As a student of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Cape Town in the 1990s, Kagiso Lesego Molope was living in a country emerging into a new democracy in the years after the end of the apartheid regime. She had come from a
Soaring security costs and frozen funding is putting increased pressure on cultural festivals across Canada and prompting a call for more support from the federal government. The call for federal investment is being made by Festivals and Major Events Canada (FAME) which represents local events such
Amanda Forsyth has been travelling the world since she left the principal cello chair with the National Arts Centre Orchestra some three years ago. From Seoul to Sydney; St. Petersburg to Sao Paolo, she's lugged her cello Carlo to concert halls across the globe as a
The After the Storm benefit concert raised $50,000 for tornado relief Saturday night. The concert organized by the Ottawa music community and CUPE Local 503 featured the Jim Cuddy Band as headliners along with a who's who of the local music scene including Matt Mays, Sarah
With the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, it isn’t surprising to see an uptick in performances of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. The Toronto Symphony presented it earlier this week, and Friday it was NACO’s turn in front of a sold-out
The World Remembers project is much more that an impressive database of three million names of the dead from the First World World. There is music too. This Sunday, a concert featuring the National Youth Orchestra of Germany and three choirs full of young people
When Jacob Sampson set out to write a play about a champion athlete, Sam Langford didn’t spring to mind. In fact, he’d never heard of the early 20th-century boxer who ESPN once called the "greatest fighter almost nobody knows." But as Sampson nosed around for a
Charles Frazier burst onto the international literary scene with a book about the journey of a civil war soldier of the South back home to his true love on Cold Mountain. Frazier had not wanted to return to the American civil war for another novel, but
For 15 years, Rick Mercer travelled from coast to coast to coast in Canada delivering a grassroots sense of humour and humanity that led to that rarest of things — a hit Canadian TV show. The Mercer Report it was and when he called it quits
Ottawa writer Elizabeth Hay has won the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust prize for non-fiction for her memoir of acting as a guardian and caregiver for her aging parents called All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir (McClelland & Stewart). "Hay's prose elevates this ordinary rite of passage —
