On Feb. 13 and 14, the Big Bang festival returns to the National Arts Centre for the third year. This
Ottawa Chamberfest is offering a gift of music to warm up this bleak winter. The second half of the 2020-21 concert
More than 600 public libraries across Canada will be taking part in a first-ever national e-book club when the new
This is a brave and important step taken by the NAC's English Theatre. Here is some of the announcement: The National Arts
By Natasha Gauthier After weeks of exciting, inclusive truly diverse programming, NACO can be forgiven for presenting one ultra-traditional, all-Beethoven concert.
By Natasha Gauthier In her video introduction to her 2008 piece What Keeps Me Awake, Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón describes
By Natasha Gauthier I’m not going to lie: sitting in a concert hall for the first time in eight months was
By Natasha Gauthier After a COVID-induced absence of almost eight months, the National Arts Centre Orchestra returned to Southam Hall Saturday
COVID-19 has forced many changes on the performing arts — some devastating some imaginative. Necessity being the mother of invention
In this grim year, we are all getting a lesson in sorrow from the loss of our freedoms and the
You'd think Carissa Klopoushak had enough on her plate. She's a violinist with the NAC Orchestra. She's a co-funder of the
The COVID clouds are parting and Ottawa Chamberfest is set to shine some musical light on the fall season. Traditionally
After 13 years as artistic director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society (OCMS), Roman Borys will step down from his
Wherever Dame Evelyn Glennie goes she picks up things with an eye to making music with them. "At the moment," she
You usually hear “please don’t touch the art,” but, in this case, please do. Press that button. Open that hatch.
The bewildering explanation as to why the National Gallery of Canada cancelled a long-planned exhibition of Old Masters paintings from
The National Gallery of Canada says it decided not to host an exhibition of works from the collection of the
The main summer exhibition of Old Masters planned for the National Gallery of Canada has been mysteriously cancelled and that’s
How, one might ask of an art exhibition about environmental responsibility that has travelled the world, did all that art
Jodi Cobb's fascination with the world started on a desert island off the coast of Iran. The island was the
I live in the noisy heart of downtown Ottawa, and once, while visiting my parents in their comparatively rural home,
Official war artists have been following Canadian forces for more than a century, and that’s a long time to create
To start, a short, sweet story: “Russell Yuristy was the first contemporary artist I knew,” recalls Alexandra Badzak, who grew
Sarah Hatton grew up in Barbados and considered herself to be “somewhat of an expert” on the coral reefs that
Ottawa photo-artist Christine Fitzgerald is heading to the Canadian embassy in Washington. You might say her posting will be long. Fitzgerald
While the public was beating up OC Transpo at City Hall on Thursday, over at the glittering Ottawa Art Gallery
Sometimes, the precise moment when a work of art began can be known, even if the full concept takes years
When Nadia Myre was putting the title on the exhibition of tondos called Meditations on Black Lake, she says she was
More than 600 public libraries across Canada will be taking part in a first-ever national e-book club when the new
In this grim year, we are all getting a lesson in sorrow from the loss of our freedoms and the
A decade ago Ottawa was a different place. No light rail troubles then. Stephen Harper was prime minister and Jim
The fact that Julie S. Lalonde has built a career as a successful advocate and activist in the fight against
Ottawa journalist and historian Mark Bourrie is the winner of the 2020 RBC Taylor prize for non fiction for his
Jesse Thistle's memoir From the Ashes has had an interesting impact. All of a sudden he has become sort of
A few days before this interview Desmond Cole went to a huge LCBO in downtown Toronto in the middle of
Daniel Levitin can remember the very first record he ever bought. That might not seem to be much of anything
While the public was beating up OC Transpo at City Hall on Thursday, over at the glittering Ottawa Art Gallery
This is a pretty exciting time to lead Library and Archives Canada. The repository of the many treasures that make up
A few years ago, Joanna Pocock left her home in London, England and headed to Montana in the American West
The narrator of Michael Blouin’s new novel, Skin House (Anvil Press), is never named despite hogging most of the ink
Sarah Jennings wasn't at all sure that she wanted to tackle a second edition of Art and Politics, her intensive
In 1956, five Christian missionaries and their families travelled to Ecuador intending to convert a rain-forest people who had not
The connections between Canada and the Netherlands dot this city every spring as tens of thousands of tulips bloom across
You couldn’t ask for a better way to celebrate Leap Day than with the exuberant extra-ness of New York City’s
This year's list of lifetime laureates of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards includes a major Indigenous actor, a Chinese Canadian
In our bodies, the nerves that connect our muscles and organs to our brains are coated with a sheath. This
The dancer/choreographer/performance artist Tedd Robinson has been putting works together through the lens of modern dance for some 45 years. These
Dana Gingras likes those liminal spaces She finds inspiration for the dance works she creates in between things. It is a
Twenty-five years ago, Wouter Van Looy was a violinist involved in theatrical productions in his native Belgium when he had
The cowboy is an iconic figure of the great plains of North America. In South America, on the pampas that
Most people's perceptions of the L. Frank Baum story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz have been shaped by the
The world is in a disordered state with even the United States going its own way without much regard to
The Wizard of Oz has been presented in many forms. First as a novel written by L. Frank Baum and
Battleground, the latest offering by Canadian dance icon Louise Lecavalier, is described in the program notes as taking place in
Well, for someone who doesn't exist, you seem in fine form! From The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino • Louise Lecavalier created the
Greta Hodgkinson is a planner. She thinks ahead. She even started talking about stepping down from her role as a
On Feb. 13 and 14, the Big Bang festival returns to the National Arts Centre for the third year. This
Ottawa Chamberfest is offering a gift of music to warm up this bleak winter. The second half of the 2020-21 concert
By Natasha Gauthier After weeks of exciting, inclusive truly diverse programming, NACO can be forgiven for presenting one ultra-traditional, all-Beethoven concert.
