Street art boosts pride in community
City of Ottawa
Artist Tim desClouds' installation will decorate the gate of McNabb Park at Bronson and Gladstone avenues. Archive 1997-2016
Construction continues to plague much of Bronson Avenue, with the roadway still closed or half open as part of the city’s major water and sewer upgrade, and an uninviting fence surrounds almost an entire block where the McNabb Community Centre and the adjacent schoolyard park are located.City of OttawaArtist Tim desClouds' installation will decorate the gate of McNabb Park at Bronson and Gladstone avenues.
No one’s quite sure how it happened, but despite the first hints of winter snow drifting across Centretown, there’s something sizzling in the concert halls and across the airwaves.
Think powwow. Think music and dancing and drumming but leave the stereotypes behind. Think electronic beats and flashing lights and a throbbing bass underscoring it all.
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