Reading Time: 4 minutesThrough reading literature like Invisible Boy and The Blue Clerk or exploring scenes like Caribana and Afrofest you will come to discover that while Black culture may not be as loud as it is with our neighbours down south, it is certainly not any less vibrant.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe NAC’s Indigenous Art Market took place on Saturday, June 15, when more than 40 vendors installed their booths in the expanse of the Gail & David O’Brien Atrium
Reading Time: 2 minutesEmma Bovary explores how Bovary comes to condemn herself through her own nullified ambition, while Angels Atlas considers humanity’s impermanence.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn a world where the colonization of Turtle Island never occurred, Grease would have been Bear Grease.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 4-day event featured diverse music educators and their experience in teaching cross-cultural artistry in their music classrooms.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTheatre: this is an “until death do us part” situation, and I’m not going anywhere. I’m here for you through the rough patch.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne need look only as far as Ottawa’s own National Arts Centre to see that art isn’t dying during these disquieting times; in its own, exciting ways, it’s even thriving, shape-shifting to fit the needs of a socially distant world.
Reading Time: 8 minutes“It was very emotional for me as I had never before heard so much appreciation for non-Indigenous presence,” said Polish retiree Feliks Welfeld.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe National Arts Centre has started a historic new chapter with the inauguration of the first season of its Indigenous theatre department, something artistic director Kevin Loring is calling a “one-of-a-kind” institution.
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 minutesNew facilities, show schedules, policies, and advertising are all working together in a top-to-bottom revamp that aims to capture the diversity of Canada’s artistic scene.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here are just a few things you can do to make your solitary holiday season a special one.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOriginally created by Jordan Tannahill, Erin Brubacher, and Cara Spooner, and written for a Toronto setting, the play was adapted for Ottawa with a new local cast featuring two University of Ottawa students, and opened at the National Arts Centre (NAC) on March 31 to a full house.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLuckily for Innes, Yukon Blonde will soon be returning to one of their favourite cities in the country with Hey Rosetta!, another well-known Canadian indie act. The two bands will be performing at the National Arts Centre (NAC) on Nov. 22.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe songs of old on the lips of the young Photo by Matthew Timmermans Performing on the National Arts Centre’s fourth stage is a privilege rarely given to students. On Feb. 5, Joel Allison, and accompanist Thomas Annand, were given that very privilege, a hopeful sign of promising careers ahead. Allison, a third-year music student …
