Archive 1997-2016
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.
By Bethany Harpur
Local artists are joining forces to celebrate the National Capital Fine Art Festival’s fifth year as a fund-raiser for the Kidney Foundation of Canada.
“I think it’s fantastic,” says Marilyn Henricksen, executive assistant with the foundation and a member of the festival’s committee. “(The artists) are a great group of people, and they seem very happy to be involved.”
By Jocelyn Dickey
Local jazz aficiandos are celebrating what would have been Duke Ellington’s 100th birthday this April with a month of concerts and events.
Ellington, who some have called the most significant jazz composer of the 20th century, was born on April 29, 1899. His contributions to jazz music are still felt today, more than 20 years after his death.
By Danielle Gauthier
Imagine the life of a child in a country where even playground swings swaying in the breeze represent contamination.
It’s the horror faced daily by Belarussian children living under the shroud of Chernobyl, the site of the worst peacetime nuclear disaster in history.