The Mud Oven is proud to bring back Nan Griffiths for another exhibit featuring her latest watercolours.
           NAN GRIFFITHS
           EXPLORATIONS
           OPENING: TUESDAY, APRIL 27TH
           7:00 – 9:00 PM
The exhibit continues until May 24th.
The Mud Oven is open seven days a week . For a sneak peak at Nan’s show visit our web site. www.mudoven.com.

On Thursday, April 22 at 6 p.m, the public is invited to a special screening of André Forcier’s critically acclaimed movie Je me souviens. Set in Abitibi in the 40s and 50s, this poetic fictional drama stars some of Quebec’s top actors, including Céline Bonnier, Gaston Lepage, Rémy Girard, Hélène Bourgeois-Leclerc, France Castel, and Roy Dupuis and will be screened in French with English subtitles in the NGC’s Lecture Hall (380 Sussex Drive). Film director André Forcier will be present. For more information about the movie, visit http://www.jemesouviens-film.com/fr and to learn more about André Forcier, visit http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggavma. Free admission. For more information: 613-990-1985 or 1-800-319-ARTS / info@gallery.ca / gallery.ca

Leonard Slatkin conducts the NAC Orchestra and Canadian violin soloist Leila Josefowicz in a program featuring the Violin Concerto by John Adams and Schubert’s “The Great” Symphony in a Bostonian Bravo Series concert on April 22-23 in Southam Hall.

In the fourth Bostonian Bravo Series concert of the NAC’s 40th Anniversary season, conductor Leonard Slatkin leads the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C major “The Great”, as well as music by Henry Purcell. Canadian violin soloist Leila Josefowicz is featured in the Violin Concerto by John Adams. The concert takes place in Southam Hall on Thursday April 22 and Friday April 23 at 8 p.m.

Friday

KARSH-MASSON GALLERY
136 St. Patrick Street, Ottawa
MICHAEL BELMORE
Overland
April 16 to June 6, 2010
ARTIST TALK (in English):
Friday, April 16 at 12:30 p.m.
Open to the public. Free of charge. Bring your lunch!
The Dutch Connection: An exhibition by painter Corinne Nieuwburg Presented at the Bytown Museum Community Gallery from April 17 to May 30, 2010 Vernissage: April 16, 2010 from 5:00 to 8:00pm

PATRICK MIKHAIL GALLERY is pleased to present PRIMER, an exhibition featuring four new gallery artists working in a range of mediums.  The exhibition marks the first time these four artists, ADRIAN GÖLLNER, ANDREW MORROW, ANDREW WRIGHT (pictured: Standing Wave #3), and JINNY YU, have exhibited their work together. Individually, each artist presents new work that introduces his or her professional practice, and which forms a foundation for a scheduled solo exhibition at the gallery in 2011.
ARTIST RECEPTION
FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2010
5:30 P.M. TO 9 P.M.
2401 Bank Street
La Petite Mort Gallery presents...
ONE NIGHT ONLY Exhibit
BRIAN TREMBLAY / Photographs
Friday April 16, 2010 / 7-10pm
306 Cumberland Street

Newfoundland: Above, Below and Beyond
Oil Paintings by Shawn McNevin
April 16 to May 11
Vernissage: Friday April 16 at 7 pm
Galerie McKenzie Marcotte is located at 26 chemin Sully Wakefield Qc. For information call 819 459-3164

Open Labyrinth Walk with Choral Sounds to welcome Spring
Friday April 16th at Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa
420 Sparks Street beginning at 7:00
This is an opportunity to walk the medieval labyrinth with the accompaniment of an ensemble of female voices, directed by Bruce Nicol. The evening is hosted and facilitated by Barbara Brown and Vanessa Compton. An introduction to the labyrinth will be provided, refreshment and contagious conversation to follow. For information contact barbara.brown1@sympatico.ca.

GALLERY 101 PROUDLY PRESENTS
Troy Ouellette . Mae Leong . Griffith Baker . Twyla Exner
Detritus Ecologies
April 16 – May 21, 2010
ARTIST TALK: April 16– 7:30 pm
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 16 at 7:00pm
Admission is free and Open to All!
Gallery 101 is located at 301 ½ Bank Street, 2nd Floor.

