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HELP US RECOGNIZE THE UNSUNG HEROES
NOMINATE A VOLUNTEER IN OTTAWA’S TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
If a volunteer at an Ottawa event, festival or attraction goes out of their way to make your day, nominate them for the Stars of the City GOOD CITIZEN AWARD.
Simply visit the Stars of the City website to submit your nomination.
La Fondation Trillium de l’Ontario: Ça prend quoi pour transformer les opportunités économiques pour les jeunes de l’Ontario?
Comment penses-tu répondre à cette question?
Ça prend quoi pour transformer les opportunités économiques pour les jeunes de l’Ontario?
En ajoutant ta voix, tu fait parti d’une brève consultation élargie au cours de l’été. Tes idées aideront à orienter la FTO en ce qui concerne son travail auprès des jeunes de l’Ontario.
Non seulement tu auras la chance d’afficher ton idée, mais tu pourras naviguer et ajouter tes commentaires et voter pour tes favoris.
Ontario Trillium Foundation: What would it take to transform economic opportunities for Ontario youth?
How would you answer this question?
What would it take to transform economic opportunities for Ontario youth?
By adding your voice, you will be a part of a brief, but broad consultation over the summer. Your ideas will help to shape the future direction of OTF’s work benefiting Ontario’s youth.
Not only will you have the opportunity to post your own idea, you will be able to browse and comment on others and vote on your favourites.
Catch red- and-white fever for Canada Day
The Ottawa Citizen
Gear up for our nation’s July 1 birthday bash a couple days early with trivia games, tunes by Canadian artists and hot-off-the-grill barbecue treats on Tuesday when the Old Navy Show Your Canada Love Bus pulls into Ottawa.
The affordable clothing chain is taking its summer fashions on the road to spread patriotic fever and help raise money for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada.
The bus will be at Marion Dewar Plaza at Ottawa City Hall (110 Laurier Ave. West) from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m..
Read more: Catch red- and-white fever for Canada Day
SECRET GARDEN
Artist: Angelina McCormick
On View: June 18th – August 28th, 2010
Mon – Fri 10:00 -18:00, Sat 10:00-15:00
Secret Garden by Angelina McCormick is, on the surface, a collection of flower photographs spanning 5 years of obsessive imaging of dying and artificial flora. Assembled for the first time in the Red Wall Gallery, the resulting array of images is much more than a botanical collection.
This exhibition reveals how McCormick’s practice has evolved over time. The formal elements of her photographs have changed with each collection; passing through several film formats, camera types and production approaches to the most recent iconic 8” X 10” shot, large, clean images.
More significantly, the expressive content of her work has also evolved. Each successive grouping, although always of either real or artificial flora, conveys a different aspect of the artist’s search for self.
Early work tackles aging, sickness and also death as transformation. Images of this ultimate of changes from life to death are made by someone who describes herself as “ruined and living in both worlds”, and pose important questions about our perceptions of both states of being. McCormick’s Holga series is playful and made with deliberate misdirection. These photos of fake flowers cloak gallows humour in a seductive surface of candy colours and soft edges. The most recent works become larger and more iconic. Crisp and bright, they induce awe sometimes at odds with their unpretentious look at human relationships, personalities and archetypes.
The Red Wall Gallery is located in SPAO at 168 Dalhousie, at the corner of Bruyère, in the Byward Market.
For more info contact: 613.562.3824 or info@spao.ca
Copyright changes a mixed bag for visual artists
Ottawa, Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 – Visual artists are happy to see progress being made in the copyright bill tabled last week in parliament but have some concerns that the proposal to expand fair dealing to educational use in Bill C32 could be costly for visual artists. Bill C32 has also missed the opportunity to create a Resale Right as has been done in 56 other countries.
A handful of recommendations made by CARFAC, the national association of visual artists and their Quebec partner, RAAV, have been put forward in the bill including extending rights to photographers and portrait artists and the ratification of the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty.
