Events in Ottawa: March 31 to April 2, 2017

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I. Family & Kids Activities

1. KIDSFEST

KIDSFEST Ottawa is an annual children’s exposition, hosted in the spring. As Ottawa’s BIGGEST and BEST children’s show, expect to be amazed by award winning performers, interactive demonstrations, informative exhibits, and your favourite superheros and princesses. Details

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April 1 & 2, 2017 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

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EY Centre – Hall 2
4899 Uplands Drive, Ottawa

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Adult: $15; Senior: $12
Student: $9; Child aged 4-17: $9
Child aged three and under: Free
Family Pass (2 adults and 2 children): $42

 

2. Junior JUNOS at KIDSFEST

CARAS/The JUNO Awards have partnered with KIDSFEST Ottawa, the city’s biggest and best kids show and expo, to showcase the amazing talent of the 2017 Children’s Album of the Year Nominees.

Junior JUNOS is a live musical concert involving nominees for Children’s Album of the Year. Families will get to experience the very best of Canadian children’s music right here in Ottawa. Details

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Saturday, April 1, 2017 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

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EY Centre – Hall 2
4899 Uplands Drive, Ottawa

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VIP Tickets: $12 – $20, otherwise regular admission to Kidsfest.

 

3. La Diva Malbouffa

It’s a disaster! La Diva Malbouffa and Maestro Figaro are expected to perform at the Opera, but Mimi is ill from gorging on junk food. Only the audience can bring her back to health! Lively bilingual one-hour concerts by the NAC Orchestra and Principal Youth and Family Conductor Alain Trudel, with some of Canada’s best-known performers. It’s hands-on and fun, whether you’re five or 105! Details

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Saturday, April 01, 2017 | 01:30 PM & 3:30 PM

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NAC Southam Hall – National Arts Centre, 53 Elgin St, Ottawa

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$16 – $23

 

4. Maple Weekend

 
Maple weekend gives you a first-hand opportunity to see how maple products are produced, from tree to table, along with the chance to taste and purchase quality maple products. Come and talk to the producers in your local area. They will be happy to share with you how their operation works. Many will be offering free samples of fresh syrup, as well as maple candies and confections. Come enjoy pancake breakfasts, sugarbush trails, sugar making demonstrations, taffy on snow, horse-drawn sleigh rides, and more. Details

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April 1 and 2, 2017 | 10 AM to 4 PM

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Various Sugarbushes near Ottawa – Plan a Day Trip

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Free

 

5. Sugar Festival 2017

Traditional sugar shack meal, Pancake Breakfast and more! Family activities and entertainment including Street busking with stilt walkers, circus performers from le Mini Cirque, and dance shows with a local hip-hop artist., Crafting table with Make Sew Create and face painting for kids, Husky sled dogs, Horse carriage rides, Live reptile demonstrations with Little Ray’s Reptile Adventure, and birds of prey with the Canadian Raptor Conservancy, The Heritage Hands Ottawa Drum. Details

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Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 2, 2017 | 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

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Vanier Museopark’s Sugar Shack, Richelieu Park, 320 des Pères-Blancs Avenue

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Free & Ticketed.

 

6. Stanley’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt

Children and adults alike delight in meeting the Easter Bunny’s Helpers and helping them find their lost eggs! Pile aboard the wagon for a ride out to the Sugarbush. Hunt through the bush in search of the Easter bunny’s lost eggs, and add them to your basket. Soon we’ll dump them all into the Bunny’s Giant Basket and head back to visit the baby animals in the barn. Family fun for all – and each child leaves with something special! Details

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April 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 2017

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Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm, 2452 York’s Corners Road
Edwards

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$5.25 to $7.75 – Tickets

 

7. Sugar bush

Visit the historical farm site, see all kinds of animals on the farm site, have taffy on the snow, warm up at the bonfire while waiting for the wagon ride that will take you out to the sugar bush.. Details

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Weekends, March to Mid April, 2017 | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

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The Log Farm
670 Cedarview Road, Nepean

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$5.50 admission to the farm and sugar bush. All children 2 and under are free.

