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Zine enthusiasts, rejoice! Broken Pencil Magazine is hosting its 27th annual Canzine festival in Ottawa this Sunday, November 6, at the Alma Duncan Salon in the Ottawa Art Gallery.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… holiday craft show season! That’s right—it begins in early November, we presume to give folks plenty of time to shop before the holidays are truly upon us.

If you’re organizing or hosting a holiday market, please let Apt613 know about it!

After a three-year hiatus, the Ottawa Antique & Vintage Market and the Ottawa Vintage Clothing Show return to The Fieldhouse at Carleton University on October 22 and 23

Cheerfully Made Goods + Markets presents their fall craft market on Sept. 24-25 at the Bell Sensplex, where over 100 small Canadian businesses will show off their handcrafted goods to the public.

Theo Fietka and Anna Paluch share a few things in common—namely, an artistic practice grounded in Polish folk art traditions and a desire to help each other out as they carve out a niche for their folk art.

“We aim to make you happy and feel good about yourself,” Studio Peachy owner and founder Katrin Emery says. Emery is creating radiant accessories whose designs focus on positive, impactful images, and recently launched her new website.

After two long years, Ottawa Comiccon is back from Sept. 9-11, 2022, bringing fiction fans everything they can dream of, including Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulsen, Denise Crosby, Tomer Capone, Cary Elwes, and Georges St-Pierre.

“Walking these dogs, even if it’s just for an hour makes me feel like they are all mine in a small way. The bond we create is so special and important to me,” says Karina Dos Reis-Baeta. At just 22, this recent Algonquin College veterinary technician grad’s dog-walking business is flourishing, with many loyal clients and countless happy paws.

Sometimes a business picks a new location, and sometimes a location picks a new business. And in the case of the businesses at the corner of Howe and Britannia, it seems like the location has been doing all the picking.

Ottawa’s first Pride Night Market is coming to Parkdale Market on August 20. It’s a 2SLGBTQIA+ celebration where the community can gather and appreciate lovely performers, businesses, and one another. 

Touring Hintonburg, François Levesque highlights the comings and goings of new stores in the neighbourhood.

Adaawewigamig is a new social enterprise operated by the Assembly of Seven Generations, an organization led by and for Indigenous youth. The store, selling high-quality Indigenous-made goods, is located in the ByWard Market Square.

“While I love and adore my previous name, outing myself to strangers who ask for my brand name has unfortunately caused me to feel unsafe on several occasions,” says  KJ Forman, a queer, non-binary feminist artist who formerly created under the name Lucky Little Queer. They say they have “personally changed a lot” since 2016, and things stopped fitting. The creation of their new Luck and Lavender studio matched the different person they had become, empowering Forman to go “wherever I decide to go” from here.

NAC Indigenous Theatre’s Indigenous Art Market is back for its first in-person event since December 2019.