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Taking a Dip with English Theatre
February 7, 2013On January 31, 2013, members of the National Arts Centre Foundation Donors’ Circle got their feet wet at a donor pre-show chat with English Theatre Artistic Director Jillian Keiley and Jonathan Monro, composer and music director, about their work on the production of Mary Zimmerman’s…
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In support of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards
February 6, 2013The National Arts Centre would like to thank Hilary Weston and her husband Galen for opening their their home to artists and leading philanthropists in support of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards. In a heart-warming speech from the staircase in the Weston’s home, his Excellency…
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Face2Face With Your Environment
February 5, 2013The Most Together We’ve Ever Been features a series of entrances and exits by dancers Ame Henderson and Matija Ferlin. Oftentimes the viewer is left to contemplate the relationship between themselves and their environment. Of all the objects that will be displayed in The Most Together We’ve…
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Music Night at the NAC/The Canadian Dream
February 5, 2013Music Night at the NAC/The Canadian Dream The 3rd annual Music Night at the NAC brought together Canadians who adore music whether they work on Parliament Hill, in the business community or the arts. Heritage Minister James Moore hosted the evening sponsored by Quebecor Media and Music…
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Ticket to Ride to the Beatles Tribute Concert
February 4, 2013Today we invited some of the biggest Beatles fans from the NAC Orchestra to squeeze themselves and their instruments into a 1967 VW Beetle. Can you guess how many we were able to fit into this chrome and mint cutie of a car? Patrons will be able to get a closer look at the the VW…
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National Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet
February 1, 2013 -
Question and Answer with Pinchas Zukerman
January 30, 2013Bronfman Plays Brahms Yefim Bronfman, Pinchas Zukerman and the NAC Orchestra, February 6 & 7, 2013 Question and Answer with Pinchas Zukerman: Q: Maestro Pinchas Zukerman, you are about to perform at the National Arts Centre with your longtime friend, pianist Yefim Bronfman. How did this…
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Dancing on the edge in Face 2 Face: 15 performances, 7 choreographers.1...
January 30, 2013Dance Producer Cathy Levy is delighted to welcome you to the NAC's first-ever Face 2 Face mini festival, which explodes on the Ottawa dance scene from February 5-9, 2013. These are provocative, innovative works, a potent mix of exciting duets by seven choreographers -- from five countries…
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Metamorphoses, Part 3: The Costumes
January 30, 2013 -
NAC Orchestra visits Kingston
January 30, 2013Since my first orchestral experience – a young witness to the NAC Orchestra performing Handel’s Messiah twenty years ago – to my first internship in Marketing at the NAC, I have been rather smitten with this orchestra. As an Associate Marketing Officer, I used to sneak into the top balcony…
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Scuba Gear Comes in Handy
January 29, 2013 -
A historic moment for the NAC
January 29, 2013On your next visit to the National Arts Centre you will notice a beautiful burgundy and gold plaque on the wall outside the Box Office. The plaque designates the NAC building as a National Historic Site. It reads: “Constructed to designs by Fred Lebensold, the National Arts Centre (NAC)…
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The little meerkats
January 27, 2013This past week, French Theatre was presenting Édredon (Eiderdown) by Les Imcomplètes for very young audiences (6 months to 5 years). They were quite spectacular: always being on the look-out, they didn't miss a thing!
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Discovering Music That Surrounds Us
January 25, 2013 -
Betty Riddell: Touching the lives of many people for years to come
January 24, 2013Independent… alert… well-read… warm… determined… feisty… Colonel Michel Drapeau, barrister and solicitor, uses all these words to describe his dear friend and client, Betty Riddell. And he uses two others as well, extremely generous. Up to the day of her passing at age 96, Betty was a…
