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Ottawa School of Art Orleans Gallery – Holiday art show vernissage

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The Ottawa School of Art Orleans Gallery presents the annual Holiday art show and sale. This exhibition/fundraiser features works of art created by the students, instructors and alumni of the School. Paintings, sculpture, prints and much more will be available at reasonable prices. There’s something for everyone!

The funds raised from this sale go toward the Ottawa School of Art’s bursary programs to provide free art classes and materials, while maintaining our high standard of instruction.

You are invited to the opening reception on Saturday December 3, 2011 from 4 to 7pm at the Ottawa School of Art Orleans Gallery, located at the Shenkman Arts Centre.  Don’t miss the presentation of awards. Come share in the Holiday spirit at The Shenkman Art Centre, there will be art, music and crafts for kids.

Works will be on display from: November 24 – December 18, 2011

The Ottawa School of Art, Orleans campus, offers an Arts Fundamentals certificate as well as a
full range of community level art courses including drawing, painting, photography, new media,
sculpture, printmaking, and a wide variety of specialized short courses and workshops. Children’s
and Teens’ classes range from multi-media to cartooning, to sculpture and construction, drawing
and painting.

The Ottawa School of Art is located at 245 Centrum Blvd., in Orleans. Admission to the gallery is always free.

If you would like to know more about the event or the OSA feel free to email  osao.admin@artottawa.ca  or call 613-241-7471, you can also visit our website artottawa.ca

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Loud Lions after dark

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on Friday, October 7, 2011
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Photo courtesy of Sound of Lions.

Tonight, Sound of Lions is inauguring Après Dark  -  a series of live music events supporting Ottawa’s emerging musicians and other cutting-edge acts. The Shenkman Arts Centre’s black box studio will be transformed into a nightclub to play host to the event. I caught up with Sound of Lions lead singer, Whitney Delion and DJ/producer Christian Awad on the eve of Après Dark.

Apt613: You’ve been described as Ottawa’s best trip hop band and I thought trip hop was dead… Little did I know. How did you fall into the genre?

Whitney Delion: It happened completely naturally.  The band began with Christian and myself; we started making music that shared the mood and drive of a classic trip hop song and added our own spin to it. Once the other band members joined, the music took its own path. It helped that we all have similar taste in music and knew what kind of ‘feel’ we wanted to achieve.

Apt613: You’ve been around the Ottawa music scene for a few years now – but various members are involved in other projects - that’s correct? What’s everyone’s background?

Whitney: Christian rapped and produced beats in Toronto (Harbon Flux). Him and I began playing in a four-piece hip-hop group together (VBF) before starting Sound of Lions.  Marco’s played drums for a bunch of punk/rock bands (Uninspired Empire, Q Public), Joel has been in some really cool bands. Now he plays bass with us and Old Crowns. Will was always involved with music. He has played in various indie/rock groups and is a certified sound engineer (Oceans,Tara).

We have a good amount of breadth in our repertoire.  Everyone is able to draw from their experiences from previous bands. It definitely helps us create a unique sound.

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Après Dark at the Shenk

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on Monday, September 12, 2011
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Après Dark – a series of live music events supporting Ottawa’s emerging musicians and other cutting-edge acts – launches its first two lounge-style events this fall. On October 7th and November 10th the Shenkman Arts Centre’s black box studio will be transformed into a nightclub featuring local bands. Prominent radio personalities will host the events and interview the performers.

“Après Dark fills a void in Ottawa’s east end arts scene,” says Mike Taylor, Arts Centre Programmer. “Up and coming, quality acts are ready to come to this end of the 174. It’s not all happening downtown anymore, and Shenkman Arts Centre is the place that can make it happen.”

In order to accommodate a variety of genres and a nightclub setting, the events will be housed in the Centre’s Richcraft Theatre, which has alterable seating and staging. Seats will be limited and patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets in advance. Tickets for each event are $10 and can be purchased in person at Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum Blvd.  Doors open at 8 p.m. Licensed bar.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, November 10

Headliner: Mehdi Cayenne Club

Host: Charles-Étienne Renaud of CKOI 104,7 FM

“An inventive mix of folk, funk, and spoken word that pushes the pop envelope in both official languages.” – Lynn Saxberg, Ottawa Citizen

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Après Dark at the Shenk

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Francois
on Monday, September 12, 2011
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Après Dark – a series of live music events supporting Ottawa’s emerging musicians and other cutting-edge acts – launches its first two lounge-style events this fall. On October 7th and November 10th the Shenkman Arts Centre’s black box studio will be transformed into a nightclub featuring local bands. Prominent radio personalities will host the events and interview the performers.

