Events in Ottawa: February 10 – 12, 2017

1. Winterlude

A wide range of activities—reflecting both the Capital Region and Canada as a whole—will be presented at three official sites. Snowflake Kingdom in Gatineau’s Jacques-Cartier Park will let visitors experience Canadian landscapes through fun winter activities, such as zooming across the Park on a mega-zip line, sliding down super slides—including a new fifth slide named “Blizzard”—and finding their way out of a giant Canada 150 maze. Details

2. Carnaval Clarence Creek

Annual Community Winter Carnaval! Details

3. 26 lettres à danser

A frog-man tells funny fables with fantastic finesse. You guessed it: it’s the letter F’s turn! Get ready: in this show for four intrepid dancers, alphabet letters swarm over the stage and words begin to sway and twirl. Leaping around the stage, the merry quartet plays with props, celebrates with colour, and dances with light. New ideas pop up like fireworks in this lively and imaginative journey from A to Z! Details

4. MURRAY: Celebrity Magician

A B.C. boy from a family of railway workers makes it to the semifinals of America’s Got Talent only to make a 24-foot steel steam train locomotive disappear live on television. The act still baffles the world as Murray takes his place at the helm of a new generation of tech-savvy magicians. Hot on the heels of the sell-out success of Darcy Oake, we welcome another home-grown illusionist full of fantastic tricks and loads of laughs along the way. Details

5. Lunar New Year

Join Chinatown’s 2017 special Lunar New Year celebration… meet the King of Good Fortune accompanied by drummers. Whether in restaurants or on the street, the King will give away 2017 lucky red envelopes with his best wishes to children he meets in Chinatown. Among the 2017 red envelopes there will be 150 special gifts from various Chinatown merchants for the even luckier winners…
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1. Concerts on Week Days

1. Ottawa Symphony Orchestra – America. Details

 

2. Colin James. Details

 

3. Amira Medunjanin. Details

2. Casablanca Live!

Film with Orchestra Film avec Orchestre The classic Oscar-winning film like you’ve never experienced it before – with the lush Max Steiner score performed live. Details

3. TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Fest

Featuring a diverse lineup of world renowned players in the Jazz music scene, sounds ranging from Modern, Latin, Swing, Funk, Contemporary, Afro Cuban, Avant-Garde and much more! Details

4. Switchfoot & Relient K

Looking for Canada Tour. Details

5. Beijing Symphony Orchestra

Experience one of Asia’s top orchestra with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Muhai Tang. This rousing program combines Chinese orchestral works alongside Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Details

6. Hot Music for a Cold Night

The lively program includes pieces such as Danzon no. 2 (A. Marquez), Concerto for Steelpan (J. Bach), Danzas Cubanas (R. Sheldon), Bachianas Brasilerias – Preludio (H. Villa-Lobos, and more! Details

7. The Assad Brothers

Hailed by the Washington Post as “the best two-guitar team in existence,” the Brazilian duo of Sérgio and Odair Assad has set the standard of guitar performance with their incomparable combination of skill and expression. Tonight, they bring us Scarlatti, Piazzolla, Debussy, Villa Lobos, and more. Presented in partnership with Guitar Alla Grande Festival. Details

8. Tea With St. Valentine

Music is indeed the language of true love, so celebrate with your sweetie at this tea honouring Cupid, courtship and couplehood. Join us for an hour of passion, romance and matters of the heart told by the singing strings of the Canto Sentimento quartet. Details

9. Rumi Concert Night

The Intercultural Dialogue Institute uOttawa will be hosting its first ever “Rumi Concert Night”. We will be dedicating one night to the great Rumi, in the spirit of his works about love. After all, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! There will be a Turkish flute performance and speakers and much more. Details

1. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

A sweeping drama of personal and political ambition follows soon-to-be Premier Joey Smallwood – the self-described “Last Father of Confederation” – as he propels the Dominion of Newfoundland into union with Canada in 1949. Both saint and sinner, the charismatic, controversial Smallwood is hounded every step of the way by witty, booze-soaked reporter Sheilagh Fielding – his intellectual equal and lifelong nemesis. Details

2. Alessandro Sciarroni

The Schuhplattler (shoe beater) is a typical Bavarian/Tyrolean folk dance that has survived intact through generations. Italian choreographer and rising star Alessandro Sciarroni uses this ancient form as a departure point for a choreographic practice studying time. Details

3. Schoolhouse

Full of warmth and poignant humour, Schoolhouse evokes a way of life shared by generations of rural Canadians, exploring timeless themes of rejection, of compassion, of damage, of hope. Laugh, cry or rekindle memories of life in a one-room schoolhouse. This is an inspiring play that celebrates the one-room schoolhouse era and is a tribute to all good teachers, but especially those young women who worked so hard to help their students succeed.Details

4. Broue

French comedy Details

5. Jim Gaffigan

“Fully Dressed” Tour. Details

6. The Elephant Girls

Clever, organized, devious & daring; they stole from the rich and gave to themselves. Only recently brought to light, this is the riveting story of the all-female gang which terrorized London for over 100 years. Maggie Hale—the gang’s suit-wearing, bloody-knuckled, girl-chasing “enforcer”—will tell you all: who they were, what they did, how it worked, how they got away with it, and how it all came crashing down. But just how much are you sure you want to hear? Details

