NAC Dance welcomes renowned Canadian contemporary dancer Louise Lecavalier, as she brings her choreography Stations to the Babs Asper Theatre on the evenings of March 30 and 31.
January’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Patrick Lescard, to support his video documentation of Ottawa’s light rail construction and more.
“Umoja” means unity in Swahili, and it’s also the name of an upcoming evening of multidisciplinary creativity and self-care hosted by The Origin Arts and Community Centre. From yoga to house music, Umoja has plenty in store.
Art director Nadyne Kasta was approaching her 50th birthday when inspiration struck. She wanted to commemorate the milestone through photographs of other women her age. That’s how Project 50 came about.
This weekend, the National Arts Centre will become a magical realm for children, thanks to numerous music-related events at the BIG BANG festival. A part of Winterlude, this celebration of sound offers many free activities, as well as some paid shows.
As You Like It: A Radical Retelling is Cliff Cardinal’s version of Shakespeare’s comedy for a contemporary Canadian audience.
The latest season of the podcast To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive launches today for any ears willing to listen. From protest action to generating creative community spaces to celebrating queer and trans Black communities, these discussions are about Ottawa-based Black, Indigenous, people of colour, diasporic and queer archives of longing, memory and inheritance in arts-based practices.
Odyssey Theatre has created a podcast series of dramas called The Other Path: a set of five unrelated stories in which old fairy tales have been reimagined in a modern setting.
Axis Theatre is focused on engaging young and young-at-heart audiences. The company’s members live, work, and play on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples–sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.
September’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Paul Weber to support the free public release of songs about Ottawa past and present.
Craig Conoley is an award-winning digital content producer and director with over 10 years of experience working in advertising and documentary production. Craig has been working with MASC through the Awesome Arts en folie program since 2014, and now as a roster artist, collaborating with participants to create mini-documentaries, cinepoems, and music videos.
For the past several weeks, Awesome Arts en folie has been partnering with the Vanier community for an eight-week-long celebration of arts. Apt613 spoke with key members involved in the initiative’s Vanier roll-out to get a flavour of how the collaboration came about, what’s been going on these past several weeks, and what Ottawa residents can look forward to in the days ahead.
April’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Ariane Bédard, Isabelle Poirier, Firdous Nizar, and the Ottawa Design Club to help create a strong community of local creative people.
In association with GCTC, the Theatre Artists’ Co-operative: the Independent Collective Series (TACTICS) present two performances for an optimistic start to this new year in their 2022 Mainstage Series: Blissful State of Surrender and Heartlines.
On Nov. 17, 2021, the Canada Council for the Arts will reveal the 2021 finalists in the Governor General’s Literary Awards (GGBooks). 70 books have been chosen as the best for publishing for this year, and these 14 winners will be announced on ggbooks.ca.
