Newfoundland Literary Pub Crawl and Dinner with Lisa Moore, Ed Riche, Eva Crocker, Robert Chafe, Bridget Canning and Kathleen Winter When: July 4 pub crawl at 6:30 p.m. (sold out); July 5 pub crawl at 6:30 p.m. Where: Lieutenant's Pump, 361 Elgin St. When: July 4 dinner at 7
Dan General has an angel watching out for him, er, perhaps, listening. The angel is the legendary singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. General, better known as DJ Shub, is one of the major exponents of a form of electronic music known these days as PowWow Step. The music started to
Christine Fitzgerald is an award-winning photographer from Ottawa with a special interest in nature. Much of her work deals with the fraught relationship between people and the natural world. For her fine art photography, she uses digital and vintage large format cameras and lenses. She frequently integrates
When asked to comment on why he's still playing the blues, Donnie Walsh is typically succinct. "It's what I do. I have had pretty good success at it. I've had a great musical life so far and so if it ain't broke don't fix it." It certainly
On July 2, Dominion Chalmers United Church will host a special concert of choral music that connects north to south in Canada. The concert is part of an educational engagement project called Nipiit-Katittut — Voices United (NKVU) that was founded in 2015 by Ottawa's Jackie Hawley,
Monty Python notwithstanding, the tale of King Arthur is a dark and melancholy one. The unity symbolized by the round table is a daydream, the Holy Grail a fruitless quest, the final confrontation between Arthur and his misbegotten son Mordred a pointless slaughter that leaves
Who deserves to dance? This is the question Propeller Dance asks in Living the unDesireable Life, a new production created for the company’s 10th anniversary. Co-founded by Renata Soutter and Shara Weaver, Propeller is an integrated contemporary dance company that employs professional performers of diverse abilities.
Canada Scene — the massive finale to the National Art Centre’s 14 years of regional art biennials — brings 1,000 artists to the capital, including visual artists. The works range in size from the massive lighthouse of Kim Morgan to the tiny bison of Michael Belmore,
Every year the seemingly unstoppable Angela Hewitt, in between concerts and other commitments, organizes and performs at her own music festival near the shores of Lake Trasimeno in Umbria, Italy. Yes it's a tough job but somebody's got to do it. This year's event runs
In 1983 a book called Exploring Ottawa was published. Written by the respected heritage expert and architectural historian Harold Kalman, it was a guide to the architecture of the city big and small. There were few copies and it went out of print all too
