Who knew that the unassuming village of Wakefield harboured a smouldering ambition to be ground zero for puppet making? Not Nadia Ross. The Wakefield-area founder of STO Union, an adventurous indie theatre company that works with live performance, video and other disciplines, put out a call
The winner of this year's Sobey Art Award will cash in a cheque for $100,000 after the Sobey Art Foundation doubled the the amount for the top prize and raised the amounts for the other prizewinners. The announcement came as the call for nominations was issued
University of Ottawa physicist, biologist, all-around technology hacker and Ted talker Andrew Pelling knows all about the power of music. He went to an arts intensive school. He also played the flute. And his partner is a violin maker who plays in community orchestras in the
The new Ottawa Art Gallery will reopen April 28. The first exhibition in the new space will be a massive look at art-making in the Ottawa region going back 6,500 years, featuring 191 pieces, 181 artists and 11 commissions. The show is called Àdisòkàmagan / Nous connaître
Ottawa native Julie Nesrallah is returning to her first musical love — opera — this week at Centrepointe Theatre. The performance, called A Night at the Opera, will be a welcome addition to her busy schedule that also includes her day job as the host
Three exhibitions at Carleton University Art Gallery, despite their disparate provenance and heritage, all speak to a sense of the ground shifting beneath one’s feet, due to injustice, alienation, or even literal tremors of the earthly kind. Most dramatic is Saulteaux artist Robert Houle’s Pahgedenaun, which
Like Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, Vaslav Nijinsky enjoyed a few brief, blazing years of glory and glamour before vanishing, leaving grieving fans to wail and beat their chests. Nijinsky wasn’t physically felled by early self-destruction, but gnawing mental illness eventually destroyed his creativity, leaving
She is the barefoot countess of the keyboard and she's returning to Ottawa to play with the National Arts Centre Orchestra for the first time. But Alice Sara Ott is more than a brand name attached to a line of high-end handbags. She is a genuine
Kim Kilpatrick’s one-woman play about being blind, Flying in the Dark, has been performed at stages across Ottawa and in countless classrooms and seniors residences. And now the blind performer, a veteran member of Ottawa Storytellers, is preparing with prominent visual artist Karen Bailey a unique
The American Paul Strand is part of a small group of artists, including Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston who helped turn photography as an art form in the early 20th century. He was active for 60 years capturing numerous genres and subjects in the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Now
