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The final event of the PAL Ottawa Spotlights 2021 Online Arts Festival

Jazz in Canada has a rich and vibrant history that is respected all over the world. Mark and Mike present a concert featuring some of their own original works and compositions from other Canadian jazz composers, including Rob McConnell, Kirk MacDonald, Mike Murley, Oscar Peterson, and others. The concert includes short stories about the composers and their material. The concert will be a live broadcast from one of the premier venues in the live Ottawa music scene, “Gigspace.” This venue, along with owner Marilee Townsend-Alcorn, has been supporting live music for years. She has also been busy raising funds and supporting live online broadcasts during the Covid-19 pandemic. The sound engineer is Mike Mullin, a valuable member of the Ottawa music scene for more than forty years. He has both recorded and broadcasted live many concerts during the pandemic.

Mike Tremblay and Mark Ferguson have been performing together for more than 30 years. Their musical collaboration has taken many forms over the years, from teaching at Carleton University to performances with some of the finest artists on the planet including Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Bob Newhart, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Mark and Mike have released two recordings, “Home” in 2010, a duo album, and in 2019, “Appleface,”a quartet album featuring Canadian jazz legends Dave Young on bass and Terry Clarke on drums.

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This is one of a series of 14 free, unique online sessions in the arts featuring some of Ottawa-Gatineau region’s top professionals. From visual arts and ceramics to creative movement, screenwriting, instrumental music, voice and dramatic arts, these individual sessions are helping meet the clear hunger for inspired virtual connection as the pandemic enters its second year.

“These sessions represent a win-win of sorts, pairing up local arts workers – who have been deeply impacted by not being able to work in traditional venues – with members of the community who, while following the stay-at-home protocols, can still be enlightened and pursue their love of learning through the various artistic disciplines being offered,” says David Globerman, who coordinates the Supporting Cast team at PAL Ottawa, a local charity dedicated to providing affordable housing and supports to senior arts workers in the National Capital Region.

The free programming runs twice a week from February 3 to March 31, Wednesday afternoons at 2 pm and Saturday evenings at 7 pm.

A complete schedule and details of courses, along with registration details, is at palottawa.org

This series is produced with the generous support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program

An Evening of Canadian Jazz with Mike Tremblay and Mark Ferguson

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Part of the PAL Ottawa Spotlights 2021 Online Arts Festival

Allison Elizabeth Burns teaches a gentle introduction to contemporary dance. It is designed for anyone who has been curious about the style, or movement in general. There is absolutely no dance experience required, just curiosity about what that brilliant body of yours can do! The workshop offers a new way of thinking about movements and sensations. The practice is largely based on improvisation, so the exercises can accommodate a variety of participants' physical capacities. The skills taught here can be used in other forms of dance, performing arts, and general well-being and improved mind-body connection.

Allison Elizabeth Burns is a choreographer, performer, educator, and producer based in her hometown of Ottawa. Allison has choreographed and performed in multidisciplinary projects, dance works, and commissions. Her work has been presented at various festivals, and she has performed in choreographic works across North America. As a passionate dance advocate she promotes dance awareness and comprehension through workshops, talks and podcasts. She has worked as a dance instructor for Luv2Groove, The School of Dance, Ottawa Dance Centre, schools and Dovercourt Recreation Centre among others.

Registrants for this free event will receive a zoom address to connect.

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This is one of a series of 14 free, unique online sessions in the arts featuring some of Ottawa-Gatineau region’s top professionals. From visual arts and ceramics to creative movement, screenwriting, instrumental music, voice and dramatic arts, these individual sessions are helping meet the clear hunger for inspired virtual connection as the pandemic enters its second year.

“These sessions represent a win-win of sorts, pairing up local arts workers – who have been deeply impacted by not being able to work in traditional venues – with members of the community who, while following the stay-at-home protocols, can still be enlightened and pursue their love of learning through the various artistic disciplines being offered,” says David Globerman, who coordinates the Supporting Cast team at PAL Ottawa, a local charity dedicated to providing affordable housing and supports to senior arts workers in the National Capital Region.

