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A six-pack of art shows to look forward to in 2014
Much of what will be seen in the galleries and museums of the Ottawa-Gatineau region in 2014 has yet to be announced, but not all. I’ve scanned a couple of dozen gallery/museum websites, and here are a...
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Ford, Paltrow, Kanye as monsters on the wall at Ottawa gallery
Rob Ford — the monster, not the mayor — is gone, having not even lasted the weekend. Ford was among a dozen or so famous or infamous public figures whose portraits were painted by Ottawa artist Peter...
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A rebound for poetry/fiction: Ottawa’s Chaudiere Books rebuilds
What: Ottawater poetry launch When & where: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 24, Carleton Tavern, 233 Armstrong at Parkdale *** It’s a year of anniversaries and rebirth in rob mclennan’s little literary...
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Charlotte Gray on shortlist for $25K non-fiction prize
Ottawa writer Charlotte Gray is on the shortlist for the $25,000 RBC Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction. Gray’s book The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country is...
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Buddy Guy adds 2nd show for Ottawa
Buddy Guy has added a second show for Ottawa in April. (Handout photo) A second show by blues veteran Buddy Guy has been added for Ottawa, after the first show sold out in “record time,” says promoter...
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New wave, poetry and the panes of painting: 3 things to do this weekend (and,...
A few things to do in the capital area this weekend . . . Ottawa poet Shane Rhodes, fresh from a residency in Australia, will launch his new collection of poetry at 8 p.m., Thursday at the Ottawa Art...
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Mary Robertson loved Inuit art
Mary Robertson shared a lifetime of art with the man she loved, after they were brought together by chance and, of all things, colour-blindness. Robertson, who died Dec. 29 at age 92, studied physics...
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U of O expands its precocious MFA program
What: MFA open house When & where: 3 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 22, Dept. of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa, 100 Laurier Ave. East. *** In recent years it’s happened again and again. I’d be...
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Stephen Harper’s drummer charged with sex crimes against minor
Phil Nolan, a teacher at an Ottawa public school and the prime minister’s drummer, has been charged with 15 counts of sex crimes against a minor. The prime minister’s office said they were shocked and...
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Comic Simon Rakoff to record live album in Ottawa
What: Simon Rakoff on stage When & where: Feb. 18 to 23 at Absolute Comedy, check showtimes and prices at ottawa.absolutecomedy.ca **** Comedian Simon Rakoff has been on stage, radio, TV and movies...
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The beautiful waterscapes of Jennifer Dickson
What: Giochi d’Acqua (Water Games), a retrospective of Jennifer Dickson When & where: to March 8 at Wallack Galleries, 203 Bank St. ***** I trudge to Wallack Galleries on a February afternoon...
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First RAW showcase of emerging artists in Ottawa tonight
“RAW: Natural Born Artists” is coming to Ottawa, after spreading to cities across North America in the past couple of years. The first RAW showcase in the capital will feature as many as 30 young...
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Ottawa’s poet laureate, where art thou?
Rod Pederson of Verse Ottawa is anxious that the City of Ottawa has not yet named a poet laureate. (File photo by Ashley Fraser, Ottawa Citizen) This poetry-related news alert is about a missing...
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Fleetwood Mac returning to Ottawa
Fleetwood Mac is returning to Ottawa, and touring the rest of Canada. The classic British rock band will play the Canadian Tire Centre on Oct. 26, with the reconvened lineup of Mick Fleetwood, Stevie...
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Sound of Lions’ sophomore roar: new music
What: Sound of Lions album release show When & where: 8 p.m., Saturday, April 5, at Zaphod Beeblebrox (27 York St.) Tickets, $5 advance, at ticketweb.ca. ***** You don’t listen far into Take Me...
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Camp Hoping To Leverage Football Interest in Capital
Football camps are nothing new in the Ottawa area. At least some of them, and maybe most of them, have featured active and recent Canadian Football League players as instructors. That’s why I can’t...
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Copps, councillors, critics & more: It’s the Don’t Quit Your Day Job...
Performers who are not usually performers will hold the stage at the annual Don’t Quit Your Day Job fundraiser at the National Arts Centre on Wednesday, April 23. The show features performances by...
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New club the House of Targ has full slate of rock and roll
There’s a new rock and roll venue in Ottawa, and it’s offering a triple serving of music on Saturday, April 26. The House of Targ is at 1077 Bank St. in Old Ottawa South, near Sunnyside. Saturday’s...
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Video: Mysterious man tearing down Ottawa arts posters caught on tape
City councillor Diane Holmes is encouraging people to get photo or video evidence of the person, or people, who are removing posters from legal posting collars. (Ottawa Citizen photo) If the city’s...
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3 new spaces for art in Ottawa: Orange, 101 and Studio Café
There are three new spaces for visual arts in the city, and none more ideally suited to the task than the second home for Orange Gallery. The three spaces are Gallery 101, now relocated from Bank...
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