Category: Arts
Viewpoint: Would ‘indie’ by any other name sound as sweet?
Alternative culture is a fussy beast. Independent artists are, by nature, pioneering and stubbornly independent. They work against the mainstream and push the boundaries of music. Or at least they used to.
Local filmmakers compete in festival’s mad dash to finish
Over the course of just three days, 23 teams of filmmakers in the Ottawa region wrote, directed and edited their own short films while competing in the Ottawa International Film Festival’s 72-Hour Film Challenge.
Translation of Cyrano true to Voltaire’s lyric
For months, David Whiteley buried himself in translation dictionaries and rhyming books, scribbled multiple drafts of theatre scripts and drank a whole lot of coffee to stimulate his mind.