“Après Dark fills a void in Ottawa’s east end arts scene,” says Mike Taylor, Arts Centre Programmer. “Up and coming, quality acts are ready to come to this end of the 174. It’s not all happening downtown anymore, and Shenkman Arts Centre is the place that can make it happen.”

In order to accommodate a variety of genres and a nightclub setting, the events will be housed in the Centre’s Richcraft Theatre, which has alterable seating and staging. Seats will be limited and patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets in advance. Tickets for each event are $10 and can be purchased in person at Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum Blvd.  Doors open at 8 p.m. Licensed bar.

Event Details

Date: Friday, October 7

Headliner: Sound of Lions

Host: Adam Saikaley of CBC Radio

“The five-piece band revives 90s trip-hop…parsing tangled inner conflict with a sweet mesh of beats, bass, record scratching and vintage samples. They know their history too. Their tune “Passive Attack” is a winking nod to the genre’s grand masters.” – Fateema Sayani, Ottawa Magazine

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Ottawa Storytellers – To Say Nothing of the Dog

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on Monday, September 12, 2011
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An exciting kind of storytelling – the kind that’s for adults! – is coming to Orleans this fall. To Say Nothing of the Dog is the first of three shows in the series ENCORE!, a reprise of Ottawa StoryTellers’ popular National Arts Centre 4th Stage Series. All shows take place at Orleans’ beautiful arts hub, the Shenkman Arts Centre.

Seasoned storytellers Jan Andrews and Mary Wiggin take the stage this September to share adventures and mishaps of the calamitous canine. The October and November shows feature other storytellers familiar to Ottawa’s arts community and highlight music and tales of folk legend Pete Seeger and the Celtic warrior queen Boudicca.

Tickets are $15. Discounted tickets are available for students and seniors ($12 each). Tickets are available at the door; cash only.

To Say Nothing of the Dog with storytellers Mary Wiggin and Jan Andrews

September 17, 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Shenkman Arts Centre, OYP Studio

245 Centrum Boulevard

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Orléans Art Studios Tour

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Francois
on Saturday, June 11, 2011
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Welcome to the Orleans Art Studios Tour website. The Tour is an annual showcase of Ottawa East End artists, which traditionally takes place in June. The Tour was founded in 2007 by Marielle Dubois, a local Orleans artist, with 19 artists and 9 studios.

The 2011 Tour will be held on 11-12 June and feature 24 artists at 12 studios in Orleans and Blackburn Hamlet. We will be happy to welcome everyone to the 2011 Tour next June. As in the past, visitors will have an oportunity to enter a draw for a $300 voucher towards a purchase of a piece of art from one of the tour artists.

For more information, check http://www.oast.ca/

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Orléans Festival/Festival d’Orléans

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on Thursday, June 2, 2011
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Arts, Chefs and Artisans!
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The second edition of FESTIVAL will take place on June 3rd and 4th in and around the Shenkman Arts Centre and Centrum Boulevard.
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The time has come for Orléans to gather and celebrate in its own backyard and to showcase its unique artistic personality and cultural diversity.
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The time has come to celebrate local Arts, Chefs and Artisans.
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All Activities & Performances are FREE!

For more information and the full schedule: www.orleansfestival.ca

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BLOOM by Karina Kraenzle at the OSA Gallery – Orléans

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Francois
on Saturday, May 28, 2011
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The Ottawa School of Art is proud to present BLOOM by Karina Kraenzle, an exhibit of astonishing images that attempt to explore the relationship between photography and sculpture – thereby giving form and expression to the ephemeral nature of both material and image. Photographs will be exhibited at the Ottawa School of Art Gallery at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Orleans from June 3 to July 6 with an opening reception on June 9 from 6 to 8 pm. Karina Kraenzle will also give a free workshop for children on June 4 from 10 am to 12 pm.

Karina Kraenzle is a local multimedia artist whose work explores the relationship of photography with other media. Her subject matter, more often than not, is photography itself – its relationship to time and memory, and its unique ability to construct certain fictions and uncertain truths. Her photographs have been exhibited across Canada and in the USA, and she has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants.

