When Steve Marriner was a precocious 13 year old he was already playing the harmonica well enough to get up on stage and sit in with older professional musicians. He was hanging about the scene in Ottawa then which in those days pretty much meant, in
It is a fact of life for artists that they need to manage their own affairs. It's not easy navigating this tricky world. To that end some interested lawyers in town formed Artists Legal Services in Ottawa (ALSO) to offer some help and sound advice.
At one point in Gracie, Joan MacLeod’s compelling play about a girl’s coming of age in an isolated polygamous community, the titular character stands on a road at the border of where she lives. The road is blocked by a chain, and there’s a No
The Silk Road stretches from China to Europe. It is a fabled route taken by caravans and Mongol hordes and now Kate Harris. The adventures of this resident of tiny Atlan, B.C. (population 400 hardy souls) have become a story known around the world through her
When the new Ottawa Art Gallery opens officially on Saturday it will be free, open and accessible, says the director of the $34 million institution. Alexandra Badzak told a small gathering of media and dignitaries on Friday morning that the "new Ottawa Art Gallery is a
In Telemetry, Shay Kuebler’s recent full-length work, bodies become mere conduits for external forces of rhythm, sound, and movement — like living fibre optic cables with no will of their own. It’s an interesting concept, but one that ultimately felt underdeveloped, detached, and unevenly executed. The
In the fall of 2010, Sharon Bala was in Halifax attending a conference. She stayed on for a weekend and on one rainy day she ducked into Pier 21, the Canadian immigration museum. "I was walking around and looking at all the exhibits which celebrate our
If you were a kid like Brian Doyle was, you might remember that trick of making yourself invisible in adult company. Sitting quietly and just listening gave you an entrée into the lives of your elders and the big, outside world that you would eventually
By Jordan Omstead A library is tritely known as a place of compulsory silence, but in a basement conference room at Ottawa’s downtown Main branch, young people are speaking up. Youth Speak is a mentorship program for young people looking to explore spoken word poetry and
After insisting it would not change its mind, the National Gallery of Canada has bowed to the inevitable and decided to keep Marc Chagall's The Eiffel Tower after all. It is an embarrassing result for until Thursday, it had insisted the sale would proceed. But the
