This Weekend in Downtown
View on Map89 events this weekend in Downtown. Festivals, concerts, sports, and community events.
EEPMON
Come to the Jackson Café to discover two large murals, featuring the digital artwork of Eric Chan (aka eepmon)! In Futur…
becoming|un|becoming: deepening relations
The artworks by Leah Decter, a white settler artist and scholar, offer an opportunity to reflect on repair and care of r…
Intertwined
In a time marked by our increasingly complex relationship to the natural world, Intertwined brings together artists for…
Groupe de conversation en français- Jeudi soir
Profitez de notre groupe de conversation afin d'améliorer vos habiletés en français l'oral. Join our free French Conve…
Rideau Friday English Conversation Group
Do you already have some basic English language skills, and are you looking for a casual, friendly environment where you…
Go Workshop / Atelier de Go
The Ottawa Go Club (https://ottawagoclub.wixsite.com/ogcs) organizes a series of workshops for people who want to improv…
Capital Region Writers Group: Write-In
You’re invited to join the CRWG for a “Write-in”: dedicated work time where you can thrive in the camaraderie of working…
Groupe de conversation en français | French conversation gro…
Rejoignez notre groupe de conversation pour pratiquer le français dans une atmosphère détendue.Join our French conversat…
Knit & Knatter
Bring your knitting or crochet and meet fellow enthusiasts at the Sunnyside branch. Knitters of all abilities are welcom…
Chess Club
Join us for open games of chess. Whether you're a beginner or more advanced, this is a relaxed environment where everyon…
Vernon Book Club
Everyone is welcome to join Vernon’s book club!Visit with your friends and neighbours to discuss great books.First Thurs…
French Conversation-Intermediate, Groupe de conversation- ni…
Améliorez votre français parlé et rencontrez des gens dans une ambiance décontractée et conviviale. Niveau intermédiaire…
Monday Night at the Movies/ Lundi cinéma
Join us at Sunnyside for our monthly film screening every second Monday of the month.Monday May 11th at 6:15pm -About Ti…
Storytelling Open Mic
Storytelling Open Mic is a perfect place for newcomers to discover oral storytelling in a warm and supportive atmosphere…
Atelier Zine Workshop
Learn to design, make, and publish your own Zines! A Zine is a small, self-published booklet filled with whatever you w…
Club de lecture francophone de la Centrale
Joignez-vous nous pour des discussions conviviales propos de livres en français.Présentez-vous au bureau de consultati…
Sunnyside Euchre Club for Seniors
Come play Euchre this summer and make new friends! Even if you don't know how to play, a guide will be there to teach yo…
Ottawa Fringe Festival 2026
The 29th Ottawa Fringe Festival — 11 days, 62 shows across 10 venues including Arts Court, the Ottawa Art Gallery, La No…
Disarranged Marriage
Rory has found himself the perfect fiancée – Serenade, who ran away five years ago against her parents’ wishes. He gets…
The Etymology of Love
What is love? Is it romance, or something deeper? Love is the invisible thread connecting us across race, country, dista…
HOME(sic)
The multi-award wining team behind Generic Male returns with a spectacular fusion of movement, illusion, and dynamic phy…
Onwards!
