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Jun 06
2011

Job Opportunity - Odyssey Theatre

Posted by admin in theatre , performing arts , ottawa , jobs , arts

POSITION AVAILABLE:
ADMIN INTERN

Odyssey Theatre, Ottawa’s premiere professional mask summer theatre, is offering a ninemonth Arts Administrative Intern position to a University or College graduate. The position could be extended up to fourteen months. This job is perfect for someone who is interested in exploring the world of arts administration, and/or gaining new administrative skills, which would be transferable to other fields.

Odyssey Theatre is a dynamic, award-winning company that runs a successful open-air theatre in Strathcona Park. Our company produces a unique style of theatre that successfully blends various theatrical forms, including such arts as Commedia dell’Arte, mask, physical theatre and clown. We are currently celebrating our 25th season, and have many exciting plans for growth, including producing an indoor winter touring season.

Reporting to the General Manager and the Artistic Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for assisting with Odyssey’s: Marketing strategies and materials; Fundraising; Grant writing; and General office duties.
The successful candidate must possess the following skills: excellent written
communication skills; initiative; strong organizational skills; oral communication skills; intermediate computer skills preferably with some experience on an Apple operating system (Microsoft Word, Excel); and a background in the arts would be an asset.

This is a full-time position (from July 4, 2011 – March 30, 2012), $425.00/week, 40 hours/week.

The successful candidate will receive training and mentorship in marketing, fundraising and strategic planning, while being provided with networking opportunities. As well as gaining an excellent knowledge of the arts, after completing the position, Odyssey’s Administrative Intern would be qualified for numerous exciting positions in the not-forprofit, private and government sectors. This position is also a fantastic stepping-stone to a career in the arts and to succeed as an arts administrator.

Please submit a cover letter and resume by June 10, 2011 to:

Dana Uzarevic
General Manager
Odyssey Theatre
2 Daly Avenue
Ottawa, ON, K1N 6E2

Or by email: info@odysseytheatre.ca

May 16
2011

Call for Volunteers - the Fringe Festival

Posted by admin in theatre , performing arts , ottawa , festival , arts

Fringe is looking for volunteers!

The Fringe us upon us again! June 16-26, 2011

Ottawa will once again host the 15th annual Ottawa Fringe & Arts Festival.  We are looking for energetic and dynamic volunteers to join our ranks, to make this year’s Fringe the best yet.

Volunteers make up an essential part of our festival, operating box offices, running security and keeping things running smoothly for both patrons and artists

THE GOODS

All volunteers recieve a volunteer T-shirt, to be worn during all shifts, and yours to keep after the festival.

For every shift worked, volunteers get passes to see some of the spectactular shows in this year’s Fringe.

The chance to meet enthusiastic, passionate and wonderful people like you!

INTERESTED?

Come join us at one of our Volunteer Orientation sessions to get all your questions answered and to sign up for your first shifts.

Wednesday  June 1,   6:30-9:30pm – Arts Court Library
Sunday June 5,    2-5pm – Arts Court Courtroom
Saturday June 11, 2-5pm – Arts Court Courtroom

For more information, email volunteer@ottawafringe.com
or call (613) 232-6162

Mar 01
2011

Suze Rotolo, R.I.P.

Posted by Kevin in r.i.p. , politics , poetry , performing arts , music , human rights , feminism , fashion , dylan , books , arts , art-image , art

Suze Rotolo passed away last week after a battle with lung cancer.  She was 67.

Rotolo was an activist, artist, writer and teacher. 

She was also, for a time, muse to the 20th century's greatest song writer, Bob Dylan. 

Feb 07
2011

Call For Volunteers - Independent Short Film

Posted by Brendan in volunteer , performing arts , ottawa

Independent Short Film SINCERUS Call for Volunteers: Crew + Cast

SINCERUS features a young man who experiences a succession of startling surreal visions in his dreams and waking life that help him recognize the presence of sincerity. This artistic short film project will be filmed in the Ottawa region in the summer of 2011.

Film/video, acting and art students and professionals + creative volunteers are welcome! This is a unique opportunity for artists and actors of all ages to build their portfolio experience working on a quality indie film project. We are looking for crew and cast who are available for one or several weekends.

