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Category: Arts
Orchestra strikes chord with youth
Across Centretown, school-aged children are tuning donated cellos, clarinets and violins in an innovative after-school program designed to empower kids and build communities through music.
Pedro Rocha Cabral de Vasconcellos, Centretown NewsChildren in the Orkidstra quintet rehearse Bach at the Bronson Centre. The group will perform a series of concerts throughout Ottawa during the summer.
Art on the brain
The Neuroscience Society Ottawa chapter will be hosting its third annual Brain and Mental Health Art Show on April 12 and is expecting the event to be bigger than ever.
Eric Murphy, Centretown NewsArtist and scientist Rebecca Hay shows her painting that will be auctioned off at the Mental Health Art Show.
Ottawa resurrects search for new poet laureate
Verse Ottawa, a collective of Ottawa’s poetry organizations, is pressing city councillors to restore the city’s poet laureate program, a literary tradition Ottawa hasn’t participated in for more than a decade – and the planned revival of which was cut from last year’s arts budget.