II. Live Music

1. Concerts on Weekedays

Sibelius’s Majestic Second Details

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March 29 – 30, 2017 | 8:00 PM @ NAC Southam Hall, 53 Elgin St, Ottawa

 

JUNO Cup Jam: Performers include: Jim Cuddy , Gord Bamford, Kathleen Edwards, Jonathan Roy, Barney Bentall, Devin Cuddy Band, JJ Shiplett, Matthew Barber, Amanda Rheaume Details

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Thursday, March 30, 2017 | 9:00 PM @ The Bourbon Room – 400A Dalhousie St, Ottawa

 

Mehdi Cayenne Details

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Thursday, March 30, 2017 | 7:30 PM @ NAC Back Stage, National Arts Centre, 53 Elgin St, Ottawa

 

2. Sneezy Waters

 
Legendary Ottawa-based folksinger Sneezy Waters grew up in a musical family – his mother, Helen, played piano and sang, and his father, John, had sung in the Hart House Glee Club. Along with a brother John and sister Julie, weekend evenings were spent singing many styles of folk songs together.Details

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March 31 – April 1, 2017 | 7:30 PM

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NAC Back Stage – National Arts Centre, 53 Elgin St, Ottawa

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$30

 

3. JUNOfest Presented by CBCMusic.ca

One of the signature events of JUNO Week, JUNOfest is a two-night music festival featuring 100+ artists playing on stages throughout Ottawa. The festival will feature live performances by regional and national artists representing the many genres that make up Canadian music, including local artists representing Ottawa’s diverse and vibrant music scene and 2017 JUNO Award nominees. Details

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March 31, 2017 – April 1, 2017

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Various Venues, Ottawa

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Varies – $12 to $20

 

4. Louis Lortie in Recital

Louis Lortie has been named Officer of the Order of Canada, received both the Order of Québec and an honorary doctorate from Université Laval, and has performed with the orchestras of Dallas, Vancouver, Nurnberg, the Suisse Romande, BBC Philharmonic, Toronto and Montréal. To say he is a world-class, world-renowned talent is an understatement. Details

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Friday, March 31, 2017 | 8:00 PM

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NAC Southam Hall – National Arts Centre, 53 Elgin St, Ottawa

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$15 – $111

 

5. JUNO Songwriters’ Circle

SOCAN & Yamaha Canada Music present JUNO Songwriters’ Circle, in association with The Canadian Music Publishers Association JUNO Songwriters’ Circle brings together some of today’s most talented Canadian singer-songwriters, sharing their songs and stories on stage. Details

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Sunday, April 02, 2017 | 12:00 PM

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National Arts Centre – 1 Elgin St, Ottawa

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$53.5 – $63.5

 

6. Brit Floyd

The hotly anticipated rock event of the year returns, as Brit Floyd brings the music of Pink Floyd to life once again with its lavish new stage show, ‘Pink Floyd Immersion World Tour 2017’. The spectacle of a Pink Floyd concert experience is truly recaptured in high-definition sound, and with a stunning million dollar light show and state of the art video design. As well as performing the favourite moments from The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall and The Division Bell, Brit Floyd will also pay special tribute to the Animals album, in its 40th anniversary year, with a show stopping rendition of ‘Dogs’, as well as a host of other Pink Floyd musical gems. Details

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Saturday, April 1, 2017 | 8:00 PM

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The Arena at TD Place, Ottawa

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39.50 to $69.00 plus service

 

7. New World Meets Old

A classical variety concert featuring both instrument (piano, violin, viola, flute, tuba) and voice encompassing musical works from the Americas to Europe and beyond. Details

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Sunday, April 2, 2017 | 2:30 PM

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Glebe St. James United Church, 650 Lyon Street South
Ottawa

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$10 to $15

III. Theatre & Performing Arts

1. Vigilante

A raucous, wall-of-sound rock opera, Vigilante tells the explosive true tale of a ruthless Irish immigrant family and an entire town bent on revenge. Based on the unsolved 1880 massacre of Ontario’s notorious Donnelly family, Vigilante is a stomping, swaggering and compulsively watchable story about frontier justice. This outlaw offspring of Sweeney Todd and The Threepenny Opera walks the razor’s edge – aggressively inventive, visually stunning and absolutely electrifying. Vigilante marks the return of Edmonton’s astonishing Catalyst Theatre (Nevermore), following major tours to London and New York. Details

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March 29 – April 15, 2017

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NAC Theatre, National Arts Centre – 53 Elgin St, Ottawa

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$25.00 – $75.00 + charges

 

2. Marion Associates

Three women in their thirties come “home” to the East Coast to be with their dying mother. Each in their own way tries to deal with the painful loneliness brought about by the lives they have chosen for themselves. The three women are a curious, troubled bunch. Agnes, whose hand is rarely without a drink, fled their rural Canadian home to make her way as an actor in Toronto; she’s brought her personal theatrics with her on this trip home. Theresa is a nun who farms with her convent; a sliver of doubt has entered her life. And then there’s Louise, who has all but retreated from adult life in favour of disappearing into the world of soap operas and serials. Details

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March 22 – April 8, 2017 | 7:30 PM

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Ottawa Little Theatre, 400 King Edward Avenue
Ottawa

