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A Buzz in the Air: The NAC Orchestra’s SPHERE festival
November 23, 2022Your donations to the NAC Foundation help to create artistic programming that is relevant to our time. SPHERE, a music, arts and science festival about our world in a time of climate crisis, engaged audiences between September 22 and 25. Co-curated by Alexander Shelley and…
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DREAM. CONNECT. CREATE.
November 17, 2022According to David Brooks, in the October 27, 2022 New York Times Opinion piece with Gallup polls to support it, we are riding a wave of global sadness. The numbers are staggering and they were measured over a much longer period than you might expect. Like, in the case of trends in pop…
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Audition Call: Children’s Chorus of I Forgive You
November 4, 2022Deadline for video auditions: November 21st, 2022 Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and the National Arts Centre English Theatre are looking for child/youth singers in the national capital region for the upcoming play, I Forgive You, being presented at the NAC in Ottawa in March 2023. This…
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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…