Lori Marchand — the first managing director of NAC Indigenous Theatre, which starts its inaugural season in September — is still moved by the memory of those students from Lilloett, BC. A member of the Syilx Nation, Marchand was, from 1999 until joining the NAC last
When Nicole Milne was a child in Winnipeg she used to attend her father's performances in musical theatre. She remembers sitting in the wings watching the magic happen on stage and she was hooked. She started acting herself and soon was able to establish her own
The Ottawa based cellist and composer Jan Järvlepp has written a new piece that will be performed by two young musicians from our town John Kofi Dapaah and Raphael Weinroth-Browne. You can hear The Rise and Fall of the Avro Arrow at 8 p.m. on Aug.
In 1985, Joe Average got some pretty bad news. He was diagnosed with HIV at a time when that carried a dire prognosis. The Vancouver resident made a decision that if he was facing the great beyond he would devote what was left of the rest
A leading Toronto philanthropist and businessman has donated $1 million to the National Arts Centre Foundation to encourage Arab-Canadian artistic programming. The donation from the Bay Tree Foundation, a family foundation of Mohammad Al Zaibak, was announced in a media release from the NAC on
Kelly S. Thompson comes from a military family. Her father and grandfather both served in the Canadian Forces. Kelly was determined to follow in their footsteps, even though she really longed to be a writer. She did serve for eight years and rose through the ranks
Everyone born before Sept. 11, 2001 knows where they were when the planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York. In my case I was driving to my job as the editor of the then Canwest National Bureau when I got
The National Gallery’s lineup of fall/winter exhibitions will include new photography from Canada, mid-century photography from Japan, monsters and a global survey of Indigenous art that will be “unmatched in scope and scale.” That “unmatched” boast is daunting, as the gallery will have to outdo Sakahan,
The oldest image of a person playing something that resembles a guitar is believed to be a 5,500 year old Hittite carving found in the Middle East. People have been plucking stringed instruments ever since in a variety of forms. But what about today. What
Ottawa is set to celebrate eight days of Capital Pride with the added impetus provided by Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson who emerged from the closet on Saturday in a poignant opinion article published in the Ottawa Citizen. The mayor said in his op-ed that he