7. Undercurrents Festival

Produced by Ottawa Fringe. Our winter festival shows the best original, contemporary theatre being created by Ottawa performers and visiting artists. Details

8. Crimes of Heart

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, this astonishing classic play established Beth Henley as a major voice in theatre. Warm-hearted, irreverent, zany and brilliantly imaginative, the play teems with humanity and humor as it examines the grave yet somehow hilarious troubles of three Mississippi sisters. In the end the play is the story of how its characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended. Details

9. Pandaléon – Atone

Pandaléon, with their show Atone, fill the stage with energy, transporting audiences to new dimensions. Sounds intermingle on a dizzying journey. Layers overlap, seeming to stop time, transporting us momentarily to an astounding universe from which we return slowly, feeling oddly transformed. Details

10. Alterna Savings Crackup

Alterna Savings Crackup is a comedy festival that raises awareness of the need for improved access to mental health services in Canada’s Capital Region. Join us for our 13th season and enjoy more shows and WAY MORE LAUGHS! Details

1. Canadian Ski Marathon

The world’s longest cross-country ski tour, covering 160 km of ski trails. The two day event takes place on a point to point course, groomed for classic Nordic skiing between Lachute and Gatineau Quebec, Canada. The total distance for the weekend covers 160 kilometers, with each day being approximately 80km and split into five sections.

The CSM-Taster is an opportunity for you to come out and get a feel for this wonderful event. For the discounted registration fee this category allows you to ski the last section on both Saturday and Sunday. Details

2. Ottawa 67’s

3. Ottawa Senators

1. Ottawa RV Expo & Sale

The All NEW Ottawa RV Expo & Sale is excited to open it’s first show in the Nation’s Captial region. At this year’s RV Expo; you will see all types of RVs from hard-top trailers to motorhomes and everything in between. Enjoy viewing hundreds of RVs! Enjoy our informative educational seminars, attractions for the kids and a fully equipped parts and accessories store, plus… you could WIN $5000 cash back if you purchase an RV at the Expo. Details

2. Bright Nights

Baltic-Nordic Film Festival – the Bright Nights Film Festival brings eight films — never before seen in Ottawa — from the Baltic and Nordic countries across the Atlantic: Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Iceland, and Norway. The far reaches of the festival world — from Berlin and Cannes to Toronto and Montreal — have been gleaned for eclectic, dark, edgy, hilarious, and intriguing perspectives in contemporary Baltic and Nordic film. It may be your only chance to see these incredible stories. Details

3. Wakefield Doc Fest

Screens a selection of the very best in current feature-length Canadian and International documentary film. Details

4. Annual Accora Village Bed Race

Cheer the costumed teams race decorated hospital beds across the frozen ice. 50 teams of 4 runners and one rider compete with modified and decorated beds for honours and prizes as the fastest bed, the best decorated bed and the best fund raisers. Details

5. ByWard Market Server Games

Teams from various ByWard Market restaurants, bars and cafés compete for the title of server champions! Teams compete head to head in various server skills challenges with a Winterlude twist! Visitors are invited to watch the hilarity unfold as servers race around tables balancing full trays while wearing oversized ski-doo suits and snowshoes, bus-boys test their skills wearing oversized mittens. Cheer on your favourites from Winter patios and seating areas Details

6. Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart

Speaking Tour. Details

1. Fire & Ice

A culinary adventure where passion and originality collide. Be among the 150 guests who will savour renowned Chef Marc Lepine’s delicious creations in a unique greenhouse setting… in winter! Details

2. Valentine’s Dance

Juno Award nominee Alex Pangman will be joining forces with 2015 Battle of the Bands winner Peter Liu to play a special Valentine’s Day dance. Canada’s Sweetheart of Swing will bring her unique vocal talents to a dance that is sure to be a highlight of the OSDS’ 2017 season. It promises to be an amazing night of dancing, live music and friendships new and old. Details

3. Veg Speed Date Ottawa

This isn’t your typical speed dating. Veg Speed Date is exclusively for vegan and vegetarian singles! Details

4. Atomic Love

Come explore the depths of the Diefenbunker on a guided tour with wine and cheese! While touring, you’ll stop at different locations to sample delectable cheeses and fine wine pairings. Nothing says I love you, like exploring a Bunker with wine and cheese and your main squeeze!! Details

5. XOXO! Valentine’s Day Speed Dating

It’s Valentine’s Day 2017 and we plan to celebrate in all its glory! Pre-screened eligible singles will enjoy an evening of romance, new connections, and endless possibilities. Coming with a friend? Save $8 when two tickets are bought together. Select the ‘Dashing Duo’ ticketing option. Details

6. Ottawa – XOXO!

It’s Valentine’s Day 2017 and we plan to celebrate in all its glory! Pre-screened eligible singles will enjoy an evening of romance, new connections, and endless possibilities. Details

7. Ottawa’s Valentines Day Pub Crawl

Valentine’s Day is an opportunity for people in Canada to tell somebody that they love them in a romantic way, but whether you have that special someone or are searching for them, join us for a romantic interactive experience at some of Ottawa’s premier venues! Details