Please note:
- all acting roles and production crew are voluntary & non-union.
- food and refreshments will be provided on set.
- transportation will be provided upon request.

CAST

Leads will be required to have some acting or performing experiences.

Supporting cast and extras need no acting or performing experience.

CREW

Preferred production + post production collaborators with film/video experience.

If you’re interested in participating please send: name, email address, phone number.

For Acting roles: Recent headshot (or picture) + Acting CV or “About yourself”

CONTACT: John Graham  soulblue2006@yahoo.ca

Feb 01
2011

Concerts at the NAC: Biss and Beethoven

Posted by admin in performing arts , out on the town , ottawa , n.a.c. , live music

The National Arts Centre Orchestra’s fifth Mark Motors Audi Signature Series concert – an all-Beethoven program entitled Biss & Beethoven – features Pinchas Zukerman and white hot rising star pianist Jonathan Biss

The fifth Mark Motors Audi Signature concerts of the season – entitled Biss & Beethoven – will be performed on Wednesday February 2 and Thursday February 3 at 8 p.m. in Southam Hall.

Before the concert, Pinchas Zukerman and Jonathan Biss will perform Beethoven’s Sonata No. 5 in F major for Violin and Piano, Op. 24, “Spring” at 7 p.m. onstage in Southam Hall; admission is free. After the concert – on February 2 only, also onstage in Southam Hall -- writer and broadcaster Eric Friesen will chat with Pinchas Zukerman and Jonathan Biss, and the audience will be invited to ask questions.

The program for the evening includes:
BEETHOVEN        Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
BEETHOVEN        Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
BEETHOVEN        Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 “Emperor”

 

 

Aug 12
2010

Thursday Art - August 12, 2010

Posted by admin in performing arts , out on the town , ottawa , orleans , art

Experience the sights and sounds of Ottawa’s artists this summer! Some of Ottawa’s most talented performers are being featured at wading pool parks throughout July and August. Themed events will offer a variety of arts activities for children and youth on Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., including an artistic performance from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
The Magic of Vito and Diego (magicians)
Thursday, August 12
Dutchies Park, 154 Mann Ave. (corner of Range)
Rain date: August 13
Enjoy a BBQ lunch on site (11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.), as well as games and other special groups between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Bring your bathing suit for the wading pool, too! Check ottawa.ca for all the details – and for all other special events at the City’s 56 wading pools.

FAREWELL TO SUMMER a Solo Exhibition by Margaret Chwialkowska
August 6 to November 4, 2010 at the CASINO
Series of oil paintings rendered with a palette knife, inspired by the Ottawa Region autumn landscape, lusty sculpted, drenched with vibrant colour, infused with light and dramatic textures.
Casino du Lac-Leamy, 1, Boulevard du Casino, Gatineau, Quebec
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 12, 6.00 – 8.00 p.m.
For more information call: 613-729-9351, email: mchwialkowska@rogers.com or visit: www.artistsincanada.com/margaret
Three Openings at the Ottawa Art Gallery
Thursday 12 August 2010 at 5:30pm
13 August - 24 October 2010
Marie-Josée Laframboise
Network Installations
Curated by Eve-Lyne Beaudry,
Exhibition produced and circulated by Musée d’art de Joliette
Marie-Josée Laframboise produces large scale, site specific installations constructed of everyday materials such as twine, fabric, nets, plastic coated wires, and plastic containers. Her installation at OAG will be located in both the interior and exterior spaces of the gallery. The artist links and reveals architectural details by wrapping, weaving, and contouring them to create new paths and obstacles that the viewer negotiates.
13 August - 24 October 2010
Dipna Horra
Avaaz
Curator: Andrea Fatona
A series of sound spaces or audio structures that are integrated into the architecture of the gallery space.  An immersive environment or atmosphere is created for the viewer/listener based on sound recordings derived from multiple origins such as recited poetry, chatter, traffic etc. Avaaz is a word in Punjabi that describes both sound and voice.
7 August – 17 October 2010
At Land’s End
Curator: Anik Glaude
Artists: James M. Barnsley, Paul Beaulieu, Alan Collier, Bruce Garner, Robert Harris, Edwin Holgate, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Henri Masson, Doris McCarthy, Donald C. MacKay, Louis Muhlstock, George Pepper, Claude Picher, Joe Plaskett, Jack Shadbolt, Philip Surrey
Historically, landscape painters have employed oceanic imagery to create idyllic scenery and to represent both the powerful and destructive nature of the sea. At Land's End highlights a selection of artworks from the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art that reflects the continuous convergence of land and sea that shapes this country's utmost border. Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue

BLINK Gallery presents ROZEMARIJN OUDEJANS, "Clothes for my poems" - monoprints and etchings
VERNISSAGE
Thursday, August 12, 6 to 9pm
EXHIBIT CONTINUES
Friday, August 13, 1 to 6pm
Saturday, August 14, 12 to 5pm
Sunday, August 15, 12 to 5pm
This exhibit of Rozemarijn Oudejans' prints consists of two series that both explore the subject of mental health. "Clothes for my poems" is a series of
etchings that were inspired by teenage poems. The etchings illustrate each poem and serve as clothes for the vulnerable thoughts on paper that have been hidden for so long.Currently resides in Header House, Major’s Hill Park (Across from the National Gallery of Canada at the foot of the Alexandra Bridge. Look for the little stone building.) PEDESTRIAN ACCESS ONLY.

Ottawa School of Art Gallery in Orleans is holding a vernissage for their latest exhibition – the second annual Instructors Show this Thursday August 12th from 6pm to 8pm in the OSA Gallery at the Shenkman Arts Centre. It is a group show featuring art by 26 of the School’s Instructors, and the gallery will be packed full of a wide variety of work. Artists will be in attendance, and we wanted to invite you to come take part in the opening.
Ottawa School of Art Orleans Campus, 245 Centrum Boulevard

Jul 16
2010

Weekend Art: July 16 - 18, 2010

Posted by admin in weekend , performing arts , out on the town , ottawa , nepean , food , cumberland , chelsea , art

becasseau pattes vertesFriday

La Petite Mort Gallery presents...
FIVE DAY EXHIBIT
KARA WILLIAMS
New Paintings
July 16-22, 2010
Vernissage: Friday July 16, 2010 / 7-10pm | 306 Cumberland Street

a night above/ground: Irwin, Anstee + McCann
at the Carleton Tavern, 233 Armstrong (at Parkdale)
lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Friday, July 16; doors 7pm; readings 7:30pm

On Friday, July 16 at 8 p.m., past mayors, players and media darlings will come back to life as the Ottawa Storytellers get the historical debate rolling. The Storytellers will lead the event but will be relying on public participation to fight out all sides of the city’s development through time.
2100 Cabot St., Ottawa| Admission: $10
For more information call 613-247-4830 or visit ottawa.ca/museums

Saturday

Dawn Sandey: Solo Show
70 plus paintings and installations
July 15th to 31st 2010.
Meet the Artist: Saturday, July 17th. 12 to 6 pm.
Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery | 286 Hinchey Ave. Ottawa

BLINK Gallery presents PETRA HALKES & JOYCE WESTROP, "TIRELESS"
Exhibition continues Friday, July 16 – Tuesday, July 20, 12 – 5 pm
SPECIAL EVENT --  Saturday, July 17, 12 – 5 pm
In conjunction with the theme of the exhibition, the artists have mounted a truck tire on a stand outside Header House. On Saturday afternoon they will invite guests to print their own souvenirs by pressing a card onto an inked section of The Tire.
Located at Header House in Major’s Hill Park (across from the National Gallery of Canada at the foot of the Alexandra Bridge – look for the little stone building)

The Power Plant + Pleasure Dome present Animal Drag Kingdom, an Outdoor Screening @ 401 Richmond St.West Courtyard, Sat, July 17, 9pm
Works by Douglas Gordon, Kristin Lucas, Guy Ben-Ner, Kathy High, Steve Reinke & Jessie Mott and others
$8/ 5 Members + students
(Rain date: Sunday, July 18, 9pm)

