How writer, editor, instructor, and Lowertown resident Chris Johnson forms poems: “one drip at a time”
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How writer, editor, instructor, and Lowertown resident Chris Johnson forms poems: “one drip at a time”

ByJennifer Campbell

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…

The Ottawa Little Theatre – 112 years of creating magic for local theatregoers
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The Ottawa Little Theatre – 112 years of creating magic for local theatregoers

ByJennifer Campbell

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…

Arts + culture corner
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Arts + culture corner

ByJennifer Campbell

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…

Local museums – hubs for preserving stories and building community: 
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Local museums – hubs for preserving stories and building community: 

ByJennifer Campbell

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…

How one Lowertown poet and uOttawa professor approaches “the weird genre”
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How one Lowertown poet and uOttawa professor approaches “the weird genre”

ByJennifer Campbell

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…

Self-guided Lowertown public art walk
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Self-guided Lowertown public art walk

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By Scott Lemoine A towering, leggy spider, named Maman, surveils the western border of Lowertown from the forecourt of the National Gallery. She is both portal and defender — beyond her, in climate-controlled solitude, many beautiful things hang on pristine walls.  But if Maman took a stroll through our neighbourhood, she would find art woven into the fabric…