The director of the dance company La Veronal, based in Barcelona, Spain, Marcos Morau, often mixes dance with cultural references from other artistic disciplines including cinema, literature, music and photography. In the performance of the work Siena, his company is bringing in the art of
“It’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard rain a gonna fall.” And so you might be humming as you leave the new exhibition of war art at the Canadian War Museum, if you’re familiar with the Bob Dylan song, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna
Like many Canadian families of a certain era, Richard Raymond's owned an upright piano. The instrument had pride of place in the home and Raymond's older siblings were taking lessons and practicing. Watching and taking it all in was three year old Richard. He was
Bad weather can often spell empty seats at Ottawa’s concert venues, but Wednesday’s snowstorm didn’t deter a healthy crowd from attending Alice Sara Ott’s much-touted NACO debut. The German-Japanese pianist is among Deutsche Grammophon’s latest crop of piano stars, a cohort of young, bold, photogenic keyboard
Who knew that the unassuming village of Wakefield harboured a smouldering ambition to be ground zero for puppet making? Not Nadia Ross. The Wakefield-area founder of STO Union, an adventurous indie theatre company that works with live performance, video and other disciplines, put out a call
The winner of this year's Sobey Art Award will cash in a cheque for $100,000 after the Sobey Art Foundation doubled the the amount for the top prize and raised the amounts for the other prizewinners. The announcement came as the call for nominations was issued
University of Ottawa physicist, biologist, all-around technology hacker and Ted talker Andrew Pelling knows all about the power of music. He went to an arts intensive school. He also played the flute. And his partner is a violin maker who plays in community orchestras in the
The new Ottawa Art Gallery will reopen April 28. The first exhibition in the new space will be a massive look at art-making in the Ottawa region going back 6,500 years, featuring 191 pieces, 181 artists and 11 commissions. The show is called Àdisòkàmagan / Nous connaître
Ottawa native Julie Nesrallah is returning to her first musical love — opera — this week at Centrepointe Theatre. The performance, called A Night at the Opera, will be a welcome addition to her busy schedule that also includes her day job as the host
Three exhibitions at Carleton University Art Gallery, despite their disparate provenance and heritage, all speak to a sense of the ground shifting beneath one’s feet, due to injustice, alienation, or even literal tremors of the earthly kind. Most dramatic is Saulteaux artist Robert Houle’s Pahgedenaun, which
