News by subject: ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT

Atari®, one of the world's most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers, today announced that their card-based mob brawler, Goon Squadtm, is now available on the App Store and Google Play. Goon Squad drops players into an...

Atari®, one of the world's most recognized publishers and producers of interactive entertainment, today released new information about Ataribox, a product that brings gaming and more to the living room. The launch also signals a return by Atari to...

Today, IndieFlix, a leading independent online streaming company, along with its non-profit arm, the IndieFlix Foundation, released its latest documentary and virtual reality experience, "Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety." Their goal: to start...

Lucasfilm announced today that it is teaming up with six of the world's most well-known brands -- Christian Louboutin, General Mills, Nissan, Royal Philips, Verizon and VIZIO -- for the launch of an extensive global promotional campaign in support of...

DHX Media and YouTube today announced that they have teamed up to release We Are Savvy -- a magazine-style series featuring engaging segments about music, fashion, dance and DIY -- on YouTube Red. Each half-hour episode is introduced by Annie LeBlanc...

Breaking Data Corp. ("Breaking Data" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that GIVEMESPORT has been selected to broadcast the PGA Championship live from Quail Hollow on August 10th - 13th to its UK Audience on Facebook Live and on its website...

Internationally recognized ballet dancers and a world-premiere ballet are coming to the beautiful mountain town of Sun Valley, Idaho for a Ballet Festival, August 22 - 24, 2017. The three-day festival brings 24 acclaimed dancers from around the...

Media are invited to the official preview of the museum's new permanent Canada Goose Arctic Gallery. This 8,000 sq. ft gallery, the museum's Canada 150 legacy project, will open to the public June 21, 2017 with the goal of transforming people's...

Partners in Art (PIA) is pleased to officially announce the exhibition period for their Canada 150 Signature Project LandMarks2017/Repères2017, running June 10 to 25 located in communities near or at Canada's National Parks and Historic...

Innovative game developer Incuvo today announced the launch of Castle Revenge, a new action-strategy game Android devices (available now) and iOS (coming later this month). Players build the castle of their dreams, design elaborate defenses and...

Stingray Digital Group Inc. - -  Note to editors: There is a photo associated with this press release. Stingray is bringing music videos back where they belong...on TV! Stingray today proudly announced the official launch of four (4)...

Note to editors: There is a photo associated with this press release. Nancy Saunders, an Inuit artist based in Montreal, with roots in Kuujjuaq, Quebec, has been selected to create an original artistic piece for the Canadian Museum of...

ATMA Classique showcases the myriad talents of organist Jean-Willy Kunz in two new and contrasting releases: the solo album Jean-Willy Kunz au Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique, and Impressions,  a jazz album featuring André Moisan on clarinets and...

Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) announced today a new partnership with The Walrus through its AMI-audio television channel. Premiering Sunday, June 11, 2017 AMI-audio will air The Walrus with Lloyd Robertson, a selection of readings from Canada's...

Atari®, one of the world's most recognized publishers and producers of interactive entertainment, today announced a three-year license extension for RollerCoaster Tycoon® through the year 2022. The new deal with RollerCoaster Tycoon creator, Chris...

DHX Media (or the "Company") , the world's leading independent, pure-play children's content company, announces that Nickelodeon has licensed 20 half-hour episodes of Massive Monster Mayhem, an original show for kids 6-11 that combines live action...

The National Civil Rights Museum is inviting young poets and spoken word artists nationwide to qualify to compete in its MLK50 Drop the Mic Poetry Slam on Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 5pm. Additionally, there is a call for poetry/spoken word workshop...

Over 300 free events will take place in 30 cities across Canada for the 10th edition of Science Rendezvous on Saturday, May 13, 2017. Science Rendezvous is Canada's largest nation-wide science festival. Science Rendezvous will launch the national...

Canada's largest faith-based Christian music festival, No Greater Love, is set to return August 12 ? 13 on the Stoney Nakoda Nation, located 40 minutes west of Calgary in one of the most stunning festival locations anywhere. Confirmed in the 2017...

When Home to Win, the original series by HGTV Canada, planned to return to offer Canadians the opportunity to compete for a masterfully designed, contemporary waterfront home, there was no doubt that the high-performance, low-maintenance and...

Broadcast Music, Inc.®, (BMI®), the global leader in music rights management, honored music superstar Carrie Underwood at the 69th annual BMI/NAB Dinner held last night at the Wynn Encore in Las Vegas. Underwood was recognized with the BMI Board of...

A Martin acoustic guitar made in 1939 and valued at $350,000... A Lloyd Loar-signed mandolin from the 1920s considered to be even rarer than a Stradivarius violin... A 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard Sunburst Electric guitar worth $225,000... These are...

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is proud to unveil New Acquisitions of Philippine Art, an unprecedented survey devoted to historic and modern artworks from the Philippines. On view July 14, 2017--March 11, 2018 and presented in the Tateuchi...

Alberta Ballet Artistic Director Jean Grand-Maître and Executive Director Chris George today announced the company's 2017.18 season. The line-up includes a new family ballet, three internationally acclaimed guest companies and a thrilling world...

Les Belles Soirées and La Vitrine Culturelle are once again supporting the International Jazz Day in Montreal. April 30 is becoming Montreal's annual rendezvous to celebrate jazz. This global event, designated by UNESCO, will be the 3rd edition for...

In partnership with the National Park Service and the University of Warwick (U.K.), the University of California, Merced, will produce "Shakespeare in Yosemite," featuring local and student actors performing excerpts from classic works of William...

DHX Media (or the "Company") , the world's leading independent, pure-play children's content company, has signed a deal with Cartoon Network U.S. for Mega Man, an original DHX Media co-production with Dentsu Entertainment USA, Inc. ("Dentsu...

Nissan's top-selling Rogue stars in the April 3 launch of "Battle Test: A Nissan 360-degree Virtual Reality Experience"Free virtual reality experience features several Nissan Intelligent Safety Shield® Technologies in a simulated battlefield from...

Investing in cultural infrastructure helps Canada preserve the experiences of its people and places, and inspires visitors to explore and understand the world around them. The governments of Canada and British Columbia recognize that strategic...

Journalism educators can now apply for a $1 million challenge encouraging universities to create teams that will experiment with new ways of providing news and information, run by the Online News Association, the world's largest membership...

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is pleased to announce that GRAMMY, EMMY and TONY Award-winning singer-songwriter, arranger, producer and musician, Barry Manilow, will be named the BMI Icon at the 65th annual BMI Pop Awards. Mr. Manilow, a pop music...

Giant-screen movie-goers will soar above the world's tallest bridge and travel at speeds approaching 700 mph with MacGillivray Freeman's new IMAX film "Dream Big: Engineering Our World," now playing at The Tech Museum of Innovation's Hackworth IMAX...

Library and Archives Canada, in collaboration with the Canada on Screen program and producing partners TIFF, the Cinémathèque Québécoise and The Cinematheque (Vancouver), is hosting a free screening of the Denys Arcand classic Le Déclin de l'empire...

USO supporters gathered as a Force Behind the Forces at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Tuesday night in support of America's service members and their families. The special evening raised more than $1 million for USO Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore...

It's a tribute to Montreal in the 1940s, which became the most famous city in the world for its entertainment. Scarlett James and the Montreal Burlesque Productions, powerhouses of the contemporary burlesque scene, celebrate Montreal's 375th...

Hopewell Residential Therapeutic Farm was featured by HBO as part of Episode 59 on its well-known HBO VICE Tonight series. Hopewell was positioned as a viable option to meeting the shortage of psychiatric beds in the United States, according to Rick...