Events in Ottawa: July 7 to 9, 2017

1. Osgoode Medieval Festival

The Kingdom of Osgoode Medieval Festival is a three day event celebrating all things medieval in a self enclosed rural village setting. Upon entering the gates, there is an abundance of entertainment for all ages, from games and role-playing for the kids in a giant castle, to music and dance. Of course there is also sword fighting an jousting which is done twice each day. There are food vendors on site and visitors are encouraged to bring their chairs and picnic. There is also a wonderful marketplace of artistic and unusual wares, so shopping is a must. Details

2. Almonte Celtfest

Celtfest is a fun weekend of Ottawa Valley and Celtic entertainment, in the natural amphitheater of Gemmill Park in the heart of Almonte. The fest features widely acclaimed local, regional and national performers, beer garden, children’s activities, senior’s area, Celtic food and artisan vendors, session tent, and a Sunday fiddle mass. Details

3. Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After, a showcase inspired by your fairytale favourites, will be a mystical evening filled with a mix of performances that will both bring you back to your childhood memories and praise the more recent storybook adventures. Details

4. Habitat Greater Ottawa Block Party

Join us on Sunday, July 9 for a free Neighbourhood Block Party to help us celebrate Canada 150 and kick off our Carter Work Project! There will be free food and beverages, face painting, a balloonist, kids’ activities, live music and much more. Details

1. RBC Bluesfest

Artists include: P!nk, Tegan and Sara, Brandi Carlile, 50 Cent, Melissa Etheridge, Justin Moore, Sam Roberts Band, Toby Keith, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Tim Hicks, Muse, LIVE, Thornetta Davis, Xavier Rudd, Flume, Migos and more! Details

2. Music and Beyond

The festival pursues links between other art forms and cultural disciplines and music, including visual art, drama, poetry, dance, architecture, circus, magic, science, comedy, law, food and wine and even yoga. Music and Beyond is virtually unique in the international field of music festivals by making this a core part of its mandate. By tying together a wide range of cultural disciplines, the festival creates a more “festive” atmosphere, helping to attract an even broader audience to music. Music and Beyond strives to reach out to people of all cultural backgrounds and all demographics. Details

1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Celebrate with Ottawa’s award winning original professional Shakespeare company, a Company of Fools on their 15th anniversary of Torchlight Shakespeare with one of the Bard’s most beloved and whimsical comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream!

Helena loves Demetrius. Demetrius loves Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander. Throw into this mix an enchanted forest, a mischievous fairy, a feuding king and queen and a troupe of terrible wannabe actors and you have a recipe for a hilarious, magical, love-filled summer night. Details

2. Murder at Café Noir

Rick Archer, P.I., is out to find a curvaceous runaway on the forgotten Caribbean island of Mustique in the Grenadines, a place stuck in a black-and-white era. The owner of the Cafe Noir has washed ashore, murdered, and Rick’s quarry was the last person seen with him. Rick employs his hard-boiled talents to find the killer. Was it the French madame and club manager, the voodoo priestess, the shyster British attorney, the black marketeer, or the femme fatale? Can you solve the mystery? Fabulous prizes if you can!! Details

3. Salt-Water Moon

August 1926, Coley’s Point, Newfoundland: the First World War is over, and every day the villages of Newfoundland are abandoned by their young people for life in the big city. On a moonlit summer night, Mary gazes at the stars, waiting for Jerome, her fiancé, to meet her. Instead, her former beau Jacob, who left a year before without saying goodbye, appears, and the old lovers confront their troubled past. In this unique production of Salt-Water Moon from Why Not Theatre and Factory Theatre, director and 2016 Siminovitch Prize nominee Ravi Jain re-imagines a treasured Canadian classic about love, loss, and reconciliation through a truly universal lens. Details

4. Cuisine & Confessions

Montreal circus troupe Les 7 Doigts de la main (The 7 Fingers) returns to the NAC for Canada Scene! Made up of equal parts theatre, circus, storytelling, cooking show, and comedy, Cuisine & Confessions nudges at memories so distant that only smell, touch, and taste can bring them into focus. The stories are all true, recounted by performers who prepare nourishing dishes that summon the lessons and secrets of childhood. Every offering is garnished with fantastic acrobatics – Chinese pole, diabolo, aerial silk, hand-to-hand juggling, and much more – that lead us through countries and experiences both strange and familiar. But always in the kitchen, because that’s where sustenance of the emotional kind takes place too. Details

