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Proud to be part of Nova Scotia's vibrant arts community, the Fountain School prioritizes connecting its students with local and international guest artists. You'll learn from a wide variety of performing artists, technical theatre professionals, designers and cinema and media theorists.
Special thanks to Debut Atlantic, Cecilia Concerts, Neptune Theatre, Scotia Festival of Music, Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (LAMP), the Prismatic Festival, and Symphony Nova Scotia for their ongoing partnerships.
Check back often to get inspired and see what our season of learning opportunities has to offer.
Collective Effervescence: The Magic of Multi-Person Puppetry
Puppetry Masterclass
Nov. 6
1:00-2:30 pm 聽
Studio 2 | Dal Arts Centre
open to the publicA practical theatre masterclass with Logan Robins, exploring the power and potential of collaborative puppetry. Open to all skill levels!
Discover the fundamentals of puppetry, learn about the history of large-scale puppet projects (like The Herds), and collaborate to craft and breathe life into a multi person puppet.
Logan 鈥淟o鈥� Robins (@loganrobins) is an award-winning queer environmental theatre maker, puppeteer, director, science communicator, and Artistic Director of The Unnatural Disaster Theatre Co.
Lo performs around the world in theatres, on glaciers, and everywhere in between. He is currently based between Mi鈥檏ma鈥檏i (colonially known as Nova Scotia, Canada) and Edinburgh, Scotland. Some notable recent projects include: Puppeteering on The Loch Ness Monster at the opening ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games, a nearly sold out run of their fortune telling puppet show The Augur at The Edinburgh Fringe, and stage managing a North American tour of Mermaid Theatre鈥檚 Billy Goats Gruff & Other Tales. In the summer of 2025 Logan performed as a puppeteer from Southern Spain to the Arctic Circle with 鈥淭he Herds鈥�- an international climate action project by The Walk Productions.
Logan is passionate about devised theatre, mask, puppetry, and outdoor site-specific theatre that connects audiences to the natural world. As a theatre maker they believe that prioritising collective creation and community care are key to creating art that forges pathways of empathy towards others, ourselves, and the planet.
Voice Masterclass with Jane Archibald
Nov. 16, 11:30-1:30pm
Joseph Strug Concert Hall, 1385 Seymour Street, Halifax
free and open to the public
What happens in a DalVoice masterclass?
Come watch voice students perform and get live coaching, tips, and feedback from Jane Archibald, one of Canada's leading Soprano Voices.
From San Francisco to the Vienna State Opera, from Zerbinetta to Salome, Canadian soprano Jane Archibald is known for mastering the most relentless of tessituras with ease, grace, and breathtaking artistry in roles such as Daphne, Mathilde, Donna Anna, Lucia and Konstanze to name just a few. After beginning her career in her native Canada, she became an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera. She then joined the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera, debuting many coloratura roles. She has since gone on to perform regularly in the celebrated opera houses and concert halls of the world.
Her career thus far has taken her to the Metropolitan Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Paris Opera, La Scala Milan, Teatro San Carlo, Carnegie Hall, Barbican London, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Zurich Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company, major orchestras in London, Atlanta, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Madrid, Hamburg, Tel Aviv, Cincinnati, Salzburg and opera houses and festivals in Lyon, Glyndebourne, Geneva, Hyogo, Copenhagen, Toulouse, Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence and Santa Fe, among others.
Jane is a Juno-award winner who appears on numerous CD and DVD recordings, most recently in the celebrated release of Bernstein鈥檚 Candide, with Marin Alsop and the London Symphony Orchestra. More information can be found at Jane is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her husband, tenor Kurt Streit and their family.
DalVoice Masterclass Series: Come get Inspired!
Through 17吃瓜网在线鈥� DalVoice Masterclass Series, our singers benefit from internationally renowned vocal artists, teachers and directors technical and interpretive expertise, and professional experience. These masterclasses have an impact on our singers鈥� vocal and performance development, introduce our students to professionals in the field, and expose them to a broad range of repertoire.