On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Have a look at this if you're interested:

https://apt613.ca/ottawa-arts-and-culture-jobs-may-2021/

This is a thing that happens here where I live every year now. Used to be even-numbered years only, but that's changed. I think that change is for the better.

If you're interested in the artform, the business or both, you might want to take a closer look.

Disclosure: I did some volunteer work one year shortly after graduating from Algonquin Animation school. Not doing it any more, but the event matters to me anyway.

When CBC Radio asked the public at large about that pending event as a prelude to today's edition of Cross-Country Checkup, I had this to say:

Yes. I'll miss the Canadian penny if it stays gone after this. For all the talk about how we have to retrain ourselves to be a cash-less society, I'm not convinced of that yet. And besides, physical currency - in addition to its legal aspects - is an art medium as well.

Your own thoughts?

I'll be over at Pub Italia to meet up with the Ottawa Flickr club tonight, probably getting there somewhen around 5:30 or 6:00 PM if anyone's interested. No idea how long I'll be staying.

I'll be at this show tomorrow, running my table one more time. Sketchbooks and sketches for sale, as usual!

Details here:

http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/09/ottawa-small-press-book-fair-fall-2010.html

Hoping to see as many of the Ottawans reading this as possible, and more...

I'll be at the Ottawa SF Society meeting as one of the speakers instead of part of the audience.

Theme is "science fiction and the arts". I'll revise this post with the rest of the speaker list ASAP.

Same time and place as per usual: 2 PM, Dalhousie Community Centre on Somerset and Empress.


Further details here at Facebook for anyone who's got or getting an account!

Please take a look at this community blog entry, and share your thoughts here.

Advise that you all check this out before it goes behind the Globe and Mail paywall:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080919.wbudget20/BNStory/Entertainment/home

One of my friendly acquaintances in local arts, Rob McLennan, recently posted something almost - but not quite - a rant on the state of arts funding here in Ottawa(the city, not the federal institution).

As you'll note in the comments following Rob's essay, I found a lot of what he wrote made sense to some extent. Not my choice of language, but there's cause for some shared concern there.

If you check my flist here regularly, you'll have also noticed announcements from the organizers of C-ACE at cace_discuss. C-ACE is a local comics convention that has been building up steam over the last half-decade. That steam may be about to run out. Most distressing. And as far as I know, they've not done much in the way of asking for governmental help with their show. They want to be as self-reliant as they can. Admirable, if impractical in the context of Canada's history with the arts in general. But we can debate that later.

Yes, I'm thinking that the two events are to some extent linked. So's this one from Ottawa City Hall, courtesy of CBC News' Ottawa Bureau. I'm not entirely certain how to connect these particular dots, save in a thematic sense.

And today, I read a letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen from one of our more notable artists, Jennifer Dickson. She not only went after several generations of city councils, but we who've elected them as well. I'll post a link to that LOC as soon as I can find it, because I think she's kicked up the argument a notch. Whether it's a useful kick or not, I don't know.