{"id":162399,"date":"2023-06-23T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=162399"},"modified":"2023-06-23T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:31:51","slug":"the-nova-scotia-talent-trust-receives-its-largest-donation-to-help-emerging-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-nova-scotia-talent-trust-receives-its-largest-donation-to-help-emerging-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nova Scotia Talent Trust receives it&#8217;s largest donation to help emerging artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nova Scotia Talent Trust (NSTT) was selected as the recipient of a $10,000 donation from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.100womenhfx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 100+ Women Who Care Halifax<\/a> on June 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The NSTT was nominated by a member of the 100+ Women Who Care Halifax along with Nourish Nova Scotia and Margret\u2019s House (Feeding Others of Dartmouth Society).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrea Urquhart, the executive director at the NSTT says the funds will go to establishing new scholarships for emerging artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAll of our scholarships are open to any emerging artists,\u201d Urquhart says, adding that t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he charity has helped artists from as young as 10-years-old to artists that are 64-years-old and there are no age restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The scholarships help emerging artists in Nova Scotia with anything needed to help them reach success, such as tuition for their studies, equipment or even travel expenses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The NSTT started in 1944 to help artists of all avenues with any assistance they may need to reach their goals. The organization's first recipient was\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Portia White, Urquhart says. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">White, born in Truro, NS, was the first Black Canadian concert singer to win international acclaim. Her scholarship from NSTT helped to support White in her studies in New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since then, they have assisted in helping over 1,000 Nova Scotians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CKDU story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nova Scotia Talent Trust (NSTT) was selected as the recipient of a $10,000 donation from the 100+ Women Who Care Halifax on June 13. The NSTT was nominated by a member of the 100+ Women Who Care Halifax along with Nourish Nova Scotia and Margret\u2019s House (Feeding Others of Dartmouth Society). Andrea Urquhart, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":162613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[27469,27472,27470,27468,27471],"radio":[13058],"origine":[274,300,278],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163172,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162399\/revisions\/163172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162399"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=162399"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=162399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}