Melany Nugent-Noble Named Executive Director of Nocturne Festival in Halifax
Artist and newly appointed Nocturne Festival executive director Melany Nugent-Noble holds some of the beacons employed for her participatory artwork When it is necessary to stand still. (Image courtesy Melany Nugent-Noble)
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The accomplished artist, arts administrator and educator stepped into her new role with the festival in August.
Artist (MFA 2015) was recently appointed executive director of the in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
鈥淲e are 鈥 thrilled to announce Melany Nugent-Noble (she/her) as the incoming Executive Director,鈥 reads a from the festival.
Melany has long maintained a wide-ranging commitment to the arts through her work as an educator, volunteer, and administrator. Most recently, Melany served as assistant director of the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in Kelowna, and as president of arts-advocacy non-profit CARFAC BC.
鈥淚鈥檝e had many balls in the air, and this is a position that allows me to consolidate all of them,鈥 she told me via video chat in July. 鈥淭o take everything that I鈥檝e been doing with CARFAC, with Alternator, all my work with technology, and then consolidate everything into one role.鈥
Melany鈥檚 work in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) space includes volunteering with Canada Learns Code, where she teaches coding skills to marginalized individuals. Her art practice has also involved exploring the poetics of technology, including in recent works such as Invisible Threads are the Strongest Ties, which showed in 2021 at the Nocturne Festival.
鈥淢y experience with the Nocturne Festival and Halifax鈥檚 art community was a magical experience for me,鈥 Melany says in Nocturne鈥檚 press release. 鈥淚 appreciate how much community engagement there was at the festival, and it was a major part of my decision to relocate to to Kjipuktuk/Halifax.鈥
She stepped into her new position with Nocturne on Aug. 17, 2022, after moving cross-country. She is currently 鈥渟ettling into a new routine and being a bit of a sponge trying to soak up being in a new place and learn the new role,鈥 she writes via email, adding, 鈥淚t's very exciting!鈥
The will take place in Halifax from Oct. 13 to Oct. 15.
Read our past stories on Melany including her 2021 participatory work When it is necessary to stand still, and her recent recognition with a Lieutenant Governor鈥檚 Arts and Music Award.
and to keep up with her work.
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