It’s still early evening on Feb. 22, but the small venue on Gladstone Avenue is already packed with about 40 people. They fill every seat at the small, dimly lit sandwich bar’s wooden tables. New arrivals have to stand huddled near the door, stage left.
Matthew Lee, Centretown NewsJacqui Du Toit is the head of the group 8th Generation Performance, and organizer of theatre nights at Pressed. The coffeehouse is hosting monthly theatre nights in an effort to create more performance space for artists in Ottawa.
Category: Arts
Viewpoint: Developing mid-sized venues key to Ottawa’s music scene
When Pressed, one of Centretown’s most buzzed-about establishments, announced its dining room would soon be hosting live theatre on weekends, it was a welcome, yet not unprecedented, addition to the local arts scene. Its eclectic calendar of trivia nights, arts events and live music aligns the Gladstone Avenue hangout with a swelling roster of businesses around town that double as small performance venues.
A century of Centretown
With a simple drag of a mouse, you can see what an intersection in Centretown looked like in 1920 and, at the same time, what it looks like today.
Alexandre LaquerreContrasting then and now, the photos of a block of apartments on Elgin Street are part of a website designed to show how downtown Ottawa has changed over the years.
CFI showcases director who shunned Hollywood
The Canadian Film Institute is giving audiences the opportunity to see an American film director as they’ve never seen him before.
Courtesy Canadian Film InstituteCourtesy Canadian Film Institute Hal Hartley's latest film, Meanwhile, was featured in this month's retrospective of the director's work.