Page 48 - DreamScapes Magazine | Winter 2022-2023

TRAVEL SLEUTH
extended to January 8, 2023. Wander through exhibits that start with the ice age 80,000 years ago and end with present-day climate change concerns. En route, learn how animals and humans have adapted to survive in frigid, inhos- pitable conditions.
The museum’s newest exhibition, Our Land, Our Art, runs until October 2024. Co-commis- sioned by the Avataq Cultural Institute, an Inuit organization based in Nunavik (Northern Quebec), it presents five artworks by Indigenous
artists that reflect the artists’ strong relationships with the land and their communities.
RELIVE YOUR CHILDHOOD
At the Canadian Museum of History, prepare to take a nostalgic journey through seven decades of Canadian children’s television programming with the exhibition Pepinot to PAW Patrol: Televi- sion of Our Childhoods, running until next September. Pepinot was a Canadian TV puppet
INSIDER TIP
West of Parliament Hill, the nondescript 1967 building of Library and Archives Canada can give passersby little hints of the fascinating page-turners conserved and catalogued inside. For instance, some 3,000 rare Jewish books comprise the Jacob M. Lowy Collection. One of its rarities is an illuminated Latin version of historian Flavius Josephus’s Antiquities of the Jews, written near the end of the 1st century CE and printed in Germany in 1470. The Lowy Collection can be viewed only by appointment. (Phone 613-995- 7960 or email lowy@bac-lac.gc.ca.)
show that aired on the Radio-Canada and CBC television networks from the ’50s until it ended in 1972. The popular animated show PAW Patrol, which is about a team of search-and-rescue dogs, has been on the TVOKids and Nickelodeon networks since 2013. The exhibition showcases puppets, costumes, video clips and props from roughly 100 TV programs.
CATCH A PERFORMANCE, FESTIVAL OR FAIR
With trees and buildings illuminated by hun- dreds of thousands of coloured lights, the Christmas Lights Across Canada festival (December 8–January 8, 2023) truly makes Ottawa a magical place to celebrate the holidays.
Holiday shoppers can browse for unique handmade gifts created by over 150 Canadian artisans at the Signatures Originals Christmas Craft Sale (December 7–11). Outdoor holiday rev- ellers can sip hot chocolate while strolling past festive wooden stalls at the Ottawa Christmas Market, held at Lansdowne Park (December weekends, until December 23).
Of course, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without music! At the National Arts Centre, you can hum along to the Hallelujah Chorus during performances of Handel’s Messiah (December 14–15) or tap your toes to the fiddler dynamic- duo Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy in A Celtic Family Christmas (December 21–22).
GET OUTSIDE!
If you’ve always wanted to skate on the frozen Rideau Canal, visit in February during the three- weekend Winterlude festival (February 3–20, 2023). During Winterlude, you can also dance under the stars during free evening rock concerts,
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