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Turkey Takeaway at the NAC
November 17, 2016The NAC’s “Turkey Takeaway” service run by Chef Martin Levesque (right) grew by 19% last year over the previous year. At Christmas and Thanksgiving since 2012, more than 1,000 customers have driven to the NAC for a whole free-range tom turkey, with all the trimmings and dessert. With an…
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Canada is our wine cellar
November 15, 2016Sommelier Michael Gauthier spends a lot of time sniffing out the best Canadian wines and spirits for the National Arts Centre’s le café restaurant. At a recent wine show he found several gems to be added to the Centre’s unique Canadian collection. “These are rare bottles that can’t be found…
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Q & A: Siôned Watkins – NAC Dance Education Associate and Teaching...
November 15, 2016Q. What is dance education about? A. It’s about inspiring and encouraging brain and body development through movement. Q. Your workshops reached more than 1,500 students and teachers last season. What’s excited you the most? A. Last January I organized workshops with over 450 Indigenous…
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Q & A: Maurizio Ortolani – Director, Patron Services and New Media
October 5, 2016Q. The NAC New Media team’s podcasts such as the NAC Orchestra’s Explore the Symphony and L’Univers Symphonique, as well as those for dance and theatre, have seen four million downloads over the last decade. Which countries have the most downloads? A. The U.S. leads with almost a million…
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NAC Unveils $25 Million Fundraising Campaign & $5 Million Gift by Gail Asper
September 28, 2016The National Arts Centre (NAC) today launched a transformative $25 million fundraising campaign to support the creation of new works of Music, Theatre and Dance in collaboration with artists and arts organizations across the country. The campaign is the first-ever in the history of the 47…
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Q & A: Geneviève Cimon – Director, Music Education and Community Engagement
March 31, 2016Q. How has arts education grown and changed since you arrived at the NAC in 2000? A. It’s grown exponentially! In fact it’s now part of our DNA. Our programs now reach many remote regions of the country. We used to offer about a dozen local programs. Now we reach over 100,000 national and…
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Indigenous Storytelling in 2016
January 11, 2016January 9, 2016 NAC Presents turns 5! Party with A Tribe Called Red, U.S. Girls, Mehdi Cayenne and The Lionyls! January 12–16, 2016 Jack Charles V The Crown NAC English Theatre January 14–30, 2016 100 Years of Loss, Exhibition The Residential School System in Canada Legacy of Hope…
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Q & A: Algonquin Elder Annie Smith St-Georges and Metis André-Robert St-Georges
January 11, 2016Q. You’ve been welcoming NAC English Theatre audiences to traditional Algonquin Nation Territory since last season. How do you go about this? A. On opening nights, before the play begins, we greet people with a message of peace in a way that acknowledges our presence together on Indigenous…
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Indigenous Storytelling at the NAC
January 4, 2016As the New Year begins, the National Arts Centre is getting ready to showcase Indigenous storytelling and reconciliation on all its stages. In the context of recent news events – from the recent publication of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s final report, to the…
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A culinary tour de force
November 4, 2015NAC Executive Chef John Morris and his team know how to throw a party. During just over one hour at last September’s gala evening in support of arts education programs at the NAC, Chef Morris, three sous-chefs, 20 cooks and 50 servers prepared and served 1,500 plates of fine food – smoked…
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Creative Producer and Director Donna Feore
September 16, 2015Q. You are the Creative Producer/Director for two ground-breaking, multimedia works featuring the NAC Orchestra this season: Dear Life and I Lost my Talk. How would you describe these works? A. Dear Life is an autobiographical short story by Alice Munro. It’s a reflection on childhood and…
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Robert Lepage speaks about ‘Needles and Opium’
April 9, 2015Theatrical wizard Robert Lepage’s Needles and Opium arrives at the National Arts Centre through a unique collaboration between the NAC English Theatre, Théâtre français and Canada’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival. Originally created in 1991 when Lepage was Artistic Director of Théâtre…
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Meet the two-wheeled Associate Producer of NAC Presents
January 29, 2015Meet Xavier Forget. He’s the Associate Producer of French Programming for NAC Presents, the National Arts Centre’s Canadian music series. Since its creation in 2011, not only has Xavier programmed some of Canada’s biggest Francophone artists – Ariane Moffat, Pierre Lapointe, Jean Leloup –…
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Chef John Morris modernizes the classic surf n turf
January 21, 2015Feast your eyes on this modern version of a classic surf n turf. Here we have delectably tender filet of Quebec milk-fed veal from the Charlevoix region paired with plump prawns poached in lemon and garlic butter. Organic baby turnips, beets and kohlrabies sustainably farmed at Juniper…
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Xavier Forget and the “art” of presenting Canada’s most talented Francophone artists
January 17, 2015Xavier Forget, Associate Producer of French Programming – NAC Presents Q. It’s said that NAC Presents “shines a spotlight today on the music stars of tomorrow.” Seven of the top ten winners at the 2014 ADISQ awards gala—Quebec’s Grammys—had recently performed in the NAC Presents series. Do…