Guest Post

The Ottawa Art Gallery and The Ottawa Hospital introduce the TRIAS art prize, made up of three awards totalling $40,000.

On May 31, in collaboration with Apt613, we recognized five more incredible community builders. You’ll read about two of them today: Donald Neville and Marie Therese Wang.

May’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Carolyn Mackenzie to support advocacy around walkable communities in the city.

The GIVE TO GET ART Auction Opening Night Gala, back in person for the first time in two years, is Friday, May 27, from 6:30pm to midnight. You can purchase tickets for the VIP reception, which starts at 6:30pm for an extra hour of bidding, and includes food stations and cocktails. General admission starts at 7:30pm.

Hi friends! We are Tyler and Steph, the hosts of the Ottawa Pizza Podcast — a show in which two friends try pizza from Ottawa pizza places to determine whether the pizza is, as we say, “good”, just okay, or downright bad.

On March 24, in collaboration with Apt613, we recognized six more incredible community builders. We featured the first three yesterday; the final three are featured below.

March’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Sinda Garziz to support street art shedding light on the barriers experienced by those in Ottawa with precarious immigration status.

February’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Beth Tyler to support exploration of microscopic life at Ottawa’s Mud Lake, near Lincoln Fields.

We surprised an unsuspecting attendee at Black History Ottawa’s launch event for Black History Month—meet Jean-Marie Guerrier, our latest Community Builder Award recipient.

We the undersigned believe that arts and culture are the lifeblood of a vibrant society. Through our local cultural organizations, we tell the wonderful and complex stories of our region, we entertain and provide education, and we are a respite that contributes to the wellbeing of our citizens.

January’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to an anonymous local creator who is hiding clay gnomes around the city and posting pictures of where they can be found.

In this guest post, Kichi Sibi Trail Revitalization shares their work restoring a network of Indigenous/pre-contact trails around the Ottawa region.

Milana and Arty of MilArt Studio lived in Russia, Ukraine, and Israel before settling in Ottawa and finding huge musical success with Apple Music.

Meet the latest batch of United Way East Ontario’s Community Builders. Today: Kim Hyslop.

Meet the latest batch of United Way East Ontario’s Community Builders. Today: Dr. Raynold Alorse.