ONWARDS, hurtling through the chaotic balancing act of life vs robots. Dark comedic storytelling + virtuoso singing by o…
Schedule of Loss
In February 2023, an apartment building in Ottawa was destroyed by fire. In a matter of hours, Claire Biddiscombe lost h…
Black Fish
The story of a young woman who is challenged by simple questions about whether to leave or to stay. The conflict of her…
Homecumming
Homecumming follows a woman who loses her orgasms… and loses herself. While orgasms are the inciting incident (and an en…
Small Fish
Small Fish is a living room dance routine gone nuclear. Glenys Marshall (beautiful libra woman) and Maggie May Harder (l…
Rainbow Conceptions
A true-ish story of Greer, a Queer wobbling along the STRAIGHT path to parenthood. With Fab, a witchy best friend, Billi…
Rat Academy
Come along with Fingers and Shrimp, the last rats in Alberta, and learn how they survive in a world that hates them. Fin…
Emo Majok: African Aussie
Award-winning South Sudanese-Australian comedian Emo Majok brings his hit show African Aussie to the stage with raw stor…
john jack josie – JUICE
A three character, one clown, solo storytelling show. Join Juice as they reveal their truest self along with a fair bit…
Joplin: Rock on Out
A raw, soulful journey through the music of Janis Joplin by way of a tribute concert honouring her voice and her story.…
Umugisha
A DIY micro-poem musical about a second-gen Burundian queer who, through constant questioning of their belonging, decide…
9 Lives, 8 Near-misses : life lessons from near-death events
A car crash full of kids. A knife-wielding madman. True love, pernicious patriarchy, and the perils of both. A kungfu ca…
Argile verte
Sarah just lost her mother. Shit’s hitting the fan. She needs to go back to her hometown to face her ghost. A fantastiqu…
Mom Jokes
We hear dad jokes everywhere – on t.v., social media, family dinners, posters on the dentist’s bathroom door. Where are…
Barry Potter and the Magic of Wizardry
From 21 x Fringe Fest award winner Tim Motley (Dirk Darrow): Experience the wonder of world-class wizardry in a realm of…
Working Title
WORKING TITLE is a devised performance piece that combines visceral movement with live-cued soundscapes to explore how t…
Crabs! The Musical
Three giant mutant crabs crawl out of the polluted deep and claw their way into the big human city—with songs, dances, r…
Dwarves & Dark Places
Under the mountains you will find the mines, and in the mines you will find the hardworking dwarves. And in these mines,…
Karl the Cat and the Junkyard Pack
Karl is an adventurous cat, exploring the garbage peaks and demolished cars of their junkyard home, but they struggle wi…
A Lesbian in the Kitchen – A Cosy Queer Baking Show
Willow Rosenberg (she/her) invites you into her kitchen and bakes you cookies while sharing stories centred around some…
Les Aventures d’Humphrey Beauregret – Fossette Boudoir
Humphrey Beauregret, détective privé sur le déclin, tente de survivre à son existence. Son alcoolisme tenace et ses prob…
A Cabaret of Legends
Legendary songs from the collections of legendary artists, and the stories behind them. International award-winning voca…
Politicians are Puppets
This show is about politics and is not for the faint of heart. Due to the subject matter you will be taken on an emotion…
All Fall Down: An Improvised Murder Mystery
Something sinister stirs in the shadows. A classic mystery is about to unfold: a group of intriguing, often eccentric ch…
The Syllabus
Public displays of affection! Mass shootings! Drugs, deities – it’s the first day of class, and Prof. G. explains why yo…
Mommy, I’m Stuck in Highschool!
Life isn’t easy for the emo girl in a suburban town’s high school. That is until Devon — a senior who’s never quite fit…
The Persistent Stain
What do you do when you’ve followed your dream but the dream is no longer enough? “The Persistent Stain” is a second-wav…
AWOL: 2 Old Men Escape From A Care Home & Go To A Metal Fest…
Cyril doesn’t like old people, which is a shame, because he is one. When he learns his estranged granddaughter, Lily, ha…
Gander Euphoria: A Pretty Gay Goose Play
From the creators of the 17x sold-out Fringe hit A Sexy Pigeon Show! Experience the history of queer resistance like nev…
I have a dream in Chinese
A Chinese immigrant travels from Hong Kong to Vancouver while unraveling the fracture between her two names, two languag…
Completely Forgettable
What if you lived your whole life afraid of being forgotten? In “Completely Forgettable”, a hilarious and deeply vulnera…
Who’s Gonna Push Your Wheelchair?