5. The West Woods

Set in 1968, a heady but challenging time of social change for African-Nova Scotian women, when many simply decided not to work “in service” anymore, The West Woods gives a touching and human face to the struggles of the time. Details

1. Canadian Track and Field Championships

Weeklong athletics festival, highlights include:
Monday – Wednesday – International Para-Athletics Challenge
NACAC Combined Events Championships / Pan Am Cup
Canadian Combined Events Championships

Thursday – Run Ottawa Distance Night

Friday – Sunday: Championship weekend, all semis and finals. Details

July 03 to 09, 2017

Terry Fox Athletic Facility, 2960 Riverside Dr
Ottawa

$15 per day, FREE for children 12 years of age and under.

2. GoodLife Fitness City Chase

Navigate your way through the city to find hidden Chase Points that will test both your fitness and your mind!

Saturday, July 8, 2017 | 7:30 PM

Various Venues, Ottawa

Register

3. Ottawa REDBLACKS

vs. Toronto Argonauts

Saturday, July 8, 2017 | 7:00 PM

Stadium at TD Place, Ottawa

Tickets

4. 3 on 3 in the 613

Join us for Ottawa’s largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament and Urban Jam in support of Ausome Ottawa and Hera Mission. 120+ teams from novice kids through men’s and women’s,
DJs, live graffiti, drumming, dance, shopping, BBQ and more. Be a part of our diverse celebration of basketball and urban life.

Sunday July 9th, 2017 | 08:00 AM to 06:00 PM

Landsdowne Park
450 Queen Elizabeth Dr, Ottawa

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1. Ottawa Welcomes the World

High Commission for the Republic of Rwanda: Come celebrate with us the 23rd anniversary of Rwanda’s liberation combined with our 55th anniversary of independence during the 150th anniversary of Canada. Details

The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office: Join us on July 9th at the Taiwan Day, in which you’ll get a chance to enjoy pop music, dance performance, Taiwanese food, snacks, and tea ceremony, art of paper-cutting, display of Taiwanese products, the beauty of Taiwanese orchids, as well as gain an insight in tourist attractions in Taiwan. We look forward to your participation and experience of exotica of friendly Taiwan. Details

2. Tea on the Veranda

Enjoy tea on the veranda of Laurier House just as the former Prime Ministers, Laurier and Mackenzie King would have! In partnership with the Cordon Bleu, a light tea and pastries are served on Saturdays throughout the summer. Details

3. Full Moon Yoga

An Incredible Evening of…
Yoga, Beats, Eats, MalaRae Bracelets, Acro Yoga Jam, Good Vibes & Prizes! Details

4. 150 Years of Canada’s Scariest Ghost Stories

True north strong and spooky! The Haunted Walk is celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday by taking you from coast to coast and exploring the most spine-tingling tales the country has to offer. Favourite local stories and a visit inside the Bytown Museum, Ottawa’s oldest and most haunted building will also be featured during this unique experience. Details

5. MOSAÏCANADA 150/Gatineau 2017

Mosaiculture is a most spectacular horticultural technique that combines the following different art forms: sculpture for the structure, paint for the palette of colours, and horticulture as the means of creating living and changing artworks with plants. The theme of the Gatineau exhibit will reflect 150 years of history, values, culture and arts in Canada, represented by some 40 different arrangements.
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6. Sky Lounge

Heighten your senses at Sky Lounge, an exclusive culinary flight of fancy that will take you 150 feet in the air to discover Ottawa’s fine dining like never before. Details

7. Canada Scene

In the days leading up to Canada Day, and for weeks after, hundreds of artists from every corner of the country will travel to the nation’s capital to take part in 150 events at venues throughout Ottawa/ Gatineau.CANADA SCENE will bring together talented artists in music, theatre, dance, visual and media arts,film, literature, comedy, circus and culinary arts for an extraordinary national celebration.The festival will shine a spotlight on iconic artists who inspire us, dynamic artists who challenge us, and the diverse cultures that bring us together. Details