Northern Scene (Dates TBA)
| April 23, 2013 | to | May 5, 2013 |
Northern Scene in 2013!
Details to come.
Contact Information
General: 613-947-7000
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Ottawa International Writers Festival, Fall Edition
| October 20, 2011 | to | October 25, 2011 |
Canada’s Festival of Ideas since 1997. The Writers Festival celebrates the world’s best writing from home and abroad with a diverse program that presents interactions with leaders in the worlds of science, history, poetry, politics, spoken word, economics, drama, fiction, biography, music and more. Since 2004 the Festival has consisted of two annual Editions: Spring and Fall.
As reported in the Ottawa Xpress, “Basically, if you’ve thought about it, The Writers Festival has invited someone to discuss it.”
Festival Information:
General information: 613.562.1243
General information email: leslie@writersfestival.org
Location: Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank (at Sunnyside) and Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Ave (at Bank St.) with select events at other locations.
Tickets: http://writersfestival.org/tickets.html
On the Web:
Website: http://writersfestival.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ottawa.writersfest
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ottawawritersfestival
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/oiwf
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWritersFestival
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Writersfest
Discussion Forum: http://oiwf.squarespace.com
Map:
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Authors’ speeches wrap up writers fest
JOE LOFARO | METRO OTTAWA
Photo by Joe Lafaro for Metro Ottawa
The Ottawa International Writers Festival is wrapping up this week but not without the remaining speeches by a number of renowned authors.
William Gibson was at Mayfair Theatre yesterday giving a speech about Zero History, his latest novel in a sci-fi thriller trilogy.
Full Preview: Authors’ speeches wrap up writers fest
5 minutes with: Dan Gardner
STEVE COLLINS | METRO OTTAWA
Photo courtesy of Dan Gardner
Ottawa writer Dan Gardner’s new book, Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail — and Why We Believe Them Anyway, launched this month. He appears at the Ottawa International Writers Festival Sunday.
Is there a common thread between Future Babble and your last book, Risk?
There is some overlap because in the last chapter of Risk, I talk about how we are the safest and happiest people who’ve ever lived, but what about all these thunderous predictions of civilizational doom? That’s sort of where I pick up. Future Babble is about big-scale predictions, the sort of thing that you read in the newspaper or hear in television or read about on bestseller lists. It’s about what’s going to happen to the stock market, who’s going to win the election, what the world will look like in 2050.
Read the full interview: 5 minutes with: Dan Gardner
How Ken Dryden’s Canadian dream came true in Calgary
John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail
Ken Dryden wants to make a point, and Naheed Nenshi just proved it.
The former hockey player and current Liberal MP has a new book, Becoming Canada, in which Mr. Dryden argues, with some passion, in defence of what could be called a new nationalism, a new way of seeing this country that leaves behind the tired animosities of the past and embraces the young, modern, incredibly diverse country that Canada has become.
“If we have the wrong story, we get the wrong future,” Mr. Dryden maintained Wednesday at an appearance hosted by the Ottawa International Writers Festival. The old story of Canada is too much rooted in the English-French divide, in a parochial anti-Americanism, in a whining uncertainty about what this country is and what it should be.
All that is being blown away by what Mr. Dryden calls Canada’s new “multiculture.” While in Europe, leaders lament the failure of immigrants to integrate, Canada’s immigrants are reshaping this land in their own image, and they like what they see.
Full article: How Ken Dryden’s Canadian dream came true in Calgary
A night with J.S. Bach at the Writers Fest
Steven Mazey, The Ottawa Citizen
Zelenka, assistant principal cellist with the Toronto Symphony, has known Bach’s spellbinding music since she was a 10-year-old student in Toronto. She recorded the suites recently for the Marquis Classics label, and the disc was released in June to some glowing reviews.
At her Ottawa performance, presented by the Ottawa International Writers Festival, Zelenka will join Eric Siblin, a former pop music writer with the Montreal Gazette, who will read from his acclaimed book The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece.
