When scenographer Josef Svoboda visited Halifax 50 years ago, he left a treasure trove of models, crates, and photographs. Scenography encompasses all aspects of design in a performance. The Fountain School owns 6 original Joseph Svoboda models and dozens of framed images of various productions he designed between 1958 and 1973. These were exhibited in the Dalhousie Arts Centre in 1974, with Svoboda in attendance. 50 years later, his work will come to life again in Halifax but this time just down the block at our beautiful new Fountain School of Performing Arts building’s Cathrine Steele Atrium. In a unique partnership, Dalhousie’s School of Architecture Peter Henry as curator with senior architecture freeLAB students as designers/makers, built the exhibition in the Dalhousie Arts Centre, supervised by Fountain School faculty Torin Buzek. The evening will also feature live performances by Fountain School faculty and students, inspired by well-known operas for which Svoboda designed sets. Arguably Josef Svoboda was the most influential scenographer of his time. Working from behind the Iron Curtain, he designed and produced numerous plays, ballets, and operas whose innovative use of space and technology has been highly influential to designers, even today. His lighting innovations led to a shift in the perception of light on stage internationally. Many of the productions he collaborated on transcended traditional theatre and foreshadowed contemporary multimedia artistic forms. Without the collaboration and encouragement of the Fountain School’s Dr. Jure Gantar and Torin Buzek and Dalhousie’s School of Architecture’s James Forren and Emanuel Jannasch, this exhibition/celebration would not be possible. It represents the work of Adjunct Professor/Architect Peter Henry, Theatre Arts Instructor Torin Buzek, and Dal Architecture FreeLAB students: Sophie Fitzgerald, Zamani Millar, Thomas Emerson, Ryan Torosantucci, Jamie Spidell, Camila Lima, Haley White and James Smith. This exciting collaboration is made possible by the Traves Performance Excellence Fund