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Art’s Big Chance For A Grassroots Revolution
I first saw the name Culture Days last year on the federal government’s Canadian Heritage Website, and thought “Oh dear, another arts-and-culture festival that the Canada Council for the Art needs to...
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Ottawa’s Arts: From Ground Up
Ottawa's fertile artistic soil. Ottawa, dear Ottawa, the arts capital of Canada. If the future health of arts and culture depends on grassroots action, this city understands the process and is rippling...
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Festival X Highlights Culture Days In Ottawa
Press a button, any button. Photo by Otnaydur. By Mike Levin Here’s a quick quiz question. How many arts events are happening in Ottawa from September 24 – 26. I asked 10 people randomly on Wellington...
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Jonathan Hobin’s Playroom As Historical Metaphor
By Mike Levin In their book The Fourth Turning (1997), William Strauss and Neil Howe see recorded human history as a very long series of four continually repeating 20-year cycles – generations – with...
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OSSD Flies The Red Kite
Amanda Lewis. Photo by Mike Levin By Mike Levin It’s five years since Amanda Lewis moved the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama to Westboro, and the performance institution is about to get government...
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Veronica’s Three-Day Arts Quest
Search For The Holy Grail - Italian tapestry. Courtesy of Wikimedia. By Mike Levin An acquaintance of mine has a niece named Veronica. The young lady is 27 years old. She didn’t go to Canterbury High...
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How Culture Days Can Make You Cool
By Mike Levin Last year a young lady named Veronica told me she was going to try and attend at least 100 of the 130 Culture Days events in Ottawa. She only made it to 68 before she ran out of change...
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Art Summits And The Fear Of God
You'd be smiling too if you earned your living as a culture vulture. Courtesy of the World Summit on Arts and Culture By Mike Levin Here’s two interesting takes on the creative theme of collaboration:...
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Why Armchair Leftists Are Defaming Capitalism And Other Arts Issues
Entrepreneurialism is the new black for all artists living in this millennium. Even when Andy Warhol was taking the piss out of this exact concept 50 years ago, it isn’t likely he ever thought of a...
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