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Local Events by and for the Arts Community
Local Events by and for the Arts Community
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[ID: Image: A picture of a heart sculpture that has many eyes in it, laying on a wire cloth.
Trash to Treasure: Kindle Your Creativity - Urban Art Collective/Debqi
Trash to Treasure: Kindle Your Creativity - Urban Art Collective/Debqi
Wednesdays starting on November 11 and ending Dec 2| 6-9pm
In a creative rut? Convinced you are just not “good at art”? Forget about making something perfect and show up to make something interesting instead. Trash to Treasure is a four-class mixed-media course built around experimentation, play and asking one very useful creative question: “What if I...?” Working with cardboard, paper mache clay, acrylic paint, magazines, newspaper, discarded packaging and other odd materials, you will turn everyday rubbish into an original mixed-media artwork and finish by presenting it as part of a small group exhibition.
Location: 50 Bayswater Ave. Ottawa ON K1Y 2E9
Cost: $425.00
Accessibility: ac, heating, there is one small lip to get into the building.
[ID: Image: A batik painting showing a boy about 10 years old stands in the ocean with his back to the artist and the ocean surrounding him.
Wax Poetic: A Batik Intensive - Urban Art Collective/Debqi
Wax Poetic: A Batik Intensive - Urban Art Collective/Debqi
November 14-15| 9am-5pm
Batik is part painting, part dyeing, part controlled chaos. In this two-day hands-on workshop, you’ll learn the full wax-resist process using hot wax and cold-water dyes to build colour, texture, pattern and imagery layer by layer. You’ll work with traditional batik tools, experiment with different marks and resist effects, and move through multiple stages of waxing, dyeing and finishing. By the end, you’ll leave with a completed batik artwork plus the basic materials knowledge and recipes needed to continue experimenting at home.
Location: 50 Bayswater Ave. Ottawa ON K1Y 2E9
Cost: $520.00
Accessibility: ac, heating, there is one small lip to get into the building.
[ID: Image: A colour block design for Ottawa School of Theatre’s production of Little Women. Jo is in various shades of blue, including the background blue. She holds a pen and looks down as she writes. Behind her on a diagonal is a fountain pen. The pen's body features profiles of her sisters. Meg is at the top, looking out the window, in orange. In reddish-pink, Beth sits in the middle of the pen body, at the piano. Below her, in purple, Amy paints a canvas. The pen nib is in a darker shade of blue, complementary to the background colour. It has a book, a drama mask, a paint palette, and a grand piano connected by a line where the ink would come out.
Little Women - Ottawa School of Theatre
Little Women - Ottawa School of Theatre
December 4 at 6:00pm | December 5 and 6 at 2:00pm
Despite their childhood being interrupted by civil war and poverty, Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth rise to the occasion, bringing joy and a fair share of mischief to their friends and family. In this holiday favourite, we witness the four sisters as they follow their passions, face their disappointments, and fight with and for each other as they grow from childhood to adulthood.
Location: Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum Blvd. Ottawa
Cost: $15.25 to $69.30
Accessibility: This event is held in an accessible building. For more information, you can visit: https://shenkmanarts.ca/en/accessibility.
[ID: Image: A March Family Christmas poster. On a reddish-pink background, a black fountain pen lies diagonally. The nib connects a book, a drama mask, a paint palette, and a grand piano with a line where the ink would come out. At the top of the page, in white handwritten font, it says “Ottawa School of Theatre presents.” Below that, in bold white text with a black outline, it says, “A March Family Christmas,” with “Celebrate kindness, creativity, generosity, and community while supporting our upcoming production of Little Women,” in the same handwritten text. Scattered around the text and pen are golden twelve-point stars.
A March Family Christmas - Ottawa School of Theatre
A March Family Christmas - Ottawa School of Theatre
Saturday, November 14, 2026 | 11:00am to 3:00pm
Celebrate kindness, creativity, generosity, and community while supporting Ottawa School of Theatre’s upcoming production of Little Women.
Location: Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum Blvd. Ottawa
Cost: Free admission
Accessibility: This event is held in an accessible building. For more information, you can visit: https://shenkmanarts.ca/en/accessibility.
[ID: Image: Images of women, faceless, silenced, in a painting called Absence]
Daughters of Khadija: A New Play by Laurel Smith - Burning Passions Theatre
Daughters of Khadija: A New Play by Laurel Smith - Burning Passions Theatre
November 28 & 29| 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm
All families have secrets. Sometimes they are forced out into the open. Daughters of Khadija follows a group of Ottawa women – mothers, daughters, friends – as they navigate their daily lives, each clinging to their dreams while carrying the unwelcome weight of how others often unfairly view them. Set against a contemporary Canadian landscape marked by polarization and prejudice, this story is ultimately about finding the courage of finding one’s voice, and living inside one’s hope.
