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Rae Spoon plans to busta move at Q Bounce, Ottawa’s newest underground dance party

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on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Photo courtesy of QBounce.

Post by Noreen Fagan

Caitlyn Pascal is a woman who is seriously tapped into what Ottawa’s queer community wants, needs and loves.

Pascal is a music geek, an arts promoter and the maven behind the Divergence Movie Nights, a monthly event  showcasing LGBTQ documentaries. She is also the instigator of Pitch Black, an experimental music evening with live musicians where Pascal, a.k.a DJ CPI, performs live and spins edgy tunes for music lovers alongside Jairus (ad-ver-sary)..

Pascal’s latest metamorphosis is as the creator of Q Bounce, an alternative dance party that debuts on Saturday, Jan. 28 at SAW Gallery. Q Bounce is also Pascal’s chance to play what she is most passionate about – underground bass music.

“Underground music is a catch all that is often used to describe a lot of contemporary electronic music,” says Pascal. “Bounce, booty, jungle, breakbeats, deep house, and post-dubstep.”

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Last week on Jim Watson’s facebook page…

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Katie
on Monday, January 23, 2012
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So much theatre: Blood on the Moon

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Andrew Snowdon
on Sunday, January 22, 2012
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Photo courtesy of Geekgirly on Flickr.

Take your familiar theatre review column, sprinkle in some academic insights and a good dose of industry knowledge, and you’ve got So Much Theatre: a semi-regular feature by Apartment613′s Andrew Snowdon. Follow Andrew on twitter: he’s @snobiwan.

People still talk about Blood on the Moon nearly thirteen years after its inaugural run as a Fringe show (and its subsequent three summers at the National Arts Centre, stint in Ireland, and TV movie). Once you’ve seen it live, as this remount at the Great Canadian Theatre Company permits us to do, you understand exactly why.
In the spring of 1868, the nascent Dominion of Canada was rocked by a brutal murder: the apparent assassination of prominent politician Thomas D’Arcy McGee.  James Patrick Whelan, a fellow Irishman from Montréal, was quickly tried, convicted, and publicly hanged—the last public execution in Canada, in fact—for the crime.  That’s all most people know of the story, if indeed they know anything at all (I imagine there’s a segment of the population that is only aware of D’Arcy McGee insofar as there is a local chain of Irish-style pubs that bear his name.).
In Blood on the Moon, Pierre Brault offers a different, much deeper, examination of the circumstances surrounding the only federal political assassination in Canada’s past.  Taking on the persona of Whelan himself, Brault not only presents the events of the trial but delves into Whelan’s own experiences and emotions.  Although Whelan maintains his own innocence to the bitter end, by telling the story from his perspective Brault manages to highlight the uncertainty surrounding his guilt.

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The best of #ShitOttawansSay

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Katie
on Friday, January 20, 2012
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Photo courtesy of allthecolors from the Apt613 flickr group

The kids are all going wild for Shit Girls Say, the latest meme to start replicating itself across the net. Yesterday the popular series of YouTube videos spawned yet another iteration, this time on twitter. The #ShitOttawansSay hashtag hit the Ottawa twitterverse a big way, launching what was probably the largest inside joke sharing fest the city has ever seen.

Open File has collected and organized many of the tweets, which you can see here, but we couldn’t resist sharing some of our favourite ones here on the site. The following are Apartment613′s picks for the best of #ShitOttawansSay.

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Gatineau Winter Beer Festival!

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apartment613
on Thursday, January 19, 2012
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For the first time ever the Gatineau Beer Festival is happening in Jan.!

Quebec artisanal and craft beer, beer and food pairings, food and beer conferences, more beer, music, bonfires, an ice bar, DJs, beer stein balancing contests, Mexican tapas, and dog sleigh rides.

At the Chateau Cartier in Gatineau beginning at 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. Fri., Jan., 20. and Sat. Jan. 21.

See: http://www.festibieredegatineau.ca/winter-beerfest/

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Ottawa Winter Jazzfest!

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on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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You had better dress warmly because the forecast for February in the Capital just got a whole lot cooler. That’s because the Ottawa Jazz Festival, in partnership with theNational Capital Commission and Winterlude, launches the first annual Winter Jazzfest which blows through town February 2 – 4 in venues throughout downtown Ottawa. The inaugural event is piled with jazz artists of international acclaim as well a showcase of the best local talent on offer including; Oliver Jones, the Quinsin Nachoff Quartet, the Ingrid and Christine Jensen Quartet, Rémi Bolduc Jazz Ensemble, Megan Jerome with Renée Yoxon and many more.

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The second annual Big Sexy O-Town Survey: Sex in the Capital City

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Katie
on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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Photo courtesy of TaniaSaiz on Flickr.

