2017 Winner & Finalists

The Deception of Livvy Higgs

Creator: Donna Morrissey (Writer) Nominator: Diane Turbide Raised in Newfoundland and now living in Nova Scotia, Donna Morrissey has written five well-received novels. This one

Polyphonic Lively

Winner of the 2017 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award Creator: Dinuk Wijeratne (Composer) Nominator: Christos Hatzis This 13-minute large ensemble composition was

Werewolf

Creators: Ashley McKenzie (Director) and Nelson MacDonald (Producer) Nominator: Cory Bowles The fiction feature film Werewolf is about two young methadone addicts in Cape Breton.

The Nova Scotia Masterworks Awards Foundations operates in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) people first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources but recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations. We are all treaty people.

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