Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Eunioa curatorial text describes the show as capturing “the unbridled talent of a new generation of artists” and that it “will be remembered as the beginning of bright artistic futures.”
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Reading Time: 3 minutesAs concerns over the spread of COVID-19 in the city continue to grow, the University of Ottawa is offering refunds and urging students in residence to move home early to reduce the strain on campus resources.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCampus Vibez uOttawa has announced the nominees for the Student Life Awards, with the winners to be announced at an event on March 14 in Tabaret Hall.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn what the Gallery 115 directors called an “unprecedented incident” in a statement, the artwork of first-year visual arts student Emily Lombardo was crossed out “hostilely” with a black marker.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“My not-funny joke is that there are about 40,000 people on campus, so we take 10,000 each.” — Tareyn Johnson, Director of Indigenous Affairs at the U of O
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Elixir, Pacheco leans fully into the acoustic singer-songwriter sounds he honed at open mics. The album has an overarching theme of growth and life changes, which came out of Pacheco graduating and thinking about his life post-school.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe undercurrents theatre festival bills itself as “theatre below the mainstream.” It’s a festival of boundary-pushing theatre by both emerging and established creators that gives creators a chance to stage their new works.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBudding musicians are spoiled for choice in Ottawa, with plenty of major venues hosting popular open mic nights. University of Ottawa students don’t even have to leave campus, with Café Nostalgica hosting its own open mic every Thursday night.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSound healing, also known as a sound bath, is exactly what it says on the tin: healing through sound. The healer uses a variety of percussive instruments, mainly gongs, singing bowls, and other Eastern instruments, to help you relax. It’s meditation with an aural element.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa Students’ Union plans to reopen Café Alt and Pivik in September 2020. The future of 1848 is still uncertain, while the union will not be bringing back the Agora Bookstore.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Music has always been a cool way, if I’m feeling down, to take my mind of it or get some of those feelings out.” — Maxime Trippenbach aka maxime.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa alumnus Mishka Lavigne took home the prestigious 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for her locally-based play Havre.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last weekend, five Fulcrum editors took part in a collaboration with the Gee-Gees cheerleading team. We were invited to a cheerleading practice where coach Nailah Taylor and her team taught us basic cheerleading maneuvers. It wasn’t all pretty but fun was had by all — here’s what the different editors had to say about their experiences.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa’s Mashkawazìwomagig: Indigenous Resource Centre organized the inaugural round dance on campus, an event that they hope will be the first of many.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe U of O Press is the university’s academic publishing arm, printing titles on a wide range of academic topics, by professors at the U of O and else
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Venice Biennale is the largest contemporary art event in the world, with countries from around the globe exhibiting. In 2019, over 70 countries from every continent participated. Inuit film collective Isuma represented Canada this year, screening their film One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe School of Music’s Musicians’ Wellness Centre is an interdisciplinary centre that studies and provides treatment for health issues specific to musicians.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Great Canadian Theatre Company is starting their season with a topical political drama that tackles both police violence against Black youth and artistic appropriation, raising simultaneous questions of who gets to tell the story and why the story exists at all.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe theatre department is starting their new season off with a show that expertly mixes the serious with the comedic and is sure to visually amaze, raise questions, and leave the audience literally on the edge.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA great pre-Panda Game playlist is essential. The Fulcrum’s got you covered on the 10 songs you’re bound to hear at this year’s parties.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA University of Ottawa student, inspired by her commute from the suburbs, wrote her complaints about OC Transpo’s service down as lyrics, set them to “Bodak Yellow,” and graced Ottawa with “Bodak Transpo.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesPlant’s new style of music is hard to pin down. The easiest descriptor is world music. For Led Zeppelin fans, it’s a totally different type of music, but it’s apparent the seeds of Plant’s new output were there back in his old days, too.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe National Arts Centre has started a historic new chapter with the inauguration of the first season of its Indigenous theatre department, something artistic director Kevin Loring is calling a “one-of-a-kind” institution.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCityFolk, if you look at its name, might not seem like the place to go wild on a Saturday night, but it was the hottest place to be in the city this weekend. Day 3 of the festival ranged from sultry soul to high-energy trap, proving that even a folk festival can be sexy.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I just focus. Do school, do music, do X, do Y, try to feed all my relationships, try to nurture everything and just stay motivated. I love doing it … just to rap and have people say ‘George, I appreciate what you’re saying in your music.’ ”