By Natasha Gauthier In her video introduction to her 2008 piece What Keeps Me Awake, Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón describes
By Natasha Gauthier I’m not going to lie: sitting in a concert hall for the first time in eight months was
By Natasha Gauthier After a COVID-induced absence of almost eight months, the National Arts Centre Orchestra returned to Southam Hall Saturday
COVID-19 has forced many changes on the performing arts — some devastating some imaginative. Necessity being the mother of invention
You'd think Carissa Klopoushak had enough on her plate. She's a violinist with the NAC Orchestra. She's a co-funder of the
The COVID clouds are parting and Ottawa Chamberfest is set to shine some musical light on the fall season. Traditionally
After 13 years as artistic director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society (OCMS), Roman Borys will step down from his
Wherever Dame Evelyn Glennie goes she picks up things with an eye to making music with them. "At the moment," she
The annual Kiwanis Music Festival will be postponed until May as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The festival's
If Donald Trump ever bans flights from the U.K. to the U.S., Jessica Cottis could consider getting there on her
Ottawa singer-songwriter Lynne Hanson tours Europe a lot. She has fans there and has built up an important set of
On Feb. 13 and 14, the Big Bang festival returns to the National Arts Centre for the third year. This
This is a brave and important step taken by the NAC's English Theatre. Here is some of the announcement: The National Arts
When Bronwyn Steinberg launched TACTICS in 2013, she was responding to what she saw as a critical deficit in Ottawa’s
It seemed appropriate that Daisy, Sean Devine’s politically charged drama rooted in the American election of 1964, opened at the
Coronavirus concerns are closing places such as the Louvre in Paris and La Scala in Milan, along with shuttered schools,
Donna Vivino has a rescue cat with a big personality named Blaze. She also helps a local centre care for
If you dreamed up a great idea and there was a market hungry for it, wouldn’t you want to make
This year's list of lifetime laureates of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards includes a major Indigenous actor, a Chinese Canadian
You think you’re on the side of right when it comes to polarized issues like immigration and freedom of speech?
Twenty-five years ago, Wouter Van Looy was a violinist involved in theatrical productions in his native Belgium when he had
One of the greatest jazz guitarists ever born; barely able to write a cheque, let alone manage his life; strangled
What does it mean to be a hero? Where do stories go when no one reads them? Why would a
The names Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore don’t ring a bell? Fifteen years ago, they didn’t for Ottawa’s Sarah Waisvisz,
It’s a show about the critical importance of imagination in life, but Jake Runeckles and Andrew Iles need to do
On Feb. 13 and 14, the Big Bang festival returns to the National Arts Centre for the third year. This
After 13 years as artistic director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society (OCMS), Roman Borys will step down from his
The annual Kiwanis Music Festival will be postponed until May as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The festival's
The National Arts Centre has cancelled all performance until April 5, the centre said in a statement on Friday morning. They
The bewildering explanation as to why the National Gallery of Canada cancelled a long-planned exhibition of Old Masters paintings from
The National Gallery of Canada says it decided not to host an exhibition of works from the collection of the
Coronavirus concerns are closing places such as the Louvre in Paris and La Scala in Milan, along with shuttered schools,
This year's list of lifetime laureates of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards includes a major Indigenous actor, a Chinese Canadian
Alessia Cara is the runaway leader in JUNO nominations this year with six, but Ottawa is also represented on the
While the public was beating up OC Transpo at City Hall on Thursday, over at the glittering Ottawa Art Gallery
The world is in a disordered state with even the United States going its own way without much regard to
When Sasha Suda started her work as the 11th executive director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, she
Not since the battle over Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire has a controversy hit the National Gallery as hard as
There are words that are, at times, derogatory. But such is the power of language that you can take those
