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.
Category: Arts
Museum honours last war artist
The Canadian War Museum has launched a tribute to honour the death of the last remaining war artist from the Second World War, Molly Lamb Bobak, who died on March 2 at the age of 94 at the Veterans Health Unit in Fredericton.
Courtesy Canadian War Museum This painting, "Private Roy," is part of the Canadian War museum exhibition featuring the work of Molly Bobak.
Bytown looks back 100 years
Visitors to the Bytown Museum will soon be able to get a glimpse into the lives of everyday residents in Ottawa during the First World War. 
Courtesy Bytown MuseumInspection of the 77th Battalion by the Governor-General of Canada in 1916 at the site of the current Cartier Square Drill Hall.
Museum updates war exhibits
The Canadian War Museum is revamping its Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times exhibit once more as it prepares for the 100th anniversary of the First World War.