Saturday, July 8th marks the opening of 83 ’til infinity, a brand new exhibition on at the Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG), which celebrates hip-hop in the Ottawa-Gatineau area.
This week in the Future of Ottawa series, we’re taking a deep dive into four of Ottawa’s most unique music communities—what they’re like now and where things are heading. Read on for a guest post from Kevin Bourne on the future of hip hop in Ottawa.
This weekend marks the end of the year’s shortest month, which has managed to feel like the longest. We’ve almost come full circle, as we approach a full year in this weird pandemic world. With restrictions eased, there are in person events on the docket this weekend, complemented by a variety of online events if you aren’t yet ready to get back out there. Without further ado, here’s the lowdown on what’s up this weekend in Ottawa.
This year, the cross-disciplinary arts conference is inviting folks from creative and entrepreneurial industries to converge on the problems facing Ottawa’s arts entrepreneurs today.
Street photography is a genre in transition. It can be traced back to Eugene Atget, recognized as the father of the genre, in mid-19th century Paris. Used as a way to capture design, his subjects were mainly buildings, streetscapes and gardens. Street photography would later undergo another change as the main subject became people. Traditionally […]
There has been a lot of debate lately about whether or not Ottawa is a great city. On one side of the coin you have Andrew Cohen with his usual Ottawa-bashing pieces, while on the other side you have Paul Wells of Maclean’s who doesn’t share Cohen’s views on the city. After calling Toronto home for […]
This is the final part in our week-long series The Future of Ottawa. In this post urban affairs analyst Kevin Bourne imagines what Ottawa will look like in the not so distant future. Twitter users: use hashtag #futott if you want to discuss this series on Twitter. Imagine a city where you hop on a train to meet […]
Ottawa is on the verge of becoming an extraordinary city. Over the next few years, billions of dollars will be spent on several projects that will transform our region. These initiatives include: ? The $2.1 billion Light Rail Transit (LRT) system currently under construction; ? The $110 million planned renovation of the National Arts Centre; ? The proposed phase II redevelopment […]
