Orchestras in the Park (2011 Date TBA)
| July 21, 2011 | to | July 24, 2011 |
Free concerts in Lebreton Flats Park. Bring a chair, bring a snack, bring your friends or family, and enjoy a musical sunset in the park. Perfect for a summer’s night! Presented by the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the National Capital Commission.
General information: 613.239.5000 1.800.465.1867 613.239.5090 (TTY) 1.866.661.3530 (toll-free TTY)
General information email: info@ncc-ccn.ca
Locations: LeBreton Flats
On the Web:
Website: www.canadascapital.gc.ca/orchestras
Map:
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Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival (2011 dates TBA)
| June 18, 2011 | to | June 19, 2011 |
The Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival welcomes everyone to join in the celebration of our rich and diverse aboriginal cultures from across Canada, in honour of National Aboriginal Day. On Saturday, June 19, and Sunday, June 20, 2010, Victoria Island, downtown Ottawa (just across from the War Museum), offers a two-day FREE family event with lively children and family entertainment, Aboriginal artists, cultural performances and workshops, along with a mainstage concert series. Throughout the day, families will enjoy free pony rides, petting zoo, circus workshops and children’s craft stations. All of our guests enjoy an opportunity to witness Aboriginal artists at work and participate in some of our ongoing Aboriginal arts workshops where you create your own unique piece or collaborate on a community artwork. The mainstage is lively all day with the “Aboriginal Canada, We Got Talent” contest, which draws incredible singers, dancers and other great talent from across Canada. As night falls, the mainstage lights up with some of Canada’s most recognized musical talent, with past headliners like Susan Aglukark and Eagle and Hawk. It is an event not to be missed, with something for the whole family and everything is FREE – admission and activities. Look for more program details on our website.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.722.0315
General information email: nadottawa@gmail.com
Locations:
June 19th and June 20th – Victoria Island, 100 Middle Street, Ottawa
June 21 – Canadian Museum of Civilization, 100 Laurier St., Gatineau, QC
On the Web:
Website: www.nadottawa.ca
Map:
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Ottawa Lumière Festival
| September 4, 2010 |
Lumière Festival is a celebration of community, creativity, diversity, and light. The Festival brings a common purpose to people of diverse cultures, languages, ages, and backgrounds, allowing for the creative expression of community and culture through lanterns, costumes, and performance.
By attending creative and performance workshops held at the Crichton Cultural Community Centre you can share in the joy of creation and be a part of the preparation for the Celebration.
We invite you to not only join us in the park on September 4th 2010, but to become and active participant in our community based celebration.
There are many opportunities to get involved in Lumière Festival:
- Attend a lantern making workshop at the Crichton Cultural Community Centre.
- Attend a Performance Workshop.
- Have us organize a facilitated lantern making workshop off site for your group or celebration.
- Become a Lumière Festival Sponsor to help us to bring joy to thousands of members of your community.
- It takes hundreds of hands to bring Lumière Festival together. We welcome your help! Please become a volunteer.
Mark your calendar, tell your friends, attend a workshop, create a lantern, bring your family and friends. It’s going to be Magical !
Festival Information:
General information: 613.745.2742
General information email: communitycentre@rogers.com
Location: New Edinburgh Park
On the Web: www.lumiereottawa.com
Map:
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Lumière Festival Worksops and the Afterglow Vernissage
Summer may be winding down but as the evenings lengthen there is still one festival to mark on the calendar. Not to be forgotten is the Lumière Festival produced by the Crichton Cultural Community Centre, 200 Crichton Avenue 2nd floor, in Ottawa’s New Edinburgh neighbourhood.
Founded in 2004, Lumière Festival has developed into a three-part event with lantern making, and performance workshops held at the Crichton Cultural Community Centre from mid August. Workshops are ongoing, and spaces are still available in many of the workshops. This is an ideal end of summer activity!
The workshops are preparations for The Evening of Light Celebration September 4th from 5-10 pm in New Edinburgh’s Stanley Park 193 Stanley Avenue, Ottawa. From early evening into the moonlight, Visitors are invited to bring a lantern and stroll along the riverside and wooded paths. Lit only by beautiful lanterns, candlelight and lighted art; skilled performers, poets, magicians and musicians will delight Visitors as a joyous celebration of creativity, community, and art unfolds.
