The Ottawa Art Gallery is free to visitors, in part, because it raises enough money to not charge admission, thereby making art available to everyone. There’s no bigger event on that fundraising calendar than Le Party, and this year’s Le Party is the biggest yet. It’s
In May 2017, NACO announced the first two composers selected for Carrefour, a joint career development program with the Canada Council of the Arts for composers from “culturally diverse or Indigenous backgrounds.” Ian Cusson and Remy Siu were awarded five-year residencies with the orchestra, during
The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra did more than did a toe in the future Sunday, the OSO dropped a cannonball and frankly made a pretty big splash. The event was the opening concert of the OSO's 2018-19 season and it was unique for several important reasons. First
The 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War is almost upon us. As Canadians reflect on a time that many believe forged the nation, Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) is presenting a unusual way to remember the the War to end all wars
For 30 years, Montreal's ECM+ has been leading the way in the performance and celebration of music by contemporary Canadian composers. And for the past decade they have been touring the music of younger artists across Canada. ECM+'s founder and music director Veronique Lacroix has
Evelyn Hart, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s legendary prima ballerina, made her first Southam Hall appearance as a young dancer more than 40 years ago. Hart left the company in 2005 and retired from major classical roles a year later, but never hung up her dancing
Charline Dequincey is a maker of violins, violas and cellos. She shapes them by hand out of wood. It started when she was 13 and playing the viola in her home region of Franche-Comté. She was chatting with her teacher who told her there was a school for
"I am at Pink Lake very far in the woods right now collecting things for my photographs." With that, an interview with the photographer Whitney Lewis-Smith got started. She was up a tree at the time and descended to sit on a nearby stump and explain
In the days after the Sept. 21 tornadoes that ripped a path of devastation across Ottawa and Gatineau, Erin Benjamin was sitting at her desk looking at all the film of the destruction. It was a shocking revelation. "I had been like many people sort of cut
The National Arts Centre is at the heart of official Ottawa located near the Parliament Buildings. But even closer is the National War Memorial. As the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World Aar approaches, the NAC will use music and the visual power
