Students from All Saints Catholic High School wowed a full house at the National Arts Centre earlier this month – and edged out competitors from Lisgar, Glebe and other area high schools – to win the Ottawa regional tournament of the Canadian Improv Games. The gold medal propels All Saints to the national improv tournament in April, scheduled to take place at the NAC’s main stage theatre. 
Erin Easterbrook, Centretown NewsA team from Lisgar Collegiate competed unsuccessfully in the 2011 Canadian Improv Games held at the National Arts Centre last week.
Category: Arts
‘Sexy’ event raises funds for Planned Parenthood
A night of sexual satire, burlesque and spoken-word poetry is planned for March 12 at Centretown’s Dom Polski Hall to raise money for Planned Parenthood Ottawa.
Literature lovers battle censorship
Aside from sharing the label “literary classics,” books such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Harry Potter series, and To Kill A Mockingbird have something else in common. They all have been targeted for censorship.
Julielee Stitt, Centretown NewsBob LeDrew is an organizer of "Censored Out Loud," a campaign that is part of Freedom to Read Week.
Festivals face funding cuts
The Canada Council for the Arts has angered festival organizers in Ottawa after informing them a popular grant program that has helped underwrite innovative musical projects has been put on hold for 2011.