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Facebook and Instagram have teamed up to bring local photographers, chosen for the quality of their Instagram work, to shoot the National Arts Centre.
The group spread out Wednesday morning with access to everything the public rarely sees: The back stairs and dressing rooms and extensive kitchens and a rabbit warren of passageways.
The NAC is due for a major renovation to be complete by Canada Day in 2017, and Instagram wanted to commemorate its original look.
In Instagram language it’s called shooting “an empty” — a public cultural attraction when the usual customers aren’t around. The projects are identified by individual hashtags, beginning with the phrase #empty. For the NAC project, it will be #emptyNAC.
It’s the first such project in Canada. More will follow next year, though Instagram hasn’t picked them yet.
“The NAC is 47 years old and we’re about to undergo a major cultural transformation,” said Rosemary Thompson of the NAC. It will have new construction facing Elgin Street, the north side of the building and the Rideau Canal, featuring a lot of glass and light where today there are solid walls.
The NAC is distinctive for the hexagons everywhere.
“We’re hoping to get some of that incredible geometry today,” Thompson said.
The public sees the formal face of the NAC, said Marjolaine Fournier, a bass player in the NAC Orchestra. But if they could look behind the scenes, they might catch a glimpse of musicians taking a short cut through a kitchen in their black performance clothes.
“There are three stages, many kitchens, many venues to have gatherings from the huge to the small. It’s a crazy building with no right angles,” she said.
“It’s great to see arts and social media cohabiting,” said Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly, who opened the event.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
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The group spread out Wednesday morning with access to everything the public rarely sees: The back stairs and dressing rooms and extensive kitchens and a rabbit warren of passageways.
The NAC is due for a major renovation to be complete by Canada Day in 2017, and Instagram wanted to commemorate its original look.
In Instagram language it’s called shooting “an empty” — a public cultural attraction when the usual customers aren’t around. The projects are identified by individual hashtags, beginning with the phrase #empty. For the NAC project, it will be #emptyNAC.
It’s the first such project in Canada. More will follow next year, though Instagram hasn’t picked them yet.
“The NAC is 47 years old and we’re about to undergo a major cultural transformation,” said Rosemary Thompson of the NAC. It will have new construction facing Elgin Street, the north side of the building and the Rideau Canal, featuring a lot of glass and light where today there are solid walls.
The NAC is distinctive for the hexagons everywhere.
“We’re hoping to get some of that incredible geometry today,” Thompson said.
The public sees the formal face of the NAC, said Marjolaine Fournier, a bass player in the NAC Orchestra. But if they could look behind the scenes, they might catch a glimpse of musicians taking a short cut through a kitchen in their black performance clothes.
“There are three stages, many kitchens, many venues to have gatherings from the huge to the small. It’s a crazy building with no right angles,” she said.
“It’s great to see arts and social media cohabiting,” said Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly, who opened the event.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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