Capital Pride 2010 fundraiser with THE CLIKS and special guests HUNTER VALENTINE
Apartment 613 Written by Katie
Spectrasonic and punkottawa.com present a Capital Pride 2010 fundraiser with THE CLIKS with special guests HUNTER VALENTINE
Friday July 23 @ Mavericks (211 Rideau St)
LICENCED 19+ – 8pm doors – 9pm show — $12 advance + service charges – general admission
On Friday, July 23, at Mavericks (221 Rideau St.), Spectrasonic and Punkottawa.com present a Capital Pride 2010 Fundraiser featuring The Cliks and Hunter Valentine. Tickets are $12 in advance and available at Venus Envy, Vertigo Records and www.ticketweb.ca
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Weekend Roundup: Events and things to do in Ottawa!
Apartment 613, Written by Katie
Photo courtesy of Mike.Geiger.ca on flickr
Why travel when the world comes to Ottawa? The city’s almost endless series of summer international festivals kicks off this week with South Asia. While the main festivities of the Turkish Festival don’t start until next weekend, you can get a sneak peak with some films and a cooking demonstration on Friday and Saturday. Stay tuned for Lebanon and Africa later this month.
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At the Fringe, Context Is King
Unfolding Magazine, June 2010
I’ve never heard such an un-manufactured buzz surrounding one arts event in Ottawa as the communion coalescing around the Ottawa Fringe Festival in just its second day. One reason must be a huge uptake of social media, especially Twitter and Facebook. But these un-contextualized conversations are a bit overwhelming, like offering 80 brands of bottled to water to someone who’s just spent two months in the desert. There’s something else going on.
The momentum’s cause, while not new to Fringe festivals, is unique to Ottawa’s, and it’s streaming out of a Website called Fully Fringed. The spawn of Evan Thornton’s Tron-like brain, co-hosted by Apartment 613, the site is posting reviews of every Fringe show – 19 of the 60, at this writing – and I’ve already heard from a dozen people not in the Twitter/Facebook universe that it has grabbed their attention enough to plan a visit.
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