The future of a popular Ottawa art gallery and event space is in jeopardy after it was told that its lease won’t be renewed when it expires at the end of this year.
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Future of Orange Art Gallery uncertain after learning its lease won’t be renewed
The gallery has asked the City of Ottawa to designate its building as a heritage property.
“The land is becoming more and more valuable, with LeBreton Flats possibly being developed,” she said. “So my gut feeling is they ultimately just want to take this building down. And to them it’s almost more valuable just as a parking space for now.”
Hollander adds that she and her partners did extensive renovations to the building when they moved in in 2014 after spending four years in the Parkdale Market area. Aside from representing about 25 artists, the gallery also hosts art classes and between 70 and 100 events a year, including weddings, anniversaries, corporate events, fundraisers and other functions.
ThreeBestRated website, which rates the top Ottawa businesses in numerous categories, selected Orange in its art gallery rankings along with the National Gallery of Canada and the Ottawa Art Gallery.
Coun. Ariel Troster, in whose Somerset Ward the gallery is situated, says cultural spaces such as galleries and artists’ studios needn’t be victims of intensification.
“On one hand, I support intensification and building more housing in a high-density fashion within the core. It’s good for the environment, it’s good for building housing.
“I have no idea what the owner’s intention is with this property, but there’s no reason why a gallery couldn’t remain.”
Hollander, meanwhile, has her fingers crossed that the building’s owner will have a change of heart.
“A one-year extension, even, would just be kind of beautiful,” she says, “just to get things sorted out a little bit. I always kind of thought that something would change, or they would change their mind as time got closer, but now doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen.”
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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
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