Ceprano provides a Balanced Rock Sculpture project at Remic Rapids each summer season in collaboration with the National Capital Commission.
The following venues of entertainment will be provided upon site on Saturday, July 17, 2010 Ay 11 a.m., Laura Astwood & The Ottawa Stilt Union will perform "The Girl Who Was Eaten By the Dark."
The Ottawa Stilt Union is a bilingual group of artists committed to bringing the magical and the unexpected into the daily lives of people in the National Capital Region through the creation and performance of stilt-based theatre works and through the teaching of workshops in that art form.
At 7 p.m., Jesse Stewart and Deborah Danbrook provide a musical collaboration, equally unique and exciting.
Deborah Danbrook performed upon site in 2009, with Natasha Royka Dance co., "From the Soul: Peace". Deborah creates a unique and delicate sound with the Japanese Shakuhachi flute.  Jesse also performed upon site in 2009, the title of his performance was "Music for Stone and Water", providing his own hand crafted stone instruments as well as his custom crafted 'Waterphone.'
Remic Rapids Park is located on the Western Parkway, between the Parkdale and Island Park Dr., and is directly across the parkway from Tuney's Pasture.

Sunday

Boutique Arthena-art&écodesign in Chelsea is having a birds theme for summer: come and see the artworks by local artists, the watercolours by Sally Lee Sheeks (pictured: becasseau pattes vertes), the wire sculptures by Lisa Brunetta, the inks by Anamaria Gomez-Upegui. And this Sunday, July 18th from 1pm to 4pm, the artist Sally Lee Sheeks will take you for a guided tour of her work and an art demonstration. Free of charge and open to everyone. Arthena - art & écodesign 205, Chemin Old Chelsea Chelsea (Québec)

Galerie Old Chelsea is pleased to invite you to an exhibition, "WOOD'N INK," by Ted Johnston
16 July to 04 August 2010
Vernissage:  Sunday 18 July 1 to 4pm
Galerie Old Chelsea, 10 Chemin Scott, QC

Rev up your engines and cruise over to the Vintage Car Show at the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum this Sunday, July 18. Vehicle enthusiasts are invited to spend the day sharing stories and exploring the museum. Kids can get revved up for the outdoor games, activities, and the museum’s new Discovery Zone displaying simple machinery.
Re-fuel at the barbeque, compliments of the Cumberland Lions Club, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: 2940 Old Montreal Road
When: Sunday, July 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission: $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, and $18 for the whole family
For more information call 613-833-3059 or visit ottawa.ca/museums





















































Jul 02
2010

CALL TO ARTISTS & PERFORMERS: Lumiere Festival 2010

Posted by admin in submissions , performing arts , ottawa , festival , art

Lumiere Festival 2010 - Saturday September 4th
CALL TO ARTISTS & PERFORMERS
www.lumiereottawa.com
The 9th Annual Ottawa Lumiere Festival, presented by The Crichton Cultural Community Centre, is a chance to celebrate the magic and beauty of light. The Festival is an evening of art, performances, lanterns, costumes and music.
Lumiere Festival burns brightly because of the number of diverse and creative participants and partners. We are committed to engaging local emerging artists & performers in their exploration of illumination. Through a juried submission process, local artists & performers are remunerated to create illuminated installations and performances, which animate the festival theme.
The 2010 theme -- REBIRTH -- will highlight 4 distinct visions along the journey of rebirth:
DESCENT -- Dimmer images of dying, falling, underworlds (hell, Hades, Valhalla and more)
STASIS - an unearthly netherworld of spirits & shapes; (Elysian Fields, Fairy Lands, Fiddler's Green and the like)
ASCENT -- Brightening images of airy spheres -- heavens REBIRTH -- Images of transformation and rising anew -- phoenix, wheel of
rebirth, and the like.
VISUAL ARTISTS
Submit your CV, and a proposal (this can include sketches, photographs or models), which describes your illuminated installation. This must include a title, light source, supply list, mounting method (on the ground, hanging or floating) and an explanation of which of the  areas your piece would ideally  be located.
CRITERIA FOR LANTERN INSTALLATIONS: Animates the 2010 Lumière theme,
electricity free light source, display is larger then 1 cubic meter, any medium or combination of mediums, suitable for outside exhibition for 8 hours, includes mechanisms for mounting and is fire safe. Post jury -- if your work is selected for the Festival
ARTIST RESPONSIBILITIES
Artists will work with the Artistic Director to ensure that installations are safe and thematically relevant, and to find a location for the installation. Artists will be responsible for attending a site visit on Wednesday Sept. 1 (6:00-8:30 pm) and for setting up, monitoring and dismantling installation at the festival on September 4th. Artists will provide electronic promotional information to festival for use on website.
PERFORMERS
Submit your CV and a proposal, which describes your performance. This must include title, required lighting, costume descriptions, and explanation of which of the areas your performance would be located.
CRITERIA FOR PERFORMANCES: Animates the 2010 Lumiere theme, electricity free and lantern lit, costumed, and suitable for outside exhibition on a variety of natural surfaces (grass, rocks).
PERFORMER RESPONSIBILITIES
Performers will work with the Producer to ensure that performances are safe and thematically relevant, and to find a suitable performance location. Performers will be responsible for attending a site visit on Thursday Sept. 2 (6:00-8:30 pm) and will perform three 20-minute sets at the festival on August 4th. Performers will provide electronic
promotional information to festival for use on website.
FEE SCHEDULE
Average fee for individual performers, $250; for group performers, $500.
Average fee for visual artists varies from $250-$500 depending on the project.
DEADLINE - Final piece/performance does not need to be complete at time of submission for jury selection. Submissions must be received by Friday July 9th at 5pm.
Electronic submissions to:
lumiere@fools.ca
Mail submission to:
Scott Florence
Crichton Cultural Community Centre
2nd Floor -- 200 Crichton St
Ottawa, ON K1M 1W2
613-745-2742