David Clayton Thomas and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra
April 16 at 8 pm |  Centrepointe Theatre | 101 Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa
Through the years, David has lost none of the attributes that have made him one of the greatest vocalists of his generation. That unmistakable three octave voice now soaring and sunny, now a dark, somber shade of blue. He still just sings the hell out of a song. For ticket information please follow the links on our website: www.centrepointetheatre.com Free Parking.

Saturday

On Saturday, April 17 at 2 pm, video works by artist Tom Sherman will be presented at a special free screening in the NGC’s Lecture Hall (380 Sussex Drive). The artist, who works in video, radio and live performance, and whose interdisciplinary work and writing are internationally renowned, will be in attendance. More information on Tom Sherman can be found at http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggavma. Free admission. For information, dial 613-990-1985 or 1-800-319-ARTS, write to info@gallery.ca, or visit gallery.ca

Sunday

City Hall Art Gallery
Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West
JENNIFER STEAD - A long, drawn out story
Experience art in action: a 100-foot landscape drawing evolves over five weeks.
ARTIST TALK (in English):
Sunday, April 18 at 2 p.m.
Free of charge

Les Prix Rideau Awards is thrilled to announce our Third Annual Awards Gala, co-hosted by Alan Neal (CBC Radio) and Annie Lefebvre (not CBC Radio). Please join us as we announce the winners of Ottawa-Gatineau’s peer-juried professional theatre awards for 2009, now for the first time fully bilingual.  This will be THE event of the season for Ottawa professional theatre… a party not to be missed! For a complete list of all the nominees, visit www.rideauawards.ca
Sunday, April 18, 2010 |  École secondaire De La Salle | 501 Old St. Patrick Road, Ottawa
6:30pm cocktails
7:30pm awards presentation
reception following
Tickets $25
on sale as of March 16 at La Nouvelle Scène box office:
online: nouvellescene.com
by telephone: 613-241-2727 ext.1
in person: 333 King Edward Ave

PrePOP lectures at the NGC
380 Sussex Drive
Thursday, April 15 at 6:30 pm
Jonathan Shaughnessy, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, will trace the connections between the artists featured in Pop Life and their art historical ancestors. In English. In the Lecture Hall. Free admission.
Don’t forget that admission to the NGC Collection is free on Thursdays from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.

Michael Belmore  Landing
Diane Lemire  Textiles
April 15 to May 6, 2010
Meet the artists: Thursday, April 15, 7:30-9pm.
Lafrenière & Pai Gallery
13 Murray St.

KARSH-MASSON GALLERY
136 St. Patrick Street, Ottawa
MICHAEL BELMORE
Overland
April 16 to June 6, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, April 15, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
A visual art dialogue with Aurthur Milner's "FACTS"
Meet the Artist Reception (free)
Thursday April 15 6-8pm
Mark Seabrook
April 15 - June 6, 2010
The Lorraine 'Fritzi' Yale Gallery
1233 Wellington Street West (at Holland Avenue), Ottawa. | 2nd Floor Level
Entrance is Free and paintings are for sale

PROMdemonium 2010 is the radical, community-oriented, gender-bending, bike-loving, enviro-humping, queer-diggin, slow dancing, big dress wearing prom that you never had.

This year's PROM is on Saturday, May 1, from 8:30pm to 1:30am at St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities.

***WE ARE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS NOW. We need people to: poster, decorate, assist with tasks the night of Prom, and do other various other tasks as they arise. Volunteers get into Prom for FREE!

CALL FOR STREET CHALK ARTISTS
ArtsPark, Hintonburg's annual arts festival, is looking for buskers of all kinds to entertain festival goers. We are looking for chalk artists to present their trade on the hard open spaces of Hintonburg's Arts Park.

ArtsPark is on Sunday, May 9th, 2010 - feel free to put out a hat to collect contributions.

