Film festivals: hit or miss?
Ottawa Art Gallery
Barrucco’s installation makes us wonder about the future of social interaction.
Set to debut in 2020, the International Film Festival of Ottawa had major setbacks due to the pandemic. However, two years after it was originally set to be launched, the team behind the festival can finally screen movies for in-person audiences.
A beautiful collection of photographs that will emerge you into the rich heritage of Peru from 1890 to 1950
A zine is a mini-magazine — a self-published, do-it-yourself, physical object. All three of those ingredients are essential. The zine exists outside the literary industrial complex and as a physical object.
The theme of April’s MFA exhibition is two-fold: she is interrogating the separation between the human world and the natural world while also analyzing how painting can interact with digital media.
“Specifically, I was thinking: what is the response in a time when climate change is radically altering the climate and the landscape.”—Jesse Stewart, artist.
“That’s something that I really appreciate about the Ottawa art scene—you have more freedom because there is no trend, because there is no pride in just being here, you just have to make work.”—Jinny Yu, associate professor of painting at the University of Ottawa
The Youth Art Symposium works to remind established Canadian artists that they should convene with young, aspiring artists to foster excitement about the future of national artistry.
“I question what it is to be animal, and if it is possible to reconnect with nature and other living beings by addressing our mutual fragility and mortality.”—Gillian King, U of O masters of fine arts candidate.
The exhibit spans two rooms. In the first is an array of multimedia pieces—photographs, videos, sculptures, and acquired objects. One installment, entitled Reliquarium, is a collection of ninety objects spanning from pressed flowers, to written excerpts, to blood samples.
Included in this expansion are new facilities for the University of Ottawa’s theatre department. The facilities will include a new 120-seat black box theatre, which is typically a simple performance space often used at universities for it’s versatility, as well as four studio-style classrooms.
The free event was facilitated by Canadian Film Institute (CFI) staff, active supporters and sponsors, local embassy partners, Canadian filmmakers and actors, alumni of Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, and local film fans.
A City of Ottawa development committee has recommended that council approve plans for a new $100 million arts complex, part of which will be used by the University of Ottawa’s theatre department.
