TRAVEL & VACATION SHOW
It’s travel for all tastes and budgets at the Travel and Vacation Show — this year there’s a special emphasis on ‘tastes’ with travel seminars and demonstrations by celebrity chefs from around the world. Other highlights include the New Brunswick pavilion with live jazz and blues. Inform your vacation plans by talking to tourism representatives from over 50 countries. Saturday, March 10, and Sunday, March 11. $10, seniors free on Saturday, children free. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ottawa Convention Centre, 55 Colonel By Dr. www.travelandvacationshow.ca
NAC
Contemporary dancer-choreographer José Navas of Compagnie presents Personae. A new compilation of solos, the show explores the idea of “dance for the pleasure of dancing” to music by Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Verdi, Vivaldi, Agustín Lara, and Patti Smith. Danced by Navas alone on a bare stage, the piece is a fusion of movement, music, and space. The bare stage is transformed for each solo through the lighting design of Navas’ long-time collaborator Marc Parent. Thursday, March 8, to Saturday, March 10. $34.56. 8 p.m. NAC Studio, 53 Elgin St., www.nac-cna.ca
GALLERY FILMS (FREE!)
Ottawa director Michael Ostroff celebrates the second anniversary of his documentary film Winds of Heaven: Carr, Carvers and the Spirits of the Forest with a re-screening. He created a biography of Carr, often told through her diary’s words, and intermixed it with the history of the Northwest Coast First Nations she was so taken with. The film traces her life from a young woman in Victoria, B.C. through her meetings with the Group of Seven. It includes insights from experts on Carr’s place in the art world and views on aboriginals. Following Winds of Heaven, Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont present West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson. Sunday, March 11. 1 p.m. National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Dr., carrdoc.wordpress.com