For more information on ArtsPark, check out the 2008 video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRZp3sfTn9U
Or go to: http://hintonburg.com/artspark08.html

Friday

Visit arts&architecture for our next show, “Forests of Lost Dreams,” a collection of textured black & white photographs by Michael Van der Tol. Join us for the vernissage Friday, April 9th from 7 pm – 10 pm for refreshments and to meet the artist.  The exhibition will be on display from April 7 – April 18.  This will be Michael’s second show at arts&architecture; in February 2009, Michael exhibited “Vecchia Struttura,” a stunning collection of textured black & white photographs of Italy. 1181 Bank Street

La Petite Mort Gallery presents...
ONE NIGHT ONLY Exhibit
REMI THERIAULT, "POLAROIDS / INSTANT STORIES."
Vernissage Friday April 9, 2010 / 7 - 10pm
306 Cumberland

Saturday

The Writer’s Room
At The Ottawa School of Speech & Drama
294 Picton Ave. Ottawa (Westboro)
Saturday, April 10, 7:00 p.m.
You are invited to a special evening of readings by some of Ottawa’s best writers of creative non-fiction: Denise Chong, Charlotte Gray, Phil Jenkins, and Kerry Pither. The event is presented by the Ottawa School of Speech & Drama.

Cube is pleased to present a combined show of two exciting Ottawa artists -- Russell Yuristy and Amy Schissel. Both artists see the world through extremes of metaphor and revel in the process of their work. Both create work that is vibrant, muscular, raw.  Join us for this exciting talk and hear how the artists see their work in relation to the wider art scene and to each other. This will be a lively session – get here early for a seat.  Vibrant. Muscular. Raw. | Thursday, April 8, 7 p.m. | 1285 Wellington St. W.

DALESMITHGALLERY is pleased to present "Les Quintuplées Dionne," an award-winning body of photographs by Ottawa artist Geneviève Thauvette.  This imaginative, quirkily nostalgic series of photographic "self-portraits" is being shown in Ottawa for the first time. At the distinguished Jeux de la Francophonie (Francophone Games) held in Beirut, Lebanon in September 2009, "Les Quintuplées Dionne" won Geneviève a gold medal in photography. Vernissage: THURSDAY /April 8 /7-10 p.m. | April 8 - May 4, 2010 | 137 Beechwood Ave.

Sonnet L’Abbé in The A B Series

Sonnet L’Abbé is the author of two collections of poetry, A Strange Relief and Killarnoe, both published by McClelland and Stewart. In 2000, she won the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for most promising writer under 35, and in 1999 won the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. L’Abbé has taught writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. She reviews poetry for the Globe and Mail and is currently doing doctoral work at the University of British Columbia.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010
7 p.m. doors open; 7:30 p.m. performance
MERCURY LOUNGE | 56 ByWard Market Square
$7 admission at the door / $5 for people with low income

From contributor Kris Millet:

Hi everyone. Just letting you know that No Fly List (me, Russ on bass, Reza on drums) will be playing this Monday night at Zaphod's at 9:00! No cover!

Zaphod's is a great venue to play, so we're pretty pumped about it. They do Showcase Mondays every week made up entirely of local acts, allowing them to do their thing and develop. They even record each band's performance for free!

So come on out and support some local music! Here's the little ad the bar put together:
Monday, March 29 - 8pm - *FREE* Showcase Mondays presents 
THE PANAMA
+ ORCHID THIEVES
+ THE WHEAT POOL
+ NO FLY LIST
Followed by RECAP with DJ Matty

Hopefully see you out there, thanks.

Kris

Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum Boulevard, Orléans (Lower Level)
Trinity Art Gallery
Salon A
Keith Burnett:  Storm Watch: the Inevitability of Change
Shifting skies come to life with colour and movement, the viewer compelled to ponder the forces of nature and our place within it. The images are powerful, foreboding while conveying hope and renewal in a process of continual change.
March 25 - April 27, 2010

Salon B
Susan Gardiner Bourlier: Construction Anxiety
This series explores the challenges of modern construction by embracing the electrical outlet as both a tool and central motif in the work. Its functional role is subverted, calling into question common practices and assumptions about the process of architecture.
March 25 - April 27, 2010

Promenade Arteast
The ABCs of Art by Arteast members From A-D
March 25 - May 25, 2010
http://www.arteastottawa.com
613-796-6861
Meet the artists! Reception for Arteast and Trinity artists on Sunday, March 28 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

Friends, there are movies (movies! plural!) to be seen this weekend. Let's get to it.

New on the Hollywood front, you've got The Ghost Writer, starring Pierce Brosnan as a Blair-esque former British PM who led the country into an undesirable war and noted feminist Ewan McGregor as the ghost writer tasked with completing the PM's memoirs. You've got Repo Men, in which Jude Law and Forest Whitakre reposse people's purchased organs for Liev Schrieber. You've got Diary of a Wimpy Kid, about, um, a wimpy kid in middle school and his over-sized delusions  of grandeur. Finally, if you've got any desire to go see The Bounty Hunter, let Tony Scott cure you.