The free programming runs twice a week from February 3 to March 31, Wednesday afternoons at 2 pm and Saturday evenings at 7 pm.

A complete schedule and details of courses, along with registration details, is at palottawa.org

This series is produced with the generous support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program

Moving Creatively With Allison Elizabeth Burns

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Part of the PAL Ottawa Spotlights 2021 Online Arts Festival

“The idea is to introduce how visualization and visioning in Indigenous traditional knowledge impacts on my own art production. This will include specific connections to breathing exercises, visualization, journaling and sketching of ideas,” Marg says. There will be a follow-up session.

.Marg Boyle is Metissage from Gespeg / Gaspe / Gaspesie. Her ancestors are Mi'gmaq, Abenaki, European and African: thus she attempts to honour them all, through both the work she does in community and through the arts she creates and performs. She has made a commitment to arts making that is toxin free, eco friendly and sustainable. She is an artist, craftsperson, drummer, traditional dancer, writer, workshop provider, full spectrum doula and vintage shop owner.

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This is one of a series of 14 free, unique online sessions in the arts featuring some of Ottawa-Gatineau region’s top professionals. From visual arts and ceramics to creative movement, screenwriting, instrumental music, voice and dramatic arts, these individual sessions are helping meet the clear hunger for inspired virtual connection as the pandemic enters its second year.

“These sessions represent a win-win of sorts, pairing up local arts workers – who have been deeply impacted by not being able to work in traditional venues – with members of the community who, while following the stay-at-home protocols, can still be enlightened and pursue their love of learning through the various artistic disciplines being offered,” says David Globerman, who coordinates the Supporting Cast team at PAL Ottawa, a local charity dedicated to providing affordable housing and supports to senior arts workers in the National Capital Region.

The free programming runs twice a week from February 3 to March 31, Wednesday afternoons at 2 pm and Saturday evenings at 7 pm. They will be recorded and shared later on the PAL Ottawa Youtube channel for those unable to attend the sessions in real time. A complete schedule and details of courses, along with registration details, is at palottawa.org

This series is produced with the generous support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program

Visualization and Creative Arts with Marg Boyle, Part 1

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Carmen Harris presents a performance of Shakespearean art song through a variety of composers, including: Strauss’ Ophelia Lieder, Shakespearean selections from Dominick Argento’s Six Elizabethan Songs and the local composer Andrew Ager’s own Five Shakespearean Songs. Along with singing these beautiful, diverse works, she discusses the historical importance of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays in music and how each of these composers represented his words very differently through text-setting and rhythmic play. Carmen provides translations to the German text of Ophelia Lieder and also speaks about each song cycle before it begins so participants can share in the discovery of these amazing works.

Carmen Harris is a passionate performer of classical music, opera, musical theatre and just about any other genre she is hired for. She has a Master of Music from the University of Ottawa and has sung with opera companies and symphonies across North America and Europe, including work with the NAC Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony, Chilliwack Symphony and Okanagan Symphony. Carmen wrote her master’s thesis defence on Strauss’ Ophelia Lieder.

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This is one of a series of 14 free, unique online sessions in the arts featuring some of Ottawa-Gatineau region’s top professionals. From visual arts and ceramics to creative movement, screenwriting, instrumental music, voice and dramatic arts, these individual sessions are helping meet the clear hunger for inspired virtual connection as the pandemic enters its second year.

“These sessions represent a win-win of sorts, pairing up local arts workers – who have been deeply impacted by not being able to work in traditional venues – with members of the community who, while following the stay-at-home protocols, can still be enlightened and pursue their love of learning through the various artistic disciplines being offered,” says David Globerman, who coordinates the Supporting Cast team at PAL Ottawa, a local charity dedicated to providing affordable housing and supports to senior arts workers in the National Capital Region.

The free programming runs twice a week from February 3 to March 31, Wednesday afternoons at 2 pm and Saturday evenings at 7 pm.

