Northern Scene in 2013!

Details to come.

Contact Information

General:  613-947-7000
General information:  info@prairiescene.ca
Website: www.prairiescene.ca / www.scenedesprairies.ca
Volunteer information: www.prairiescene.ca / www.scenedesprairies.ca

Now in its 25th year, the OCFF conference is the key event for Ontario’s folk, roots, and traditional music community. Spanning four days and three nights, it’s a long weekend programmed to the hilt with provocative speakers, educational seminars, engaging roundtable discussions, informal meetings, performer showcases, and the best jam sessions outside of the festival circuit, all combining to make the OCFF conference an essential and inspiring experience for over 850 attendees (including artistic directors, presenters, and provincial, national, and international industry organizations).

Event Highlights:

• Conference
• Panel discussions
• Gala dinner
• Showcases
• Silent auction
• Exhibit hall
• Annual General Meeting
• Mentoring sessions
• Workshops
• Networking

Festival Information:

General information: 613.560.5997 / 1.866.292.6233

General information email: info@ocff.ca

Location: Sheraton Fallsview Hotel, Niagara Falls, ON

On the Web: www.ocff.ca

Map:

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From September 19^th to 23rd, the nation’s capital will once again become the center of the animation universe.  The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) is the largest event of its kind in North America, a major film event attracting attendees from around the world. Film buffs, art lovers and cartoon fans won’t want to miss this year’s great line up of screenings taking place at ByTowne Cinema, National Gallery of Canada, Empire Theatres Rideau Centre and Arts Court Theatre.

Du 19 au 23 septembre, la capitale du pays deviendra le centre de l’univers de l’animation. Le Festival International de l’Animation d’Ottawa est un évènement prestigieux qui attire des spectateurs de partout dans le monde. Mordus de films, amateurs d’art et adeptes de dessins animés ne voudront surtout pas manquer la superbe programmation de cette année. Les projections auront lieu au Cinéma Bytowne, au Musée des beaux-arts, la Cour des Arts et Empire Theatres – Centre Rideau.

Event Highlights:

• Screenings
• Special presentations
• Workshops
• Parties
• Art exhibits
• Trade shows

Festival Information:

General information: 613.232.8769

General information email: info@animationfestival.ca

Location:

Bytowne Cinema, 325 Rideau St., Ottawa ON

National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Dr., Ottawa, ON

Empire Theatres Rideau Centre, 50 Rideau St., Ottawa, ON

Arts Court Theatre, 2 Daly Ave., Ottawa, ON

On the Web:

Website: www.animationfestival.ca

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/OttawaAnimationFest

Map:

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FREE Admission – Donations Gratefully Accepted

For a number of years now, the Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival has been providing families a unique opportunity to experience and celebrate the diverse Aboriginal cultures of the National Capital Region. Ongoing, lively and interactive programming will keep your family entertained throughout the day including extensive Family activities (pony rides, petting zoo, bouncy castles, stilt-walkers and more) Aboriginal artisan village (featuring interactive arts workshops, demonstrations and vendors) and our popular Main Stage featuring headliner Shane Yellowbird, Shy Anne Hovorka, Kaiva, Aboriginal Canada We’ve Got Talent! and ongoing cultural showcases throughout the day.

Festival Information:

General information: 613-261-3637

General information email: nadottawa@gmail.com

Locations:

Lebretton Flats Park (behind the War Museum)
Museum of Civilization
(Please consult the Summer Solstice website)

On the Web:

Website: www.aboriginalexperiences.com

The Magnetic North Theatre Festival is your chance to see fantastic productions from all across Canada, meet national and international presenters, and mingle with great Canadian artists. We bring some of the most exciting productions of English theatre on tour in Canada to your front door! Magnetic North is coming to Ottawa June 3-11, 2011! Check out the website for more Festival information.

Festival Information:

General information: 613.947.7000 ext 719 / 1.866.850.2787 ext 719
General information email: info@magneticnorthfestival.ca.
Location: National Arts Centre

On the Web:

Website: www.magneticnorthfestival.ca

Twitter: http://twitter.com/MNTF

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/search/?o=69&init=s%3Agroup&q=magnetic+north#/group.php?gid=2380941746&ref=search&sid=634980650.2504970043..1

CALLING ALL ARTISTS – Request for submissions and expressions of interest

Artists of every discipline – visual, media, multi-media, theatre, music, dance, and literary: you are all invited……..

The Children’s Climate Change Project (Year 2)

After a very successful launch year, the Children’s Climate Change Project will tackle a new and ambitious project in 2012 – focusing on Year 2 of “Forests of the Future” project as well as exploring a new theme: water. The Festival is inviting all artists in the region to think about getting involved in this innovative arts and education undertaking.

Produced by the Ottawa International Children’s Festival, the Children’s Climate Change Project is a mixed media art installation created by professional artists and students in schools across Ottawa. The exhibition will be installed at the Festival which runs from May 30 to June 3, 2012 at Lebreton Flats Park. In 2011 the exhibition was also erected in Ottawa City Hall for two weeks following the festival.

