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A message about re-opening from Christopher Deacon
June 17, 2021As someone who has worked at the National Arts Centre for more than 30 years, it has been incredibly strange to have had our doors closed for such a long time. We have missed you, our audience and our donors, greatly. However, since the pandemic was first declared we have put our energies…
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Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards to become a CBC/Radio-Canada special
June 2, 2021The 2021 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards will be a one-hour television special on CBC/Radio-Canada. Produced by the NAC in partnership with the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation and Vérité Films, the special will celebrate the 2021 laureates of Canada’s highest…
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Honouring the lives of MMIWG2S+ on Red Dress Day
May 5, 2021Today (May 5th) is Red Dress Day, a day honouring the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA (Two-spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex and Asexual) people. The REDress Project was created by Jaime Black, a…
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Meet Germaine Chazou-Essindi, the NAC’s first Director of Diversity and Inclusion
May 3, 2021Christopher Deacon, President and CEO of the NAC just announced the appointment of Germaine Chazou-Essindi to the new position of Director of Diversity and Inclusion, effective May 3, 2021. Prior to joining the NAC, Germaine was the Director of National Policy, Programs and Partnerships at…
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A Pandemic Year: Behind the Scenes
March 12, 2021In March 2020, we abruptly closed the NAC’s doors to the public, as did stages and performance venues across the country and around the world. Our artistic team immediately asked themselves: How can we continue to bring art to Canadians, and support the performing arts, a sector in which so…
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Peter “Spike” Lyne: The Mentor Backstage
March 11, 2021We miss our colleagues. We miss being with them. We miss working with them. And we miss learning from them. That last part is critical, particularly if you work behind-the-scenes like Peter Lyne does. Known to just about everyone at the NAC as “Spike,” he’s the highly respected Technical…