Many people are familiar with the Wakefield Doc Fest's month of film in February. In the past few years, the organizers have set aside a weekend in October for a mini-festival. This year they are featuring four films from around the world. Here's the lineup.
Caroline Dromaguet seems poised to become the next director general of the Canadian War Museum – a job with a troubled record during the last 12 years. Dromaguet, an experienced exhibitions manager, was named acting director general more than a year ago, just before she left
There comes a time when you just have to stop doing what you are doing and try something new. That certainly happened to the singer-songwriter Laurent Bourque. A couple of years ago the Ottawa native was preparing to go into the studio to record a new
In 2008, the National Gallery of Canada created a Department of Indigenous Art. Curators were appointed and they got to curating. There was the usual work of building a collection and preparing inventories. And then there was the issue of presenting the art. Go big or
An exhibition of Japanese photography at the National Gallery has almost as many stories as it does photographs, and some of those stories are horrendous. No surprise, really, considering the days seen in the images include two of the darkest in human history. Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese
In Japan there is a rather unusual fan club. It consists of young women who play pipes, flutes, fiddles, harps and bodhrans and call themselves The Lady Chieftains in honour of their Irish heroes. The Chieftains themselves were recently in Japan on tour and the young women
A decade is a decent amount of time in any job, but when you lead a chamber string orchestra the anniversary is something to take note of. So that's why Thirteen Strings will pay tribute in this 2019-2020 season to music director Kevin Mallon who is
During this federal election campaign, as undercurrents of intolerance waft by like the stench of trash left outside the window, two exhibitions downtown seem appropriately timed. The exhibitions are in the side-by-side institutions that are the Ottawa Art Gallery and SAW Gallery, and between them
Some time in the late 1970s, Newfoundland artist Christopher Pratt inexplicably gave his wife, fellow artist Mary Pratt, slides of nude images of his favourite teenaged model and not-so-secret lover. Mary knew of the affair, which started when Donna Meaney was only 16, but it was
The last thing he’d ever want to do, says Christian Barry, is tell a story with a clear and simple point of view. That makes sense, considering there’s very little about life that’s either clear or simple. Barry is a Halifax theatre-maker and the artistic co-director
