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This weekend, June 6 and 7, explore your city during Doors Open Ottawa. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This event offers an opportunity to discover the secrets that lay hidden inside many of Ottawa’s finest buildings, from Carp to Cumberland. ...

_ Our crowdsourced list of the best events in Ottawa this week. You can find even more events on our Ottawa Event Calendar . _ ** Saturday-Sunday, June 6-7: Doors Open Ottawa ** This is the weekend that many embassies, artists’ studios, places of worship and other interesting buildings—some normally closed to the public—open up their doors. ...

FIFA Women’s World Cup TM ticket holders have free access to quick, easy and efficient transit service three hours before and three hours after games, from June 7 to June 27. Transit fare is included in the ticket price – just show your printed event ticket to the operator when you board the bus, and don’t forget to keep your ticket for your ride home. ...

This summer, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) presents, concurrently with its major exhibition Alex Colville, two exhibitions featuring works from the national collection: ** Chagall: Daphnis & Chloé ** and ** Luminous and True: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans ** . ...

CityFolk music festival organizers today announced the initial line-up for their 2015 program. Confirmed acts to date include: Van Morrison; The Avett Brothers; Wilco; Of Monsters and Men; Passenger; UB40; The Tubes; The Sheepdogs; Patrick Watson; Walk Off The Earth; Lord Huron; Elle King; Lisa LeBlanc; Lucinda Williams; St. ...

[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“640”] [ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/36948326@N02/17997703876) Sitting on the Dock : May 23, 2015 by James Peltzer[/caption] Just about every weekday at noon there’s a 15-minute concert played by the Peace Tower Carillon, the massive collection of bells that ring out from inside the tower on Parliament Hill. ...

[caption id=“attachment_14737” align=“aligncenter” width=“400”] Mr. Loaf by Andrew King[/caption]

The Lunch Out Loud podcast looks to promote the amazing talent, food, events and music Ottawa has to offer. Every week we will introduce you to new things about Ottawa you never knew existed. ** This week: ** We meet up with Elaina Martin, the founder and director of the amazing Westfest, to talk about the weekend, the events involved, her first year, the artists performing and so much more! ...

Doors Open Ottawa 2015 is coming up soon, and organizers have issued a call for volunteers to help staff some of this year’s participating buildings located across different areas of the city.  An expected 75,000 visitors will attend this year’s event on Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7, taking advantage of free access to 129 of the finest buildings from Carp to Cumberland. ...

Mayor Jim Watson and Michael Maidment, Executive Director of the Ottawa Food Bank, are pleased to co-host this year’s Mayor’s Rural Expo and Food Aid Day on Thursday, June 4 (7 a.m. to 2 p.m.), to celebrate Ottawa’s rural communities and area food producers. ...