The fall season of Doors Open for Music at Southminster Church includes a mix of the magic of the pipe organ, music of the Baroque, chamber music, jazz and much more. The series assembled annually by artistic director Roland Graham gets under way Sept. 4
There is little doubt that Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem is one of the classics of the choral repertoire. It is both a crowd pleaser and a pleasure to sing
In 1999, John Thompson made an important decision. He'd been working as a papermaker at the old E.B. Eddy plant for some 20 years. It was well-paid but dangerous work and it was getting to him. "I hated the shift work at Eddy's. It was dangerous. There
Lori Marchand — the first managing director of NAC Indigenous Theatre, which starts its inaugural season in September — is still moved by the memory of those students from Lilloett, BC. A member of the Syilx Nation, Marchand was, from 1999 until joining the NAC last
When Nicole Milne was a child in Winnipeg she used to attend her father's performances in musical theatre. She remembers sitting in the wings watching the magic happen on stage and she was hooked. She started acting herself and soon was able to establish her own
The Ottawa based cellist and composer Jan Järvlepp has written a new piece that will be performed by two young musicians from our town John Kofi Dapaah and Raphael Weinroth-Browne. You can hear The Rise and Fall of the Avro Arrow at 8 p.m. on Aug.
In 1985, Joe Average got some pretty bad news. He was diagnosed with HIV at a time when that carried a dire prognosis. The Vancouver resident made a decision that if he was facing the great beyond he would devote what was left of the rest
A leading Toronto philanthropist and businessman has donated $1 million to the National Arts Centre Foundation to encourage Arab-Canadian artistic programming. The donation from the Bay Tree Foundation, a family foundation of Mohammad Al Zaibak, was announced in a media release from the NAC on
Kelly S. Thompson comes from a military family. Her father and grandfather both served in the Canadian Forces. Kelly was determined to follow in their footsteps, even though she really longed to be a writer. She did serve for eight years and rose through the ranks
Everyone born before Sept. 11, 2001 knows where they were when the planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York. In my case I was driving to my job as the editor of the then Canwest National Bureau when I got