A complete schedule and details of courses, along with registration details, is at palottawa.org.

This series is produced with the generous support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program

Shakespeare and Song, A Performance of Shakespearean Art Song

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PAL Ottawa's monthly Social Circle presents Sarah Bercier, the Executive Director at the Council on Aging of Ottawa, and Pascale Lalonde, Director, Community Development. They discuss the activities of the COA and how they may help people "age in place," covering financial, medical, social, and legal issues. Special programming and presentations by COA is also discussed. A question and answer period follows the presentation.

Sarah Bercier has a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Clinical Counseling, both with a focus on later life issues. Throughout her career she has worked in the fields of elder abuse, seniors’ housing, care coordination, lower income seniors, and most significantly on the transition to retirement. She has served as the Executive Director of the Council on Aging of Ottawa since 2015.

PAL Ottawa, a local charity dedicated to providing affordable housing and supports to senior arts workers in the National Capital Region. Learn more at www. palottawa.org

Preparing for Life's Transitions with the Council on Aging of Ottawa

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“Participants will listen to a story in very short segments and then respond to each segment using a new method or material, such as using their non-dominant hand, using both hands simultaneously, rotating their paper and more. Each step in the process will highlight or focus on a distinct element of art such as color, line, shape, etc. Participants will interpret the story as literally or abstractly as they choose. At each stage, I will make suggestions as to how media can be used in addition to specific instructions for that stage”, Jadzia says.

Following the art making activity, participants will be invited to examine their own and others’ artwork and to share their observations about their own process, interpretations of the story elements and likes/dislikes. The project offers opportunities to use different parts of the brain, develop visual literacy, imagination and critical thinking, enhance listening and fine motor skills, promote self-awareness, and engage with others while sharing their experiences of the project.

Materials: paper, pencils, markers, paint, or whatever the participant may have including household objects such as Q-tips, straws, and tissues for moving paint or other media.

Jadzia Romaniec is an Ottawa artist with over 20 years of exhibitions to her name. She has worked as an art therapist with the Salvation Army Stabilization Program, Canadian Breast Cancer Network, Bereaved Families of Ontario, and National Gaucher Foundation of Canada. Jadzia has also taught art classes for adults with the City of Ottawa and at the Wild Pigments Studio, and also led drawing classes with the OCDSB and Ashbury College.

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This is one of a series of 13 free, unique online sessions in the arts featuring some of Ottawa-Gatineau region’s top professionals. From visual arts and ceramics to creative movement, screenwriting, instrumental music, voice and dramatic arts, these individual sessions are helping meet the clear hunger for inspired virtual connection as the pandemic enters its second year.

“These sessions represent a win-win of sorts, pairing up local arts workers – who have been deeply impacted by not being able to work in traditional venues – with members of the community who, while following the stay-at-home protocols, can still be enlightened and pursue their love of learning through the various artistic disciplines being offered,” says David Globerman, who coordinates the Supporting Cast team at PAL Ottawa, a local charity dedicated to providing affordable housing and supports to senior arts workers in the National Capital Region.

The free programming runs twice a week from February 3 to March 31, 2021, Wednesday afternoons at 2 pm and Saturday evenings at 7 pm. They will be recorded and shared later on the PAL Ottawa Youtube channel for those unable to attend the sessions in real time.

A complete schedule and details of courses, along with registration details, is at https://palottawa.org/online-course-details-and-registration/

This series is produced with the generous support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program

Story Based Artwork with Jadzia Romaniec

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Part of the PAL Ottawa Spotlights 2021 Free Online Ats Festival!

