Events in Ottawa

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Names instead of Numbers

Feb 9, 2012 6:00 PM - Mar 9, 2012 6:00 PM | Ottawa
Names instead of numbers

Nijmegen, Bordeaux, Vienna, Lublin, Zaporizhzhia, Berlin – these are a few of the thousands of places in Europe, large and small, from which people were deported to Dachau concentration camp between 1933 and 1945. The international travelling exhibition “Names Instead of Numbers” shows a selection of 22 biographies from the Dachau Remembrance Book project. The Dachau Exhibition will be coming to Carleton Unniversity's Patterson Hall on February 9th, 2012, and will remain in the Department of History until March 9th, 2012.

Black Sheep Theatre presents: '33 (A Kabarett)

Feb 22, 2012 - Mar 10, 2012 | Ottawa
Poster: '33 (a Kabarett)

’33 is a cabaret of ghosts - a performance piece recreating the final night in a Kabarett destroyed by the Nazis in Berlin in 1933.  A Master of Ceremonies pays homage to his disappeared friends.

German musical: L’Opéra de quat’sous (The Threepenny Opera)

Feb 28, 2012 - Mar 3, 2012 | Ottawa
Performance of the Three Penny Opera in Berlin at the Admiralspalast (2006)

The NAC Theatre presents the 20th century's most subversive musical, transplanted to Montreal in 1939! (Performance in French.)

German cinema: Kirschblüten Hanami (Cherry Blossoms)

Mar 9, 2012 7:30 PM | Ottawa
Film poster "Cherry Blossoms"

Rudi (Elmar Wepper) is unaware that he is suffering from cancer and only has a few weeks left to live. The doctor has only informed his vivacious, esoteric wife Trudi (Hannelore Elsner) of his diagnosis, and she decides that they should take a last holiday together.

Ars Nova Presents: The Stuttgart Chamber Choir

Mar 12, 2012 7:30 PM | Ottawa
Kammerchor Stuttgart

Ottawa fans of choral music are in for a rare and exquisite treat! The Stuttgart Chamber Choir, one of the world’s most celebrated vocal ensembles, makes a much-anticipated appearance in the Ars Nova Winter Series.

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