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NAC Superfan: Ken McKinlay
July 17, 2020Ken McKinlay has been coming to concerts at the National Arts Centre for more than 28 years. He sees at least 30 performances each season. Ken is the NAC Orchestra’s number one fan. “I’m missing the Orchestra like crazy,” says Ken, who last saw the NACO perform Mozart on February 26,…
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NAC Superfan: Diane Obam Dallaire
June 26, 2020Diane Obam Dallaire and her seven-year-old son Samuel were recently walking in downtown Ottawa when they caught sight of the National Art Centre’s three-storey digital Kipnes Lantern. Months after the building had closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she felt a pang of sadness. “I miss…
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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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Five Minutes with Lara Deutsch
January 9, 2020Flutist Lara Deutsch performs regularly with the NAC Orchestra and with orchestras across the country. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Grand Prize of the 2014 National Arts Centre Orchestra Bursary Competition, and is an alumna of the NAC’s Young Artists Program. Lara…
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Zones Théâtrales and Indigenous Theatre Join Forces
January 9, 2020Every two years, the National Arts Centre and venues throughout the National Capital Region celebrate French theatre with Francophone communities across Canada during Zones Théâtrales. Under the artistic direction of Gilles Poulin-Denis, Zones Théâtrales took place from September 9 to 14.…
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Ahead by a Century: Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha Re-imagined
January 9, 2020Created in 1911 by Scott Joplin, Treemonisha is one of the few surviving live performance pieces about the immediate post-slavery era written by a Black person who actually lived through it. More than a century later, this first all-African American opera is being reinvented thanks to help…
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Sharing the Gift of Live Performance
January 9, 2020For a decade, the NAC has helped thousands of children and their families experience the magic of live performance through the Share the Spirit program. Presented by Sun Life Financial, Share the Spirit provides free tickets to vulnerable populations in the National Capital Region through…
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Behind the Scenes with Boston Ballet
November 29, 2019Attending open rehearsals is one of the many perks donors receive when they support performance, creation and learning across Canada through the National Arts Centre Foundation. During the first snowfall of the season on November 7, NAC Foundation supporters spent a wonderful afternoon…
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Donor Open Rehearsal: Inside the Creation of a New Composition
October 9, 2019Attending 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. NAC Foundation supporters spent a wonderful September morning at a rehearsal of NAC Indigenous Theatre and…
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A Landmark Celebration: The NAC Orchestra 50th Anniversary European Tour
October 4, 2019This past spring, your NAC Orchestra performed under Music Director Alexander Shelley to captivated audiences across Europe. CROSSINGS featured six Canadian composers and five Canadian soloists and offered more than 60 learning and engagement activities, none of which would have been…
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Five Minutes with Margaret Grenier
October 4, 2019Margaret Grenier, Executive and Artistic Director for the Dancers of Damelahamid, an Indigenous dance company from the Northwest Coast of British Columbia, presented Mînowin in the Azrieli Studio as part of the Mòshkamo Indigenous Arts Festival. Margaret choreographed and performed in…
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Mòshkamo: The beginning of a new era
October 4, 2019On Saturday September 14 hundreds of people gathered by the Rideau Canal just outside of the National Arts Centre to witness a great, long awaited moment. On this beautiful day, the audiences, artists and Indigenous peoples across Canada and around the world officially welcomed Indigenous…
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Where the Blood Mixes: A Journey to the Heart
October 4, 2019The first-ever performance of Kevin Loring’s debut play Where the Blood Mixes was in his hometown of Lytton, British Columbia in 2008. It was a staged reading of an earlier draft of the script—part of a British Columbian workshop tour by the play’s producers, the Playhouse Theatre Company…
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A Glimpse Behind the Creation of Joni Mitchell’s The Fiddle and the...
June 5, 2019On Wednesday, May 15, NAC Foundation supporters spent an inspiring afternoon watching Alberta Ballet dancers engage in a working rehearsal of Act 1 of Joni Mitchell’s The Fiddle and the Drum, which would open that evening in the NAC’s Southam Hall. Prior to the rehearsal, donors were…
