My favourite Ottawa festival, the Canadian Film Institute’s Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), begins on Wednesday, Sept. 24 and runs to Sunday, Sept. 28 at several downtown locations—mainly at the Ottawa Art Gallery and the ByTowne.
This new initiative brings together artists, city-builders, and community leaders to explore what it takes to reimagine downtown spaces for the arts, and who’s ready to step up.
Every first Monday of the month, Apartment613 publishes the coolest #ottarts #ottjobs we hear about. All the best arts and culture gigs in our local network. Share a job posting or call for artists: Please send a link to <ottjobs@apt613.ca> and be sure to mention the closing date. Ottawa-Gatineau-based opportunities only.
The Ottawa Art Gallery truly partied in pink Thursday night, as the annual Give to Get Art Auction came to life with a sold-out crowd.
With the return of some classic Ottawa events (hello Ribfest!), it feels like we’ve finally made it to summer in the city.
On Thursday, May 29, the Ottawa Art Gallery will host its signature Give to Get Art Auction at the Alma Duncan Salon on level three of the gallery.
On April 25-27, 2025, I took in Ottawa’s first ever Aerial Circus Festival at the LabO Theatre located on the ground floor of the Ottawa Art Gallery (10 Daly Ave.). You had me at Aerial Circus. What a spring treat!
The Irish Film Festival of Ottawa is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a three-day extravaganza of music, film, dance, and more. Running from April 25-27 at the Ottawa Art Gallery, promises to be a celebration of Irish culture for Ottawa’s Irish diaspora and beyond. Apt613 chatted with Patrick Murray, festival co-founder, about the festival and what audiences can expect this year.
The Ottawa Art Gallery screened Rêver en néon and Café des cauchemars on March 21, 2025 as part of the International Film Festival of Ottawa, which ended on March 23.
To A Land Unknown, Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel’s first narrative feature, could at first be mistaken for another of the documentaries for which he is known. The film’s grittiness and uncompromising, in-your-face realism, not to mention the story’s parallels with Fleifel’s life, could so easily be reality that it takes a moment to realize it is not.
After a messy week, it looks like the weather will clear up just in time to enjoy the goings on this weekend. There is plenty to do around town, so get out and enjoy yourselves, folks!
The annual SnowBall returns on February 12 at the Ottawa Art Gallery with all proceeds supporting the purchase of snowsuits for underserved children in our community.
The holidays are officially over and we’ve stepped firmly into January 2025! If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to get out and enjoy this city more, Apt613 can help you do that – we’ve compiled this handy dandy roundup of what’s going on in Ottawa this weekend.
Stories My Father Couldn’t Tell Me: Jeff Thomas Origin is a reflection of Jeff Thomas’s 40 years of art-making, resistance, and activism as an urban Iroquois photographer and cultural theorist. His exhibit is coming to the Ottawa Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada from Oct. 19, 2024 to March 16, 2025.
This weekend’s got something for everyone: music, art, food, and spooky fun!
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