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Ottawa Arts Newsletter: Fling Yourself Into A Summer of Arts!

July 5, 2011 , 0 Sterling Lynch

OTTAWA ARTS NEWSLETTER

Located at 2728 Howe Street, the cozy Brittania Art Gallery features original Canadian art and custom framing. PHOTO: J. Paskovich.

YOUR NEXT TWO WEEKS!

A Company of Fools’ Torchlight Shakespeare series launched Antony and Cleopatra this very evening in Strathcona Park. It runs at a variety of locations around the city until Aug 20.

At le Théâtre de l’Île, Michel Marc Bouchard’s Les Papillons de nuit opens July 6.

Patrick John Mills opens Pretty Ugly Art on July 7, which also happens to be the July edition of Wellington West’s 1st Thursdays Arts Walk.

The St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival start’s its summer with Twelfth Night on July 9.

The first Summer edition of Capital Slam also comes your way on July 9.

Downtown Rideau’s Summer Fling kicks off the summer loving with Secret’s of a Soccer Mom on July 13.

The Urban Legends poetry slam moves to a larger stage at the GCTC for its finals on July 15.

Cube Gallery’s latest exhibition, “Nuit Noire: A Festival of the Night Sky”, continues until July 30. Mary Ann Camps, “Light Pollution,” is one of the works in the exhibition (pictured left).

If the big summer festivals are your thang, be sure to get all the details at OttawaFestivals.ca.

Apartment613 (or as I prefer to call them: team awesome), a local not-for-profit with the mission of promoting the local arts and culture scene, is running an awesome T-shirt design contest. The deadline is July 30.

If you’d like to sharpen your acting chops over the summer months, check out the summer courses on offer at OSSD.

UPCOMING!

Good news from the Gladstone! There will be a Fall 2011 season, thanks to SevenThirty and Plosive.

Worth a look: the West End Studio tour released this nifty preview video, featuring the September 2011 line-up.

SPOTTED by The Jessie!

Jessie sends her regrets!

After all the excitement, fun, and gossip of Prairie Scene, Magnetic North, AND the Ottawa Fringe Festival, Jessie has temporarily fled to her Hamptons seaside sanctuary to recharge.

Before departing, with “more dirt than a dust buster”, she asked me to convey her gratitude to all of you who have supported her column with the spottings and insider tips that keep tongues a-wagging about Ottawa arts.

Finally, she also asks that flowers not but sent. Instead, please send gin.

ENDGAME!

Follow the links, mark your calendars, and fling yourself into a summer of Ottawa arts! You will enjoy it!

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