In her recent work, the American artist and animator Stacey Steers combines imagery from silent films, the legendary photographer Eadweard Muybridge, along with thousands of her own handmade collages in her animations. Steers' films have screened across the U.S. and internationally including at the National Gallery
They say that the artists can lead the way. The Ottawa Art Gallery certainly seems to believe that. They have just announced a publication and program called Contemporary Indigenous Arts in the Classroom. The idea is to provide elementary and high school teachers with lesson plans prepared by contemporary
When Alain Trudel announced the 2018-19 season of music for the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra this past spring, he said the opening concert would be something special. Turns out he meant it. The OSO will be breaking lots of new ground on Nov. 4. First, the event will
Had we all been even once graced with a teacher like Dewey Finn, the world might be a happier place right now. Dewey is the slacker dude whose passion for rock ‘n’ roll, generous heart and super-sized personality ignite Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rowdy if predictable musical
Museum of Symmetry is the National Film Board Animation Studio’s first ever interactive Virtual Reality "experience" and Ottawa's Paloma Dawkins is the co-writer, director and animator the project. Museum of Symmetry was developed by Montreal's by Casa Rara Studio. Dawkins was part of the National Film Board's
ARTSFILE is talking to some of the artists who are attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival this week. Today Ottawa's Pixie Cram talks about her work seven minute animation Emergency Broadcast (2017) and much more including her name, which she says was given to her
The axiom “history is written by the victors” is, in essence, a grim twist of the truism “perspective is everything.” War artists have influenced that perspective, often as a counter to propaganda, even when dispatched by the victors. The art of Mary Riter Hamilton offers
May 7, 1824 is a special moment in the history of music. It's the day Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna. In its premiere, the Ninth was unlike anything heard before and it remains such a towering achievement that it comes back to concert stages again
For past several years, Southminster United Church has emerged as a centre for music in Ottawa South. Much of that is due to the church's energetic music director Roland Graham. Graham has programmed a lively once a week noon hour concert series called Doors Open
Pulling into the homestretch of their Beethoven symphony cycle, Alexander Shelley and NACO laid down rousing, passionate performances of the Seventh and Eighth Thursday night. Speaking to the audience, Shelley mentioned that as red-hot as his tempi may seem, they were still slower than the actual
