By Maggie Parkhill Kelsey Hayes, a 21-year-old Ottawa indie-pop artist whose second EP drops in the New Year, wrote her first song when she was she was 11. It was called I’m Not So Stereotypical. “It was really bad, but I really wanted to express that apparently,”
As the Ottawa Art Gallery moves closer to its official opening now expected early in the New Year, stff are planning a party to get people warmed up. On Dec. 15 the OAG will hold an open-air art presentation featuring a commissioned work by DJ
In the mid-1980s Andy Jones brought his one man show Out of the Bin to the Great Canadian Theatre Company and proceeded to crack up audiences by driving a nail into one of his nostrils with a hammer and telling stories of Uncle Val one
A new piece of work was premiered in Iqaluit Tuesday night that featured a Dene singer-songwriter and an Inuit throat singer performing with seven musicians from the National Arts Centre Orchestra. The concert inside St. Jude's Cathedral in the capital of Nunavut was part of a
By Rosa Saba Carleton University will be going ahead with negotiations to purchase Dominion-Chalmers United Church. If acquired, the historic Centretown church would be used as “a multi-purpose performance space for Carleton students and faculty, and as a new hub for artists and community groups,” the
The Canadian War Museum has purchased another Victoria Cross awarded to a Canadian soldier. The medal was given to Corp. Colin Fraser Barron of the Canadian Expeditionary Force for bravery during the battle of Passchendaele in 1917 in Belgium. Barron was recognized for his successful single-handed attack
When it comes to explaining a culture, a picture can outweigh a slew of less-than golden words. When the picture is explaining Islam and exploding myths about women in the societies of Iran and the Arab world, it's really worth a look. That's the essence of
Tuesday evening members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra will participate in a fundraising concert for a new and much-needed performing arts centre in Iqaluit. But the connections between the NAC and Iqaluit's performing arts community goes much deeper than one concert. The NAC, and in
As a young dancer the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's artistic director Gatineau native André Lewis says he loved performing in The Nutcracker, the annual Christmas ritual for ballet companies around the world. "As a dancer I loved doing it. In those days we used to tour it
It was a weekend for powerhouse partnerships on the classical scene. After Saturday’s magnificent Beethoven recital with Andrew Wan and Charles Richard-Hamelin, pianists David Jalbert and Wonny Song paired up on Sunday for a barnstorming program of Russian music for two pianos. Jalbert, who teaches piano
