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ART CHILD ON CARLETON UNIVERISTY CAMPUS

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on Saturday, January 21, 2012
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The Art Child – Bully Bulldozer Fair will be taking place on Sunday, January, 29th, 2012 on Carleton University campus with the collaboration of our biggest supporter, CKCU FM 93.1.
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Carleton University, CKCU FM, and In Da Industry invite kids of all ages to the first Annual Art Child on Carleton University Campus (1125 Colonel by Drive, intersection of Bronson and Sunnyside) on Sunday, January 29, from 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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The workshops will begin at 12:00 pm and would focused strictly in encouraging creative outlets of expression through painting, poetry, design, music and other art forms. Special musical guests will include The Hornettes, Glebe Streets, The Riot Police, Jay Vado and Kiki Willams from Open Disclosure. The entertainment will continue with a list of powerful guests, such as Hyf The Gypsy Sun, renown local spoken word artist, and our panel of speakers including Maya from the School of Music, Grace Mayele, executive Director/ CEO Within Essence Productions, Mr. Big Stuff from Sound Syndicate and Ian from Compack Music. To conclude these festivities, retail stores Kania Couture, Slaysh, and clothing line Kamakacci Juice, will be presenting a special fashion show for the children. All festivities are FREE.
ABOUT ART CHILD:
Art Child, Ottawa, is an initiative started by In Da Industry in association with Bully Bulldozer Fair and CKCUFM. The ultimate goal has been to embrace and to empower children to do activities that are no longer readily available within the school system. Art Child’s mission is to provide children from all backgrounds with the guidance, support and the opportunities necessary to effectively develop their artistic expression, form positive social relationships and enhance academic performance.

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Travel Talk on Base Camp, Mt.Everst,

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Katie
on Monday, November 28, 2011
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Majestic Himalaya and Exotic Kathmandu..
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Join Shawn Dawson and CEO Michael Merrithew from Merit and Adventure Travel Company, while they talk about their Epic journey to Base Camp.  Shawn Dawson, founder of Dream Mountains who has climbed the 7 summits is trekking once more up to Base Camp and brining a small group of people to fascinate and understand his worldly visions and experience’s. Don’t miss this!
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Where: SAIL 175 Trainyards at 7pm
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100 Mile Gift Guide: Bloom Artisan Boutique

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on Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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In the spirit of support local, we’re bringing back the 100 Mile gift Guide, you’re guide to shopping Ottawa for xmas. Post and photos by Molly Campbell.

Lisa Wilson points out a colourful column of threads wrapped around a strand of hair on a young girl visiting her York Street shop on a Saturday afternoon.

“This is how it all started,” she says.

At the age of 19, Wilson began wrapping people’s hair in the Byward Market. Soon she was a part of the downtown vendor community, working hard to sell her own handmade goods.

That was more than 10 years ago. Today, after a few years at home to raise her two children, Wilson is returning to her artisan roots to open her first shop, Bloom Artisan Boutique.

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Les Ateliers: Bookbinding Workshop

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Katie
on Sunday, November 20, 2011
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This month, Les Ateliers will introduce you to the satisfaction of bookbinding.
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The history of the book reflects the history of civilization, so if you’ve always yearned to make books from scratch, join in and make some history of your own!
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This workshop will acquaint you with a variety of tools, materials, sewings and constructions fundamental to hand bookbinding. We’ll take you step-by-step through the process of hand sewing signatures to form a textblock and the making of a hardcover “case binding.” By the workshop’s end, you will have made for yourself (or a lucky friend or family member) a lovely, durable bound volume to use as a diary, sketchbook, photo album, or whatever else you like!
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Please bring your own ruler (metal preferred) and bone folder (available for purchase at your local craft supply store). All other materials will be provided. You are also welcome to bring your own decorative paper to use for the cover and back of your book (although we’ll also have some snazzy ones on hand). There will be a vegetarian potluck, so bring a delish dish to share!
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The workshop will take place on Sunday, November 27th from 1 – 4:30 pm and costs $10. The location is secret (but in Centretown!) – we recommend purchasing your ticket stat to ensure you’ll snag a spot. RSVP to this email (or lesateliersottawa@gmail.com) to reserve space.

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The Big Hairy Workshop at the Bytown Museum

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on Friday, November 18, 2011
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Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Photographs by Cindy Stelmackowich and James Hare.

Have you ever been to the Bytown Museum? Tucked away between Parliament Hill and the Chateau Laurier lies Ottawa’s oldest stone building, which houses an incredible team of historians, archivists, and curators.

Ottawa artist Cindy Stelmackowich has recently completed a residency with the Museum and her exhibition, Dearly Departed, is well-deserving of a visit. On Saturday afternoon Cindy will be giving an artist talk about her work at the Museum, as well as The Big Hairy Workshop (in collaboration with the Ottawa Art Gallery), where we are invited to learn Victorian techniques of flower-making. With hair. (Don’t worry! It’s synthetic.)

Cindy and I met recently to talk about Dearly Departed, the collection at the Bytown Museum, hair wreaths, and cultural practices surrounding mourning.