CARFAC and RAAV are also happy to see that an exception has been added for parody and satire. The use of copyrighted work has long been an important part of the creative process for some artists and in certain cases the market has failed to meet their legitimate access needs.
Modifications à la Loi sur le droit d’auteur : du bon et du moins bon pour les artistes en arts visuels
Ottawa, mardi, le 8 juin 2010 – Les artistes en arts visuels sont heureux des progrès constatés dans le projet de loi C-32 modifiant la Loi sur le droit d’auteur déposé hier devant le Parlement; ils craignent toutefois que la proposition d’élargir le traitement équitable à l’utilisation des œuvres à des fins éducatives ne leur coûte cher. Le législateur a également raté l’occasion de créer, dans le cadre de ce projet de loi, un droit de suite, comme l’ont déjà fait 56 autres pays.
Quelques recommandations de l’Association nationale des artistes en arts visuels (CARFAC) et de son partenaire québécois, le Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV), ont été intégrées dans le projet de loi, notamment en ce qui a trait aux droits des photographes et des portraitistes, et à la ratification du Traité de l’Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle.
CARFAC et le RAAV sont également heureux de constater que la parodie et la satire ont été incluses parmi les exceptions. L’utilisation d’œuvres protégées par le droit d’auteur s’inscrit depuis longtemps dans le processus créatif de certains artistes; or, dans certaines situations, le marché n’a pas réussi à combler leurs besoins légitimes en matière d’accès.
How can we become a more sustainable, resilient and livable community?
Choosing Our Future is hosting a Sustainability Summit to listen, learn and be inspired by community leaders with ideas about how we can become a more sustainable, resilient and livable community.
Choosing our Future is an exciting initiative of the City of Ottawa, Ville de Gatineau and the National Capital Commission to prepare Canada’s Capital Region to be successful in meeting the challenges of the 21st century by integrating sustainability, resiliency and livability into all facets of the community.
Join the conversation! Sustainability Summit
Friday, June 11, 2010, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Jean Pigott Place
Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue
Sommet sur le développement durable le 11 juin 2010
Choisir notre avenir organise le Sommet sur le développement durable dans le but d’entendre des leaders de la communauté, d’apprendre et de s’inspirer de leurs idées afin de réaliser le développement durable, la résilience et la qualité de vie de notre communauté.
Choisir notre avenir est un projet emballant mis sur pied par la Ville d’Ottawa, la Ville de Gatineau et la Commission de la capitale nationale pour préparer la capitale du Canada à relever avec succès les défis du 21e siècle en intégrant le développement durable, l’adaptation et l’habitabilité à tous les aspects de la collectivité.
Joignez-vous aux discussions! Le Sommet sur le développement durable
Vendredi 11 juin 2010, de 8 h 30 à 16 h
Place Jean-Pigott
Hôtel de Ville d’Ottawa, 110, avenue Laurier
CALLING ALL OTTAWA ARTISTS AND PRODUCERS
CALLING ALL OTTAWA ARTISTS AND PRODUCERS
ARTS COURT SEEKS THREE NEW RESIDENT COMPANIES
Ottawa – A new sizzling summer season, the launch of an annual children’s holiday event, these are just some of the programming initiatives the team at Arts Court has put in place this past year. Now, the Ottawa Arts Court Foundation, the local charitable organization in charge of managing and operating the Arts Court Theatre and related performing arts spaces in the building, is providing another opportunity for professional arts producers in the city by opening up three new spaces for resident companies.
“It is part of our mandate to provide leading facilities, programs and services to Ottawa’s arts producers and presenters,” says Linda Balduzzi, Executive Director of the Ottawa Arts Court Foundation. “Providing a home and helping to nurture resident companies is another way to ensure a healthy and vibrant arts community in this city.”
Arts Court is Ottawa’s downtown centre for the performing, visual, literary and media arts and home to a critical mass of Ottawa’s local professional arts organizations. Twenty-five independent arts organizations call Arts Court home and thousands of artists host productions in its facilities each year.
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