artists lead the way with our drums and our heart beat to create new forms of music.”
Onelight Theatre – Asheq: Ritual Music to Cure a Lover
The Mariachi Ghost – Rencor Vivo
featuring local dance artists from Nova Scotia
Winnipeg based music sensation, The Mariachi Ghost, has been commissioned by the Prismatic Arts Festival to develop a new theatre/music hybrid performance: Rencor Vivo. In Rencor Vivo, The Mariachi Ghost brings to life Juan Rulfo’s novel, Pedro Paramo, in a spectacle of theatre, music, dance, and video projection. Inspired by magical realist literature, Rencor Vivo is a visceral story told using the local lowbrow slang of Rulfo’s homeland. The style is a perfect mix of tradition and modernity.
The Mariachi Ghost are coming to Halifax to develop Rencor Vivo. They will perform excerpts from the production and a concert of their unique music. The full production of Rencor Vivo will debut at Prismatic 2018!
