Category: Arts

By Kate MacLean

Edmonton Opera’s new artistic director, who is currently working with Opera Lyra on a production, left me with a head-scratcher recently.

I asked Michael Cavanagh if he thought it was sad that we pay people to depict our emotions on stage. He said maybe it was, but that without the arts we could no longer examine ourselves as a people. read more

Michael Dennis reads to sold-out crowd at National Arts Centre.

Alternative film festival organizers hope to draw in broader audience.

By Jan Daniels

In honor of April being National Poetry Month, I was browsing through the Web to find out what will be going on in the local scene. Starting with The Academy of American Poets Web site (www.poets.org) and the League of Canadian Poets (www.swifty.com/lc/index.html) these sites linked me to online magazines, which led to electronic zines. Zines are wild and crazy distortions of art that jump, flip and plop all over the place. read more