arts

** Bruce Bickford, Michèle Cournoyer to present retrospective works at this year’s Ottawa International Animation Festival, Sept. 16-20 ** To complement its official competition and showcase screenings, the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), North America’s leading animation film festival, is presenting a series of specially curated retrospectives and screenings at this year’s festival, ...

Founded in 2006 to celebrate, encourage and promote French and English locally produced professional theatre work and its artists, the Prix Rideau Awards is proud to announce the nominees for the period of January 1st 2014 to June 30, 2015. ...

** Each year, _ Arc Poetry Magazine _ honours Ottawa poets. _ Arc _ is proud to present the three finalists for the $1500 2014 _ Archibald Lampman Award _ for an outstanding book of poetry by a National Capital author. ...

This summer, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) presents, concurrently with its major exhibition Alex Colville, two exhibitions featuring works from the national collection: ** Chagall: Daphnis & Chloé ** and ** Luminous and True: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans ** . ...

The Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) presents its summer exhibitions. At the forefront is an exhibition of works by renowned photographer Lynne Cohen; an artist formerly of Ottawa who achieved international acclaim, and who sadly passed away in 2014. Also on view is an interactive installation Terrors of the Breakfast Table by emerging artist Tyler Tekatch, as well as the historical exhibition Female Self–Representation and the Public Trust: Mary Wrinch and the AGW Collection, which continues OAG’s exploration of mid-century female artists whose significant art practice deserves critical attention. ...

In Bells Corners, just off Robertson Road, in the west-end of Ottawa sits a brown brick industrial looking building with many, many doors. Behind each one is a wildly diverse and colourful world humming with activity. In one studio, young children are engrossed in a dance lesson. ...

[caption id=“attachment_13820” align=“aligncenter” width=“580”] Art Fashion 613[/caption] “Art can be fashion and fashion can be art” – that is the motto of Art in Fashion 613, a thought-provoking and innovative event that will come to the Library and Archives Canada building on Wellington Street on October 17. ...

May is traditionally a very busy month for the local arts and crafts scene so, without further ado, here is my selection of upcoming events: ** Kanata Artists Studio Tour ** May 1, 2 and 3 – various locations. visit the KAST website for a list of participating artists and their locations. ...

The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of Canada’s highest and most prestigious performing arts awards.  The 2015 laureates of the ** Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) for Lifetime Artistic Achievement ** are: ...

City Hall will resonate with the sounds of chamber music as the City partners to host a series of free noon-hour spring concerts presented by Chamberfest. Concerts by talented local performers will take place from 12:15 to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays from April 1 to May 6 as a prelude to the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. ...