Category: Arts News

Christopher Deacon appointed President and CEO of the National Arts Centre

Christopher Deacon appointed President and CEO of the National Arts Centre

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Photo Barb Gray.   Christopher Deacon and Algonquin Elder Annie St-Georges

On June 12, the Board of Trustees of the National Arts Centre (NAC) announced Christopher Deacon  as the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the arts organization. He succeeds Peter Herrndorf who stepped down from his position on June 2, 2018.                 Christopher Deacon is best known as the former Managing Director of the NAC Orchestra who lead some of the orchestra’s boldest initiatives such as  the China Tour in 2013, the project “Life Projected” , a work commissioned by four Canadian composers to createworks about four remarkable Canadian Women , performed during the Canada 150 Tour,  at theLiminato Festival in Toronto and it will be performed across Europe in  2019. …

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15th Annual Israeli Film Festival continues until June 10:

15th Annual Israeli Film Festival continues until June 10:

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The 15th  annual Israeli Film Festival opened on May 24 in the brand new Alma Duncan Salon  in  the Ottawa Art Gallery ,  a space of brilliant light and wondrous  new urban perspectives that project us way above  downtown Ottawa making us  feel as though  we were  floating somewhere between New York and another huge capital in a completely unknown space! . Presented by the Canadian Film Institute and the Embassy of Israel this particular  festival runs from May 24 to June 10  and judging by the opening work, The Cakemaker (of Berlin), Israeli filmmakers are dealing in a most delicate way with  all the  contemporary artistic and sociopolitical debates,  that are fuelling discussion in our  contemporary world. …

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Live on Elgin open for business!!!! no closings at this time!!!…

Live on Elgin open for business!!!! no closings at this time!!!…

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photo Live on Elgin

 

Some media outlets are telling people to avoid Elgin St. because it’s closed. This is not true. ELGIN ST REMAINS OPEN FOR BUSINSS AS USUAL!! Yes, there will be closures in the future, but for now it is open, and the locally owned small business there need your patronage to continue. Yes, when the street does close things will be awkward, but the city is making parking available at City Hall. Having looked at the plans, it’s going to be worth it. Elgin will be a super place once the work is all done. But please continue your patronage of all the great local businesses lining this street.

Jaz de Koffi Kwahulé: CDR de l’Océan Indien, Théâtre du grand Marché

Jaz de Koffi Kwahulé: CDR de l’Océan Indien, Théâtre du grand Marché

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Les 26 et 27 avril JAZ de Koffi Kwahulé.  Mise en scène Alexandre Zeff, Cie La Camara Oscura

JAZ. Avec un seul Z. C’est ainsi qu’on l’appelle. Avec un seul Z puisque l’autre lui a été profondément et durablement amputé. Jaz a été victime d’un viol. D’une amputation, donc. Texte puissant, mise en scène et interprétation au diapason : attention, événement. …

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Bearing Down on the Bechdel Test: Laurie Fyffe at the Ergo Arts Pink Festival!

Bearing Down on the Bechdel Test: Laurie Fyffe at the Ergo Arts Pink Festival!

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An opinion piece by Laurie Fyffe

Readings of Being Helen at the Ergo Pink Festival Toronto. Catherine Fergusson (reading stage directions) Ghazal Azarbad (Helen) and Samantha Brown (Theonoe, Princess of Egypt.)

In 2017, I came across the Ergo Arts Pink Festival with a mandate as follows:

“Ergo Pink Fest is a 3-day theatre festival of staged readings in Toronto conceived and hosted by Ergo Arts Theatre. The idea for the festival was formed when Ergo Arts Theatre’s Artistic Director, Anna Pappas, read in the 2015 Equity in Theatre study by the Playwrights Guild of Canada that: The greatest disparity in gender equity happens in the playwright category. While some progress has been made over the past two years in changing the dominant voice in theatre, Ergo Arts is committed to continuing the push forward toward equitable and inclusive art.” …

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World Theatre Day declaration !! by the Playwrights Guild of Canada

World Theatre Day declaration !! by the Playwrights Guild of Canada

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Since 2011, PACT, together with l’Association des théâtres francophones du Canada (ATFC) and the Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC), has commissioned a message each year to promote and celebrate World Theatre Day from a distinctly Canadian perspective.

In 2018, this message has been written by Nina Lee Aquino and translated into French by Djennie Laguerre.

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Déclaration canadienne pour la journée mondiale du théâtre (en français)

Déclaration canadienne pour la journée mondiale du théâtre (en français)

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Comme elle le fait depuis 2011, l’ATFC se joint à nouveau à la Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) et à la Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC), afin de vous présenter le message canadien de la Journée Mondiale du Théâtre écrit par Nina Lee Aquino, auteure, metteure en scène et directrice artistique du Factory Theatre de Toronto. L’auteure et comédienne Djennie Laguerre signe la traduction française du message de cette année.

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Declaration by the Capital Critics Circle

Declaration by the Capital Critics Circle

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Iris Winston, a member of Capital Critics Circle, recently published an opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen titled Why #MeToo is not for me. Ms. Winston wrote the piece as an expression of her own beliefs and not as a representative of Capital Critics Circle. Capital Critics Circle believes that censorship is the antithesis of all art and we support the free expression of opinion.

Trey Anthony’s How Black Mothers Say I Love You

Trey Anthony’s How Black Mothers Say I Love You

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Immigration and family are centre stage in Trey Anthony’s How Black Mothers Say I Love You

Photo from the opening production of the Factory Theatre in Toronto., May 2016..

Press release from the GCTC

 Trey Anthony, the acclaimed playwright of the smash hit Da Kink In My Hair, brings her newest work to the Great Canadian Theatre Company with How Black Mothers Say I Love You. With a powerful nod to the Caribbean community, Anthony weaves a complex and heartwarming story of immigration, family, and sacrifice. Making her directing debut in Ottawa, Kimberley Rampersad helms a cast of newcomers to the GCTC stage: Bénédicte Bélizaire, Lucinda David, Malube, and Samantha Walkes. How Black Mother Say I Love You runs on the GCTC stage from March 6 – March 25. …

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