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Adult – $27 , Senior (60+) – $24; Student – $12

 

3. The Melville Boys

 
This classic Canadian comedy by Norm Foster explores sibling rivalry and resentment as well as themes of love, loyalty, and compassion. Two brothers, Owen and Lee Melville, arrive at the family lakeside cabin toting beer and anticipating nothing more strenuous than a relaxing weekend of fishing. However, the arrival of two sisters, Loretta and Mary, throws their plans out of whack. The women spend the night and are the catalysts to a tender, unsentimental, and often hilarious look at what happens when four lives in transition touch common ground. Details

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March 28-April 1 & April 4-8, 2017

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Kanata Theatre, 1 Ron Maslin Way
Kanata

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$20.00

 

4. PLAN B

Negotiations did not go as planned last night? Afraid you made a mistake in your intergovernmental relations and there may now be unexpected developments? Don’t worry you can always try “Plan B” the next day for some relief! After all, what can be more fun than seeing how Federal/Provincial negotiations are “made”? Details

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March 31 to April 8, 2017

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The Gladstone Theatre, 910 Gladstone Avenue, Ottawa

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$18 to $20.00

 

5. Dehors

Arnaud is a war correspondent. When he learns of his father’s death, he takes a leave from his assignments to go home to the family farm, whose sole remaining resident is his brother Armand. Returning after an absence of more than a decade, Arnaud faces the ghosts of the past: old wounds, flashbacks of the violent scenes he’s witnessed in hostilities around the world, but also the enigmatic words uttered by a teenage girl…. Details

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March 29 – April 1, 2017 | 8:00 PM

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NAC Studio, National Arts Centre – 53 Elgin St, Ottawa

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$36

IV. Sports, & Related events

JUNO Cup presented by TD

Two of Canada’s favourite pastimes, hockey and music, come together for an all-out clash of the titans during JUNO Cup 2017 Presented by TD. A celebrity hockey game in support of MusiCounts, Canada’s music education charity associated with CARAS. A fun time for the whole family, NHL Greats compete with Canadian artists and celebrities for bragging rights on the ice!

Friday, March 31, 2017 | 7:30PM

TD Place, Bank Street, Ottawa

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V. Exhibitions, Festivals & Other Events

1. q with Tom Power

The show will feature a live performance and interview with the Strumbellas, who are up for three prizes this year: Juno Fan Choice Award, group of the year and single of the year. Other guests include MC Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman (nominated for best video of the year for A Tribe Called Red’s “R.E.D.”) and this year’s Canada Reads winning panellist. Details

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Thursday, March 30, 2017 | 7:00 PM

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Bronson Centre Theatre – 211 Bronson Avenue, Ottawa

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$20.00

 

2. Art Battle

 
Don’t miss out on a wonderful evening of creativity and community, a live painting tournament showcasing local artists and connecting Ottawa to towns and cities around the world. This is our 5th season in the nations Capital City, winners will advance to the Regional Finals in June, with a chance to paint in the Canadian Championships this summer!
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 | 7:00 PM

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Arts Court – 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa

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$10.00 – $20.00

 

3. JUNO Fan Fare

Hosted by ETalk reporter and Much host Liz Trinnear and MUCH and E! host Tyrone Edwards, JUNO Fan Fare is bursting with intimate and interactive fan opportunities including live performances, giveaways, artist interview and the opportunity to get up close and personal with some of the 2017 JUNO Award nominees. Artists confirmed to participate in JUNO Fan Fare include Aaron Pritchett, Arkells, Chad Brownlee, Cold Creek County, Coleman Hell, Dallas Smith, Gord Bamford, Jess Moskaluke, July Talk, Marianas Trench, Ruth B, The Strumbellas and Tyler Shaw. Details

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Saturday, April 1, 2017 | Noon to 3PM

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CF Rideau Centre, Rideau Street, Ottawa

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Sold out

3. The 2017 JUNO Awards

You won’t want to miss Canada’s biggest night in music featuring unforgettable performances by A Tribe Called Red, Alessia Cara, Ruth B, Shawn Mendes, and The Strumbellas. Details

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Sunday, April 02, 2017 | 7:00 PM

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Canadian Tire Centre – 1000 Palladium Drive, Kanata

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$39 – $149

4. Irish Film Festival Ottawa

The 2017 Irish Film Festival will see six Feature films, including award-winning Ottawa premières and once again a film for children. Following a highly successful Filmmaker’s Panel last year, IFF will once again offer an opportunity for the local arts & film community to sit down with a panel of established artists.. Details

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March 31 to April 2, 2017

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Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa

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$8 to $45

 

