The Toronto-based composer Gary Kulesha first discovered the writing of Virginia Woolf when he was a teenager with a taste for good writing. Picking up that first book he found what he calls "for me maybe the best writer in the English language and if not
Does a touch of darkness lurk in even the nicest Canadian heart? Quite possibly, according to Jonathan Christenson. He wrote and is directing Vigilante, a rock-styled musical about the notorious, 19th century Donnelly family of southern Ontario that’s at the National Arts Centre starting March 29. The
I suppose I should start with Lawren Harris, who could be the most recognizable name in Canadian art and certainly is the blockbuster among paintings newly donated to the National Gallery of Canada, but can we first talk about Prudence Heward? Heward lacks the broad recognition
Classical music fans in Ottawa have got to know Alexander Shelley well over the past few years. Now the rest of the country is going to meet him up close and personal. The Canada 150 tour will start April 25 when Shelley leads the NAC Orchestra
The Magnetic North Theatre Festival, slated to open in Ottawa this June, has been cancelled. Mike Hawkes, chair of the Canadian Theatre Festival Society, which produces Magnetic North told Artsfile that the Festival has been cancelled for this year. He said it is uncertain if it
For Petr Cancura, building the program of the annual TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival is always a question of who is available in the annual late June time slot all the while staying true to the identity of the 37 year old event. So it is
It's not often that a early music concert features an actor portraying a character from the 17th century, the era of the Baroque. Olivier Henchiri, the artistic director of the Ottawa Baroque Consort explains to Artsfile's Peter Robb more about the group's concert on Saturday March
In 2007, NAC Dance announced the National Arts Centre Associate Dance Artist (ADA) program. The initiative was intended to give talented Canadian dancers and choreographers an opportunity to interact with some of the best in the world. This year the program will celebrate its 10th anniversary with performances
Steven Heighton is a novelist, short story writer and Governor General Award winning poet. For the first time he’ll participate in VERSeFest in Ottawa on March 26 and later this spring he’ll be taking part in the Ottawa Writer’s Festival. In advance of his VERSeFest appearance
It’s tricky business when, say, an actor stands before the public as, say, a musician. Does the actor have the musical talent to make us see them as a musician, to make us temporarily forget they’re an actor? Visitors to Art is Art, an exhibition of
