Ottawa Canadian Film Festival launches “Shorts at Home” on May 15th
On May 15, Ottawa Canadian Film Festival brings you the first volume of its “Shorts at Home” series. Starting at 6pm, five films will be available to stream at home for 24 hours.
NCC accelerates riverfront development with announcement of three new parks
This plan is a continuation of decades of debate between those who see the Ottawa River as a place of serenity for local residents, and those who see it as an under-utilized asset in the middle of the nation’s capital.
MASC: Artists are vital to our community
MASC is a charitable arts organization that brings the arts and culture alive for over 120,000 children, youth, and seniors in the Ottawa region each year. They have developed online programming that will soon be offered through school and community platforms.
[Call for nominations] Community Builder Awards: COVID-19 Heroes Edition
While COVID-19 has changed the ways we gather, celebrate, and honour one another, it has not changed the way our community steps up to support and help each other in times of crisis. In support of United Way East Ontario, Apartment613 is proud to co-present the Community Builder Awards: COVID-19 Heroes Edition.
#ottmusic weekly: Season II, Valois added to the @apt613 playlist
Music from Ottawa; and happening in Ottawa. Updated weekly by apt613.ca music writers.
[Appel] Prix de bâtisseurs communautaires : Héros de la COVID-19
La maladie à coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) a changé bien des choses : rencontres, célébrations et hommages. Elle n’a toutefois pas changé comment les membres de nos communautés unissent leurs efforts pour s’entraider en situation de crise. Apartment613, en partenariat avec Centraide de l’Est de l’Ontario, est fier de vous présenter les Prix de bâtisseurs communautaires : Héros de la COVID-19.
Liam Mooney: “Development should not happen to a place. It should happen with a place.”
Op-ed: “More needs to be done to address inequality, to empower, and to help people situate themselves within the development process.”
Guillermo Trejo’s West Coast Series on virtual exhibit at Studio Sixty Six—until 05.30.20
With public events being cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns, Trejo thought it might be best to cancel his show as well. He was prepared to accept that. Luckily, he and the Studio Sixty Six’s curator, Carrie Colton, came up with another approach that would allow his work to be shown at a safe social distance.
#ottmusic weekly: Vibesbymelo, summersets, Main Street Revival Band added to the @apt613 playlist
Music from Ottawa; and happening in Ottawa. Updated weekly by apt613.ca music writers.
Ottawa arts and culture jobs—May 2020
Every first Monday of the month, Apartment613 publishes the coolest #ottarts #ottjobs we hear about.
Ottawa is hungry for business: Visibility for BIPOC-, immigrant-, and refugee-owned small food businesses during COVID-19 and beyond
Apt613 has compiled a geotagged map of BIPOC-, immigrant-, and refugee-owned places you can shop for all your grocery, meat, and bakery needs.
Birling the quarantine: Skateboarding during a pandemic
Adam Wawrzynczak: “Unfortunately, in light of the ongoing pandemic, we have been unable to skate with each other at all; a reality of today’s “new normal.”
#ottmusic weekly: The PepTides, Jack Pine, Held in Secret added to the @apt613 playlist
Music from Ottawa; and happening in Ottawa. Updated weekly by apt613.ca music writers.
#ottmusic weekly: Evening Hymns, Graven, Robby Miller added to the @apt613 playlist
Music from Ottawa; and happening in Ottawa. Updated weekly by apt613.ca music writers.
Call for Apartment613 residency proposals—deadline 04.30.20
Apartment613 is offering one-week to one-month residencies for local artists, journalists or cultural workers who may be in need of paid work amid COVID-19 disruptions.