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From poet to playwright: NAC Playwright in Residence’s work, thirsty, moves from...
November 1, 2012If Dionne Brand’s name sounds familiar there’s good reason. Every year the National Arts Centre’s Playwrights in Residence program invites playwrights of Aboriginal or culturally diverse backgrounds to join the English Theatre Company. During the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 seasons, Dionne was…
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Meet Andrew Moodie of the NAC English Theatre Company
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Mime Workshop with John Doucet
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The UK’s Hofesh Shechter Company rocks the Theatre with Political Mother on...
October 31, 2012The incredible Hofesh Shechter Company last appeared at the NAC with Uprising and In your rooms, which had been commissioned by The Place, Southbank Centre, and Sadler’s Wells Theatre in a unique collaboration between London’s major dance venues. The double bill was presented to rave…
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Playwright Dionne Brand Speaks About the Play thirsty
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Anticipation and the Creative Waiting Room
October 31, 2012Carmen Braden is a Yellowknife composer. She has been anticipating the NAC Orchestra's Northern Canada Tour for many reasons - to meet Norwegian guest conductor Arild Remmereit, to meet violin virtuoso James Ehnes, and... to have Canadian composer Alexina Louie (composer of Take the Dog…
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Great Photo of the Brass Trio in Iqaluit
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Alexina Louie Learns some Throat Singing Tips
October 30, 2012 -
Community Feast at the Pirurvik Centre, Iqaluit
October 30, 2012The Sunday night Community Feast – with "country food", which means food hunted from the land and sea: narwhal, raw caribou, stewed caribou, candied Arctic char, raw cubed Arctic char, vegetarian dishes like Ellen Hamilton's delicious cauliflower curry Musicians passed around Simeonie's…
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Meet Jackie Richardson of the NAC English Theatre Company
October 30, 2012 -
Connexxions North - Broadband videoconference event
October 30, 2012 -
Drawings inspired by the music of Vivaldi
October 30, 2012Vivaldi wrote what is today his most famous piece, The Four Seasons, some time between 1720 and 1725. It is a set of four violin concertos each of which describes a different season of the year. The music is programmatic (that is, descriptive) in a very life-like way; it abounds in vivid…
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A Delightful Northern Medley
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James Ehnes takes his Stradivarius to Fiddle Club
October 27, 2012 -
NAC Orchestra Hits the Ground Running
October 26, 2012The plane had barely touched ground in Iqaluit before NAC Orchestra musicians and staff darted off to their respective outreach activities. Among today's activities were a fiddle and choir workshop with James Ehnes and Arild Remmereit, a theatre workshop with John Doucet and a string…
