OttawaStart's Weekly Event Round-Up: November 12-18

_ Our crowdsourced list of the best events in Ottawa this week. You can find even more events on our Ottawa Event Calendar . _

** November 11 to November 15: Signatures Show ** At the Ottawa Shaw Centre, check out the Signatures Show featuring over 180 of Canada’s most talented artists, artisans, and designers. With an array of quality Canadian handcrafted products available, including fashion, home décor, natural body care, fine art, stunning jewellery, and specialty foods, it’s definitely worth attending and a perfect place to get some holiday shopping done. _ – Eliane Laberge, Eventful Capital _ ** Thursday, November 12: Inter Pares Film Night ** Interested in what’s in your food? Learn about industrial agriculture at Inter Pares’ screening of The World According to Monsanto. Guest speaker is Lucy Sharratt, coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network. _ – Denise Deby , Green Living Ottawa _ ** Thursday, Nov 12: Mado Follies ** A cabaret fundraiser for De La Salle’s Breakfast Club, Diversity Club and the Centre d’excellence artistique! _ – Laura Gauthier _ ** Thursday, November 12 - Toddler Art-Holiday Handprints ** Every Thursday is Toddler Art at Gotta Paint. Let your child paint a mugs with their own unique style and then let is help you add their handprint as part of their artwork. Can’t come on Thursdays? Organize a group of 3 or more painters and have your own handprint session. 10am-12pm. Cost: $20+hst per mug. More info: 613.729.7754 or info@gottapaint.ca _ – Sara-Lynne Levine, Macaroni Kid Ottawa _ ** Saturday, November 14: BADBADNOTGOOD Live in Concert ** Toronto-based experimental jazz/hip hop trio BADBADNOTGOOD will be giving a live show to support Centre 507 and the Artistic Expressions Studio this Saturday night at Centretown United Church. Having recently had more than 50% its funding cut, the centre is in jeopardy and forced to drastically scale back its programs, which have provided valuable drop-in services and a community for thousands of local homeless and disadvantaged people. In addition to the show, there will be an art sale featuring the work of the Studio’s talented artists and Alan Neal of the CBC will be emceeing the event. _ – Eliane Laberge, Eventful Capital _ ** Saturday, Nov 14: HOWARD JONES at Zaphod Beeblebrox ** Howard Jones had ten top 40 hit singles in the UK between 1983 and 1986, including six which reached the top ten, and his 1984 album “Human’s Lib” went to #1. Around the world, he had 15 top 40 hit singles between 1983 and 1992. He has been described as “one of the defining figures of mid-’80s synth pop. _ – Eugene Haslam _ ** Sunday, November 15: ** ** Wine-themed Sunday Brunch at the Museum of Nature ** “The Art of Pairing Food with Wine” - that’s the theme of the Nov. 15 Brunch at the Museum of Nature. Spice up your November with an exquisite brunch at the Canadian Museum of Nature where the theme is the art of pairing food with wine. Some of the buffet highlights will be: Pinot Rouge and red onion soup; Crepes with raspberry apricot Cabernet sauce; Beef Bourguignon; Chicken Paupiettes with white wine sauce; White wine and vanilla peach cobbler, and much more! Two seatings at 10:30am and 12:30pm, still spaces available. _ (Sponsored) _ ** Monday, November 6: Margaret Atwood at the Writers Festival ** 7:00 pm. Southminister Church, 15 Aylmer Avenue. Talking about her book The Heart Goes Last. _ – Amanda Earl , Bywords _ _ ** Even more suggestions: ** _

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[
 MALAK: A Photographic Love Story
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[
 Taste of Networking, Scotch Edition
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- Thursday, November 12

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 natureTASTES: whiskey
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- Thursday, November 12

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 613flea
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- Saturday, November 14

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 Skepticamp Ottawa 2015
](http://ottawastart.com/events/skepticamp-ottawa-2015/)
- Sunday, November 15

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 Heritage Ottawa Free Public Lecture: Craft, Heritage and Digital Tools
](http://ottawastart.com/events/heritage-ottawa-free-public-lecture-craft-heritage-and-digital-tools/)
- Wednesday, November 18

_ ** Upcoming… ** _ ** Thursday, November 19: TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Auction featuring Basia Bulat ** The TD Ottawa Jazz Festival’s popular annual benefit concert returns for an 18

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year to Library and Archives Canada November 19 for an evening of music and fun, highlighted by the rousing, emotional music of Toronto singer-songwriter Basia Bulat. _ (Sponsored) _ ** Saturday, November 21: ** ** Ottawa Chamber Orchestra Concert - Scandinavian Adventures ** Conducted by Donnie Deacon with Jean Desmarais as piano soloist. The program will include Jean Sibelius, Finlandia, Op. 26, Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16, Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46 and Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite No.2, Op.55. _ (Sponsored) _ ** Thursday, November 26: Monet: A Bridge to Modernity - Xavier Rey Lecture ** At the National Gallery. Join us for an engaging lecture by Xavier Rey of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and an Impressionism specialist. Rey will highlight a particularly fertile period in the career of Claude Monet. Lecture presented in collaboration with the French Embassy in Canada. _ (Sponsored) _ ** Wednesday, December 2: ** ** Christmas Lights Across Canada - Official Illumination Ceremony ** The official illumination ceremony for the 31st edition of Christmas Lights Across Canada takes place on Parliament Hill on December 2 at

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This year’s ceremony features enhanced pyrotechnics, a performance by Measha Bruggergosman, and a large screen that will include a large screen that will air holiday wishes from all 13 Premiers during the Illumination Ceremony. Plus freeBeavertails and hot chocolate! _ (Sponsored) _ ** Thursday, December 3: ** ** A Charlie Brown Christmas with The Jerry Granelli Trio ** His tunes have been a part of Christmas tradition for North American families for the past 45 years, close as an old friend, comfortable as an old blanket. As one third of the legendary San Francisco-based Vince Guaraldi Trio, Jerry Granelli recorded what is arguably the greatest Christmas album of all time in 1965 – the soundtrack to the animated classic A Charlie Brown Christmas. _ (Sponsored) _ _ For more events, check out ottawastart.com/events/ … or add your event via ottawastart.com/start/ _