community
BOLD: Canterbury High School Dance Night
Dance Night 2019 will be held on May 23rd and May 24th, at 7:00 pm in the Barrie Alexander Auditorium at Canterbury High School. Come and enjoy performances choreographed and produced by the graduating class of the Canterbury Dance Company, as well as pieces by guest artists, with dancers from Grades 10 – 12. Adult […]
Clothing Swap – Ottawa Children’s Choir
Environmental | Community | Vintage | Treasure Hunt | Sharing Bring in your (fabulous) used clothing and accessories and get something New For You! Entrance is $10 + up to 5 items of clothing or accessories that are clean and in good shape and exchange for other items. Mens, Womens, Kids. Collaborating with local retailers […]
Le motton #3
Le motton is a free monthly gathering of the Ottawa-Gatineau arts community. ␥ Le motton est une réunion mensuelle de la communauté des arts de l’Outaouais. Le motton serves to bring the Ottawa-Gatineau arts communities together each month to support, connect & collaborate with each other. Every gathering will centre around a subject/question/interest that concerns […]
Le motton #2
Le motton is a new free monthly gathering of the Ottawa-Gatineau arts community. Le motton est une nouvelle réunion mensuelle des communautés artistiques de l’Outaouais. Le motton serves to bring the Ottawa-Gatineau arts communities together each month to support, connect & collaborate with each other. Every gathering will centre around a subject/question/interest that concerns members […]
Smut Slam Ottawa: Tinder Tales and Fails
Smut Slam returns to The Happy Goat Cafe on Laurel to cure your Valentine’s Day hangover with sexy, smutty storytelling, hosted by Ottawa’s favourite foul-mouthed redhead, Helvetica Bold! SMUT SLAM is a community open mic featuring real-life first-person sex stories. Get ready for an evening of sexy chats, and get your anonymous questions and confessions […]
Ottawa Contra Dance
If contra dancing’s been on your radar for a while, now’s the time to give it a try! Join us February 2 for an afternoon and/or evening of live music, dance fun, and a supportive community of dancers. Community Dance: (6:30 – 7:30 p.m.) this dance is great introduction to contra dancing. Dances are accessible […]
Fête de l’Amitié: Benefit Concert in Support of Syrian Refugees
Événement familial et convivial avec spectacle multiculturel suivi d’un goûter agrémenté de chansons folkloriques syriennes. Mettant en vedette Cynthia Baroud, finaliste à l’émission La Voix de 2014. Cynthia, chanteuse-compositrice originaire du Liban, interprétera des chansons populaires du répertoire arabe et français. Après le spectacle, un goûter aux saveurs orientales et canadiennes sera servi. Le groupe […]
Capital Pride is all about CommUNITY
With the week of August 19th to 26th just around the corner, the 2018 theme for Capital Pride has been unveiled: CommUNITY. This year, they want to focus on individuals and organizations that support and improve the lives of LGBTQ2+ people.
Beau’s steps up their investment in the community
Beau’s is aiming to raise and donate $5 million to various “community-building groups, charitable organizations, and independent arts” over the next 10 years.
Librarian In Residence: How to start an urban revolution
After being asked for a list of books on community and civic engagement, I started researching to see if I could learn more about what exactly this means, especially in light of some of the big ongoing projects in Ottawa.
Meals on Wheels: Community helping community
Elliot is one of almost 500 Meals on Wheels volunteers who collectively donate around 2,000 hours of their time and deliver over 10,000 hot and frozen meals each month in Ottawa.
What’s on your plate? Local food for thought about eating as a community
Alison Larabie Chase blogs about cooking and restaurants at This Dessert Life when she’s not herding cats, working in association communications, or traveling the world. A community cooking night. An apple festival. No less than three events involving local craft breweries. In case you hadn’t noticed, Support Local 2015 is focused primarily on facilitating discussions […]
Video of the Week: Sweet Surrender by Hyfidelik the Gypsy Sun
Hyf the Gypsy Sun describes himself as an “Interplantary frijole eating islamic hispanic sufi rapper guy.” Based in Ottawa, he’s also one of the hip-hop MCs that founded Nationless Mind Records back in 2012. More than a label, Nationless is building a community of support for artists who are typically on the cultural fringe. Its […]
The West End Well: Grocery store meets community building
The West End Well is many things. From the outside it looks like a normal grocery store, its stoop adorned with all manner of fruits and vegetables to entice the hungry passerby. But it is so much more than a simple grocery. A step inside reveals a space that is devoted half to produce and […]
