If you were a kid like Brian Doyle was, you might remember that trick of making yourself invisible in adult company. Sitting quietly and just listening gave you an entrée into the lives of your elders and the big, outside world that you would eventually
By Jordan Omstead A library is tritely known as a place of compulsory silence, but in a basement conference room at Ottawa’s downtown Main branch, young people are speaking up. Youth Speak is a mentorship program for young people looking to explore spoken word poetry and
After insisting it would not change its mind, the National Gallery of Canada has bowed to the inevitable and decided to keep Marc Chagall's The Eiffel Tower after all. It is an embarrassing result for until Thursday, it had insisted the sale would proceed. But the
The Year of No Summer, the latest book by Halifax-based writer Rachel Lebowitz, examines a moment in time when a volcano exploded in the Pacific and the entire world was changed. It's a fascinating subject. She talks about the book and her writing in this edited
Nothing gets an archivist's heart beating quite like the arrival of that special document or that unique object that makes a direct and concrete connection to the past. It could be a map of the Yukon that shows the very beginning of the gold rush at
Djamila Ibrahim came to Ottawa in 1990 from Ethiopia and she went to high school and university here. Then she worked in the federal public service for several years before leaving to follow a lifelong passion for writing. Her first book, Things Are Good Now,
Of all the great things that have happened to Cherie Dimaline since her book The Marrow Thieves was published, the night at Rideau Hall when she accepted the Governor General's Award for Young Adult fiction stands out. Not for the award, although that was pretty sweet,
Alexandra Badzak just can't help it. She loves building things, but this time the director of the Ottawa Art Gallery has outdone herself. She has overseen a massive expansion of the gallery that is set to open to the public on April 28. The new $34
Vancouver-based choreographer Shay Kuebler, through his company Radical System Art, is known for his radical and extremely physical work that seeks to understand and communicate through the human form. It's something to see. His show Telemetry will be at the National Arts Centre this week,
The final trumpet has sounded on the National Gallery of Canada's bid to acquire Jacques-Louis David's 250 year old painting of Saint Jerome. Quebec's minister of culture has exercised her authority and says she will declare the painting to be part of Quebec's cultural heritage, a
