Category: Arts

With a federal budget looming, there will be plenty of hand-wringing in the coming months as organizations that rely on government grants brace themselves for the worst. For artists and the institutions that support them, public money isn’t their only source of income, but it often plays an invaluable role – not only at the federal level, but locally as well.

Think powwow. Think music and dancing and drumming but leave the stereotypes behind. Think electronic beats and flashing lights and a throbbing bass underscoring it all.

No one’s quite sure how it happened, but despite the first hints of winter snow drifting across Centretown, there’s something sizzling in the concert halls and across the airwaves.