“Since the earliest cave drawings were discovered 40,000 years ago, drawing has been a universal tool for expression owing to its immediacy. Based on my experiences of drawing from life, I’d like to apply the lessons learned to these elements of mindfulness training: Exploration (letting go of conscious thought and control and drawing spontaneously); Rapport Building (using conversational drawing to consciously communicate in a new way) and Interpersonal Relations (being attentive to each other). Slowing down the process of looking, these exercises give participants the opportunity to practice being more “present”, and to have fun without expectations. The results can be quite amusing! The session will include a presentation on how drawing fits into the big picture of how humans relate to each other, concepts of mindfulness, and how drawing can help us to develop self-awareness. Participants will do some automatic drawing during the presentation. This will be followed by more drawing exercises. Materials for the exercises would be fairly simple: paper, pencil or pen, and some water media, like coffee, tea or watercolour (optional)”, Charlene says.

Charlene Lau Ahier is an experienced teacher, technical communicator, arts advocate, and visual artist, specializing in perceptual painting and drawing. She has taught classes and led lectures, demonstrations and workshops in painting and drawing at a number of venues, including National Gallery of Canada, Orange Gallery, Canterbury High School, Ontario Teachers Federation, Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group, Nuit Blanche Ottawa Gatineau, University of Ottawa Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, and private mentoring and workshops at Studio 6 and LiveLab.

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This is one of a series of 14 free, unique online sessions in the arts featuring some of Ottawa-Gatineau region’s top professionals. From visual arts and ceramics to creative movement, screenwriting, instrumental music, voice and dramatic arts, these individual sessions are helping meet the clear hunger for inspired virtual connection as the pandemic enters its second year.

“These sessions represent a win-win of sorts, pairing up local arts workers – who have been deeply impacted by not being able to work in traditional venues – with members of the community who, while following the stay-at-home protocols, can still be enlightened and pursue their love of learning through the various artistic disciplines being offered,” says David Globerman, who coordinates the Supporting Cast team at PAL Ottawa, a local charity dedicated to providing affordable housing and supports to senior arts workers in the National Capital Region.

The free programming runs twice a week from February 3 to March 31, Wednesday afternoons at 2 pm and Saturday evenings at 7 pm.

A complete schedule and details of courses, along with registration details, is at https://palottawa.org/online-course-details-and-registration/

This series is produced with the generous support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program

Drawn Together: How Lessons from Art Are Connected To Mindfulness Training

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Footloose Fitness with Kayla McSorley and Lisa Paquette

Footloose Fitness is a workshop designed to help musical theatre lovers who may be recovering from injuries, who are hoping to strengthen a targeted muscle group, or who are seeking to improve mobility, to create a health and fitness regimen on their terms while leaving lots of room to express their artistic creativity as they dance to some classic show tunes. After all the secret to a sustainable healthy lifestyle is to enjoy the process!

Kayla McSorley is a French-Canadian actor, singer, dancer and theatre teaching artist from Ottawa, Ontario. Since acquiring her BFA Theatre Performance from Niagara University, New York, she has worked in the USA, Taiwan, Toronto and Ottawa. As a result of the pandemic, Kayla has been focusing on furthering her dance training to extend that passion and offer healthy outlets through classes and workshops to members of the community who are feeling stagnant in their daily routine. This multifaceted artist currently offers performance classes at Artishow and Top Rock, is a member of the TRAPT Ottawa dance troupe and is the artistic director of Pirate Life Ottawa. In 2021, Covid restrictions permitting, Kayla will be seen performing in a variety of performances across Ontario starting with the Oh Canada Eh Ottawa dinner theatre this spring. More info on Kayla’s work can be found on the following social media platforms:
www.kaylamcsorley.com
@mcsokayl

Lisa Paquette is a Registered Kinesiologist in the Ottawa area who focuses on physical rehabilitation in order to better the daily lives of clients. Lisa has worked as a Kinesiologist for 4 years now, both in physiotherapy clinics, and in the houses of clients working with victims of car accidents. Lisa has recently been working for the Dementia Society providing supportive counseling and education about dementia and the caregiving role.

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This is one of a series of 13 free, unique online sessions in the arts featuring some of Ottawa-Gatineau region’s top professionals. From visual arts and ceramics to creative movement, screenwriting, instrumental music, voice and dramatic arts, these individual sessions are helping meet the clear hunger for inspired virtual connection as the pandemic enters its second year.

