Archive 1997-2016
By Amy Nickerson
The National Arts Centre has kicked off a season of plays which are as plagued with ethical dilemmas as the NAC is with managerial problems.
“I ended up with a season that addresses some very important issues to do with ethics, to do with morality,” says arts director Marti Maraden, “to do with individual morality in the face of public pressure.”
Canada’s newest human rights ambassadors are all under the age of 18 — and they are spreading their message through art.
The National Arts Centre held an art contest for children last year to celebrate human rights. Now this celebration will be seen in more than 18 different countries.
Chicken wire. Plaster. Crumpled paper. Twigs.
These raw materials are hardly titillating or mystical on their own. But in the hands of Montreal photographer Holly King, they are moulded and transformed into mythical worlds where magic is just around the corner.
Carole Pope was once the front for an ’80s Canadian rock band called Rough Trade and everything she did was ground-breaking.
She returned to town in October headlining for the Rock ’n Women tour at Barrymore’s, a testament to how far women in music have come in the last 10 years.