Charline Dequincey is a maker of violins, violas and cellos. She shapes them by hand out of wood. It started when she was 13 and playing the viola in her home region of Franche-Comté. She was chatting with her teacher who told her there was a school for
"I am at Pink Lake very far in the woods right now collecting things for my photographs." With that, an interview with the photographer Whitney Lewis-Smith got started. She was up a tree at the time and descended to sit on a nearby stump and explain
In the days after the Sept. 21 tornadoes that ripped a path of devastation across Ottawa and Gatineau, Erin Benjamin was sitting at her desk looking at all the film of the destruction. It was a shocking revelation. "I had been like many people sort of cut
The National Arts Centre is at the heart of official Ottawa located near the Parliament Buildings. But even closer is the National War Memorial. As the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World Aar approaches, the NAC will use music and the visual power
When you are producing a concert that features 3D printed instruments, you need someone to play those instruments. The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra's 3D String Theory Project features an octet called Singularity. One of the eight women performing the music by Harry Stafylakis is Geena Salway.
Music performance has become a feature at the Canadian War Museum around major anniversaries. Last year it was a presentation of a piece called The Unknown Soldier. The concert was part of a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge. This Saturday a
Many people may know the headliners at the annual RBC Ottawa Bluesfest. But, in truth, the festival makes a strong commitment to the local music scene each year. About 50 local acts perform on the various stages every July. It's a big job deciding, among the
Most people who commit suicide are likely unaware of the despair their death provokes among members of their family. Some relatives guiltily blame themselves, thinking they could have done more to save that life, or blame other relatives, spouses, friends or uncaring physicians. All of those
When the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra launched its ambitious project to make new stringed instruments with a 3D printer, they knew that once the instruments were ready, they would need to be played. That dream will be realized on Nov. 4 when eight 3D printed instruments
Ottawa's theatre wunderkind Jordan Tannahill has won the Governor General's Literary Award for English Drama for his collection Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom. Tannahill, who lives in the United Kingdom these days, is currently finishing work on a Virtual Reality theatre piece called Draw
