Sights & Sounds

Obscura Creative is a collective that focuses on local, grassroots storytelling. This year, they created Vs.: Women in Combat Sports, a six-part documentary series following 12 amateur female combat sports athletes from the Ottawa-Gatineau region.

In the giving spirit of the season, we’re giving you twice the podcast this week, with a bonus episode of holiday cheer!

What better way to celebrate the holidays than with Apt613’s Christmas playlist, featuring songs recorded by artists from or based right here in Ottawa.

The band formed in 1987 in Kingston, Ontario, and are still as crazy live as they were when first starting out.

9th Hour Theatre Company’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is at the Richcraft Theatre in the Shenkman Centre until December 16. It then moves to the Meridian Theatre at Centrepointe December 19 to 23.

The Digi60 Filmmakers’ Festival creates opportunities for the city’s new and emerging filmmakers. It takes place December 20-23.

With the end of the year fast approaching, the holiday cheer can make winter’s cold temperatures a little less frigid. The holidays are a time to get together and this weekend provides plenty of opportunity to indulge and get some of your gift-getting out of the way.

Stars will be performing at the NAC with a 90-piece orchestra, a first for the band.

Holiday Boogie is a funk and soul dance party at Babylon Nightclub this Saturday, December 15.

Queen St. Fare is also one of the few food halls popping up across North America with entertainment on the menu.

Paper Beat Scissors is playing at Pressed on Friday, December 14.

Have you ever wanted to stand centre stage and break out into a perfectly choreographed number to a sold out theatre of adoring fans? Get ready for that moment with Broadway Workout, a musical theatre themed dance session.

The Hockey Sweater falls firmly into the pop musical category; think Dear Evan Hanson or a Stephen Sondheim musical.

Carleton University music theatre students performed two nights of Songs for a New World for their end of term production with the Carleton University Musical Theatre Ensemble.