Trudeau once famously quipped that “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation”. Of course, he never said anything about bloggers. Once again Apartment613 and Venus Envy are sticking our noses in where they don’t belong. The second annual Big Sexy O-Town Survey will get the intimate details of what really goes on in Ottawa’s bedrooms, bars and bordellos. Our goal: to satisfy our own voyeuristic streak to provide a safe and serious place to discuss sexual issues of great import, such as what’s your favourite Ottawa burlesque troupe and whether you’ve ever made out on Parliament Hill.

Last year, over 700 people completed the survey (you can see the results here and here). This year’s survey, authored once again by our Dirty Laundry columnist, the incomparable Nadine Thornhill, will focus on the sexy places of the NCC: the bars, parties, restaurants and landmarks that put that little extra swing in your step. The survey’s 22 questions cover four key areas: Pleasurable Places (where you go to get jiggy in the city), Getting to Know You (places to meet up or make out); Sexy Shopping (where to you go for that special butt plug) and Provoking Personalities (crush-worthy city councillors and more).

The survey will remain open until Tuesday, January 31 and the results will be released on Apartment613 on February 14 (aka Valentine’s Day). No one will know who you are (not even us!), so be as honest as you like.

Fill out the entire survey for a chance to win an excellent prize courtesy of Venus Envy – a top notch Lelo sex toy worth over $100.

Disclaimer: Apartment613’s Big Sexy O-Town survey is intended for kicks and giggles. No fancy statistical techniques were harmed in the creation of this survey.

(Click here to take the survey if you have trouble with the embedded version).

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CANDELA 2012

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diane
on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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CANDELA : 2012 OTTAWA LIGHT ART SHOW

 

Tuesday January 31st, 2012 to Sunday February 5th, 2012

 

Candela is now in its fifth year of installations by emerging and professional artists exploring electric light as an artistic medium.
Candela’s primary mandate is to increase the general awareness and interest in light and lighting design.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/candelaart



 

 

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Wurm Gallery presents Peter Guindon – More Liquidatio​n Landscapes​

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diane
on Monday, January 16, 2012
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Wurm Gallery | Invisible Cinema presents:

PETER GUINDON More Liquidation Landscapes

One Month Exhibit: January 27th – February 22nd, 2012

Opening Night: Friday January 27th, 2012 8pm
About the show:

“My current images conjure up themes of glorified warfare in pop culture, the social dominance of the mesomorphic male, assorted gender role conflicts, general distrust amongst people, a caste system in regards to love, nepotism in politics and the workplace and a general feeling of natural selection in spite of hollow promises of equality… but it should be noted that in the end, these images also portray the artist’s new acceptance and comfort in his mediocrity.”

About Peter Guindon:

Before perverting the world in the pages of Cinema Sewer, Peter grew up in idyllic suburban Ottawa, acquired a BFA at the University of Windsor followed by an animation certificate at Algonquin. He spent the early to mid 2000s working as a professional animator until the Canadian 2D animation industry was gutted by lack of funding and slave labour overseas, and then resorted to menial labour in order to make ends meet. He wallowed in self-pity for a couple of years until he decided to re-invent his life. In 2010 he packed his belongings and moved to Asia to teach whilst trying to find fresh opportunities to showcase his artwork. He is taking in a new culture learning a new language and meeting new people. Peter Guindon heartily recommends stark lifestyle and geographical shifts for those failing to realize their passion in their current abyss. As for his work, Peter says, “I am inspired by the artwork of Bosch, Breughel, and George Tooker. I am also visually inspired by 1920s fashion, medieval architecture and regalia, as well as modern day smog-filled skies and devastated landscapes. I believe my works offer glimpses of all of these influences to a certain degree.”

For more information or press, please contact:

Wurm Gallery | Invisible Cinema
319 Lisgar St.
Ottawa, ON
K2P 0E1 Canada
(613) 237-0769
info@invisiblecinema.ca
www.invisiblecinema.ca

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B.A. Johnston and the Endless Highway of Canadian Music

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Katie
on Friday, January 13, 2012
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Photo courtesy of B.A. Johnston.

By Alessandro Marcon

Both the best and worst that can be said of troubadour B.A. Johnston is that he sweats hard for his fans. Few entertainers are so overtly abrasive, disgusting and belligerently shirtless and yet, paradoxically, so charismatic, hardworking and flat out entertaining. Think modern day performance humour: wow this is awkward, mixed with well delivered one-timers, and unabashedly, literally right-in-your-face engagement.

B.A. Johnston works in a similar strain to Ottawa’s own Remi Royale but writes and sings his own songs, which he plays on acoustic guitar or sings over pre-programmed Casio keyboard compositions. The topics are wide ranging: reflections on personal failure, stealing from work, chasing down ever-elusive love, and dreams of having a deep fryer in his bedroom. He also sings about his love for Hamilton and is willing to take shots at just about anything from “Double-Coupon Day” at McDonalds to Cornwall, Ontario. In comparison to some horribly serious and pretentious performers today, Johnston’s verbal and physical self-deprecation, though bilious and saline, is unbelievably refreshing.

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