Imagine 600 Ontario artists taking over theatres, concert halls, clubs, galleries and artist-run centres throughout Ottawa-Gatineau. That's Ontario Scene, the next instalment in the National Arts Centre's highly-successful series of Scene festivals. From April 28 to May 10, 2015, Ontario…
Our Northern artists knocked it out of the park last week at the Arctic Inspiration Prize ceremony in Halifax. When Arnold Witzig asked the National Arts Centre to produce a performance similar to the Northern Scene’s Opening Ceremony in Ottawa last April, my team and I jumped at the…
Creation spaces. Sometimes they exist as part of a well managed, state-of-the-art performing arts facility. A lot of the time, however, they don’t. They’re tucked in an old warehouse in the wrong part of town, or in a church basement with terrible light. There might be a noisy nightclub…