In 1998, a seven year old girl named Xiana Fairchild was taken by a predator and serial killer named Curtis Dean Anderson. and murdered. The little girl was known to the performer and writer Jamie DeWolf, who told her story in a powerful podcast that
It was all aboard the Prokofiev Express Sunday afternoon at Tabaret Hall, as pianist David Jalbert presented the last instalment in his Prokofiev sonata cycle. The University of Ottawa piano professor has established himself in recent years as a Prokofiev specialist, and certainly Jalbert’s balanced portfolio
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin For the legendary Canadian dance artist Peggy Baker, the idea of creating a work called who we are in the dark was full of meaning, both metaphysical and deeply personal. The idea sprang out of
It's been about dozen years since Ben Caplan has seen his face. That's the last time the hirsute singer-songwriter shaved off what is now a legendary beard. "I didn't have any problem with it when I shaved. And I certainly have no problem with my face.
As a city with no professional dance ensemble of its own, it isn’t often that Ottawa nabs the world premiere of a new ballet. So NAC Dance’s Cathy Levy scored a coup when she secured the very first performances of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens’ new
The painting High Hopes of a Liberal was created by Alex Janvier in 1974 as a comment on the failure of federal policies on indigenous issues, but given the state of scandal in 2019’s Parliament, it’s seems dryly appropriate that the painting is on display
In the middle of the 18th century a young boy was invited to sing in the Imperial chapel in Vienna. The young boy would go on to a rather famous career in music. His name was Franz Joseph Haydn. About six decades later, another lad with
When it was announced last year that the Ottawa Symphony would be using Dominion-Chalmers as its home venue, a lot of people didn’t believe the hall could handle an orchestra of that size. A Bruckner symphony in January proved that the expanded DC stage could,
The NAC’s new Indigenous Theatre department will have to make cuts to its inaugural season because it didn’t receive funding from Heritage Canada in the recent federal budget, Indigenous Theatre’s artistic director Kevin Loring says in a Facebook post. "I have now been put in the
As a child, one of my heroes was Pierre-Esprit Radisson, in large part because of a CBC TV series back then showing the 17th century explorer as a swashbuckling adventurer fearlessly paddling his canoe across Canada. The Americans had “King of the Frontier” Davy Crockett. We
