Billy-Ray Belcourt's dad was a professional cowboy who competed on the rodeo circuit until an injury forced him to retire. That his dad was a cowboy explains Billy-Ray's name. That the young Cree man from the Driftpile First Nation on the shores of Lesser Slave Lake
Marlies Yearby remembers the musical Rent well. She should. She was the original choreographer for the groundbreaking musical and she was involved in the 20th anniversary tour that is coming to Ottawa on Oct. 22. For Yearby, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Rent the
Viktor Nordenskiöld is a former Swedish journalist who covered foreign affairs. Hw now directs documentary films among other things. His fascinating behind the scenes film profile called The Feminister about the Swedish foreign minister, Margot Wallström, will be at the Wakefield Doc Fest on Oct. 19. He
The Ottawa Book Award for fiction in English has been awarded to Kagiso Lesego Molope for her novel This Book Betrays My Brother (Mawenzie House). It was an evening of honouring literature in Ottawa. Other winners included the Canadian War Museum historian Tim Cook who received the
Seventy five years ago, as the Second World War was drawing to a close, some people in Ottawa were thinking about the importance of music. In that long ago spring, they decided they would organize a music festival that would allow young performers — and some
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