Jun 17
2010

Thursday Art: June 17, 2010

Posted by admin in performing arts , out on the town , ottawa , debate , art

pop lifeLIVE PERFORMACE ART AT THE HISTORIC BYTOWN MUSEUM; This contemporary art event brings a fresh perspective to the interpretation of Ottawa's history – on the same site where some of the events happened.
Event Title: Crossings | Traversées
Artists: Sandra Johnston and Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell
Location: Bytown Museum (2nd and 3rd floor)
Date: June 17, 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm (FREE admission)
This event is part of the Crossings performance exchange that is taking place in Ottawa from June 17-20 at Galerie SAW Gallery and in Belfast in October 2010.

The National Gallery comes to Snapdragon?
Well, one of the artists hanging in the National Gallery, Michel-Luc Bellemare, is opening his new show "Colour my Reality" oil impasto on canvas, 6 - 8 pm, this Thursday, 17th June 2010.
Michel will give a talk (not a lecture!) at 7 pm, with Q and A to follow.
791 Bank Street at Third Avenue

SOLD OUT? DEBATING THE LEGACY OF POP ART
Art has sparked controversy for centuries. Join Robert Enright, senior contributing editor of Border Crossings Magazine and Blake Gopnik, chief art critic for the Washington Post as they square off in a heated debate on contemporary art. Moderated by CBC’s Carol Off. Simultaneous translation provided. In the Auditorium. Tickets: adults $10, students and seniors $8, members $7. Box Office: 613-998-8888. Gallery admission not included. National Gallery of Canada | 380 Sussex Drive | Thursday 17 June at 7 p.m.








Jun 14
2010

Arts Court Seeks Three New Resident Companies

Posted by admin in residency , performing arts , ottawa

A new sizzling summer season, the launch of an annual children’s holiday event, these are just some of the programming initiatives the team at Arts Court has put in place this past year. Now, the Ottawa Arts Court Foundation, the local charitable organization in charge of managing and operating the Arts Court Theatre and related performing arts spaces in the building, is providing another opportunity for professional arts producers in the city by opening up three new spaces for resident companies.

“It is part of our mandate to provide leading facilities, programs and services to Ottawa’s arts producers and presenters,” says Linda Balduzzi, Executive Director of the Ottawa Arts Court Foundation. “Providing a home and helping to nurture resident companies is another way to ensure a healthy and vibrant arts community in this city.”

Arts Court is Ottawa's downtown centre for the performing, visual, literary and media arts and home to a critical mass of Ottawa's local professional arts organizations.  Twenty-five independent arts organizations call Arts Court home and thousands of artists host productions in its facilities each year.

Apr 22
2010

Thursday Art: April 22, 2010

Posted by admin in wakefield , performing arts , out on the town , ottawa , live music , green tips , gatineau-hull , free , cinema , cancon , art

Je me souviensOn 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.

Mar 23
2010

"Art," by Yasmina Reza

Posted by Brendan in theatre , performing arts , france , art

Yasmina Reza's play "Art" is now running at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, until April 10th. Here's the Globe and Mail review. And here's an interview with one of the leads, Colin Mochrie.

