An alumnus of the innovative STO Union theatre company has won the 2018 Pauline McGibbon Award. Sarah Conn, who is currently the Artistic Associate with the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund, received her prize Monday evening during the ceremony marking the annual Dora Mavor Moore awards
Ottawa native Dana Michel is the first choreographer to be a Visiting Dance Artist at the NAC, but if you had met her when she was a student at Hillcrest High School you might not have thought she would end up living and working in
After 34 books, you'd think Tim Wynne-Jones would run out of ideas. But nope. He's just published his 35th called The Ruinous Sweep and is hard at work on another which will be out soon. "I just can't seem to stop," he said in an interview.
Mark Monahan has seen a lot of stuff in 25 years of RBC Ottawa Bluesfest. He's seen damaging winds, collapsing staging and injured roadies. He's seen lots of badly behaved fans. And he's listened to angry debates about lawn chairs. But now a tiny mother bird
It was a cool, really cool, evening that greeted Dee Dee Bridgewater when she bounced onto the Ottawa Jazz Festival Main Stage at Marion Dewar Plaza Sunday night. The 68 year old jazz icon was sporting a dress and bare legs but she was undeterred by
The senior class from NACO’s summer institute for young musicians performed in two jam-packed concerts on Thursday and Friday. With groups of varying size and composition succeeding each other on stage to play through excerpted movements from the chamber music canon, it was more of
When Denise Eileen Garrett was young living in Memphis, Tennessee, she had a secret passion. Like a lot of kids, she liked to listen to music at night after lights out. Under her blankets she was enjoying soul, R&B and blues tunes until 2 or
Ottawa's Kevin Reeves is a pretty eclectic guy. He runs a choir called Seventeen Voyces and is heavily involved in the classical music scene in town. He has written operas and he is an adept caricaturist. Now he's made a movie called Sarah MacDougall Meets
The public will get a chance to see Marc Chagall's The Eiffel Tower starting on Saturday, the National Gallery of Canada has announced. The painting will be on view in the European galleries on the second floor alongside Chagall’s earlier painting Memories of Childhood. Both paintings
Commedia dell’arte is a form of bawdy, mischievous, absurdist theatre, originating in Italy in the 16th century. The plays are performed by stock characters, from the villainous to the angelic, wearing masks covering the top half of the face. You can experience commedia dell’arte every
