In Wayne Johnston’s world the novels are mythic and the characters come back. His latest novel is just that. First Snow, Last Light is the latest in a trilogy that began with The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and continued with The Custodian of Paradise. The glue that
Here are some must-see shows in classical music and dance this fall. Classical: Sept. 6: Daniel Tselyakov is the son of the excellent Russian-Canadian pianist and pedagogue Alexander Tselyakov. And he is one of several young musicians in a deep pipeline of keyboard talent coming out of
Twenty years ago, Sean Wilson was a 22 year old graphic designer working in a struggling business when his father Neil proposed something strange. “We had to do a writers festival. I thought that was the silliest thing I had ever heard. I just couldn’t imagine
This will be a hectic fall for the members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra with a major tour of Western Canada on the schedule along with a major festival that embraces the Ideas of North. As well the nearly 50-year-old orchestra has begun the process
Canada’s storytelling community has lost one of its leading figures with the death of Lanark County’s Jan Andrews. In a Facebook post on the weekend, her partner Jennifer Cayley wrote that “Jan is gone. Just after 10:30 on Saturday Sept. 2nd on what might possibly be
A few years ago, Roland Graham, the music director of Southminster United Church, acquired a venerable but still very viable Heintzman grand piano. He raised the funds to restore the inner workings of the instrument and, once that was completed, he started the Master Piano Recital
Nina Berkhout is an Ottawa novelist and poet. Her second novel, The Mosaic, has just been published in Canada by Goundwood Books. It is an exploration of the impact of war on the men and women who fight and on the journeys we all take
You can now see the (blank) of new Canadian painting at the National Gallery, and there you can decide how to fill in that (blank). Is it the best of new Canadian painting? The newest, the freshest? Is it the cutting edge of new Canadian painting
For the first time in 35 years, John Gomez will not be picking up the baton this fall to conduct the Ottawa Youth Orchestra. Gomez has passed that task to the well-known local violinist and violist Donnie Deacon who fully assumes his duties with an intense
As the CityFolk festival settles into Lansdowne Park, the event known as Marvest continues to reap a bounty of music. Marvest is a weekend of music performed by local artists in businesses and venues in the Glebe neighbourhood around Lansdowne Park. The third edition of Marvest will
