The Hockey Sweater

2014-01-11 13:30 2014-01-11 15:30 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: The Hockey Sweater

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/5197

What’s it like to have to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater in a hockey-crazed Quebec town where everyone is a Montreal Canadiens fan? That’s the story of Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater, narrated by the author and co-hosted by hockey legend Ken Dryden, with an original score by Canadian composer, Abigail Richardson*. *Abigail Richardson’s The Hockey Sweater is a cocommission of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
January 11, 2014
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Family programming Music
  • Bilingual

What’s it like to have to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater in a hockey-crazed Quebec town where everyone is a Montreal Canadiens fan? That’s the story of Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater, narrated by the author and co-hosted by hockey legend Ken Dryden, with an original score by Canadian composer, Abigail Richardson*.

*Abigail Richardson’s The Hockey Sweater is a cocommission of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.

llustration: From The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier, illustrated by Sheldon Cohen. Illustration Copyright © 1984 Sheldon Cohen. Reprinted by permission of Tundra Books.