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
Buoyed by the promise of a cool $100,000 set aside in the preliminary city budget and surround by local music heavyweights, the Ottawa Music Industry Coalition launched a new campaign to stimulate interest in music made locally. Known as Love Local Music, the campaign was fêted with
By Maureen McEwan Ottawa artists Katia Pershin and Nakisa Fouladi want their nude-art blend of photography and painting to be more than just one exhibit: they say they hope to start a discussion and maybe even a movement on Sunday at the General Assembly Gallery in Hintonburg. Fouladi and
Ken Dryden has had two concussions in his life. One happened when he was a 12 year old quarterback. He was blindsided when he dropped back to pass. He woke up on the sidelines. The other happened when he decided he would learn how to
With its emphasis on repetition and ritual, it’s no wonder that dance attracts people with OCD tendencies. The notion of “practice makes perfect” feeds the disorder, rewarding and punishing in equal measure. For their newest creation, OCD Love, Israeli dance company L-E-V turned to a