We discussed Reza in this blog last year.

Mar 15
2010

Matsuev and the Mariinsky Orchestra at the NAC

Posted by Brendan in russia! , performing arts , out on the town , ottawa , n.a.c. , live music

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.

Feb 01
2010

Mariinsky Orchestra at the NAC

Posted by Brendan in putin! , performing arts , out on the town , other mags , n.a.c. , live music

St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Orchestra (formerly known as the Kirov) will be performing at the National Arts Centre on March 15, with superstar conductor Valery Gergiev. Gergiev is a fascinating personality, as this article attests: maestro, businessman, jet-setter, Russian nationalist and friend of Vladimir Putin; and, according to a review of a documentary about him, the possessor of "an elemental ferocity just barely held in check." 

Jan 28
2010

Thursday Art - January 28

Posted by April in spoken word , performing arts , out on the town , ottawa , mayfair , live music , in the mag , good deeds , contributors at large , cinema , charity , cancon , art

The Road to God Knows . . . There are so many arts things happening in town tonight that it just seems like a better idea to combine them in one post than to keep posting them separately. Duplicate info will be deleted shortly.

ABSTrACTS/RéSuMÉS: An Exercise in Poetry
Thursday January 28, 7 pm
Performances at 7:30 pm
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa
Free admission (donations are welcome)
In the context of the exhibition Fibred Optics, the Ottawa Art Gallery and The A B Series present a reading by six poets who transform Michele Provost's installation into an evening of performance poetry. Provost's visual art installation references text from contemporary art criticism and forms the raw material for the commissioned poets' projects.
The A B Series specializes in presenting readings of performance, sound and experimental poetry by professional local, national and international artists. For more on The A B Series, please visit www.abseries.org.


THE CFI IS PROUD TO PRESENT:
ATOM EGOYAN IN PERSON with THE ADJUSTER (1991)
Screening and Book Launch
Thursday, January 28
7:00pm
Library and Archives Canada (395 Wellington)
$10 Students, Seniors, CFI Members
$15 General Public
No Passes
Atom Egoyan in person! Restored 35mm scope print!
Throughout 2010, the CFI will be celebrating its 75th year with special cinematic events.
The first of these will take place on January 28, when Atom Egoyan – who showed his first feature film, NEXT OF KIN, at the CFI way back in 1984 – will come to Ottawa to introduce the CFI's screening of a restored print of his 1991 film, THE ADJUSTER.  This screening will also feature the official Ottawa launch of  the book, ATOM EGOYAN’S THE ADJUSTER, written by CFI Executive Director, Tom McSorley, and published by University of Toronto Press.

















Oct 30
2009

Weekend Art: October 30 - November 1

Posted by April in weekend , performing arts , out on the town , ottawa , music , art

Drunk tanksFriday

Friday, October 30th @ 8:00pm - Performance
Enriched Bread Artists
Studios - 951 Gladstone Avenue
Danny Hussey will be doing a performance in the first floor common area, entitled "Louder Than Last Year." Come find out what dozens of people all ready know, why Danny Hussey became a visual artist and not a musician. “If you can’t be better, you can always be louder.”

IN THE SPIRIT; A WORK IN PROGRESS!
8:15pm start time. 9pmish finish.
The Dance will Start at the corner of Bay and Florence Street in Centretown, Ottawa and then travel along Florence ending at Bank Street. PhOOM! invites you to this work in progress showing of a candle dance exploring the mystery that surrounds this time of year.  We are very excited to be taking inspiring dance out of the studio and into the mysterious world of the late October night . . .

Artists have assembled to create the Ottawa Art Expo 2009, a juried art show and sale displaying some of the most creative and dynamic artists in the area and beyond. We believe that we have built an event that will delight and intrigue Ottawans for years to come. There is a canteen and bar available all day Saturday and Sunday for you and your patrons’ convenience. Our Gala is being held on Friday, October 30th. Come join me, my fellow artists, and the Honourable Ed Broadbent as we celebrate our work, our passion, and our city’s indomitable spirit. The Fabulous Edsels will be providing excellent musical entertainment for the evening! St. Elias Centre | 750 Ridgewood Avenue