It’s festival season in the capital
TRACEY TONG, METRO OTTAWA
Ottawa is widely known as the city of festivals.
For residents looking for something to do on weekends without having to leave the city, the lineup doesn’t disappoint.
Read the full article on the Metro website to see a run down of a few of the many, many events that will be happening over the course of the next few months: It’s festival season in the capital
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
THE ICE HOG FAMILY HAS ARRIVED IN CANADA’S CAPITAL REGION — WINTERLUDE IS FAST APPROACHING!
The National Capital Commission (NCC) today welcomed the Ice Hog family, Winterlude’s official mascots, to Jacques-Cartier Park. Papa and Mama Ice Hog made an eye-catching entrance on snowshoes, followed by Nouma and Noumi on cross-country skis. The Ice Hogs were accompanied by youth from the Eastern Ontario and Outaouais Scouts.Each winter, the Ice Hogs travel from Canada’s Far North to the Capital Region, to meet the hundreds of thousands of visitors who come to participate in one of Canada’s greatest winter celebrations. The 32nd edition of Winterlude will take place from February 5 to 21, 2010.
Between now and the beginning of Winterlude, the Ice Hog family will settle into the region and get down to work helping with the programming for Winterlude 2010.
Official Sites
The NCC is also taking this opportunity to announce that Winterlude will be taking place at three official sites: the Rideau Canal Skateway and Confederation Park (Rogers Crystal Garden) in Ottawa, and Jacques-Cartier Park (Sun Life Snowflake Kingdom) in Gatineau. Other sites will also be used to hold special events.
Program of Activities
In January, the NCC will unveil the official program for the 32nd Winterlude and the 40th season of skating on the Rideau Canal Skateway. In the meantime, the NCC team will be busy putting the final touches on the program, which will highlight what makes the Canadian winter a fun and enriching experience: the outdoors, skating, sliding, snow and ice sculptures, and more.
Many of the changes to the 2010 edition of Winterlude will be motivated by our determination to embrace environmentally sound practices, and to transition toward a carbon-neutral Winterlude in 2012. In 2010, the NCC will measure the carbon footprint of events held on official Winterlude sites.
In this context of renewal and in keeping with the NCC’s environmental strategy, Snowbowl will be replaced by other programming elements. These will reflect the preference of visitors and participants to Winterlude for activities that are outdoor, family-oriented and participatory.
Winterlude is celebrating its 32nd anniversary from February 5 to 21, 2010. The success and longevity of Canada’s winter celebration are the direct result of the NCC’s efforts to ensure that programs and activities meet the expectations of both residents and visitors in Canada’s Capital Region.
For more information about Winterlude, please contact the NCC at 613-239-5000, 613-239-5090 (TTY), 1-800-465-1867 (toll-free) or 1-866-661-3530 (toll-free TTY), or visit the NCC’s website at www.canadascapital.gc.ca.
Winterlude 2010: The Urban Cozy Project : February 2010
From Spins & Needles
Inspired by urban art and craft interventions around the world, this February 2010, Spins & Needles + the National Capital Commission (NCC) will transform the Ottawa-Gatineau winter landscape with a large-scale public urban art intervention. This intervention will take place during the annual Winterlude festival, Canada’s capital region winter celebration and one of the largest winter festivals in the world.
The Winterlude Urban Cozy Project, presented by Spins & Needles, will remix warmth, cold, art, craft, music and the city. We’re inviting artists and the public from near and far to create a warm and whimsical urban environment during Winterlude in Canada’s capital city by adding various warm coverings, or cozies, wrapped around trees, lampposts, and other urban elements on festival grounds. The intervention also seeks to play with traditional images and conceptions associated with a country known around the world for it’s cold weather climate.
Details: Winterlude 2010: The Urban Cozy Project : February 2010
3i Summit: Imagine – Interact – Inspire
| November 26, 2010 | to | November 27, 2010 |
The 3i Summit 2010 draws on the life work, dreams and inspiration of dozens of Ottawa’s most dynamic innovators. Just like we did in the inaugural 3i Summit 2009, we will bring together a unique blend of world renowned architects, artists, Olympic athletes, poets, award winning professors, musical prodigies, homeless people, writers, youth activists. Each of them will be sharing, in 15 minute presentations, their passions, struggles and dreams for Ottawa in 2049 and one concrete action that can be taken to achieve that dream.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.601.6997
Contact information email: info@leadershipottawa.org
Location: Great Canadian Theatre Company
1233 Wellington St. W. (at Holland)
On the Web:
Website: 3isummit.ca
Facebook: www.facebook.com/#/3iSummit?ref=ts
Map:
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Drac is back: Dracula sequel sets original apart from today’s ’sparkly vampires’
Chris Lackner, Canwest News Service
Where: Ottawa International Writers Festival, St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts and Humanities, 314 St. Patrick St.
When: Oct. 25, 8:30 p.m.
While today’s vampires seem more intent on wining us than dining on us, something truly wicked this way comes. Again.
That seemingly toothless pretty-boy Edward Cullen better start baring his fangs, and True Blood’s Bill Compton may want to go elsewhere to do his brooding and down his synthesized blood: Drac is back — and with him, a reminder that true vampires are far more monster than man.
Just when the pop cultural craving for all-things-vamp seems like it couldn’t get anymore bloodthirsty, Dracula is returning in a sequel to Bram Stoker’s classic. Dracula: The Un-dead, co-written by Canadian Bram Stoker descendant Dacre Stoker, will be released today. Stoker reads later this month at the Ottawa International Writers Festival.
Read the full article on the Ottawa Citizen website: Drac is back
Writers Festival October Events Update
Two more great events coming up on Wednesday night at Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts and Humanities (314 Saint Patrick at Cumberland):1. Wednesday, October 14 @ 6:30 PM
THE CASE FOR GOD with KAREN ARMSTRONG
Hosted by Jim Creskey
2. Wednesday, October 14 @ 8:30 PM
NOW OR NEVER with TIM FLANNERY
Hosted by Jay Ingram
Then on Tuesday, October 20th at 8:00 PM, it’s the OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS AND LAMPMAN-SCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRY at Library and Archives Canada (395 Wellington Street). This is a free event and promises to be a wonderful evening.
After that, we’re back over to Saint Brigid’s for the Festival itself which runs from October 21 to the 27th. If you have yet to check out the schedule, it’s all online here. Some amazing talent will be participating so we hope to see you all week long!!
Tickets are available by phone at 613.562.1243, on our website or in person from Nicholas Hoare, Collected Works and Octopus Books.
Two quick notes:
1) Apostolos Doxiadis has had to cancel his appearance, so his event with Christain Bök on October 24th has been cancelled.
2) The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has been forced to cancel the book reading event with the authors of The Occupied Garden, due to the ongoing strike at the Canadian War Museum.
Teen’s animation no Disaster: Short film picked to appear at Ottawa, Edmonton festivals
ALYSSA JULIE | METRO CALGARY
We’ve all had our bad days.
Luckily, on the day he submitted his short film to Ottawa’s landmark animation festival, 14-year-old Calgarian and Westmount Charter school student Eric Hayes wasn’t having one – and yet, that’s just what his film is about.
He’s one of three Canadian high school students with work appearing at the Ottawa Animation Festival in October. The festival, which received 2,185 submissions, will also showcase new work by animation heavyweights, Aardman – the creators of Wallace and Gromit, and the inspiration behind Hayes’ work.
Read the story on the Metro Calgary website: Teen’s animation no Disaster
The Ottawa Festivals Event Calendar
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