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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…
By Robin Etherington GALLERIES – GALERIES Barbara Ann Scott Gallery …
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…
Cultural happenings for you to enjoy / Des événements cultural pour votre plaisir. By Robin Etherington Fall is the season for arts and heritage activities – all within walking distance. L’automne est la saison des activités artistiques et patrimoniales, le tout à distance de marche. GALLERIES – GALERIES City Hall Art Gallery 110 Laurier Avenue…
A conversation with Sara MacKenzie (Ottawa Museums Network) and Christine McGuire (The Diefenbunker) By Robin Etherington Sara MacKenzie, Executive Director of the Ottawa Museums Network (OMN), is a communications professional with over 23 years of experience in the federal public service, most recently as Director General of Strategic Communications for Health Canada and the Public…
By Ben Ladouceur At the start of an academic year, one of the first things Professor Kimberly Quiogue Andrews might ask her classroom full of creative writing students is: “What can you tell me about your weird uncle?” Almost everybody has at least one weird uncle. “In a class of fifty,” says Andrews, “it is…