Boston Ballet is serving up an all-American triple bill at the NAC this week. It’s a diverse but uneven program, with two solid hits and an unfortunate miss. It’s hard to go wrong with Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein’s’ Fancy Free from 1944, the precursor to
The second Laureate City will feature a bilingual weekend of poetry readings, music, and food. The project is the brain child of VERSeOttawa, along with Arc Poetry Magazine and Library and Archives Canada and ably abetted by the Ottawa Public Library and the Ottawa Writers Festival.
On Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, the Jewish owned business were smashed by Nazi thigs across Germany. It was a sign of things to come. As we remember the wars of the 20th century, on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, a concert event will recall the
Three years ago, Leah Mowers received some very tough news. Her daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumour. "I can't begin to describe the fear and shock we felt, " she said. Mowers and her family supported her daughter three years following her diagnosis. Today, her daughter
Àbadakone means “continuous fire,” in the Anishinaabemowin language, but as the title of the new exhibition at the National Gallery it could as well mean to give joy, to embrace, to be immersive, and to be big — at times, very big. Àbadakone (it’s pronounced “AH-bada-kwanay”)
Parrots are fascinating, beautiful and mysteriously intelligent wild creatures that we humans romanticize and bring into our homes. But because they can be restive, cranky and long-lived they are often cast away by their erstwhile owners. That concerns the photo-based artist Christine Fitzgerald, for whom parrots have
The Ottawa Hospital and the Ottawa Art Gallery have signed a unique memorandum of understanding that will see the two institutions work together to inject art into the hospital environment and hopefully make it healthier for all concerned. The deal was formalized on Wednesday and a
The Canadian War Museum is marking Remembrance Day on Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. by hosting an event called Letters in a Time of War. Memorable and poignant letters written by Canadian soldiers in wartime will be read aloud by media personalities, actors, students, professional athletes
For the first time, the Canadian Museum of History is caring for a collection of artifacts and holding in trust for an Indigenous First Nation. The museum signed an agreement on Tuesday with the Peskotomuhkati Nation at Skutik in southwestern New Brunswick to safeguard almost
Emilie LeBel was in her first year at university in Victoria, B.C. when her life plan was shattered. She had intended to study the trumpet and pursue a professional career but she broke her jaw in an unfortunate accident that set her back. She left university
