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A Fountain of Career-Enhancing Opportunities for Artists
December 5, 2024A commitment to the future of the arts builds on decades of support. On November 28, Fred and Elizabeth Fountain extended their decades-long commitment to the performing arts with a $1 million dollar gift to the National Arts Centre Foundation. This gift addresses critical gaps in the…
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Community at the Centre: Amelita Armit
May 22, 2024Amelita Armit has built a life dedicated to experiencing and supporting the community around her. A former Albertan, Amelita was first introduced to the NAC in the 1970s when she traveled to Ottawa for a conference. Her late husband, Robert, who was an enthusiast in the performing arts…
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Patron, Advocate and Friend
May 27, 2021Over the years, Dr. Shail Verma has evolved from being an occasional attendee at National Arts Centre performances to a committed patron, generous donor, and a strong advocate for the arts. And the NAC could not be more pleased or grateful! Shail came to Ottawa with his family from…
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Conductor Xian Zhang scores with NAC Foundation Supporters
March 31, 2020On Wednesday, February 26, NAC Foundation supporters spent a wonderful morning listening to the NAC Orchestra in rehearsal with conductor Xian Zhang. The Orchestra performed and refined Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 with soloist George Li, Symphony No. 41 (known as “Jupiter”) and Qigang…
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Bryan Cheng Forges His Own Way with a Well-Loved Classic
February 17, 2020Attending open rehearsals is one of the many benefits donors receive when they support performance, creation and learning across Canada through the National Arts Centre Foundation. On the morning of Wednesday January 29, Ottawa-born and raised cellist Bryan Cheng returned to Southam Hall,…
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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…
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Message from the National Arts Centre Foundation CEO - April 2018
April 26, 2018It’s been almost a year since 150 volunteers cut the ribbon to our newly renovated National Arts Centre and we’re still basking in the afterglow. We can’t celebrate the success of our brilliant new building without thinking about our esteemed President and CEO Peter Herrndorf, who was…
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Simply Strings concert will leave a lasting impact on young musicians
April 26, 2018Marley Mullan, a grade 12 student at Canterbury High School in Ottawa, walks onto the stage at École secondaire publique De La Salle and sits down next to Yosuke Kawasaki, Concertmaster of the NAC Orchestra. The whole day has been a wonderful learning experience for Marley and everyone in…
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New and improved Hexagon Studio makes connections possible across Canada and all...
April 26, 2018The next time you’re at the NAC, take a few minutes to peek inside the window of the Hexagon Studio off of the Southam Hall lobby. “Studio activity is seasonal, but it’s safe to say there is usually one, if not two, very cool things happening in or around the studio every day,” says…
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JUNO nominations a true testament to the NAC’s role as a leader...
April 26, 2018On March 24, at the 47th JUNO Gala Dinner and Awards Presented by SOCAN, Jocelyn Morlock’s name is called. The Canadian composer has just won the JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year, for My Name is Amanda Todd, one of four new works that make up the highly acclaimed…
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Donor Profile: Donald and Margaret MacLeod
April 26, 2018Proud to support the arts that are an essential part of their lives. Donald and Margaret MacLeod have loved the performing arts for so long it’s difficult for them to describe where and how that love began. Instead, they recognize the impact the arts have made in their lives as they look…