“These sessions represent a win-win of sorts, pairing up local arts workers – who have been deeply impacted by not being able to work in traditional venues – with members of the community who, while following the stay-at-home protocols, can still be enlightened and pursue their love of learning through the various artistic disciplines being offered,” says David Globerman, who coordinates the Supporting Cast team at PAL Ottawa, a local charity dedicated to providing affordable housing and supports to senior arts workers in the National Capital Region.

The free programming runs twice a week from February 3 to March 31, 2021, Wednesday afternoons at 2 pm and Saturday evenings at 7 pm. They will be recorded and shared later on the PAL Ottawa Youtube channel for those unable to attend the sessions in real time.

A complete schedule and details of courses, along with registration details, is at https://palottawa.org/online-course-details-and-registration/

This series is produced with the generous support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program

Footloose Fitness with Kayla McSorley and Lisa Paquette

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The PAL Ottawa Spotlights 2021 Online Arts Festival presents this outstanding introductory primer. (Learn more about the Festival at https://palottawa.org/online-course-details-and-registration)

You can find documents related to this presentation at https://palottawa.org/screenwriting-documents/

As a veteran TV writer (You Can’t Do That On TV, The Raccoons, etc.) with five feature films to his name (with stars including Ernest Borgnine, Eli Wallach, Teri Garr, Michael Moriarty. Pat Morita, and Graham Greene), Dan was invited some time ago to teach a pair of screenwriting courses at Algonquin College. He went on to teach them for over a dozen years, earning, over that time, some of the highest evaluation rankings among the college’s PT instructors. He has adapted these courses into a two-hour primer delivered via ZOOM, for those interested in trying their hand at developing their own big or small screen story.

Dan Lalande is a professional writer based in Ottawa. Dan’s career began at the age of nineteen, as a staff writer on Nickelodeon’s flagship series You Can’t Do That on Television (named one of the 50 greatest sketch comedy shows of all time by Rolling Stone magazine) and the Canadian animation sensation The Raccoons. Dan also contributed to The Adventure of Teddy Ruxpin, Under the Umbrella Tree, For Better or For Worse, Young Robin Hood, White Fang, Mouse Sports, and other family-friendly series. While writing and performing as a member of the Skit Row comedy troupe, the sketch and improv ensemble that was Ottawa’s answer to Second City, Dan enjoyed a parallel career in professional communications. Dan researched, wrote, and co-produced informational and instructional content for government departments, small to medium sized businesses, national and area charities, and Ottawa’s then booming high tech sector. Over this time, Dan was also penning a myriad of TV specials and series, in the comedy, drama and documentary genres. Broadcasters included CTV, CBC, Bravo!, Discovery, and W. Dan is also an accomplished journalist and short story writer.

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This is one of a series of 13 free, unique online sessions in the arts featuring some of Ottawa-Gatineau region’s top professionals. From visual arts and ceramics to creative movement, screenwriting, instrumental music, voice and dramatic arts, these individual sessions are helping meet the clear hunger for inspired virtual connection as the pandemic enters its second year.

“These sessions represent a win-win of sorts, pairing up local arts workers – who have been deeply impacted by not being able to work in traditional venues – with members of the community who, while following the stay-at-home protocols, can still be enlightened and pursue their love of learning through the various artistic disciplines being offered,” says David Globerman, who coordinates the Supporting Cast team at PAL Ottawa, a local charity dedicated to providing affordable housing and supports to senior arts workers in the National Capital Region.

The free programming runs twice a week from February 3 to March 31, 2021, Wednesday afternoons at 2 pm and Saturday evenings at 7 pm. They will be recorded and shared later on the PAL Ottawa Youtube channel for those unable to attend the sessions in real time.

A complete schedule and details of courses, along with registration details, is at https://palottawa.org/online-course-details-and-registration/

This series is produced with the generous support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program

Big and Small Screen Storytelling: A Screenwriting Introduction with Dan Lalande

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