The 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.
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Budding 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.
Escapade Music Festival has revealed the lineup of DJs and producers set to take over TD Place in Lansdowne Park this June for the 11th edition of the annual electronic music festival.
Sound 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.
The 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.
“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.
Don’t expect anything remotely similar to our current pop scene; Cohen is more of a poet than a musician trying to push the barriers of sound. He relies on the timbre of his voice, typically paired with laid-back orchestration and harmonies.
University of Ottawa alumnus Mishka Lavigne took home the prestigious 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for her locally-based play Havre.
In Proximity at Gallery 115 promises to get visitors thinking about their own role as spectators in a gallery.
For many, the official start to the holiday season is a cause for celebration, but for some, it can be the perfect time to invest in a good pair of earplugs.
The 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.
This Sunday, the University of Ottawa club HerCampus will host the networking and empowerment speakers series BLOOM, as part of their mandate as a club to inspire women and push them to achieve their goals.
The 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
The 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.
The University of Ottawa unveiled a new statue by David General, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, on Oct. 28, celebrating the long and continuing history of the Anishinaabe people on this land.
Nothing More is beloved by their fans largely because of their lyrics, which openly and bluntly draw from dark experiences in the band members’ lives, but present these stories with hopeful messages of self-improvement and perseverance.
The School of Music’s Musicians’ Wellness Centre is an interdisciplinary centre that studies and provides treatment for health issues specific to musicians.
The 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.
The 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.
To help you out with all the mortifying interactions you’ll have to field this reading week, keep this cheat sheet handy to answer some of the most awkward questions your extended family will ask.
Carleton University started the Dr. Marc Andrew Hewson Memorial Scholarship this month with a literature panel and award for the first recipient of the prize, named in honour of an English professor who taught at Carleton and the University of Ottawa.
Check out our recap of the drag show that took place on campus last night featuring Tatianna, best known for her appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 2. The event was part of the University of Ottawa’s Pride Week.
anda Game might be good for the spirits but it can be hard for the body. Read our survival guide to make sure your soul is alive for those Monday morning classes.
A 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.
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.