Location: Saint Paul University Amphitheatre, 223 Main Street, Ottawa
Cost: $10 suggested, otherwise pwyc
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible, all tickets pay what you wish, no oner turned away for lack of funds
[ID: Text: Sonder. Everyone has their own story. Exhibition Invitation, November 16 to December 4, 10 am - 3 pm Monday - Sunday. Text as in caption. Image: Colour grading from purple to orange. Three figures walk from the right to the left and one figure walks from the right walks towards the other three on the left.]
SONDER Video Art Exhibition by Artist Rich Leon
SONDER Video Art Exhibition by Artist Rich Leon
November 16 - December 4 | 10 - 3 pm (open daily)
SONDER is an interactive video art exhibition created by Rich Loen, premiering this fall at the Salon Des Bananes in Ottawa.
Imagine yourself walking down a quiet street.
You pass someone, and as you glance at them you realize that their life is as exciting, complicated, terrifying, and amazing as your own.
This awareness, that everyone has their own story, is called sonder.
The SONDER video art exhibition explores this experience.
The exhibition is on from November 16 to December 4, open daily from 10am - 3pm.
Tickets are encouraged, but are not required for your visit.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Location: Salon Des Bananes, 2207 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K2B 7E9
Cost: Free
Accessibility: This event is wheelchair accessible. The Salon Des Bananes gallery is connected to the Loen.Art Studio, and they both share the same entrance. The event is all on one floor, at ground level, and there are no elevations. The front entrance has a small lip. Please note that the bathrooms are not wheelchair accessible.
[ID: Promotional portrait of pianist Chloé Dumoulin, smiling at the camera against a neutral grey background.]
METAMORPHOSES — Chloé Dumoulin, piano
METAMORPHOSES — Chloé Dumoulin, piano
Saturday, November 21, 2026 — 7:30 - 9 PM
Rising Canadian pianist Chloé Dumoulin explores musical transformation in Liszt, Bartók, Gougeon and Corigliano, culminating in Liszt’s monumental Sonata in B minor.
The concert is the second of five events in the Master Piano Recital Series’ 2026–27 season, produced in partnership with Chamber Factory through its Artistic Partnership program.
Location: Southminster United Church - 15 Aylmer Avenue, Ottawa
Cost: $28.07
Accessibility: Southminster United Church is wheelchair accessible, with an elevator providing access to the sanctuary and accessible washrooms. Wheelchair users, people using walkers, and other guests with mobility needs can be accommodated. Although the building has stairs in some areas, accessible entry and elevator access are available. Ticket pricing includes multiple price points. The venue has heating and air conditioning.
[ID: Group of men and women wearing comfortable clothing and holding musical instruments.]
Christmas at Versailles
Christmas at Versailles
Tuesday, December 8, 2026 at 7:30 - 9 pm
Experience the splendour of Christmas at the court of Louis XIV in this festive Thirteen Strings collaboration with the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal and conductor Andrew McAnerney.
Location: Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper Street, Ottawa K2P 0G8
Cost: $10 to $75
Accessibility: wheelchair accessible, indoors, heated
[ID: Text Echos of Old Europe/Échos de la vieille Europe. All text as in caption. image behind of an european street.]
Echoes of Old Europe | Échos de la vieille Europe
Echoes of Old Europe | Échos de la vieille Europe
Sunday/Dimanche, Nov 22 | 3 pm
Chabrier, España
Glazunov, Violin Concerto (soloist David Thies-Thompson)
Dvorak, Symphony #6
Conductor: David Thies-Thompson
About the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra (OCO) was founded in 1992.
It is a dynamic "chamber-sized" symphony orchestra with activities taking place across the entire National Capital Region. Our fifty members include advanced music students, semi-professional musicians, and serious amateurs whose non-musical avocations and professions run the complete gamut. From teenagers to senior citizens, our musicians come from all communities within Ottawa proper and its periphery. Our concerto performances open the stage to some of the most accomplished professional musicians in our area. What OCO's members share is a love of music, a desire to learn together, and a passion to delight our audiences with masterpieces of the symphonic repertoire.
All members of OCO look forward to the opportunity to enchant you with some of the best compositions for mid-size symphonic ensembles.
Location: Dominion-Chalmers | 355 rue Cooper Street
Cost: Student - $10
Senior - $20
Adult - $25
Accessibility: Please contact
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