The 2019 National Arts Centre Award for Distinguished Contribution to Touring has been awarded to Ballet BC in recognition of the company's history of bringing their performances across Canada and around the world. The award was presented at the opening dinner of the Canadian Arts Presenting Association’s
These days Ottawa native Carolyn Farnand lives in Hell's Kitchen in New York City while she studies for her Master's degree at The Juilliard School It's a bit of a trip to get home and she's grateful for every opportunity. So that's why she's looking forward
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra performed in Ottawa on Monday night, the first stop on a quick-march mini-tour that took them to Montreal on Tuesday before heading back to play the same program before a hometown audience on Wednesday. Leading the orchestra was conductor laureate Andrew
Ottawa Saxophonist, composer and professor, Victor Herbiet, used to perform with the Canadian Forces music branch. But since 2011, he has focused on solo performance, education (he teaches at uOttawa) and composition. In his music Herbiet says he mixes twelve-tone music with French impressionism, Canadian folk, American
Patrick Bigelow was enjoying a new bridge for his double bass on this day. For the uninitiated, that chunk of maple wood does a lot more than just hold up the strings on his instrument. Compared to a smaller stringed instrument, the bridge on a double
When Stephen Page was a lad living in an Australian suburb, his dad would take his children to the local dump to pick up items that could be reused. One day, his father came back with a television set that he was able to repair. With
Had Jeff Ho not run away to Montreal when he was a teenager, his mother might never have understood what theatre is all about. The Hong Kong-born Ho, whom you may remember as a lithe and vulnerable Ophelia in Ravi Jain’s memorable Prince Hamlet at the
Oleanna, David Mamet’s then-startling play about sexual harassment and power dynamics, debuted in 1992. So much has happened since then — including, here in Ottawa, allegations of harassment against a city councillor and a former federal senator — that one books a ticket for the
Boston Ballet is serving up an all-American triple bill at the NAC this week. It’s a diverse but uneven program, with two solid hits and an unfortunate miss. It’s hard to go wrong with Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein’s’ Fancy Free from 1944, the precursor to
The second Laureate City will feature a bilingual weekend of poetry readings, music, and food. The project is the brain child of VERSeOttawa, along with Arc Poetry Magazine and Library and Archives Canada and ably abetted by the Ottawa Public Library and the Ottawa Writers Festival.
