Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 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.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 2019 uOShow, a hallmark of 101 Week, took place this past Thursday in University Square. Ottawa duo Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine headlined the concert, which ran from 8 to 11 p.m. Photographer Emilie Azevedo was there. Check out the gallery below for some of our favourite snaps of the night.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe gathering held over the weekend, held partly on campus, looked to highlight the guitar’s relationship to electronic music and the academic study of the instrument.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCirque du Soleil’s new take on its lauded show is powerful, emotional and will make you laugh.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSnoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan, Pussy Riot push through cancellations to light up the LeBreton Flats festival.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLeBreton Flats was full of nostalgia as Alexisonfire, The Offspring and T-Pain took the stage.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThursday saw Leikeli47, Murda Beatz and Shakey Graves persevere through stormy weather to shine on stage
Reading Time: 3 minutesDay five of the festival saw Norwegian electronic producer brings his signature tropical house sound to Ottawa, along with Lennon Stella, Buddy Guy and Sue Folley
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Las Vegas quartet projected contagious energy off the stage, leaving spectators bouncing, swaying and signing every word
Reading Time: 4 minutesPUP, the Glorious Sons and Dawn Tyler Watson were among those that hit the stage Saturday
Reading Time: 3 minutesA new CBC Ottawa podcasts is helping survivors of sexual abuse at Bell High School ‘speak in their own words’
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 44th U.S. president talked Canada-U.S. relations, digital tech, and science and facts over fear
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe annual festival runs from Sept. 12-15 in Lansdowne Park
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe decided to get nostalgic and dig through the archives in honour of our final print issue to present you with some of the classic hits from days of yore: Arts through the decades.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs in his past works of fiction, Midnight Sweatlodge (2012) and Legacy (2014), Rice uses a veil of storytelling to allow his readers to live through the difficulties, complications and celebrations of reserve life.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe name of the exhibition, Inter-NoUs, is a bilingual play on words that captures that relationship across different artistic practices and generations.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPrisoners pushes the boundaries of the thriller genre, posing the question: how far would you go to protect your child?
Reading Time: 2 minutesCampus radio station CHUO highlights musical talent around Ottawa. Take a listen.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fact that Radisson is only briefly mentioned in the footnotes of others’ textbooks proves, once again, that the devil really is in the details.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA member of Greenland’s Inuit community, Vivi Sørensen said she was compelled to properly tell the stories of Indigenous Peoples. “My main reason for wanting to direct is the fact that our stories … are always told from outside. And I felt like there’s a misportrayal, there’s something that’s wrong.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite the colourful cover art and poppy sound, the lyrics on Get to Heaven are extremely bleak. They’re filled with obtuse references to ISIS, mass shootings, political corruption, and general cynicism about the current state of affairs.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBalancing graduate school with music isn’t easy, but to Lu it’s essential.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is enough personal and professional intrigue to earn the play’s description as being about “the abuse of power, political expediency, and the masks we wear to carry on as if everything is as it should be.” I think, acutely aware of my privilege as a white cisgender male, the key word here is abuse.
Reading Time: 3 minutesArmed revolution, ground-breaking art, youth culture, a huge push forward in the history of teenage rebellion, and the stodgy British class system might seem unlikely to fit together, but all that and more came out of Britain’s most elite, aristocratic schools.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDonnie Darko is an independent film that was the product of a first-time director, so it certainly wasn’t a blockbuster.
