{"id":661064,"date":"2026-05-10T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661064\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:08:12","slug":"artsnl-celebrates-local-excellence-with-new-scholarship-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661064\/","title":{"rendered":"ArtsNL Celebrates Local Excellence with New Scholarship Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daniel Burton (left) and Lauren Patten (right)<\/p>\n

The recipients of the 2024 and 2025 ArtsSmarts Scholarship<\/a> program have been named by ArtsNL and Equinor.<\/p>\n

The Equinor ArtsSmarts Scholarship winner for 2024 is Daniel Burton of Petty Harbour, who is an active member of WritersNL<\/a>, and has already written four\u00a0novels and a collection of short stories.\u00a0 The Holy Heart graduate has an IB certificate in English Literature\u00a0and is\u00a0a University of New Brunswick Currie Scholar.<\/p>\n

The 2025 scholarship recipient is actor and singer Lauren Patten of St. John\u2019s. She is currently pursuing her BFA in Theatre and Performance Creation at York University.\u00a0 Her previous credits include Legally Blonde, I Forgive You and When the Angel of Death Says How Are You.<\/p>\n

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Summer Bennett (via Youtube)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, ArtsNL\u2019s One-Time 45th Anniversary Scholarship has been awarded to singer-songwriter Summer Bennett<\/a> of Paradise. The Mount Pearl Senior High graduate has already released her debut EP, One Thousand Fahrenheit, produced by Grammy Award winner Greg Wells and is now developing her first full-length album with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Daniel Burton (left) and Lauren Patten (right) The recipients of the 2024 and 2025 ArtsSmarts Scholarship program…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-661064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}