Reading Time: 2 minutes“Honestly, I think working with the arts students was a big shift, a big culture shock, because in our projects in classes, we only work with engineering students (and) everyone has a similar way of thinking.”
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Reading Time: 2 minutesBefore Sunrise is a quintessential romance flick that captures the intimacy of a moment without flashy background events.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteU of O students showcase their creative works with Campus Creations.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“It’s (an opportunity) to welcome all international students from all over the world and it’s a chance for Canadians to meet international students as well and mingle and learn about different cultures,” explained Natalie Morris, a representative from U of O’s International Office.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“We all start out drawing, but for a variety of reasons, most of us stop. I’m hoping to inspire students to get back to it, but with new insight into the possibilities and less restrictive ideas of what this might mean for them.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesPierre Richardson’s exhibit will be open to the public at city hall until Sept. 24.
Reading Time: 4 minutesBoth movies take to the screens this summer after long Asian-American film drought.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnlike previous Pride festivals in Ottawa, which have have been smaller and had limitations, this year saw performances take stage on both weekend nights, the expansion of community engagement, and also a project to increase youth participation.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUstun will be performing in Ottawa’s ByWard Market until the end of August.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDue to its inherently startling nature, dystopian fiction remains an effective way to captivate readers and warn them of the dire repercussions of their actions. However, in Sinclair Lewis’s book It Can’t Happen Here, it is the reader’s inaction that leads to a spiralling series of events.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn addition to the cool acts, H2Ottawa is bringing a new element of refreshing taste to the festival. The U of O based H2Ottawa initiative will be selling reusable aluminium water bottles to attendees. Launched in March of this year, H2Ottawa’s goal is to educate the public about the issues related to access to clean water and the issues with plastic water bottles.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, the NAC along with the University of Ottawa, hosted 70 internationally renowned artists and faculty members to assist with the program, one of whom is U of O alumnus, Bryan Wagorn, assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Friday June 1, Ottawa-based indie rock band Fools of Love released their first full-length album,The Howl and the Whisper.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo celebrate their 40th birthday, BeaverTails will be giving away free pastries from 2-4 p.m. at select stores across Canada on Friday June 1—including their popular Byward Market location.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Visual and Media Arts awards honour lifetime achievements in the fine arts, such as ceramics, sculpture, multimedia and audio-visual, painting, and photography. All forms of artistic expression were included this year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBut Ottawa is also crowded with smaller museums devoted to a single topic or local history that are just as fascinating as the big ones.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom April to August, the OSA will offer a variety of courses, exhibitions, and events during its Spring (April-June) and Summer (July-August) terms.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe vernissage is the biggest night for the visual arts department, with professors, faculty, family and friends, and artists and gallery owners coming through
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe more time you spend in a place, the more that it feels like it’s a part of your identity and the harder it will be to break the connections and friendships that you’ve made.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe interpretations of “avian” ranged from life-like ceramic owls to performance pieces about Twitter.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThey are a non-confrontational group that hopes to give students knowledge and awareness on how to live a cruelty-free life.
Reading Time: 2 minutesScott has noticed that people come to Irish culture for different reasons. Irish music and dance are popular, she noted, and so she tries to work the Irish language into dance or music classes.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe play itself deals with some dark themes, and its characters are complicated and flawed. They are often contradictory and always conflictual.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Life and Death of Languages” looked in extreme detail at how Hill and his team are working to revitalize the Tuscarora language, which has only one truly fluent speaker remaining.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a result of fusing African house and rap coupled with Lamar’s distinctive hip hop style, this album is able to connect to an international fan base by shining light upon international artists.