Read the full story: A night with J.S. Bach at the Writers Fest
Ottawa International Writer’s Festival 2010
Peter @ Apt 613
Wednesday October 20th marks the kickoff of the Fall edition of the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival, still going strong in its 13th year. The festival, which runs from Oct. 20 – Oct. 26, has a new home this year, with the majority of events taking place at the Mayfair Theatre (1074 Bank St.).
This year’s lineup includes some great writers and thinkers, including former Member of Parliament and Hall of Fame goaltender Ken Dryden, Stanford professor and historian Ian Morris, Governor General Literary Award winner Kate Pullinger, and Giller Prize winner Richard B. Wright.
For tickets, call 613-562-1243 or visit the Writer’s Festival website. Festival passes are $75, $65 for students and seniors. Considering individual events are $15/$10, it’s a great deal. Apartment613 picks some of the highlights of this year’s festival after the jump.
Read the full preview on Apt 613: Ottawa International Writer’s Festival 2010
A winning combo: The Writers Festival finds a new home in Ottawa’s grand old neighbourhood theatre
Peter Simpson, The Ottawa Citizen
The Ottawa International Writers Festival has finally found a worthy home, and the home will be the better for it.
The 13-year-old festival has moved to the Mayfair Theatre on Bank Street in Old Ottawa South, and it’s precisely the sort of symbiotic relationship that is vital to the life of the city’s cultural sector. The festival gets a home that should be an improvement over its past homes — the St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts & Humanities, and Library & Archives Canada — and the Mayfair gets a premier client to help bring about the theatre’s rejuvenation.
Full story: A winning combo
Communicating with Homo sapiens
Robert Sibley, The Ottawa Citizen
Kevin Van Paassen, Canwest News Service
Jane Goodall well remembers when she discovered another world. Nearly 50 years ago, she was just beginning the study of African chimpanzees that would make her famous and redefine the way we view animals.
Goodall speaks Monday in Ottawa at a sold-out pre-festival event for the Ottawa Writers Festival as part of its global perspectives series. Goodall gained world-wide fame with a 1971 book, In the Shadow of Man, that detailed her years of studying chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park, and showed that chimpanzees use twigs and stones as tools, engage in rituals, and have feelings of love and grief — just like humans.
Full Article on the Ottawa Citizen website: Communicating with Homo sapiens
Angel Square is a seasonal favourite for the whole family – and it’s back!
The Ottawa International Children’s Festival is proud to present its second-annual staged reading of Brian Doyle’s Angel Square, adapted and directed by Ottawa writer-director Janet Irwin.
This special performance fundraiser for the Children’s Festival will take place on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at Dominion-Chalmers United Church (355 Cooper Street at O’Connor).
It’s Christmas 1945 and 12-year-old Tommy lives in Ottawa’s tough, multi-ethnic neighbourhood of Lowertown, where his best friend’s father has just been attacked. Adopting the role of “the Shadow,” his favourite radio persona, Tommy teams up with some friends to try and crack the case, leading them all around Ottawa and through Angel Square – a daily battleground for fights between Protestant, Catholic and Jewish kids. As we view the world through Tommy’s eyes, a small segment of Ottawa’s history is brought to life with a story about tolerance, acceptance and the difficulties of growing up.
The Children’s Festival is very excited to be working with acclaimed writer Brian Doyle and celebrated director Janet Irwin. Angel Square features actors Todd Duckworth, Mary Ellis, Andy Massingham, Sara McVie and Alix Sideris. Special guests include Alan Neal (host of All in a Day on CBC Radio One) and 23 students from the Drama Program at Canterbury High School, directed by the head of Canterbury’s Drama Department, Paul Griffin.
Come and enjoy a pre-show reception with refreshments and kid-friendly treats. As well, after the show, author Brian Doyle will be signing copies of Angel Square. This very special project is a fundraiser for the Children’s Festival, so please join us for a wonderful evening to celebrate the community and its history, and help us bring the magic, wonder and excitement of live performing arts to young people for many years to come.
Tickets can be purchased through the Festival Office by calling 613-241-0999, by visiting the office at 294 Albert Street, Suite 602 (Mon-Fri, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm), or online at ottawachildrensfestival.ca. Tickets are $25.00 for adults and $12.00 for children 14 and under.
