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OH, ANNE! puts four women in charge of Avonlea
Four women populate Avonlea in OH, ANNE!, Bridget Ryan's musical adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.
First Métis Man of Odesa returns to the stage in Calgary
Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova met at a theatre workshop in Kyiv while MacKenzie was working as dramaturge on Lianna Makuch’s Canadian play Barvinok.
R.F. Kuang’s Canadian book tour runs through festivals and independent bookstores
R.F. Kuang returns to the Vancouver Writers Fest Saturday night with a sold-out event for her new novel, Taipei Story, her third appearance with the festival since 2023 and one of five Canadian dates on the book’s wider international tour.
OIAF at 50: More than two dozen of its Canadian favourites come from the NFB
When programmers at the Ottawa International Animation Festival began looking through the Canadian films screened during the festival's first 50 years, they had more than 700 to consider and eventually chose 50.
Free to apply, thousands to exhibit: the economics of Artist Project 2027
An independent artist accepted into Toronto’s Artist Project next spring can take the smallest available booth for $3,250 before HST.
OSAC tests youth board role as Saskatchewan arts councils plan for succession
When the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils holds its annual general meeting in Saskatoon on Oct. 17, its board-election agenda will include a new one-year youth representative position.
Music Day in Canada is trying to build a national event without creating one national music scene
Music Day in Canada returns Saturday, Sept. 26, with more than 60 Canadian artists appearing at more than 20 events in 20 cities, but three years into the project, the national event is becoming increasingly local.
From Ice Cove to Snooks Arm: Netflix’s New Canadian Screen Geography
Ice Cove doesn't exist, although much of what viewers see around it does. North of North is set in a fictional Nunavut community, but the Netflix comedy was filmed in Iqaluit, where local residents appeared on screen, worked with the production and took part in a mentorship program that provided experience in television production.
On this day in 1976: Joyce Wieland’s The Far Shore was released
Library and Archives Canada records Sept. 24, 1976 as the release date for Joyce Wieland's The Far Shore, a 105-minute Canadian feature that took a filmmaker known for experimental cinema into period melodrama.
Tai Amy Grauman brings Callihoo family history into Western Canadian classrooms
In Tai Amy Grauman’s Where Have All the Buffalo Gone?, two Métis souls and Buffalo encounter one another across seven periods of history.
Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley turns a family cat into an Anishinaabemowin language book
Mooz is a cat with the name of a moose and, at least on the page, the habits of several other animals.
Iannicko N’Doua spent 15 years turning a journey to Côte d’Ivoire into Neige sur Abidjan
While studying theatre in Quebec, Iannicko N’Doua travelled to Côte d’Ivoire for the first time to find his father. Waiting there was a part of his family life that had largely existed at a distance.
Canadian comedians renew push for formal recognition in Canada’s arts funding system
In 2018, comedian Sandra Battaglini initiated a House of Commons petition asking the federal government to designate stand-up comedy an art form and make public arts funding available to comedians.
At 75, the National Ballet of Canada puts its own history back onstage
When John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet opens the National Ballet of Canada’s 75th-anniversary season on Oct. 31, the company will be returning to a ballet that has followed it through much of its history.
David Suzuki was telling his life through music decades before his NAC Playlist
When David Suzuki was asked to choose music for an Australian radio program in the 1990s, he started with Beethoven.
Canadian creature features: Why Below is interesting
In Netflix’s Below, fisherman Calvin Penney lives in Snooks Arm, Newfoundland, where the local way of life is changing and an unidentified creature has begun terrorizing the community from the water.
Kamloops-raised Chelsea Isenor named executive director of Western Canada Theatre
Chelsea Isenor first encountered professional theatre in Kamloops as an audience member at Western Canada Theatre. On Nov. 2, she will return to the company as its executive director.
Megan Follows joins Netflix’s This Summer Will Be Different, another P.E.I. story four decades after Anne of Green Gables
Four decades after Megan Follows starred as Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables, Netflix has cast her in another screen story tied to Prince Edward Island.
North Bay-shot Foreign Tongue returns to Northern Ontario for Cinéfest Sudbury
Boris Mojsovski’s Foreign Tongue spent three weeks filming in North Bay early last year.
Northern Ontario-shot werewolf western Last Moon heads to Cinéfest Sudbury gala
Brandon D. Cox’s first feature, Last Moon, arrives at Cinéfest Sudbury on Sept. 24 after filming in Powassan, Ontario, last summer. The period werewolf Western has been selected for the festival’s Thursday gala presentation.