This past summer Russell Braun was finishing up a gruelling run singing the role of Louis Riel in the Canadian Opera Company's revival of the Harry Somers opera when the call came to sing a Christmas concert in Ottawa. It was just what he needed. "I
With all the fine music available in Ottawa, it’s too easy to forget and neglect the fine music being made across the bridge on the Quebec side. On Saturday night I made the snowy drive to Saint-François-de-Sales church to hear the Choeur classique de l’Outaouais
By Rosa Saba The Origin Arts and Community Centre has been operating in Hintonburg for two years, hosting performances, workshops and other events in a small, welcoming, low-cost space — all part of an effort to make the arts more accessible in Ottawa. But the idea for
Folks, you’d better buckle up for this one. Our flight begins at the end of the Canadian Museum of History’s new show, Dreamworks Animation: Journey from Sketch to Screen. The exhibition includes more than 400 objects from 20 years of Dreamworks studios, including Shrek, Chicken Run,
By Maggie Parkhill Kelsey Hayes, a 21-year-old Ottawa indie-pop artist whose second EP drops in the New Year, wrote her first song when she was she was 11. It was called I’m Not So Stereotypical. “It was really bad, but I really wanted to express that apparently,”
As the Ottawa Art Gallery moves closer to its official opening now expected early in the New Year, stff are planning a party to get people warmed up. On Dec. 15 the OAG will hold an open-air art presentation featuring a commissioned work by DJ
In the mid-1980s Andy Jones brought his one man show Out of the Bin to the Great Canadian Theatre Company and proceeded to crack up audiences by driving a nail into one of his nostrils with a hammer and telling stories of Uncle Val one
A new piece of work was premiered in Iqaluit Tuesday night that featured a Dene singer-songwriter and an Inuit throat singer performing with seven musicians from the National Arts Centre Orchestra. The concert inside St. Jude's Cathedral in the capital of Nunavut was part of a
By Rosa Saba Carleton University will be going ahead with negotiations to purchase Dominion-Chalmers United Church. If acquired, the historic Centretown church would be used as “a multi-purpose performance space for Carleton students and faculty, and as a new hub for artists and community groups,” the
The Canadian War Museum has purchased another Victoria Cross awarded to a Canadian soldier. The medal was given to Corp. Colin Fraser Barron of the Canadian Expeditionary Force for bravery during the battle of Passchendaele in 1917 in Belgium. Barron was recognized for his successful single-handed attack
