Carnival of Cultures
| June 8, 2012 | to | June 10, 2012 |
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Carnival of Cultures is a weekend festival that celebrates folkloric traditions through music, dance, theatre from the four corners of the globe. Come discover South American, European, African, Middle-Eastern, and Asian cultures presented by over 500 local artists who will take the stage at the Marion Dewar Plaza. In addition to non-stop entertainment and activities, the festival also offers tantalizing authentic cuisine, eye-opening demonstrations, and hands-on workshops for people of all ages. Tickets available through Ottawa Festivals.
The world is at your fingertips at Carnival of Cultures!
Le Carnaval des cultures est un festival qui fête les traditions folkloriques par le biais de la musique, la danse, et le théâtre provenant des quatre coins du monde. Venez découvrir les cultures de l’Amérique du Sud, de l’Europe, de l’Afrique, du Moyen-Orient et de l’Asie présentées par au delà de 500 artistes d’ici qui s’afficheront sur la scène du Plaza Mirion Dewar (Festival Plaza) . En plus de spectacles et d’activités continus, le festival offre des cuisines authentiques, des démonstrations révélatrices et des ateliers pour les gens de tous les âges.
Le monde est à portée de main au Carnaval des cultures!
Event Highlights:
- Non-stop entertainment
- Folkloric music, dance, theatre
- Children’s corner
- Demonstrations
- Workshops.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.742.6952
General information email: carnivalofcultures@hotmail.comLocation: Marion Dewar Plaza (formerly known as Festival Plaza)
Ottawa City Hall, Laurier Ave. & Elgin St., Ottawa
Tickets available through Ottawa Festivals.
On the Web:
Website: www.carnivalofcultures.com
Map:
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Westfest
| June 8, 2012 | to | June 10, 2012 |
Westfest is a party like no other! Each year, more than 100,000 people attend Westfest during our outdoor, three-day celebration of Canadian art and culture. As a free multidisciplinary art festival dedicated to showcasing Canadian artists and their work in an accessible and inclusive setting, Westfest fills 14 city blocks with a variety of artistic disciplines such as music, contemporary dance, visual art, media art, performance art, spoken word, poetry and fiction readings, Aboriginal art forms, children’s entertainment, buskers, street performers, and much more.
In addition to the street level celebration, each year the festival hosts an outdoor main stage which features some of the best acts our country has to offer. Past headliners have included Buffy Saint-Marie, Sloan, Joel Plaskett, Jane Siberry, Cowboys Junkies, Kathleen Edwards, and more. Established in 2004, Westfest is a fusion of community and art, and places a special emphasis on diversity, children, and all families. Taking place annually the second weekend of June, Westfest is proud to be Ottawa’s only festival of its size and scope that is free and open to all!
General information: 613.729.3565
General information email: info@westfest.ca
Location: Westboro Village – Richmond Road (between McRae and Berkley Ave.), Ottawa
Westfest Domicile Main Stage – 190 Richmond Road (behind the Real Canadian Superstore parking lot)
On the Web:
Website: www.westfest.ca
Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/wesfestinfo
Twitter: www.twitter.com/WESTFESTinfo
Others: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesfest
Italian Week of Ottawa/Settimana Italiana di Ottawa
| June 7, 2012 | to | June 17, 2012 |
The Corso Italia (Preston Street) is the place to be for great Italian music, food, pageantry, art and opera at the piazza (a traditional festival square). Be a part of this cultural celebration while enjoying great food and entertainment in an affable atmosphere. Don’t miss the bicycle race and the Italian Car parade with Ferrari demonstrations driving through an oval track on Carling Avenue, from Preston Street to Booth Street.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.858.9086
General information email: settimanaitaliana@hotmail.com
Location: Preston Street, Ottawa
On the Web:
Website: www.italianweekottawa.org
Croatoan Annual Concert
| May 5, 2012 |
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Festival Information
National Capital Region Croatian Folklore Ensemble “Croatoan” Annual Concert
Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 1 p.m.
General info: 613-823-6106
General info: visnjabeg@rogers.com
Location: Kailash Mital Theatre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON
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Concert Annuel de Croatoan
L’Information de Festivale
L’information générale : 613-823-6106
L’information générale : visnjabeg@rogers.com
Location: Kailash Mital Theatre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON
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Canadian Tulip Festival
| May 4, 2012 | to | May 21, 2012 |
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The Canadian Tulip Festival, now in its 60th year, has grown to become the largest Tulip Festival in the world. It preserves the local heritage of Canada’s role in freeing the Dutch during World War II, and the symbolic tulip; a gift in perpetuity to the Canadian people for providing a safe harbour to the Dutch Royal Family at that time.
The festival’s mandate is to preserve this heritage and celebrate the tulip as a symbol of international friendship by engaging local organizers, volunteers, artists, performers, tourists and festival-goers in what has become an annual ritual of spring and one of Canada’s best loved and well-known cultural events.
Please continue to check www.tulipfestival.ca for updates!
