As the National Arts Centre prepares to celebrate the launch of Indigenous Theatre this fall, NAC Presents will be helping celebrate with concerts featuring some aboriginal stars. The legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie will be on the NAC stage once again this fall following the launch of
The yellow brick road runs right through the NAC Dance season in 2019-20. That's because the Royal Winnipeg Ballet is bringing its take on The Wizard of Oz to Southam Hall in January. But, as has been the case with the seasons programmed by NAC Dance's
When artistic director Jillian Keiley is lining up a new season for NAC English Theatre (ET), it’s kind of a numbers game. Her long list is about 20 shows, which she narrows down to the final eight that comprise a season. But that long list is
Alexander Shelley has set out to pay homage to the orchestra he leads in 2019-20 with concerts that feature his talented players. "There are two concerts: one with John Storgårds (NACO's principal guest conductor) and one with me where we celebrate the birthday of the orchestra.
Peter Wohlleben is a tree-hugger — literally. He is a forester in Germany where he manages a beech forest. He is also an author of many books on the value of trees and the complexity of the natural world. He has recently published the last book
If this is life on Parliament Hill, it’s a wonder anything ever gets done. More to the point, if this is life for women – and not just women on the Hill – it’s a mystery why they didn’t give up long ago and just
There’s an incongruity between the photographs by David Heath and the photograph of David Heath. The 180 photographs taken by David Heath, on exhibition at the National Gallery, are largely of people with unsettled expressions, sometimes dread or despair. There are glimmers of happiness and even
When one is the music director of an orchestra, Bramwell Tovey says, parents and colleagues are always presenting the prodigy you simply must hear. As the new music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra some three decades ago, he was approached about some kid from
Andreas Souvaliotis’s memoir, Misfit, could be called Revenge of the Weird Guy. It is the story of a Greek boy, with undiagnosed autism, who was a math genius, a musical prodigy and a socially awkward misfit. Young Andreas was not one of the cool kids.
Count on Kevin Reeves and his Seventeen Voyces ensemble to come up with something ambitious. Their latest adventure is a marriage of new music and art works that can be found in the National Gallery of Canada, played by some of the city's rising young
