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
Ryan Pepper
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe U of O spends a lot of time claiming that they care about the mental health and happiness of their students. Extending the length of leases on residence rooms is a simple way for the administration to put those beliefs into action.
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: 2 minutesIt flawlessly straddles the border between 70s glam and 80s new wave—in fact, the album is often viewed as Bowie proclaiming his dominance as the original freak over a new generation of artists.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough most students shop at big-box grocery stores, there’s still a lot that students can do to reduce their waste.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPRD is a club that meets weekly, preparing vegan meals with food that would have otherwise been thrown out.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe play was popular in Brazil as a subtle critique of the ruling dictatorship, but the questions it asked about the role of art in that oppressive society were left behind when the dictatorship fell.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe music of Godspell is a major selling point, with a mix of traditional musical theatre, vaudeville, gospel music, and 70s-style pop and rock.
Reading Time: 3 minutesJesus 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLalonde 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTownes 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.
Reading Time: 7 minutesUndercurrents is a non-mainstream theatre festival in the heart of downtown Ottawa.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesInspired by Denmark’s hygge and Scotland’s cosagach, the Canadian government is now looking to cash in on the coziness trend with their own uniquely Canadian way of getting snuggly, dubbed CANCozy.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe tanks have benefits for students, too. An hour in the float tank can make you feel well-rested, reduce stress, and help with concentration.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Canada Council for the Arts was established in 1957 and its mandate has remained relatively stable—to support the creation of new art in Canada by Canadians, and to help get an audience to that art.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe opera also pecks away at the social hierarchy of the time period, with the servants getting the upper hand over the count.
Reading Time: 3 minutes2017 was for hygge, but 2018 is all cosagach.
