Archive 1997-2016
It’s been 25 years since the Montreal Massacre and the anniversary of the Dec. 6, 1989, tragedy was remembered in Ottawa last week with a new, concert-length choral work, Requiem for Fourteen Roses.
The video opens with two men in white Hazmat suits entering a dark, sparsely furnished room with concrete walls. The camera follows them to a bedroom, where an emaciated African woman lies still on a bare mattress. The scene ends with the two men lifting her limp body up by the wrists and ankles and carrying her away. The only sound is the slow inhale and exhale of the mens’ protective masks.
Garrett Barry, Centretown News
Cast members of Freezing strike a pose during a rehearsal at the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society.Ottawa families will get the chance to help start a new tradition this year when The Gladstone theatre hosts Freezing, an original family musical, for the first time.
When Mayor Jim Watson recognized 15 residents with the Order of Ottawa at city hall last month, among those honoured was 51-year-old Peter Morel, founder and co-owner of one of Ottawa’s first adaptive fitness studios.