With the exhibition BLOOM, Karina’s goal was essentially to build “sculptures” that would be realized only in the act of making a photograph. Using a scanner as a camera, repeated small manipulations of ordinary materials – combined with a multitude of scans – is the process whereby each sculpture is “built”. Therefore the title “bloom” is a reference to both the organic quality of the image itself – as well as to its organic mode of production.

Exhibition from June 3 to July 6, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 9, 6 pm – 8 pm

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Apt613 candidates’ survey: Miscellaneous edition

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Karen
on Sunday, May 1, 2011
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Photo courtesy k-ideas on Flickr.

Survey by Natasha Mooney and Chris Connolly

Just as the campaigning enters its final few hours, our election correspondents Natasha Mooney and Chris Connolly have wound up their investigations into Ottawa’s candidates. Their questions – ranging from how to support Ottawa’s arts communities to favourite Beavertail flavour – were put to all major candidates in all ridings in and surrounding Ottawa.

This last installment of their reporting is made up of all of the ridings where just one candidate replied (despite multiple follow-ups to all candidates!). We’ve got answers from folks in Orleans, Nepean-Carleton, Carleton-Mississippi Mills, and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell. And despite very lovely emails from our correspondents, we didn’t get any response from candidates in Hull-Aylmer, Gatineau or Prescott. You’ll find all candidate names listed below, whether they responded or not.

Also, in case you’re wondering: those vote mobs that have been happening across the country? Our city’s universities and colleges joined in and got out to prove they’ll be heading to the polls tomorrow. Check out Carleton and UOttawa‘s videos – and if anyone happens to have footage of the Algonquin College mob, pass along the information!

And now for the final answers from our candidates:

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Moving Narratives vernissage

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Karen
on Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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MOVING NARRATIVES
PAINTINGS by REID MCLACHLAN – CHOREOGRAPHIES by TARA LUZ DANSE

opens at the Ottawa School of Art Gallery – Orleans Campus

The Ottawa School of Art is proud to present Moving Narratives – a unique collaboration of visual art (Reid McLachlan) and contemporary dance (Tara Luz Danse). Reid McLachlan‘s paintings will be exhibited in the Gallery of the Ottawa School of Art – Orleans Campus from March 7 to April 1, 2011. Tara Luz Danse will present 4 performances of two choreographies – Ludivine and Sariana – inspired by Reid McLachlan’s work, in the OSA Gallery space (see below for performance dates and times). The opening reception will be held on March 10 from 6 to 8pm, with a first performance of Tara Luz Danse’s choreographies at 7pm.

Reid McLachlan
For much of his career Reid McLachlan has explored the human condition in his art, looking at faith, fate, love and loss and their effects on relationships. This latest collaboration with Tara Luz Danse knocks down huge barriers to examine relationships in different ways and on larger scales. In this exhibition McLachlan continues to look inward probing these external themes but he is also compelled to turn his gaze and thoughts outward, into the gallery space and beyond in his search for greater understanding.

Tara Luz Danse
Tara Luz Danse, founded by Anik Bouvrette, is a contemporary danse company that explores the thematic of femininity, in particular women’s experiences. From Anik Bouvrette’s choreographies surges a strong feminine energy, a celebration of the yin. She also finds inspiration in other forms of art, and those feed her creative process. She strongly believes that this encounter of artists in dance with those of other disciplines has the potential to enhance the richness of a work as well as the public’s experience.

Moving Narratives
This unique collaboration of visual art and contemporary dance signals not only a union of disciplines but also a meeting of concepts that when blended create an enduring synergy of emotions and ideas. With the entrance of a dancer into the gallery space the declaration “here new relationships shall be forged” is made. The environment is changed, things shift and unexpected paths of communication are created. Not only are the narratives played out in dance and images but the two disciplines merge and meld during the performances stimulating a moving dialogue between not just the dancer and paintings, but also between the viewer, the dancer and images and finally, when concluded and the gallery emptied, among the paintings themselves.

Exhibition from March 7 – April 1, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, March 10, 6 pm – 8 pm

Paintings by: Reid McLachlan
Choreographies Sariana and Ludivine by Anik Bouvrette/Tara Luz Danse

Performed in the OSA – Orleans Gallery by Jacqueline Ethier and Julie Anne Ryan

March 10 at 7pm
March 19 at 3pm
March 26 at 7pm
March 27 at 3pm

Admission to the OSA’s gallery spaces is always free and all are welcome.

For more information about the Ottawa School of Art, please visit www.artottawa.ca

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