Culture
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Sculpture set to trump theatre at Nepean Point?
One of Ottawa’s outdoor performance spaces, the Astrolabe Theatre—a legacy of the 1967 Centennial celebrations—is slated for demolition by the NCC...
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Lunar New Year in Chinatown
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”spacing” id=”72157625992763676″] ____________________ The Somerset Street Chinatown BIA staged its...
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Opinion: downtown library vital to entire region
Last month the Ottawa Citizen ran an opinion piece by Mark Sutcliffe about what he alleges is a lack of a “business case” to justify the construction of a...
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Street names: the entertainers
Call this a work in progress. Also, expect this category to be revisited. With those two caveats out of the way, we’ll begin with this thought: In...
By Dwight Williams -
Rebranding Ottawa
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By Spacing -
Guerrilla takeover planned for today
. Anytime after 3.00 this afternoon, the War Memorial, Parliament Hill and the Byword Market are the locations likely to be infiltrated by a band of...
By Spacing -
The Wellington Marbles
Spacing Ottawa photo contributor Justin Van Leeuwen was on hand this week as the City installed 18 sculptures along Wellington Street West, from Garland...
By Spacing -
Sacred space, secular use: downtown churches turn to the arts
This summer Chamberfest once again highlighted churches as fantastic downtown arts venues. Re-imagining or re-purposing “the church” is happening a lot...
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Preview: Jane’s Walk this weekend
With 35 captivating neighbourhood-based walks on the program, this year’s edition of Jane’s Walk promises to be the most deliciously diverse...
By Evan Thornton -
Turn left at the teapot: corporate sculpture in Ottawa
In the dense forest of corporate buildings in downtown Ottawa, wouldn’t it be nice to distinguish one corner from another? Too many offer only the...
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The laneways of West Wellington
This week the Citizen’s David Reevely ran an excellent post on Ottawa’s neglected laneway system, which has largely been allowed to disappear...
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The Line of Parting: Ottawa’s Two Sublimes
You might remember the ink spilled several months ago over Maria Cook’s Ottawa Citizen article revealing plans for a 10-storey Roxy Paine sculpture...
By Daniel Velarde