The recipients of the 2018 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards were announced on Thursday, March 8 at an event in the Canada Council building attended by some of the recipients.
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Based in Nepean, Click eSports is aiming to create a space where gamers of all skill levels can gather to discuss, watch, and play the world’s most popular competitive video games.
There are panels on animal theory and animal rights, co-existing with nature, consumer society, geographical spaces in literature, environmental activism, and a creative writing panel on how the current age of ecological crisis affects creative writing.
What begins as a “safari of other people’s pain and suffering,” as Mtuli put it, turns into the photojournalist intensely following the illegal romance of Alexander, an ethnic Serb, and Mirela, a Muslim.
What I hadn’t realized was that the Irish take the GAA championships as seriously as many Canadians take the NHL playoffs. This was the Stanley Cup game of hurling. So, I was wrong about the atmosphere. I was very, very wrong.
The music of Godspell is a major selling point, with a mix of traditional musical theatre, vaudeville, gospel music, and 70s-style pop and rock.
Jesus Christ Superstar holds a big place in theatre, as one of only two major Broadway musicals about Jesus Christ—the other being Godspell—and it’s definitely the bigger, more dramatic of the two.
This year, the club is tackling materialism, with all proceeds going to LGBT Youthline, a charity that offers counselling, advice, and an outreach hotline for LGBT youth.
While Brown might be getting a lot of the coverage, the dive wasn’t a one-man affair. He dives with a team of about 10 others who make the explorations possible.
When you fast forward 12 years later and people still ask you, “Do you have hair under that?” or “Did your parents force you to wear that?” you realize that the questions have evolved from innocent inquiries to judgmental remarks. My hijab became a conversation starter—to discuss the political and economic state of Muslim countries.
Lalonde pointed out that the number of artists using multimedia in this exhibit is part of a growing trend in the wider art world. As technology increases and becomes more accessible, artists are exploring ways to use common technologies in unique ways.
The event explored a diverse range of issues including racism, socio-economic subjugation, populism, slacktivism and language rights through an equally diverse spread of mediums from videography to poetry.
VR headsets won’t be replacing your television anytime soon, but options are starting to open up for those who want to get ahead of the curve. Among them is local Ottawa startup Colony VR.
Townes sticks out a bit in the Ottawa music scene. Inundated with punk, hardcore, and metal, there aren’t a lot of pop or synthpop artists.
Undercurrents is a non-mainstream theatre festival in the heart of downtown Ottawa.
Man of The Woods, released on Feb. 2, encapsulates a wide range of elements, from his signature pop style to the heavy roots of southern soul and country.
The Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) and the University of Ottawa’s department of history have a number of events lined up to celebrate Black history both now and throughout the year.
And there, in front of me, he was.
Peppermint, the first openly trans contestant on RuPaul, appeared on the ninth season of the show, and finished as the first runner up. It was the show’s most watched season in its history.
At 7 p.m. the fashion show will begin, where models of all kinds—many of whom are University of Ottawa students—showcase garments from local designers on the titular catwalk.
In the bygone age of 2012, a throat-singing ensemble of ex-punks chanting about clubbing seals and food security in Iqaluit was too out-there to be picked up by all but the most indie of labels.
The tanks have benefits for students, too. An hour in the float tank can make you feel well-rested, reduce stress, and help with concentration.
A 465-year-old relic, the right forearm of St. Francis Xavier, is currently on a month long, fifteen-city pilgrimage, and will arrive in Ottawa, its final destination, on Wednesday, Jan. 31.
The spirit of this event is precisely to be a platform for non-conventional and experimental theatre.
Photography played a large role in the gala. Angel Li, a fourth-year sociology student and president of SASA, said that photography and the social sciences are more complementary than most would initially assume.
