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Spotlight on women artists at the NAC Gala
November 2, 2022After a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the NAC Gala is back on Saturday, November 5. Since the early 1990s, the NAC Gala has raised funds to help support the performing arts in Canada. For this 24th edition, the NAC’s signature fundraising event celebrates the importance of women…
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Success, risk and changes
October 14, 2022How do you define success? Oh brother/sister/mother/lover, really, you are opening with this? Some days - pour moi - it can be as simple as getting a comma in the right place. Most days it is far more complicated. Is success something that actually exists? Yes. I am going to say…
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Eskasoni Theatre Camp: Sparking a passion for theatre
October 14, 2022Helping young people find their passion through theatre is the aim of a partnership between the National Arts Centre Arts Alive learning and engagement platform, NAC Indigenous Theatre, and the Highland Arts Theatre and the community of Eskasoni, both in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Launched…
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GRACES: When Goddesses meet the Prophet of Free Body
October 11, 2022Although the performing arts allow us to share the talent, ideas and visions of artists, the true power of art is not always visible on stage or heard in dialogues. Its secret power lies in its ability to provoke thoughts. Italian choreographer, Silvia Gribaudi, has made it her mission to…
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NAC to “Light Up Purple” on World Mental Health Day
October 7, 2022The National Arts Centre (NAC) is pleased to participate in the World Health Organization’s Mental Health Day. Today, October 10, is World Mental Health Day and in memory of Amanda Todd, you will see animations on the Kipnes Lantern by NORMAL from the NAC Orchestra’s Life Reflected. World…
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Say Hello to Nina Lee Aquino
October 7, 2022This past January, the NAC was thrilled to announce Nina Lee Aquino as the incoming Artistic Director for English Theatre. Nina is an award-winning Filipino-Canadian director and dramaturg who has tirelessly advocated for the representation and flourishing of IBPoC voices in Canadian…
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A Special Summer at Your NAC
September 29, 2022This past summer the NAC’s stages and spaces came alive with shows for every type of audience. Canada’s diverse communities saw themselves represented through blockbuster musicals, one-person plays, dance troupes, and music from all corners of the country. With more than 200 shows, there…
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A Special Gathering in the Land of Pop
September 29, 2022“I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know the women in the Global Network of Women and Non-Binary Producers for the last year over Zoom,” said Erin Costelo, an award-winning producer from Halifax, Nova Scotia. “Our in-person meeting in Sweden was so much more inspiring than I could have…
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Learning Side-by-Side with the NAC Orchestra
September 29, 2022Thanks to your generous support, the inaugural NAC Orchestra Mentorship Program was an outstanding success! From May 31 to June 17, forty-nine talented emerging and early career professional orchestral musicians from Canada, the United States, Taiwan, China, Germany, and Mexico took part in…
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Stages of Transformation : Exploring the intersection of theatre and abolition
September 27, 2022Since 2014, NAC English Theatre has examined the changing shape of Canadian theatre through The Cycle, a trilogy of two-year research initiatives developed in partnership with artists and leaders from across the country. These in-depth investigations led to three areas of focus: Indigenous…
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Ngii-noondam, Niwaabamaa: I hear you, I see you.
September 25, 2022“It’s invisible, eh… this sickness in our hearts. It’s just a thought, really, a thought that makes us sick. It was someone else’s thought that was taught to us. It’s like they were so afraid of us that they had to teach us to be smaller than them…. And we learned it real good. Our kids are…
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Mique Michelle’s Franco-Ontarian colours
September 24, 2022For the third consecutive year, the work of Franco-Ontarian graffiti artist Mique Michelle will shine brightly on the Kipnes Lantern for Franco-Ontarian Day, September 25. Be sure to look up and admire her original creation, commissioned by the National Arts Centre, which proudly reflects…
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Nordic Screendance brings Art to the street
September 22, 2022As the crisp breeze of fall slowly settles in, the idea emerges of warm sweaters and downtown strolls, latte in hand. This year, NAC Dance aims to enhance your fall experience with its Nordic Screendance, a free outdoor event for dance lovers and cinephiles alike. From September 22 to 25,…
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Introducing Sarah Garton Stanley
September 15, 2022Hi. Thanks for spending some of your expensive time here! My name is Sarah Garton Stanley, but you can call me SGS; and I hope you will. I am the new Artistic Producer for the National Creation Fund (NCF), I am a white queer settler of European heritage, born and raised in Montreal…
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Celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s special relationship to the NAC
September 8, 2022It is with much sadness that the National Arts Centre (NAC) learned of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We join Canadians, and people around the world, who mourn her loss, and share our deepest sympathies with the Royal Family. At this solemn time, we look back with great…
