An uniquely accessible exhibition in downtown Ottawa includes video screens on which people can be seen using sign language. There are no subtitles or translation, so the majority of visitors — who don’t know sign language — cannot understand what is being said, and must
By Karen-Luz Sison When the National Gallery of Canada opened in 1989, deep inside Moshe Sadie's glass, stone and cement palace there was an oasis of small trees and plants designed by the legendary landscape artist Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. Later this month, people will see a
Several artists with connections to Ottawa picked up JUNOs in Vancouver at a Saturday night gala. Electronic ensemble A Tribe Called Red won their third JUNO, this time for Group of the Year. Bruce Cockburn picked his 13th JUNO for his latest album Bone on
Professional hermits and Donald Trump aside, few would dispute that our connection to each other is part of what makes us human. So why doesn’t David Yee’s carried away on the crest of a wave, a play which is all about human connections over space and
The Great Canadian Theatre Company's 2018 -19 season is very much a continuation of a 44 year long tradition of presenting topical theatre. The new lineup was unveiled Saturday with six plays on the company's main stage. These are productions that offer: a ghost story, an untold tale
On Friday night in Vancouver, Kellylee Evans will don a hockey helmet and get behind the bench as the coach of the musicians' team taking on former NHLers in the annual JUNO Cup. She can't wait, in part because she loves the event, but also because
Steven Pinker is a practitioner of reason in his work as a psychologist and as a public intellectual. The Montreal born, Harvard professor is, thus, a product of the kind of thinking that Immanuel Kant proposed in his essay What Is Enlightenment published in 1784. Pinker does,
Orchestra marketers will often turn themselves inside out to come up with catchy concert themes. But Thursday’s NACO performance with Alexander Shelley proved that sometimes the most interesting programs happen naturally, when the audience enjoys an evening of musical works with no obvious connection other
“Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese.” — Sherlock Holmes from
A few years back, the Ottawa-born bass-baritone Philippe Sly was studying in Austria and was deeply immersed in Schubert's Winterreise. He was working with a well-known leider expert named Robert Holl. In Holl's home there was a painting depicting the composer holding a guitar. "Holl told me that
