Learn and Engage

The National Arts Centre's Arts Alive provides outstanding programming and resources to help young people engage in the arts, including many free resources. Virtual workshops and performances from inspiring Canadian artists, pre-professional artist training and engaging free resources - it's all here. Whether you are in the classroom, at home with children, or preparing for a professional career as an artist, the National Arts Centre can help you bring the performing arts alive.

Upcoming events

  1. Free In-person

    Join us for a pre-show talk hosted by Caroline Ohrt, Executive Producer of NAC Dance, featuring choreographer Andre Peña, photographer Edward Burtynsky, and NAC Orchestra's music director Alexander Shelley.

  2. Free In-person

    The great transition currently underway from an extractive society to a regenerative society is most commonly framed in economic, technological and political terms. As significant efforts across these fields struggle to fully activate the transformation, can the arts…

Current Programs

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