By Ruth Tecle A place for the Carleton University Art Gallery is one of the considerations for the university’s board of governors as they deliberate the purchase of the Dominion-Chalmers United Church. The possible acquisition of the Centretown church is the focus of a feasibility study
On Canada Day, 2017, while thousands waited in lineups in the pelting rain for a spot on Parliament Hill, someone was watching from a fourth floor window across Wellington Street. That someone was the well-known American photographer Stephen Wilkes and he was watching and photographing hundreds
When the Sultans of String's Christmas Caravan takes the stage at the Shenkman Arts Centre Thursday night they'll be bringing with them a familiar face to Ottawa music fans. Rebecca Campbell will be part of an evening of music from around the world: from Quebecois fiddle
By Rosa Saba On Saturday nights at Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club in Ottawa, the basement is usually packed with people for the late show featuring some of Canada’s best professional comedians. But, on Wednesdays, it’s a different scene. New Talent Night is a chance for amateurs and
If there is culture club at Ottawa City Hall, Jeff Leiper is a card-carrying member. The Kitchissippi councillor is an enthusiastic champion of Ottawa's music industry and is working with the Ottawa Music Industry Coalition and other stakeholders on a strategy for local music. He's read a
This Saturday at GigSpace, one of Ottawa's most innovative and active creators, the percussionist, inventor, visual and sonic artist Jesse Stewart, will perform a concert of improvised music with the 87 year old Canadian artist, experimental filmmaker and musician Michael Snow. The two have worked
By Ruth Tecle The worlds of art and science come together in an exhibition at the Carleton University Art Gallery that highlights the hidden history of Canadian women in the field of botany. The exhibition, HERbarium, is a gendered nod to the term’s technical meaning — a
Here's how music gets made: Last summer the soaring young Canadian classical keyboard star Charles Richard-Hamelin performed a Brahms piano concerto at the Lanaudiere Festival with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Seated right beside Richard-Hamelin was the MSO's concertmaster Andrew Wan. It was a memorable evening, Wan
The First Lady of Song, the Queen of Jazz, or Lady Ella
Every year since 2010 an exhibition called Figureworks celebrates representations of the human form by artists from Ottawa, from across the country and from around the world. The exhibition runs until Dec. 2 at St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts. ARTSFILE got the low down