Read more on the OttawaStart website: Ottawa Children’s Festival Calling All Artists

The PLEIN AIR connects artists with new audiences by providing them access and approval to high pedestrian areas and landmark views to create works from sidewalk, boulevard and parkland spaces and promote them under Downtown Rideau’s “marketing umbrella”. In addition to connecting and promoting artists, the PLEIN AIR offers artists an opportunity to create, compete, exhibit and sell, while also raising funds for charity.

The artists are donating 15% from the sale of each of their works to the Ottawa Arts Court Foundation. The Foundation is a charity organization based out of Arts Court that manages, programs, and provides arts services to Ottawa’s local emerging and professional artists.

The public and Tulip Festival visitors can VIEW AND PURCHASE THE ARTWORK at a Meet the Artists Reception during the Exhibit & Sale this Saturday, May 22 from 12:00—5:00 p.m. at The Underpass, at the corner of Rideau Street and Colonel By Drive. Works range in sizes varying from 3”x5” to 20”x26” and prices from $30 to $650. They can be viewed on the BIA’s website  and from a link off the homepage www.downtownrideau.com. The Brian Downey Jazz Quartet will be performing and refreshments will be available. Over $2,000 in prize money will be awarded during a COMPETITION before the works go on sale at noon. 1st Place ($1,000) and 2nd Place ($750) will be selected by jury, with 3rd Place ($300—the People’s Choice Award) chosen by public vote between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Public vote ballots will be drawn at noon for a chance to WIN a Downtown Rideau gift basket valued at over $400.

Participating artists include: Barbara Nathan Marcus, Brian Seed, Shirley Moulton, Johanne Jutras-Pendleton, John Alexander Day and Brenda Beattie. “This has been a wonderful experience”, says artist Barbara Nathan Marcus, who had people wanting to buy her works-in-progress. “People stopping to watch me paint wanted to buy, but I told them to come back on Saturday, May 22 when they would be for sale”. When Peggy DuCharme, the BIA’s Executive Director heard about the interest to buy works, she encouraged the artists to pursue commissioned works when people inquired about buying — “offer to make them another one”, DuCharme suggested. “We don’t want the artists to loose a sale. On the other hand, we want to ensure we have artwork to sell on the 22nd”.

Arrested Development, Calexico, and the Jim Cuddy Band are just a few of the acts headlining at the 17th annual Ottawa Folk Festival this summer.

To be held at Britannia Park from Aug. 13-15, the festival has gone in a new direction with groups like Arrested Development, festival director Dylan Griffith said yesterday.

Read more: New direction for Ottawa Folk Festival 

More than one-third of Canada’s artists live in five of the largest cities, according to a report released today.

“It is critical that we create an environment here in Ottawa that keeps artists in the nation’s capital,” said Mayor Larry O’Brien. “We know that artists not only contribute to our quality of life, but also to the social and economic vitality of our city.”

“This report is invaluable as a benchmark for tracking the creative capacity of Ottawa’s neighbourhoods,” added Coun. Diane Deans, chair of the community and protective services committee. “We must work to ensure that Ottawa provides competitive per-capita support for arts and festivals as well as access to affordable studio space, inexpensive housing, galleries, rehearsal and performance spaces.

Full story available on the EMC website: Report shows statistics of Ottawa’s artists

OTTAWA — When Mother Courage and Her Children opens tonight at the Manitoba Theatre Centre it will bring a piece of the National Arts Centre to Winnipeg.

Next year, the National Arts Centre will bring pieces of Manitoba’s arts scene to Ottawa.

From April 26 to May 7, 2011, the NAC will stage Prairie Scene, a festival of more than 500 artists from Manitoba and Saskatchewan across every medium, from dancers and painters to musicians and writers.

It’s meant to keep the ‘national’ in the National Arts Centre.

“The NAC doesn’t want to be known just as great big building on the side of the Rideau Canal,” said Rosemary Thompson, NAC’s director of communications.

The National Arts Centre was created in 1966 to mark Canada’s 100th birthday. Its mandate is to develop performing arts in both the capital region and across the country.

Mother Courage is a co-production between the NAC and MTC, and is the second play this year performed by the newly revived NAC English Theatre Company.

Prairie Scene is the fifth in a series of scene festivals planned by the NAC on two-year intervals. The most recent version was B.C. Scene, held in the spring of 2009. It saw 600 artists from British Columbia visit Ottawa for 90 different events over 13 days. The Atlantic region, Alberta, and Quebec have also had their scenes in the sun, while Ontario and the Arctic are still to come.

Thompson, who joined the NAC recently after more than a decade as a CTV national reporter, said one of the things that drew her to the job was the opportunity to participate in events like Prairie Scene.

“Part of the fun of working here is it does have a national reach,” she said.

Thompson, who got her start in journalism as a cub reporter with CBC television in Winnipeg, even thinks her prairie connections may have helped her land the job.

“(The scenes) really are a chance to get to know the country through its artists,” said Heather Moore, executive director of Prairie Scene.

No artists have yet been confirmed. Moore said about one third of the programming will be decided by next fall.

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