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The NAC Foundation Community Helps Bring Up to Low to the National...
May 24, 2018On Thursday May 3, director Janet Irwin spoke to NAC Foundation supporters about her adaptation of Up to Low by novelist Brian Doyle and its journey to the NAC’s Babs Asper Theatre. Up to Low’s first audience attended a reading of the script at Brennan’s Hill Hotel in Low, Quebec in 2014.…
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Match Made in Southam Hall
May 7, 2018Nature might be taking its time in bringing us sunshine and flowers, but the NAC Orchestra, conductor Xian Zhang and pianist Louis Lortie were in full bloom during an open rehearsal and chat on the morning of April 18. National Arts Centre Foundation donors and over 200 students from…
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Five Minutes with Geoffrey Dollar
April 26, 2018A Q&A with a contemporary dance artist who is benefitting from masterclasses at the NAC Geoffrey Dollar, age 23, is a graduate from The School of Dance Contemporary Dance Diploma Programme. He recently attended the Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal masterclass with Kennedy Kraeling at the NAC.…
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English Theatre’s The Collaborations transports local play from a small space to...
April 26, 2018On a deep winter’s night, Sarah Garton Stanley, Associate Artistic Director of English Theatre, ventures out into the cold to hear a group of actors read an early draft of Up to Low, directed by Janet Irwin and based on the novel by Ottawa’s beloved Brian Doyle. “I’ve wanted to tell this…
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With immense gratitude, the NAC bids Peter Herrndorf a fond farewell
April 26, 2018The year was 1999. The National Arts Centre at the time was nothing like the national treasure it is today. The troubled organization had lost its sense of purpose. Program budgets had decreased, NAC Orchestra tours cut back, original productions scaled down. And then a man with a…