Preserving Cultural Heritage in Rural Nova Scotia

This project will result in an online site showcasing Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre’s archives. These archives include historic materials such as programs, promotional materials, promptbooks, and other theatrical ephemera. Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre is a bastion of rural Nova Scotia theatre. This digital archive will make these materials available to the community and to researchers: right now, these materials are only available on site in the basement of the Bauer theatre–and only a handful of people know what is there in the first place. The digital project will help showcase the important work of Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre, past and present, emphasizing the people who create arts culture in rural Nova Scotia. This project will benefit researchers in fields such as history by making previously unknown materials findable; will benefit the theatre by highlighting their work and bringing people to (and back to) their artistic home; and will benefit the community by reflecting our shared culture.

Faculty Supervisor:

Laura Estill

Student:

Partner:

Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

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