Chalk it up to seasonal hazards, but even the rumbling racket of a passing street sweeping vehicle wasn’t enough to break the spell at violinist Christian Tetzlaff’s solo Bach recital at Dominion-Chalmers on Thursday. In fact, Tetzlaff is so committed to Bach’s music for unaccompanied violin,
Tima Kurdi's happiest memories are full of the smell of jasmine and big family dinners in her parents' Damascus home. These pleasant images are from a time before war devastated her birth country and before a photograph of the body of her tiny nephew, Alan,
The tourism industry might find this one a tough sell. Early in Omari Newton’s hip-hop/theatre amalgam Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy of, now at the National Arts Centre, a transgendered First Nations character named Mac/Shaneyney sneeringly informs us we’re just “tourists,” theatre-goers dropping in for a
The National Gallery of Canada is once again delaying by one year its high-profile biennial showcasing recent contemporary art acquisitions, says gallery director Marc Mayer. Biennials are supposed to, by definition, be held every two years. A triennial is an art exhibition held every three years.
By Karen-Luz Sison Ottawa science enthusiasts plan to gather at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum this week for the city’s second “science slam” and to celebrate the day in 1961 when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. The worldwide event is called
Works by three young female photographers, including two from Ottawa, are now on view in the National Gallery. Ottawa residents Meryl McMaster and Deanna Pizzitelli along with Elisa Julia Gilmour from Toronto are the winners of the first ever PhotoLab 4: New Generation Photography Award. The work that helped obtain
With a unanimous vote at city council, the hard work can begin in earnest to build a bigger and better music industry in Ottawa. The full city council, as expected, adopted the community's first ever music strategy Wednesday morning giving momentum to an idea that was
In Mandarin it is called Jingju. In English it is Peking Opera, or if you prefer, Beijing Opera. But whatever you call it, for William Lau, it is the passion of a lifetime. "Jingju is the opera of the capital," Lau, who is a program officer. He
The head of the National Gallery will leave his post when his term expires. Marc Mayer will have served 10 years in the prestigious job. A final date has not been announced but it is expected to happen early in the new year, a gallery official
Mark Godden fell in love with Canada when he first came to take ballet training with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He had moved from Dallas, Texas, in the 1980s and really never left the country. "I have spent more of my life in Canada than I ever
