arts & entertainment

_ Our crowdsourced list of the best events in Ottawa this week. You can find even more events on our Ottawa Event Calendar . _ ** Thursday, November 5: Kalle Mattson at the NAC ** Kalle Mattson has a knock for making really great videos. ...

Fringe is an open-access festival where ** 100% of ticket sales ** belong to the artists. Programming is selected by a lottery, not by curators. You could say Fringe is a free market for the performing arts. [ ** Register before ...

AOE Arts Council ’s annual ARTinis Halloween themed event on Thursday October 29, 2015, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., held at the Shenkman Arts Centre was an enormous hit with over 300 in attendance to support the Arts in Ottawa. ...

Typically, if you want to see art you have to go to a museum, a gallery, an exhibit, or an art and craft event. Very rarely does one get the opportunity to meet with the artists in their own environment and talk about their work, and what inspires them. ...

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[caption id=“attachment_4415” align=“alignnone” width=“580”] Photo by Glen Gower[/caption] [events_list category=“craft-fairs” limit=0] (If you don’t see the listings - please click here .) _ ( add your event to this list ) _

_ Our crowdsourced list of the best events in Ottawa this week. You can find even more events on our Ottawa Event Calendar . _ _ ** See also: ** Ottawa Halloween Event List _ ** Thursday, October 29: CKCU Live Music Fundraising Concert & Live Broadcast ** CKCU FM’s annual funding drive is in full swing and as part of this year’s campaign, there are several shows being organized to support Carleton University’s community radio station. ...

The 2015 Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend, which [ announced today ](http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001V-haqYHKoWRl-Ou-9M0jKUiFjfrwemNKa4PQVFedOyRTEZoCwniLjYZAFoBkvXE0Xb6sqbNomUj54_GDEMIv7WR2_pGJxbJ_3kdyuJxMA7rkqvuk6ddJzBmm4V1PwPJHBfGEjmFeFwhLodJ3pXMESomyFhxNOizxRWKI5It8YJgjUWMMJcefpd-ZKeWLoTjWrhTpADifMjA=&c=93uJ_NiYrQIGbX4qBWU3deCn3cuNMUEn9GW5rZSa8WOlqp_5zGCEBQ==&ch=jPqE-_tJvxRHbsTrLbvBgSWluLcjS_rKJXIZaJZECTK8OpPXyfeBOA==) it has received the coveted IAAF Gold Label for its Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon, supported $34.4 million in economic activity for the Province of Ontario in 2015. The weekend's six events saw out-of-town participants, spectators, event sponsors and organizers spend a combined $15. ...

Three local writers were honoured with the prestigious Ottawa Book Award and Prix du livre d’Ottawa tonight at Ottawa City Hall. Heather Menzies, Blaise Ndala and Scott Randall were each awarded a prize of $7,500. _ Arc Poetry Magazine _ also recognized Shane Book’s collection of poems as the year’s best work of poetry and presented him with the 2015 Archibald Lampman Award. ...

_ Our crowdsourced list of the best events in Ottawa this week. You can find even more events on our Ottawa Event Calendar . _ ** See also: ** Ottawa Halloween Event List ** Thursday-Wednesday, October 22-28: Ottawa International Writers Festival ** This week the Writers Festival brings memoir, poetry, humour, history and a whole lot more. ...