Over at the Bytowne, you've got Colin Firth's heartbreaking performance in A Single Man, Xavier Dolan's heartbreaking debut J'ai tué ma mère, Darwin biopic Creation, and Fellini-inspired fiasco Nine.

Friday

La Petite Mort Gallery presents
FIVE DAY EXHIBIT
JANE BURNSTEIN, "Bound in Banyans - In Black & White"
Vernissage: Friday March 19, 2010 / 7 -10pm
306 Cumberland

Community Labyrinth Walk: Join us for an evening seeking balance between the melodic and the rhythmic to find completeness within.
We welcome Violinist Janice Mah and Percussionist Benilda Formoso to blend the melody of the strings with the beat of the drum to form an original soundscape to accompany your walk in the labyrinth.
Friday March 19th at 7:00 pm| Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa | 420 Sparks Street
An introduction to the labyrinth as walking meditation will be provided. No experience necessary. Suggested donation $20.
For information contact: barbara.brown1@sympatico.ca

The Block by Matthew Higgins, documents in chilling detail, weapons made by the inmates of Kingston Penitentiary. Vernissage: Friday March 19th, 2010, 17:00 - 20:00
On View: March 19th - March 30th, 2010
Viewing hours: Mon - Fri 10:00 -18:00, Sat 10:00-15:00
Sundays and late evenings by appointment or by chance.
The Red Wall Gallery is located in SPAO at 168 Dalhousie, at the corner of Bruyère, in the Byward Market.

At the National Arts Centre tonight, the Mariinsky Orchestra, under the baton of Valery Gergiev, performed works by Berlioz, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. The Rachmaninov was the 3rd Piano Concerto, with the dazzling Denis Matsuev as soloist. Here's a clip of Matsuev playing another piece of Rachmaninov's, "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini."

And here's the Mariinsky playing Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony. (They played the 15th tonight.)

The whole thing was spectacular. All I can say is that, if these Russians take over the world with as much elegance, sophistication and verve as their musicians display, then I, for one, will welcome our new imperialist rulers.

Hollywood certainly has a diverse offering this week to suit you as follows:

• If you need to see Matt Damon, action, war, politics, Paul Greengrass' trademark shaky-cam, go see Green Zone
• If you need to see Robert Pattinson, brooding, romance, daddy issues, whatever possessed Chris Cooper to act opposite Robert Pattinson, go see Remember Me
• If you need to see Jay Baruchel, a sex farce, maybe romance, definitely a premature ejaculation joke in some sort of bizarre 40 Year-Old Virgin/There's Something About Mary mash-up, go see She's Out of My League.

All three sound hard to watch for wildly different reasons. Ah, well. At least Baruchel has two more movies coming out soon (How to Train Your Dragon and The Sorcerer's Apprentice).

If you're looking for something different, there's Genius Within: The Inner Life Of Glenn Gould, Oscar Nominated Short Films of 2009 (Animated), Oscar Nominated Short Films of 2009 (Live Action), World’s Best Commercials 2009, and Marina Of The Zabbaleen playing at the Bytowne.

A few weeks ago, I went to see Shutter Island. In the wing seating, a lady started yelling at some people as they exited during the end credits. It wasn't clear exactly what she was on about, but, naturally, my sympathy was with the older lady over the "young punks." As a remix of Dinah Washington's "This Bitter Earth" played over the end credits, my viewing companion and I discussed how copyright issues over this very song kept Killer of Sheep, one of the greatest American movies ever made, from being seeing by the wider public for 30 years. Unfortunately discussing exactly what we are hearing during the end credits was too much for the now obviously old lady, who started yelling at us to "STOP TALKING!" Just in case you were wondering, according to crazy old ladies who scare away even their minders with their yelling, "OUTSIDE IS FOR TALKING!" You know, during the end credits in a mostly empty theatre. I'll admit to you that I was actually upset by the lengthy tongue lashing we got for, in my opinion, doing nothing wrong. 

This morning I read this story in the L.A. Times, and apparently it could have been much worse. Not to make light of the situation because it is terrible, but a meat thermometre? They left and came back with a meat thermometre? How desperately do you want to stab someone that you could leave and come back with the thing that tells you if your turkey is done? Also, stop talking on your cell phone, violent jackass.

