By Jacob Hoytema The City of Ottawa, which has amassed a collection of nearly 3,000 artworks, is looking to add more Indigenous art to its holdings which is the source of displays at more than 150 public places around the capital. Municipal officials are reaching out specifically
The first thing you see when you walk into the Governor General’s Visual Arts Awards exhibition at the National Gallery is a life-sized buffalo, circled by what seem to be crouched figures wrapped in buffalo hides. Are the mysterious figures stalking the buffalo as prey,
There are always a few spots to fill for every jazz festival. And the 2018 lineup is no exception for Petr Cancura, the festival programmer. To that end three new acts have been added: Chaka Khan will play the main stage in Marion Dewar Plaza on June
By Karen-Luz Sison It was standing-room only at Chinatown’s Bar Robo as locals came together recently for a new kind of karaoke show: POEKA Night. POEKA, otherwise known as poetry karaoke, is a novel way for Ottawa poetry enthusiasts to share their favourite works. The main
The Camino de Santiago is one of those bucket list things. The journey from France to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain is for some, a moment of deep spiritual significance, for others it's an adventure and an test of their ability to handle a long
A few years back Rollie Pemberton was visiting his mom when she pulled out some old cassette recordings of his late father Teddy. Teddy Pemberton is considered the man who brought hip hop to northern Alberta through his radio program The Black Experience in Sound on
An uniquely accessible exhibition in downtown Ottawa includes video screens on which people can be seen using sign language. There are no subtitles or translation, so the majority of visitors — who don’t know sign language — cannot understand what is being said, and must
By Karen-Luz Sison When the National Gallery of Canada opened in 1989, deep inside Moshe Sadie's glass, stone and cement palace there was an oasis of small trees and plants designed by the legendary landscape artist Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. Later this month, people will see a
Several artists with connections to Ottawa picked up JUNOs in Vancouver at a Saturday night gala. Electronic ensemble A Tribe Called Red won their third JUNO, this time for Group of the Year. Bruce Cockburn picked his 13th JUNO for his latest album Bone on
Professional hermits and Donald Trump aside, few would dispute that our connection to each other is part of what makes us human. So why doesn’t David Yee’s carried away on the crest of a wave, a play which is all about human connections over space and
