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Celebrating diversity through music in New Brunswick
October 2, 2018On the day of the workshop, the young musicians in the senior strings orchestra didn’t understand what was happening at first. Composer, Andrew Miller asked the serious-minded students to put away their music stands and try improvising using different techniques. “Andrew wanted to loosen…
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Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma: a decidedly modern and...
October 2, 2018According to Christian Lapointe, the director of Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma (his translation of Martin Crimp's The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema), Crimp neither preaches nor writes message plays. Here, the British playwright transposes an ancient Greek myth that…
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Donor Profile: Carol Fahie
October 2, 2018Keeping the arts alive and thriving in Canada The first time Carol Fahie saw Yo-Yo Ma perform was at an open rehearsal at the National Arts Centre. It was special for Carol all the more so because her bass-playing son, 20-year-old Rob, was sitting beside her. “Rob was in awe and had a…
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Making Giving Easy: Designating your support to what’s important to you
October 2, 2018Our donors are special people. They have a real appreciation for the performing arts and the NAC’s role in bringing the best of music, theatre and dance to our stages. Many of our supporters have a special passion. For some it’s the NAC Orchestra. For others it’s theatre or dance. …
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Five Minutes with Alisa Klebanov
October 2, 2018A Q&A with the winner of the 2018 NAC Orchestra Bursary Competition In May, violist Alisa Klebanov won the NAC Orchestra Bursary Competition, which provides recognition and financial support to help further the development of young musicians who have connections to the National Capital…
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A Q&A with The Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman
September 24, 2018In recent years, the romance of life on the road has been thankfully demystified. A new, more realistic picture has emerged, albeit an often black and white one. It seems you’re either the grant-dependent, bleary-eyed emerging artist struggling to make ends meet, or you’re among the…
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Sweet New Sound of Southam Hall
September 13, 2018Southam Hall has a fresh new look, and a superb new sound. The NAC’s new orchestra shell, which took more than 18 months to design and build, arrived in 15 semi-trailers from two separate facilities 1,000 miles apart and was installed over the summer. While Southam Hall is the NAC’s…
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Meet the NAC’s New President and CEO
September 13, 2018Christopher Deacon is the National Arts Centre’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. On June 12, he took over from Peter Herrndorf, who retired after almost 19 years. Mr. Deacon, 59, was born in Montreal, Quebec. he has more than 35 years of professional experience managing…
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le café redux
September 13, 2018The NAC’s venerable le café restaurant has been completely renovated, just in time for the 2018–2019 season. Food and Beverage General Manager Nelson Borges (left) and Executive Chef Kenton Leier spent the summer overseeing construction that has transformed the restaurant into a…
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Q&A: Colin Traquair, Trombone, NAC Orchestra
September 13, 2018Q. You’re one of the NAC Orchestra’s most passionate coffee lovers. What’s your drink? A. Equator makes a piccolo, which is a small, very intense latte. You don’t ever want me to play a piccolo, however. Q. Were you happy when Equator Coffee Roasters opened its NAC location? A. Are you…
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Peggy Baker Workshop at National Ballet School
September 11, 2018Peggy Baker has been working on who we are in the dark, her most ambitious work to date, for nearly two years now. At the end of August, she again brought together her team of dancers and musicians Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara from Arcade Fire for a week of workshops at the National…
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Upcoming Eve 2050 Installation + Performance
September 11, 2018Following the successful launch of the web series earlier this year, Isabelle van Grimde’s epic triptych Eve 2050 continues with the premiere of part two, an installation and performance that invites each visitor to become one of the many faces of Eve 2050. Using infrared cameras and…
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Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma opening at ESPACE GO
September 11, 2018ESPACE GO in Montreal was packed on September 12 for the premiere of Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma, a compelling new production by writer and director Christian Lapointe. With an elaborate set inspired by the conventions of a traditional classroom, and a chorus of young women…
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Renewing the NAC’s Performance Halls and Production Facilities
July 3, 2018A few hours after the artists performing at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award left the Southam Hall stage, construction workers began work on a project that will dramatically improve the NAC’s performance halls and production facilities. Much of the NAC’s production equipment is…
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Franco’s simple sourdough recipe
May 29, 2018National Arts Centre Sous Chef Franco Colaco has a passion for bread making. Every weekend he makes fresh bread for his family and it’s always devoured in the blink of an eye. We are very pleased to share Franco’s no knead sourdough recipe which is both delicious and simple to make. Prep…
