Welcome to tulip season, friends! It seems like the whole city has come alive in the last week, with the magnolias exploding off their branches and the tulips suddenly coming out of nowhere. We are solidly heading towards a warm, welcoming spring.
Ottawa’s fashion scene will gather on Friday, May 13, for the Grande Premiere, the annual fashion show by the Richard Robinson Academy of Fashion Design, showcasing original student designs.
This Thursday is the official Canadian premiere of “Sleeping Beauty”, presented at the NAC by the renowned classical ballet company Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, featuring the NAC Orchestra. I spoke with Buriassi about reinventing a classical story, how it was working with Marcia Haydée, and what her favourite ballet is.
Ottawa Feline Café, Ottawa’s first and only cat café, is located at 1076 Wellington Street. It opened in 2017 and is home to nine cats. They look for abandoned or stray cats in the area and assess them through their foster program, which allows applicants to take care of the cats and socialize them until the café can take them in.
An Ottawa treasure, The Nordic Lab at The Saw Gallery is a space for Northern artists to create and learn. Two-spirit Iqaluktuuttiaq artist and writer Aedan Corey is a new participant, bringing Nunavut-lived experiences from a town of 1,700.
Much has been written about what became of H.F. Brading’s Victorian-era brewery come the 20th century, particularly regarding infamous Ottawa-born magnate E.P. Taylor, who parlayed it into a gigantic beer empire. Then there’s the small matter of the SECRET BEER TUNNEL under Lebreton Flats, built around 1945. I won’t be talking about any of that: This is the largely untold story of the man who started it all, Henry Fisher Brading (1836-1903), and his original Union Brewery.
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On June 3 and 4, Meridian Centrepointe Theatres is proud to present the Ottawa Pops Orchestra’s Video Game Symphony, where video game enthusiasts will have the opportunity to listen to their favourite songs from classic video games, and more.
Opening the night was Joe Sumner, Sting’s son.
Although his projects are stylistically diverse, Stefan Jurewicz’s musical identity emerges from each one through a poignant lyrical style that never shies away from gut-punching emotion. This lyricism translates into bold yet introspective prose in Jurewicz’s debut novel, Lemon, published in early 2022.
