Baden Russell-Petigrow, Centretown News
With Capital Pride celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Angus MacIsaac is hoping to free the pride archives from a locker they've been in for years. Ottawa’s Capital Pride Festival will be celebrating its 30th anniversary this summer, but the archives of all that history were nearly lost after previous festival organizers declared bankruptcy in December.
Month: March 2015
New film festival showcases high school talent
In Grade 10, Sanjay Dhawan and his friend Sabastien Packer started the Glebe Film Festival. Three years later, the students are expanding the festival to all high schools in Ottawa.
Canada’s wartime PM on stage
With all of the present-day scrutiny of politicians’ private lives, it is hard to imagine that Canada once had a prime minister who spoke to ghosts and allegedly visited prostitutes.
Fringe Festival beer tent stays outdoors
The outdoor hub of the Ottawa Fringe Festival has secured a new location for the 2015 season, settling concerns among the theatre community that construction would force a move entirely indoors. The $100-million Ottawa Art Gallery and Arts Court redevelopment project will be shifting the festival beer tent and courtyard from its original site.