Festival Information:
General information: 613.567.5757 /1.800.66.TULIP
General information email: info@tulipfestival.ca
Ticket information: www.tulipfestival.ca
Volunteer information: www.tulipfestival.ca/volunteer
Location: Throughout the National Capital area
On the Web:
Website: www.tulipfestival.ca/www.festivaldestulipes.ca
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1209015588&ref=ts
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/canadiantulipfestival
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Présentement dans sa 60e année, le Festival canadien des tulipes est aujourd’hui le plus important festival de tulipes au monde. Il commémore la participation des troupes canadiennes à la libération des Pays-Bas durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La tulipe symbolise un don à perpétuité offert au Canada en remerciement du refuge que la famille royale hollandaise en exil avait pu y trouver à cette époque.
Le mandat du Festival est de préserver cet héritage et de reconnaître la tulipe comme un symbole d’amitié internationale en amenant les organisateurs locaux, les bénévoles, les artistes, les touristes et les festivaliers à participer à ce qui est maintenant devenu un rituel annuel du printemps et l’un des événements culturels les plus populaires et les plus aimés au Canada.
L’information de festivale:
L’information generale: 613.567.5757 /1.800.66.TULIP
L’information generale de couriel: info@tulipfestival.ca
L’information de billets: www.tulipfestival.ca
L’information de benevoler: www.tulipfestival.ca/volunteer
Sur le web:
Website: www.tulipfestival.ca/www.festivaldestulipes.ca
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1209015588&ref=ts
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/canadiantulipfestival
Officials take Tulip Festival ‘where the people are
By Denis Armstrong , Ottawa Sun
At age 60, the Canadian Tulip Festival no longer has an identity crisis.
For the last dozen years, this annual rite of spring in the capital didn’t know what it was.
At times, it’s reinvented itself as a soggy music festival in Major’s Hill Park, then an interactive classical music circus at parks across the city.
The problem was that those thousands of tourists skipped the festival to admire the impressive tulip beds around Dow’s Lake and the Canal.
But this year, the festival’s current honorary chair David Luxton thinks he has a better solution.
Read more: Officials take Tulip Festival ‘where the people are
Diefenbunker partners with Music and Beyond, Beyond the Bomb: Music of the Cold War
Courtesy of EMC News
The Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum, is collaborating with the Music and Beyond Festival to bring you Beyond the Bomb: Music of the Cold War.
Music and Beyond is taking over the Bunker and filling it with music. This multi-sensory experience will include music, food and wine.
It will truly be the event of the summer
Beyond the Bomb: Music of the Cold War takes place on Wednesday July 11 from 6-9 p.m.
Be the first to purchase tickets! Visit: www.musicandbeyond.ca or please feel free to call the museum and ask for information too at 613-839-0007. Music and Beyond was named Best New Company of the Year at the recent Ottawa Tourism Awards.
Built to protect the government from nuclear attack, the Diefenbunker, a once-secret bunker, is now a museum and National Historic Site of Canada.
In addition to preserving and promoting Canada’s Cold War history, we offer a variety of visitor programs and services. You can learn, play or shop as you discover the bunker’s secrets and relive the experience of the Cold War.
Bluesfest Q & A with CTV
Michael O’Byrne, CTV Ottawa
CTV Ottawa’s Michael O’Byrne interviewed Bluesfest executive Mark Monahan live during CTV News at Noon Wednesday. Viewers learned the price of a week-long festival pass will increase, the festival will aim to go cash free, and executives have hired an independent engineer to avoid last year’s stage collapse debacle.
According to the Capital Tickets website, festival-goers will receive one Bluesband for the duration of the festival, no reserved seating, and full festival passports will be going up on April 28 to $375 each.
Bluesfest 2012 runs from July 4-15.
Michael: We’re hearing the prices for a week long pass are going up from $190 – $300 dollars is that true?
Mark: Actually not exactly – we’re in the midst of starting a pre-sale today and the pass you can get for 250$ — which is about a 10 per cent increase over last year – but we’re coming up with a new pass system and what we’re finding is that most people want to go six or seven days. So you can get a six or seven day pass this year for basically the same price as a pass last year.
Read more: Bluesfest Q & A with CTV
Correspondent Rebecca Happy Spotlights Ottawa Festivals on Community CupTV
Correspondent Rebecca Happy Spotlights Ottawa Festivals on Community CupTV. The Community Cup has been added to the roster of festivals around the city of Ottawa now since 2010 and is going into its 8th year. Rebecca Happy speaks with Executive Director, Barbara Stacey of Ottawa Festivals to talk about their involvement in making Ottawa the best city in the world to live in.
Capital Chill announces new Ottawa event to showcase Canadian artists and musicians
Capital Chill, Ottawa’s contemporary art and music show, announced its inaugural event will take place on May 25, 2012 at Arts Court, Ottawa’s centre for the performing, visual, literary, and media arts. The event will showcase 10 visual and multi-disciplinary artists of local and national distinction, as well as a truly unique slate of musicians, establishing Capital Chill as the preeminent event for local arts enthusiasts and lounge music fans.
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Capital Chill takes place on Friday, May 25th, beginning at 7:30pm. Arts Court is located at 2 Daly Avenue. Tickets for the event are $15 in advance; $20 at the door; and go on sale today at capitalchill.ca.
About Capital Chill: Capital Chill is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and growth of the Canadian contemporary arts and lounge music scene. Founded in 2012, this Ottawa based organization specializes in live art and music events and is growing quickly thanks to the continued support of many of the city’s influential artists and musicians.
Read more: Capital Chill announces new Ottawa event to showcase Canadian artists and musicians