5. Ottawa Antique and Vintage Market

Antiques, vintage, retro and loads of decorator finds! Welcome to a fabulous and fun shopping event like no other. Discover the best antiques, vintage & retro all in one venue! If you’ve never been to the show before, you WILL be surprised at the amazing inventory that you just don’t see anywhere else. Discover unique finds for you, your home, condo or cottage. Details

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Saturday April 1, 2017 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday April 2, 2017 | 10:00 AM -4:00 PM

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Carleton University Fieldhouse
Bronson Ave. and Sunnyside Ave., Ottawa

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$10

 

6. Ottawa Geek Market

The Ottawa Geek Market is Ottawa’s premiere festival of all things geeky. As a festival, the Geek Market provides an opportunity for patrons to celebrate their favourite geeky fandoms though shopping, entertainment, video and board gaming, and family-friendly activities such as scavenger hunts, crafts, and cosplay (wearing costumes). With a focus on sci-fi, fantasy, comics, anime, steampunk, horror and gaming, there’s bound to be something for every geek in your life when you attend a Geek Market event. We’ll be hosting a number of vendors selling all sorts of wonderfully geeky items including games, comics, art, jewellery, toys, movies and more. Details

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Friday March 31, 2017 | 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday April 1, 2017 | 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday April 2, 2017 | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

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Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Avenue, Ottawa

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$5 to $15

 

7. Outaouais Film Festival

For eight consecutive days, the festival offers more than a hundred projections of feature-length, short fiction and animation films and documentaries from some twenty countries. As usual, the OFF offers a prominent place for national and international auteur cinema, particularly productions of Québec and Outaouais. Details

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March 23 to 31, 2017

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Various Gatineau theatres.

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$9

 

8. The Outdoor + Adventure Travel Show

See exhibitors and presenters on… Canoeing, kayaking, and the popular , Whitewater in rafts, canoes and kayaks, stand-up paddleboarding (SUPs), Camping and Expedition Trip experts, Hiking & trekking, Fish, game and lodge outfitters, Racing Events (running, triathlons, obstacle courses, adventure racing, cycling, paddling and more), Wilderness survival skills, Ecotourism & conservation, Nutrition & health, Volunteer organizations, Wildlife photography and more! Details

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Saturday April 1, 2017 | 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday April 2, 2017 | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

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EY Centre, 4899 Uplands Drive, Ottawa

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$8 to $10
17 and under: FREE

 

9. The Maple Run Tour

Wander, Experience, Indulge at the 15th Annual Pakenham Maple Run Tour of arts, crafts and food! Details

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Saturday April 1, 2017 | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday April 2, 2017 | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

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Pakenham – Various Locations

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FREE

 

10. Capital Gaming Expo 2017

CGX is throwing the spotlight on Video Games. You can still expect to see traditional gaming that CGX has featured in the past such as boardgames, etc. CGX brings a similar vision that PAX has to Ottawa by including gamers, startups, indies, and AAA studios from all over Canada together in one giant celebration of games. There will be an expo floor dedicated to games and tech, organized by Jared Thomson from Snowed In Studios, as well as conference talks by industry leaders focusing on entrepreneurial success, positive leadership, industry creative and technical directors. The expo floor will also include an incredible display of industry art. Details

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Saturday April 1, 2017 | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday April 2, 2017 | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

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Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Avenue, Ottawa

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$5 – $165

 

11. Other Events

1. California Wine Fair

Discover for yourself why there really is no other place on earth quite like California. Join owners, winemakers and friends from the vineyards at the 2017 California Wine Fair and enjoy a unique opportunity to sample more than 400 premium wines from 120 of California’s top producers. This is the largest tasting tour of California wines in Canada! Details

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March 31, 2017 | 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM @ The Westin Ottawa, 11 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa | $75

2. Art Place: Community Engaged Arts Symposium:

To mark the end of Art Place, a three year pilot project in community engaged arts, AOE Arts Council is hosting a two day symposium on community arts engagement. The symposium will provide artists, arts groups and community leaders with the tips and hands-on learning they need to develop co-creative projects with community members. Details

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March 31 & April 1, 2017 | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM @ City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue, West, Ottawa | $45-$80

3. Annual Wine, Cheese & Casino: The evening will consist of an educational presentation about the Foundation and rare cancer research here in Ottawa, wide selection of wine, hors d’oeuvres, casino games, dancing (of course) and an opportunity to win great prizes. We are also pleased to welcome back Lindt Chocolates who will be offering complementary chocolates that pair nicely with your wine, and Nespresso who will offer complimentary coffee before you hit the dancefloor.Details

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Friday, March 31, 2017 | 7:00 to 11:30 PM @ Canada Aviation and Space Museum, 11 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa | $40

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