The Transformation Tent will allow the little ones to join in the excitement and opportunities to create a simple lantern will be available.
New this year is the AfterGlow photo marathon challenge. Over a 12-hour period, registered participants will capture the essence of
Lumière in just six shots! Open to the public, the Afterglow Vernissage will take place on Tuesday Sept. 7 in the Corridor Gallery at the Crichton Cultural Community Centre 200 Crichton Ave, 2nd floor where photographers will see their work hung on the gallery walls. The AfterGlow of Lumière- a photography exhibit, continues to September 9th 2010.
For additional details about Lumière or to view the workshop schedule, please see our website www.lumiereottawa.com or contact the CCCC at 613.745.2742
Children’s Festival inspiring and just plain fun
Performers ‘respect imagination and critical instincts’ of children
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Free Drink with Admission at Bytown Museum during Winterlude
The Bytown Museum is pleased to offer a free hot beverage (coffee, tea, hot chocolate or hot apple cider) with every paid admission during Winterlude from Feb. 5 to 21.
During Winterlude, the Bytown Museum will remain open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is located steps from the Rideau Canal Skateway, easily accessible by staircase off Wellington Street or via the pedestrian ramp near the National Art Centre. The My Neighbourhood, My Voice project, first revealed for one day at City Hall in June of 2009, is currently on view at the Bytown Museum. Featured is the second grouping of photographs, Youth, offering a fascinating perspective on life in Ottawa. The final instalment, Family, will be on display from Feb. 23 to April 4.
Go to www.bytownmuseum.ca for details.
154th Metcalfe Fair
| September 30, 2010 | to | October 3, 2010 |
Event Highlights:
- 4H Regional Championship show
- Livestock and Horse Shows
- Agricultural Awareness
- Antique Machinery Display
- Demolition Derby
- Step Dancing Competition
- Live Entertainment
- Midway
- Family Entertainment
- Demonstrations
- Outdoor Recreation Show
Festival Information:
General information: 613.821.0591
General information email: metfair@bellnet.ca
Location: Metcalfe Fairgrounds – 2821 8th Line Road, Metcalfe, ON
On the Web: www.metcalfefair.com
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145 years of traditional fun behind annual Carp Fair
Chris Cobb, The Ottawa Citizen
It’s one of the Ottawa Valley’s oldest fall traditions and while a sell-out show Friday by the venerable rock band Blue Rodeo attracted the biggest single crowd of the weekend, the traditional is still the foundation, and major attraction, of the Carp Fair.
Farm animals, homecraft and agriculture – mostly absent from the daily lives of Ottawa’s urbanites – are always a major pull at the fair which for 145 years has been one of the region’s major annual attractions.
For the full story as well as photos and video, visit the Ottawa Citizen website: 145 years of traditional fun behind annual Carp Fair
147th Carp Fair
| September 23, 2010 | to | September 26, 2010 |
147th Annual Carp Fair – Where Country Meets City
Agricultural Fair, Heavy Horse Shows, Light Horse Shows, Beef & Dairy Cattle Shows, Midway, Homecooked Meals, Family Circle Tent, Live Entertainment, Petting Zoo – Something for everyone!
Festival Information:
General information: 613.839.2172
General information email: info@carpfair.ca
Location: Carp Fairgrounds – 3790 Carp Road, Carp, ON
On the Web:
Website: www.carpfair.ca
Map:
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Ottawa Gets Folked
David McClelland | apartment613
When it comes to music festivals, those that focus on folk music often don’t get as much regard as more mainstream events, considered the domain of aging hippies and twanging bluegrass. And while the 16th annual Ottawa Folk Festival played host to plenty of both, there was lots more on offer, featuring a wide variety of musical performers and some big-name Canadians as headlining acts.
Taking place in the west end’s Britannia Park on August 21-23, the Folk Festival was probably one of Ottawa’s best musical events this summer. Headlined by former Barenaked Lady Steven Page, Canadian folk-legend Bruce Cockburn and Halifax-based rocker Joel Plaskett, and featuring a wealth of lesser-known performers the festival seemed to have something for everyone.
Read the full review @ apt613.ca: Ottawa Gets Folked
