Buffy Sainte-Marie usually gets up early — between 5 and 6 a.m. Sometimes, if she has been travelling away from her home in Hawaii, she's up earlier. "That's jet lag mostly, these days, though, clocks mean less and less," she said over the phone while she
The world is focussed on issues of identity, gender, trauma, truth and reconciliation, the Ottawa Writers Festival’s fall lineup is certainly reflecting that. Several authors of Indigenous heritage are bringing their stories to the festival which runs from Oct. 24 to Oct. 29 including writers
Rich Francis was working on a construction site in London, Ontario when he made a decision that changed his life. The son of a Gwich'in father and a Mohawk mother hails these days from Six Nations near Hamilton. At the time he was an iron worker.
Few playwrights would compare their work to a humble vegetable. In the case of Where the Blood Mixes, Kevin Loring does exactly that. The Governor General’s Award-winning play —which Loring started writing two decades ago and is being revived as part of NAC Indigenous Theatre’s much-anticipated
The Ottawa Symphony is 55 years young. "That's a lot of uninterrupted music," said music director Alain Trudel in an interview with ARTSFILE about the new season. "It is proof of the power of the desire of local people to come together to make music. This is
The National Arts Centre Orchestra is about to mark the golden anniversary of its first concert in 1969 at the end of this month. For Alexander Shelley, that's one part of a very big month for NACO. But before the 50th anniversary concerts of Sept. 30
This week the new NAC Indigenous Theatre department will begin its first season with a massive festival of Indigenous performing arts called Mòshkamo, an Algonquin word meaning, according to a media release: the act of appearing out of water, inviting others to bear witness to the
Ottawa's Lara Deutsch was suffering from a bout of strep throat when she got a call to attend a meeting that “I was told was very important and couldn’t be rescheduled.” Even though she was sick — and on antibiotics — she went. Good thing. She was
Was The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Métis-Dene playwright Marie Clements born too soon? It seems that way. Clements’ surrealist play based on the murders of multiple Indigenous women by Gilbert Paul Jordan on Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside over a two-decade period debuted at that
For about half a century, Duain Wolfe has been putting choirs through their paces. Here's a taste of his impressive resume: He's in his 20th season as director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. He founded and still leads the Colorado Symphony Chorus in Mile High Denver. He