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A11yYOW Our Accessibility Unconference

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Katie
on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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Ottawa’s Accessibility Unconference will be on December 2nd, 2011.
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Encouraged by the grass roots potential of bringing folks together interested in improving accessibility, we’ve decided it’s time to have one here.
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Date: Friday, December 2, 2011. 8:30am to 4:15pm.
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Location: The City of Ottawa has generously given us space in City Hall
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Social Media: Follow @a11yYOW for more information.
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According to Wikipedia: “An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered on a theme or purpose.” . It is within this context that a Ottawa Accessibility Unconference will be held on Friday December 2th, 2011 with, as the name suggests, the theme centering on accessibility—namely, to information technology for people with disabilities.
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This will be Ottawa’s first IT accessibility unconference, bringing together developers, usability professionals, web designers, other IT professionals and end-users with disabilities together in an informal, non-threatening environment to learn from each other and to promote universal design of and accessibility to IT. As it is an unconference, speakers will be solicited on-site and the schedule will be built on the spot. What’s more, the event will be free of charge to participants.
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The idea of an accessibility unconference for Ottawa was first inspired by @Jennison and the work of people who have or are organizing unconferences on this subject around the world.
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We could have called it Accessibility Camp Ottawa, but decided to go for more of an unconference format.

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Cindy Stelmackowich: Dearly Departed Artist’s Talk and Big Hairy Workshop i

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Katie
on Thursday, November 10, 2011
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In her exhibition Dearly Departed, Cindy Stelmackowich examines the highly charged visual and written language of 19th century mourning, drawing her inspiration from historic objects in the Bytown Museum and her own artefact collection. Stelmackowich’s digital prints and sculpture reconsider and transform traditional objects such as Victorian hair wreaths, bereavement verse and women’s mourning clothing with one eye on the cult of grief and remembrance promoted by Queen Victoria and the other on critical, 21st century feminist discourse.
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Artist’s Talk
Saturday, November 19th, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Cindy Stelmackowich will give an ARTIST’S TALK
Free admission
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Included with your admission to the Bytown Museum

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Where Is the Canadian Publishing Industry Going?

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Katie
on Sunday, October 23, 2011
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Where is the Canadian publishing industry going? Are the best years behind us?
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Ten years ago, the Canadian publishing industry had no reason to envy publishing industries in other countries. Canadian literature and publishing houses were the finest jewels in Canada’s cultural life. During this period, Douglas Gibson published for McClelland & Stewart such authors as Alice Munro, Peter Gzowski, Jack Hodgins, James Houston, W.O. Mitchell and Mavis Gallant.  With the state of the economy and pressure from the European Union to relax ownership rules, what does the future hold for the Canadian publishing industry? These regulations, are they profitable and are they still appropriate in 2011?
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Douglas Gibson
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Douglas Gibson will share his thoughts on this topic. Mr. Gibson worked as an editor and publisher from 1968 until his retirement from McClelland & Stewart in 2009. He may also share his anecdotes pulled from his newly released book: Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the forum.
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The Thinking Culture series is presented by the Canadian Conference of the Arts in collaboration with the University of Ottawa’s Centre on Governance, Centre for Continuing Education and School of Political Studies. The forums will be flexible in format, taking the shape of interactive lectures, debates, panels and presentations with opportunities for audience participation and exchange. We would like to thank the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) for partnering in this forum.
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General public – $15
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CCA Members/University of Ottawa Faculty and Staff – $10
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Students* – $5
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*Valid student ID required
Registration
to register, please fill out the form below. Complete one form per person. Send completed forms by fax or mail with your payment to:
Louise Rochon
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Canadian Conference of the Arts
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406 – 130 Slater Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6E2
Fax: (613) 238-4849
Registration Form

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Les Ateliers :: CREATIVE, INC.

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Katie
on Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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Back by popular demand!!
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Consider yourself quite artistic or crafty but feel held back by not knowing how to turn your hobby into a job? This month Les Ateliers hosts a workshop on turning your creative endeavors into a full-fledged business.
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Krista Leben and Robin Sidhu, producers of several local craft shows including Urban Craft and Wed By Hand, have graciously agreed to share their expertise and experience with us. Robin and Krista are both incredibly passionate about creative entrepreneurship and have over 9 years of experience running small businesses.
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Krista is the principal owner and designer of Urbanite Jewelry while Robin owns Digital Glyptics, a web solutions company. Together they run The Craft Co-Op, Ottawa’s central craft resource; Wed By Hand, Ottawa’s indie wedding show; and most recently, the city’s newest (and only!) monthly artisan fair, Urban Craft.
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Robin and Krista are passionate about helping crafty entrepreneurs succeed and they’ll help you demystify the business of craft!
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In CREATIVE, INC. they’ll cover all the ins and outs of starting up a small business, from branding and marketing to connecting with other artisans, to successfully carving out a place for you and your business in the global crafting community.
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CREATIVE INC. will take place on Sunday, September 11th from 3 – 5 pm. We’re holding it in a secret location in Centretown, and will include a yummy vegetarian potluck as usual. For more information or to buy your ticket, visit lesateliers.bigcartel.com or email us at lesateliersottawa@gmail.com.

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Hacks and Hackers: reporters and data crunchers team up to create better journalism

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saxby
on Thursday, May 12, 2011
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Photo courtesy of Fieldtripp from the Apartment613 Flickr group

Hacks and Hackers is an international project designed to bring together those who write about stuff (the hacks) and those who work with data, numbers and information (the hackers). And tonight, Ottawa plays host to its very own Hacks and Hackers event at the James Street Pub.

The event will feature local hacker Alice Funke, the force behind Canadian election information portal Pundits’ Guide, and local hack Glen McGregor, who writes data-driven stories for the Ottawa Citizen. To find out more about the project and what they hope tonight’s event will accomplish, we interviewed two organizers: OpenFile hack Nick Taylor-Vaisey and hacker Alex Lougheed.

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