Canada has a prominent place in the heart of pianist Beatrice Rana. The young Italian (she's 24) burst onto the international scene with a win at the Montreal International Music Competition in 2011. She is today hailed as a keyboard star, but then she wasn't as
You might not instinctively make a connection between hosting an early morning radio show and a romantic comedy at The Gladstone, but Teri Loretto sees one. Loretto, who stands in for CBC’s local weather guru Ian Black, is also occasional host of the popular 6-9 Saturday
Library and Archives Canada is displaying some of the treasures from its many collections in a show at the Museum of History called A Little History, which will run until Jan. 27, 2019. It offers a view of the country's past through the eyes of children
That place of quiet contemplation inside the National Gallery of Canada that is known now as the Fred & Elizabeth Fountain Garden Court will be open to the public starting on Saturday after a renovation and replanting under the keen eye of landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. Working with Vancouver’s
By Jacob Hoytema The City of Ottawa, which has amassed a collection of nearly 3,000 artworks, is looking to add more Indigenous art to its holdings which is the source of displays at more than 150 public places around the capital. Municipal officials are reaching out specifically
The first thing you see when you walk into the Governor General’s Visual Arts Awards exhibition at the National Gallery is a life-sized buffalo, circled by what seem to be crouched figures wrapped in buffalo hides. Are the mysterious figures stalking the buffalo as prey,
There are always a few spots to fill for every jazz festival. And the 2018 lineup is no exception for Petr Cancura, the festival programmer. To that end three new acts have been added: Chaka Khan will play the main stage in Marion Dewar Plaza on June
By Karen-Luz Sison It was standing-room only at Chinatown’s Bar Robo as locals came together recently for a new kind of karaoke show: POEKA Night. POEKA, otherwise known as poetry karaoke, is a novel way for Ottawa poetry enthusiasts to share their favourite works. The main
The Camino de Santiago is one of those bucket list things. The journey from France to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain is for some, a moment of deep spiritual significance, for others it's an adventure and an test of their ability to handle a long
A few years back Rollie Pemberton was visiting his mom when she pulled out some old cassette recordings of his late father Teddy. Teddy Pemberton is considered the man who brought hip hop to northern Alberta through his radio program The Black Experience in Sound on
