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By Daniel Marlow Hulya Guler Art Studio is now open at 206 Saint Patrick Street. The studio and gallery sit inside a charming heritage building, just steps from the National Gallery of Canada and the ByWard Market. Hulya’s path to becoming a professional artist has been far from conventional. Born in Turkey, she immigrated to…
Cultural happenings for you to enjoy By Robin Etherington GALLERIES – GALERIES Barbara Ann Scott Gallery 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa Rocks! – Reunion Tour Until September 3 City Hall Art Gallery …
An interview with Aileen Leo, Director of Communications By Robin Etherington The Ottawa Mission’s art program supports individual artists and community engagement through exhibitions, fundraising, and partnerships with local artists and organizations. It empowers individuals, showcases their work, and raises funds for the Mission’s programs, while fostering a sense of community and belonging. What has…
Gwen Tuinman, Unrest, Random House Canada, 2024. By Nancy Miller-Chenier This historical fiction is focused on the unrest created by the Shiners, gangs of Irish immigrants that terrorized Bytown with extreme acts of violence between 1835 and 1845. Led by Peter Aylen, who later emerged as a successful lumberman, this period, known as the Shiners’…
By Nancy Miller-Chenier Lowertowners know that our community already has a link with Rideau Hall through Adrienne Clarkson (née Poy), the 26th Governor General, who started her life in Canada at 277 Sussex Drive and decades later moved to 1 Sussex. This book shares the memories of Richard Legrand, amongst others, who moved from Rideau…
An interview with Executive Director, Tara Shannon. By Robin Etherington Tara Shannon is active in the music industry as teacher, mentor, entertainer, and as co-founder of a group of companies spanning different industries, including her record label, Willow Sound Records. She leverages her distinctive experiences in founding and managing businesses to equip music creators with…
Cultural happenings for you to enjoy / Des événements culturels pour votre plaisir By Robin Etherington GALLERIES – GALERIES City Hall Art Gallery Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron Galerie St-Laurent + Hill Let’s skate and glide through our winter cultural activities into spring! Karsh-Masson Gallery L.A. Pai Gallery National Gallery of Canada Ottawa Art Gallery MUSEUMS –…
By Nancy Miller-Chenier Max Finkelstein and James Stone, Paddling the Boreal Forest: Rediscovering A.P Low, Dundurn Press, 2004. This book has two Lowertown connections – Jim Stone, a co-author and current resident of Lowertown and Albert Peter (A.P.) Low, former employee of the Geological Survey of Canada located from 1881 to 1911 at 541 Sussex…
By Ben Ladouceur A fact about poets: if you give fifty of them the same topic, they’ll write you fifty very different poems. “Everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!” Elizabeth Bishop famously cried about a trout. Confronted with the same genus, Anne Carson once noted, “You can write on a wall with its heart. It’s because…
By Robin Etherington Robin sat down with two key members of the Ottawa Little Theatre (OLT), Venetia Lawless and Lindsay Laviolette, for a wide-ranging conversation about the challenges and successes of running a community theatre. Q: What is the greatest challenge for the Ottawa Little Theatre? People don’t come to live theatre as much. OLT…