Category: Arts

Before peanut butter and jam there was tongue.

A lyricist and poet who grew up on the streets of downtown Ottawa is breathing new life into the city’s poetry scene with his monthly No Rules Poetry Slams held in the Parliament Pub on Sparks Street.

Shapeless blobs of colour, bright pink and electric blue, shift and float in and out of the screen. The colours dance in time to the music, a steady rhythm in the background . . .

On the arts front, the 2005 budget incurred much less attention than did last year’s. There were no lawn signs, buttons or mass protests. The budget passed Feb. 7 with little protest from the arts community.