
The first-ever StART Festival highlighted brief original pieces by artists of a variety of disciplines who were enrolled at post secondary institutions in Halifax. The festival was founded by Alanna Griffin and Karen Gross, two fourth year theatre students at Dalhousie and King’s, with support from the Bus Stop Theatre’s Clare Waque.
March 20th a pop-up career fair for emerging artists took place, with representatives from Atlantic Fringe Festival, Artists’ Legal Information Society, Department of Communities Culture and Heritage, Atlantic Filmmaker’s COOP, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, and Dance Nova Scotia.
On Friday, the 21st, things got underway featuring performances by Tamsin Andrews (theatre), Daniel Crawford (film), Devin Casario (film), James Duff (music), Henri Gielis and Liam Fair (theatre), and Claire Ahern (music).
Saturday the 22nd featured performances from Daniel Crawford (film), Devin Casario (film), Thomas Hoy (music), Cambria Huff (dance), Amy Hurley (theatre), Brandon MacDougall (spoken word), Maya Pathak (poetry), Malia Rogers (music).
The StArt Festival, now inclusive to all emerging artists regardless of post-secondary status, is an annual festival that still goes on.