On Friday, October 23, at 2 pm there has been a opportunity organised for choral leaders to meet virtually with Dr. Strang, our Chief Medical Health Officer, to discuss guidelines around group singing in Nova Scotia. If you would like to participate please fill out this form. If you have any questions you would like submitted before hand or if you cannot attend and have a question please do fill in the form.
Check out The Aeolian Singers in CBC’s What Singing in a Choir Looks Like in a Pandemic. The NSCF is so excited to see choirs returning to rehearsals while taking the necessary precautions to gather safely.
For more information on the Government of Nova Scotia’s and the Nova Scotia Choral Federation’s guidelines for choirs, click here.
45th Annual General Meeting
Friday, October 30, 2020
7:00 pm
Via Zoom – Please register here in advance to receive a link to the AGM
Election of Officers
Each year the Nominating Committee selects a slate of nominees for their individual skills, expertise and their
willingness to devote the time required for committee work and Federation business. The committee also strives for
the widest possible provincial representation. If you are interested in nominating someone to our Board of Directors the deadline for nominations is October 16, 2020.
The procedure is as follows:
Members will submit motions of nominations any time up to 14 days prior to the Annual General Meeting. Motions
must be made in writing, signed by the mover and the seconder, and delivered to the Federation office. The nominee
must deliver signed acceptance by the deadline and provide biographical information suitable for reproduction or
distribution to Annual General Meeting delegates.
The Nova Scotia Choral Federation (NSCF) is excited to congratulate Edward Enman for winning the Canadian Chamber Choir’s (CCC) 2020 Compostion Competition: Responding to the Pandemic. Edward Enman has been actively involved in the NSCF’s programming, beginning as a participant in many of our programs and later as regular staff. at our Sing Summer camps. Enman was also the winner of the NSCF’s Young Composer’s Competition in 2015 for his piece, Time’s Small Space.
To read the official announcement shared by the CCC, click here.
The Nova Scotia Choral Federation would like to extend a thank you to SopranoJoan for sharing her patterns for Singer’s Masks. Throughout the pandemic, SopranoJoan has released three versions of her singer’s masks patterns as well as instructional YouTube videos on how to make them. If you do not have access to a sewing machine, we have linked an option for online purchasing.
To access the pattern (provided in either English or French) used in SopranoJoan’s video above, click the corresponding link below:
Singer’s Mask (English)
Singer’s Mask (French)
To purchase a singer’s mask based on the same pattern, click here.
On August 19th, Choral Canada, along with Dr. Juliette O’Keeffe, presented a webinar on Risks and Precautions for Choirs. As the choral season begins, it is important for boards, artistic staff and choristers to be aware of proper safety protocols as we gather to sing.
The slide show from the presentation can be accessed by clicking here.
For further information, please read the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health resources for choral singing by clicking here.
Is your choir looking to connect with a Canadian composer in some way this season? Apply for a micro-grant to make it happen!
The 2020 Laura Hawley Micro-grants for Canadian Choirs promote building relationships with Canadian choral composers, conductors, educators, and publishers through workshops, commissions, and other initiatives that focus on Canadian choral music.
Funding from these grants can be used in one or more of the following ways:
Applications are now open; the deadline to apply is September 15.
As the National Arts Service Organization for choral music in Canada, Choral Canada is helping raise funds for this important and timely study by the University of Alberta. Choral Canada believes this study will help everyone, including policy makers, be more informed about choral singing in relation to COVID-19. Your tax-deductible donations will help fund Canadian research that will also contribute to a growing body of world-wide scientific knowledge around singing. Every dollar donated will be given directly to the University of Alberta’s study and all donors will be acknowledged on the Choral Canada website. Please donate now to this critical Canadian research study.
To make a donation or to read more about this study, click here.
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