What happens when a girl with bad boyfriends, a messy family, and a predilection for self-sabotage faces a future of dis…
La tragédie du Brise-Glace
Aboard the Ice-Breaker, Captain Hubert Kizmo sets sail with two close friends and three sailors still new to the waves.…
Robin Hood But Everyone is a Glove
Robin Hood: Outlaw. Adventurer. Icon. And, for one Fringe only, a Glove. It’s got puppets. It’s got action. It’s got tax…
Aberration
In a rural farmhouse, the dysfunctional Cain family is rocked when eldest brother Andrew reappears after a week-long dis…
Neo Soul Ties
A dance show like no other. TAP DANCE. LIVE MUSIC. IMPROVISATION. CHOREOGRAPHY. A vibrant CELEBRATION of BLACK AMERICAN…
Un moment ou un autre
Une adaptation libre du film underground danois de 1931, Et øjeblik eller et andet réalisé par Torben Rasmussen. L’histo…
A Seance Spectacular with the Mystical Medium Wolf Sisters f…
A Victorian seance gone awry. Part comedy, part scare, this 60-minute show created and performed by these ‘hilarious hos…
How To Love A Fascist
Award-winning comedian Cassie Cao (CBC, Crave, JFL) returns to Ottawa with a brand-new solo show. The only show about lo…
BELT
Big laughs. Catchy songs. Joyful chaos. BELT is a family-friendly musical where every show feels like opening night, bec…
The Rock That Boated
It’s 1804, that rascal Napoleon rules the waves, and the British Navy’s favourite tactical island has gone adrift. Can i…
A Life of My Own
After fleeing a controlling relationship and a lifetime of family pressure, Maddie begins rebuilding her life from the g…
Card Magic
“How did you do that?” Is the exact question that will be asked and answered in this Sleight of Hand Card Magic show. As…
Inhuman Resources
What’s worse? Waiting for something good to happen, or waiting for something bad? Find out in this Godot-inspired tragic…
Mickey Mouse Shot Me In The Ass
A captivating high-energy journey through hilarious stories inspired by the unique real-life experiences of stand-up com…
Dimensions of Opacity
BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE & HEADPHONES. Choose your path. Do not feel the need to explain what you chose or why. An experime…
Schrödinger’s Lottery Ticket
Find the point where science, magic, and luck intersect, and you can control fate… or can you? What would you be willing…
InTouch: An Immersive Close-up Magic Show
Feel human connections in Canada’s most intimate magic show. Created by Jin Li, a featured performer with 17 years of ex…
Confidences et catastrophes
(This show is in French with English captions.) Some friendships hang on by a thread. Some friendships end before they b…
Roominant
Roominant follows Miko as she works through a rejection. Withdrawing into her internal world she comes face to face with…
CRACKS: a one trans-woman dark comedy memoir
A one-trans-woman dark comedy memoir about growing up in the Catholic Church and a JROTC military high school and the pe…
A Little Death
A new work with all-original songs, poems, and script by Thandizo Joy. Blending her Malawian heritage with poetry, rap,…
Solovela, An Improvised Solo Telenovela
Watch the sexiest, most melodramatic improv show of your life! Critics’ Choice winner Diane Jorge (2025 Orlando Fringe)…
Jimmy Hogg: Mashed
After SOLD-OUT runs across Canada in 2024 & 2025 British comedian and storyteller Jimmy Hogg (The Potato King) returns t…
The Yodeling Ranger
Who is the Yodeling Ranger? An Imposter? A Hero? A Fool? Or proof that even the most frivolous act of music can be life-…
Martin Dockery: Wanderlust
In this multi-award-winning, true odyssey, Dockery negotiates the giddiness, terror, & absurdities in travel & love, as…
A Knight at the Symphony
A fantasy-themed orchestral concert from the Ottawa Pops Orchestra featuring music from How to Train Your Dragon, The Wi…
The ins and outs of electronic mail
E-mail systems are used by almost everybody but not necessarily well understood by all. Chris Taylor, President of the O…
Welcoming Ottawa Week 2026: Rideau Branch | Semaine d’accue…
Discover Rideau branch and visit our community resource fair. You will meet local service providers offering support in…
Organizing and showcasing your photos
Learn various ways to organize photos on your computer, phone or on the cloud. Understand how to create backups so your…
2026 Ottawa Jazz Festival — Saturday, June 27
## Saturday, June 27, 2026 Lineup Daily lineup at Confederation Park. Headliner: **St. Vincent & The NAC Orchestra** on…
Flore Laurentienne
Rooted in the Québec landscape and inspired by the vastness of the St. Lawrence River, Flore Laurentienne creates a rich…
Daniel Tosh: My First Farewell Tour
Daniel Tosh is a comedian, host, writer and producer. Daniel is widely known for hosting and creating TOSH.0 on Comedy C…
Myra Melford’s Fire & Water Quintet
Acclaimed pianist and composer Myra Melford brings together a powerhouse quintet of leading improvisers for a project th…
The Ostara Project
The Ostara Project, led by award-winning bassist Jodi Proznick, showcases the strength and creativity of Canadian women…
Capital Sessions
Capital Sessions and the NAC are bringing you a series of FREE community house dance workshops. It's family and beginner…
2026 Ottawa Jazz Festival — Sunday, June 28
## Sunday, June 28, 2026 Lineup Daily lineup at Confederation Park. Headliner: **Ibrahim Maalouf** on OLG Main Stage. ##…
Art n Tell – Monthly Artist Showcase
Monthly open mic for visual and performing artists of all disciplines and skill levels to showcase their work in a suppo…