Improv games for students start tonight in Halifax

The Nova Scotia High School Improv Games, running tonight through Saturday at St. Matthew’s Church, Barrington Street, Halifax, are open to the public as students compete for a slot at the national festival in April at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa.

All shows start at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $5 for students and $7 regular admission. Preliminary rounds are tonight through Friday; a wildcard round and finals are on Saturday.

Through teamwork, creativity, spontaneity and theatre skills, students make up every night’s show with audience suggestions inspiring the direction of each scene. There are moments of laughter, followed by sincere and genuine moments of real life.

Art Infusion features work by Nova Scotia students

The Art Infusion Exhibit opens tonight, 6 to 8 p.m., at Horton High School, Greenwich.

This show features students’ artwork, grades Primary through 9 from Horton High School, L.E. Shaw Elementary School, Gaspereau Elementary School, New Minas Elementary School, Port Williams Elementary School, Evangeline Middle School and Wolfville Elementary and Middle School.

This project was directed by Terry Havlis Drahos and funded by the Nova Scotia Educational Facilities Society.

The opening features music by Horton High School students.

SNS takes on oboe concerto, Haffner Symphony of Mozart

Symphony Nova Scotia performs two of Mozart’s masterpieces in Suzanne Plays Mozart on Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Rebecca Cohn Auditorium.

Conducted by Bernhard Gueller, this concert will feature Symphony Nova Scotia’s principal oboe Suzanne Lemieux performing Mozart’s Oboe Concerto.

Symphony Nova Scotia will also perform Mozart’s Haffner Symphony, Three Places in New England, by Charles Ives and Jacques Ibert’s Divertissement.

There will be a free pre-concert chat at 6:45 p.m. Tickets range from $29 to $52. Call 494-3820 or visit www.symphonynovascotia.ca.

Festival, fundraiser benefit White Rabbit arts residency

The Black Rabbit Festival and a fundraiser come to an end with a celebration Friday at 8 p.m. at Eyelevel Gallery, 2156 Gottingen St., Halifax.

Bids close at 9:30 p.m. for the silent auction fundraiser, featuring work by 26 local and international artists including Enrique Ferreol, Halloway Jones, Lauren Scruten, Rebecca Roher, Emily Davidson, Josh Collins, Kathryn Johnston, Amy Belanger, Georgina Megans, Andrew Hunt, Carly Butler, Madeline Richards, Elizabeth Johnson, Corey Isenor, Penney Smart, Emma Fitzgerald, Andrew Maize, Whitefeather Hunter, Allie Kane, Tom Young and Chris Foster.

Black Rabbit is a fundraiser for White Rabbit, a week-long summer arts residency in Upper Economy.

Baroque music featured in Acadia’s Garden Room

Acadia’s Sunday Music in the Garden Room ends its 2011-12 season of free concerts on Sunday at 2 p.m.

The artists are pianist Jennifer King, from Acadia’s school of music, as well as Curtis Dietz on trumpet and piccolo trumpet, and oboe player Brian James, both from Symphony Nova Scotia.

There will be two baroque concertos, by Giuseppe Torelli for trumpet and piano and by Benedetto Marcello for oboe and piano, followed by Brilliante on Rule Britannia for trumpet and piano by John Hartmann.

After intermission are Leroy Anderson’s A Trumpeter’s Lullaby, a prelude and movement from Children’s Corner Suite by Claude Debussy, Gymnopedie No. III for oboe and piano by Erik Satie and Entracte pour oboe et harpe by Jacques Ibert.

Finally, a concerto for two oboes by Antonio Vivaldi arranged for trumpet, oboe and piano reduction.

Students invited to submit poster ideas for Canada Day

Each year students from five to 18 are invited to take part in the Canada Day Poster Challenge by designing a poster that illustrates their pride in Canada and in being Canadian. This year’s theme is 1812: The Fight for Canada.

The deadline for submitting a poster, along with an entry form, is March 9, details online (http://bit.ly/wn8yhq).