Why limit your gallery openings to one night a week?

GCTC's FRITZI gallery presents:
Eric Sze-Lang Chan (eepmon)
March 4 ~ April 11
A visual art dialogue with “blood.claat"
Meet the Artist Reception (free)
Thursday March 4   6-8pm 1233 Wellington Street West (at Holland Avenue), 2nd Floor Level

Brian Jungen: Thursday, March 4 at 6 pm
Brian Jungen will discuss his artistic practice. A bilingual question period will follow.
Brian Jungen creates thought provoking sculptures through the reconfiguring of familiar objects. His work comments on a range of issues, from mass production and globalization to the consumption of Aboriginal imagery through museum practices. He first came to prominence with Prototypes for New Understanding (1998–2005), in which he reconceived Nike footwear into objects that suggest Northwest Coast Aboriginal masks. Since then his work has been exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally including at the Vancouver Art Gallery (British Columbia), Tate Modern (London), the New Museum (New York), the Biennale of Sydney (Australia), and Vienna Secession, (Austria).  The National Gallery of Canada collection currently holds four works by Jungen including Peoples Flag, 2006; Vienna, 2003; Vernacular, 1998-2001; and Shapeshifter, 2000.
In the National Gallery's Lecture Hall. Free admission. 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa

Call to Artists
THE NEW ART FESTIVAL 2010
(formerly known as Art in the Park)
Saturday, June 5th & Sunday, June 6th, 2010
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Central Park, The Glebe, Ottawa
Application deadline: Monday, March 8th, 2010
Information & Application Process: www.artinfoboy.org
The New Art Festival is a celebration of original, one-of-a-kind art & fine craft and the artists who create it. This unique event is geared to strengthen the connections among visual artists, craftspeople, art educators, galleries and the public.
Ottawa's hugely popular outdoor art exhibition is a free, family-oriented event in a beautiful park setting. This exhibition attracts thousands of visitors annually (previous years' estimate: 10,000 over two days).
Participating artists are selected by a jury comprised of practicing artists and arts professionals. We invite local food vendors to participate, provide shaded rest areas, do excellent publicity and work hard to make sure that the two days are fun and comfortable for the artists and the public. We know that art does sell at this show and that it is a tremendous networking opportunity.
Prizes are awarded in several categories.

Not a lot to choose from from Hollywood this week. If you're a die hard* Kevin Smith fan, you may want to check out the heinous looking Cop Out, which would have you believe that road hauling should be played for laughs. Are funny lynch mobs next? You also have the remake of The Crazies, starring Timothy Olyphant. Anything featuring the triumphant return of Olyphant in law & order mode or with a moustache gets a pass in my book. Theatres in town are being a bit daring with World Exchange Centre picking up Helen, in which Ashley Judd stars as a professor coming to terms with her depression, and To Save a Life, in which a former friend's suicide rocks to boy who seemingly has it all, premiering at South Keys. 

Over at the Bytowne, you must check out The Young Victoria, one of the 10 best movies of 2009. You can also see The White Ribbon, if you're into Michael Haneke, or La Donation, un film québécois about a dying doctor searching for someone to take over his small regional practice.

At the Mayfair, you must check out Red Cliff, which plays at times like a John Wood parody, but he still rocks action sequences harder than most. You haven't live until you've seen what Tony Leung will do after you shoot him with an arrow. There's also original The Crazies, classic Some Like it Hot (possibly the best last line in a movie ever), The Horse Boy, Thundercast are Go!, Black, and new midnight movie The Room on Saturday night. 

Friday

THE OTTAWA ART GALLERY PRESENTS
Friday 26 February at 12:30 pm
In the context of the exhibition "Exploded View," Jennifer R. Angus will present and discuss her work.
Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue

Research Fellowship Lectures: General Idea
Friday, February 26 from 2 pm to 5 pm
Three presentations by Fellows from the 2009/10 program focus on the Canadian artists' group General Idea. The Research Fellowships Program encourages and supports advanced research. The Fellowships emphasize the use and investigation of the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, including those of the Library and Archives.
In the Lecture Hall of the National Gallery (380 Sussex Drive). In English with bilingual discussion. Free admission.

OAG | GAO : Subjecting Figures (from the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art)
The official opening will take place on February 25 at 5:30 p.m.
Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue