Michael Crummey’s enchanting, but disturbing, new novel, The Innocents, is set amid a hardscrabble Garden of Eden hugging an isolated cove along the coast of northern Newfoundland. The fable-like story was inspired by a supposedly true event from the late 18th century when a traveling clergyman
Karoly Sziladi's mother once gave him some very good advice. "She said, 'My son, go and get a nice, soft government job in Ottawa'." Being dutiful, he followed her advice and he has never regretted it. That nice government job is as a violinist with the
Pico Iyer has lived in Japan for some 32 years and even though he has lived there that long and has married a Japanese woman and raised two Japanese step-children, he is still trying to figure the place out. The people remain a riddle and a
Ottawa animator Valerie Barnhart has only made one animated film. But first time lucky. She picked up an honourable mention in the competition for the Best Canadian Animation award at this year's Ottawa International Animation Festival. And she won the Vimeo Staff Pick Award. [caption id="attachment_33875"
Although it was pure coincidence, it’s fitting that Ian Cusson’s new work, Le Loup de Lafontaine, had its world premiere by NACO on the evening after the massive pan-Canadian climate change marches. While the narrative behind the music is pulled from a fantastic but simple
The Dancers of Damelahamid have been practicing their art for half a century, but that art is ancient. The Dancers present the stories of the Gitxsan people of the Northwest coast of British Columbia. Damelahamid refers to the ancestral home of the Gitxsan on the Skeena
The Miró Quartet has some history on its side. The ensemble was formed at Oberlin College some 25 years ago and has, save one roster change, remained pretty well the same since day one. This fall they will celebrate a quarter-century together, said one of the
Jeremy Dutcher brought his powerful message to the NAC's Babs Asper Theatre on Wednesday night. It's a message inherent in the songs he found in the Museum of History — that the words of his people, the Wolastoqiyik of the Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick
The Bulgarian-Canadian animator Theodore Ushev is an Oscar-nominated artist whose latest work, The Physics of Sorrow, is being screened during the 2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival. He spoke with ARTSFILE about his life, his art and his latest film. Q. Please tell me your personal story. A.
One day, in 1902 in the small Ontario community of Lafontaine, a wolf walked right down main street as if he owned the place, frightening the townspeople and playing with the children. True story
