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The BIG BANG Ambassadors: “The standard-bearers of the event”
November 6, 2023A festival for children in which they are fully involved: welcome to the BIG BANG! Launched in Belgium in 1995 under the name Oorsmeer (Dutch for “oil for the ears”), the project has since been picked up by several European cities. The National Arts Centre (NAC) adopted the concept in…
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Catherine Vidal on the creation of La mouette (The Seagull)
November 6, 2023Dear friends of French Theatre, So many things have been considered, put in place and tried out for the production of La mouette (The Seagull) since I wrote to you last January that this brief letter won’t be enough to cover them all. (By the way, in order to make the best use of the…
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Nurturing the passion of the next generation of Canadian artists
November 2, 2023Thanks to her participation in the National Arts Centre Orchestra Bursary Competition, which encourages excellence among young instrumentalists, and in the 2011 Young Artists Program, flutist Lara Deutsch got to work closely with the NAC Orchestra’s renowned principal flutist, Joanna…
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Veteran’s Week at the NAC
October 26, 2023Over a hundred years ago, the ‘war to end all wars’ came to an end. This Veterans’ Week, November 5-11, in honour of the brave Canadians who fought for our freedom, the National Arts Centre offers a virtual moving musical and epistolary commemoration titled Letters from the Great War, an…
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The NAC Gala: An annual event to ensure the future of the...
October 24, 2023It’s with great excitement that the National Arts Centre is getting ready for its most glamorous fall event. The 25th NAC Gala, featuring world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming with the NAC Orchestra, is Wednesday, November 1, 2023, in Southam Hall. From classical opera to beloved Broadway…
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The inspiration behind Akram Khan’s Jungle Book
October 18, 2023Choreographer Akram Khan discusses his recent epic projet, Jungle Book reimagined. He shares how this deeply personal project represents his inaugural venture into creating a family and intergenerational show. This dance-theatre production not only draws inspiration from his childhood…
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A timeless love story on pointe!
October 13, 2023Caroline Ohrt, Executive Producer of Dance at the NAC in a conversation with Western Australian Ballet choreographer Jayne Smeulders who created the enchanting Cinderella ballet performed by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and coming to the National Arts Centre this November. Originally…
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Wild visions for a new season
October 11, 2023New season, new Sarah! In truth, I am not so new… I started as Artistic Associate the day the NCF was born, arriving during a time of big dreams and big questions. The process of bringing the Fund to life was itself pure creation – feeling our way through the unknown, experiencing moments…
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NACO welcomes new faces, fresh sounds
October 11, 2023If you’ve attended one of our concerts this season, you may have already spotted some fresh faces on stage! We’re thrilled to introduce Zachary Bond, our new bass trombonist at the NAC Orchestra, and Tovin Allers, the newest member of our Orchestra’s viola section. Tovin Allers is no…
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Setting the digital stage for Akram Khan’s Jungle Book reimagined
October 6, 2023Akram Khan’s Jungle Book reimagined comes alive on the NAC’s Digital Stage The Kipnes Lantern will light up with stunning animations created for the show by YeastCulture. Producing the visual story to support Akram Khan’s Jungle Book reimagined — coming to Southam Hall from October 19…
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Lifting each other up: The Adrian Burns Fund for Women Leaders in...
October 5, 2023Your donations in action through the Global Network for Women Music Producers. One year ago, the 2022 NAC Gala raised an incredible $1 million to support the new Adrian Burns Fund for Women Leaders in the Performing Arts. The fund supports artists, designers, producers, technicians and…
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Honouring Walter Borden – A celebration of a Canadian theatre icon
September 26, 2023We are eagerly counting down the days until we can unveil Walter Borden’s masterpiece, The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time, at the NAC this fall. You may recall that the original performance, slated for February 2022, had to be cancelled due to protests in downtown Ottawa. But Walter and the…
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L’ombre: “A Person Takes Flight…”
September 25, 2023Mani Soleymanlou’s second season at the helm of NAC French Theatre opens with L’ombre [The Shadow], a collective creation by the 2023 Collective. Initiated by Soleymanlou, the Collective is an annual project designed to broaden the horizons of the next generation of artists by giving them…
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Gnoondoon, Gwaabmin: I hear you, I see you.
September 25, 2023“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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SGS bids farewell to the Fund
September 11, 2023Summer times are different than before. They are now a mixture of devastation and joy. They are far more dramatic than they used to be. We are changed by this. Yet, as we head back into the proverbial school year, the time when everything starts churning at full tilt, when we pass through…
