Ottawa
Purple Shovel Project
От Merge Robotics November 2024Pumpkins for the Planet
От Marianne Ariganello October 2024Legacy Squares
От Melody St. Pierre September 2024Seniors for Climate Mural Project
От Letitia Charbonneau August 2024Everyone Archives
От Ben Compton July 2024Trans Health Clinic Client Celebration
От Ava Anderson and Holly Brown June 2024Use Improv to Disrupt!
От Hingman Leung, Adrienne Row - Smith, and Velvet Wells May 2024Frank St Bee & Butterfly Garden
От Sam Rohe and Carlos Murray April 2024The Get Down (in O-Town)
От Frank Amisi March 2024Giggles4Health
От Jocelyn Umengan February 2024Did You Know? Unearthing Urban Creatives
От Jason and Lindsay Machinski January 2024Ottawa Outdoor Gear Library
От Chris Osler December 2023Winter Hot Chocolate & Donuts Skating Event
От Emily Andruchow and the Overbrook Community Association December 2023Women's Provincial Pinball Championship
От Alisa McClain and Pinball Women Ottawa November 2023Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Mayfair
От Samuel Kellerman October 2023Seniors AI Art Collective
От Luc Lalande September 2023SlutWalk Ottawa 2023
От Julia Winterhalder and Purple Sisters Youth Advisory August 2023Latin at Lansdowne
От Tara Howlett, Victor Perez, and Jose Sandoval July 2023Epic Box War
От Edouard Marava June 2023Kitigan-Garden
От Harmony Eshkawkogan May 2023Strathcona Faerie Pop-UP
От Rachel Conlon April 2023Below the Dirt Art Exhibit
От Stephanie Plouffe March 2023Petrie Island Turtle Project
От Malcolm Fenech February 2023Ottawa's Freelance Photography
От Patrick Lescard January 2023From Idea to Implementation School
От Mykola Apetyk and Sofia Zhestokova December 2022Saving History, One Treasure at a Time
От William Webb, Jeff Bardell, and Eric Isa November 2022Capital History Ottawa (#colourized)
От Ashley Newall October 2022Sharing our Stories
От Paul Weber September 2022Clementine Towers Food Pantry
От Cathy Hamilton August 2022Drag Queen Mah Jong with China Doll
От Edward Kwan aka China Doll August 2022The Bench Of Life
От Akil Mesiwala July 2022Pig Paradise Expansion Project
От Sarah Hogg June 2022Walkable Ottawa
От Carolyn Mackenzie May 2022Ottawa Design Club
От Ariane Bédard, Isabelle Poirier, and Firdous Nizar April 2022Documenting the Undocumented
От Sinda Garziz March 2022MudLake Microbes
От Beth Tyler February 2022Finding Gnomey
От Finding Gnomey January 2022Kids’ Community Culture Exchange
От Marianna Connors December 2021Adventure Report Camp Gear Lending Library
От Megan Kelly and Asiya Hilowle November 2021Parkways for People
От Neil Saravanamuttoo and Erin Maher October 2021Toadstool Town 613
От Olivia Wittenburg September 2021Project IDRIS: Smith/Capaldi TARDIS Console
От Robin Vernell August 2021The Princess Party Project
От Fadhili July 2021The Ara Ilu Showcase
От Abdul Muse June 2021Breath
От Merritt Decloux, Michaela Van Beinum, and Zainab Muse May 2021Cooking Together
От Richard Stewart April 2021Drag Queen Colouring Book
От Don Kwan and John Cameron March 2021The Pick and Grow
От Alea de Castro February 2021Talk Description to Me
От Christine Malec and J.J. Hunt January 2021Spacepeare
От Nicholas Amott December 2020A Christmas Carol: An Interactive Audio Play
От Nicholas Leno and Norah Paton November 2020Safety Hug
От David Narbaitz and Jesse Burcsik October 2020The League of Extraordinary Gentlepeople
От Ashley Proulx, Laura Wheeler, Steven Lafond, Garret Brink, and Zach Counsil September 2020Elderflower Project
От Kate Punnett August 2020Community Supported Gratitude
От Heather Dewar July 2020#takeoutart613
От Young Arts Leaders Collective June 2020Ottawa Children's Choir - At Home Edition
От Carol Ann Northcott May 2020Project Local Love
От Sofie Sharom May 2020Quarantine Natural Care
От Manock Lual April 2020Ottawa Medical Makers & Make-a-thon
От Erin Austen March 2020Ottawa Air Guitar Championships
От Genevieve LeBlanc February 2020Winter Morning Warm Up!
От Liz Takac January 2020Circle Goods
От Grace Kirby December 2019Period Packs
От Meghan White November 2019Moéitou
От Corinne Sauvé October 2019Ottawa Scale Solar System
От Lynne Rowe September 2019Gender Reveal Party
От Master Cameron Eric Leon August 2019#1000Strings
От Carol Gimbel July 2019613 Day Block Party
От Apartment613 June 2019The Company of Adventurers
От Cynthia Sugars May 2019Sound Around Town
От Zara Ansar and Jason Cobill April 2019Digitization of Lost Bosnian Magazines and Comics
От Almir Sehalic March 2019Electro-Stitches: Free E-Textile Workshops
От Lee Jones February 2019Th3rd Fridays
От Alea de Castro January 2019Hygge Homesharing
От CJ Blake December 2018Babies Who Volunteer
От Jessica Turner December 2018Helping with Bikes
От Chris Taylor November 2018Pumpkin Alley
От Ott Mahmud October 2018Generation Queer
От Scott Sharma September 2018The Living Colouring Book Project
От Brenda Dunn August 2018Wish of a Lifetime
От Monica Harvey July 2018Community Kicks
От Aaron Thornell June 2018Pop-up Pizza Potlucks
От Lyn Elliott May 2018Robot Missions Municipal Trials
От Erin Kennedy April 2018Airbnbeing John Malkovich
От Kill Cooper March 2018Jane’s Walk Ottawa-Gatineau: Jane’s Mob
От Leigh A. Thorpe March 2018Girls on the Spectrum Ottawa Drop-in
От Suzanne Allen January 2018Awesome Weekend
От Awesome Ottawa December 2017Newcomer Reads
От Abdulnour Sakhniya November 2017Growing Futures
От Lucia Eyzaguirre October 2017Tiny Street Art for the Keen Eye
От Street Art Miniature September 2017Foodsharing Ottawa
От Carolin Ross August 2017Community Cup
От Shawn MacDonell and Chris Sheppard July 2017Soul Cave
От Zayyan Ahmed June 2017Rhythm Jumpers: A Skipping Party
От Zara Ansar and Ryan Mason May 2017Torchlight Shakespeare: Fools in Your Park!
От Alexandra Isenor and A Company of Fools April 2017Apidictor Symphony
От Annette Hegel and Deborah Margo March 2017Retro Photos
От Jen Rosenthal February 2017In Search of Batman: Amazing Bats of Sibuyan
От James Alvarez January 20172017 Ottawa Improv Festival
От The Improv Embassy - Dani Alon, Chris Hannay, and Val Perelshtein January 2017#AwesomeTenners
От Michelle Thompson December 2016OCAPDD GLEEKs
От Ottawa-Carleton Association for Persons with Developmental Disabilities November 2016Project Cold Days
От Stephen R. Coleman October 2016Picturing the Past
От Bytown Museum Youth Council September 2016CSArt Ottawa Community Launch
От Megan Piercey Monafu August 2016Bike Repair and Pizza Fair
От Clayton Dignard July 2016Sprout
От Kim Kerton, Maria Anghelidis, and the Sprout team June 2016Love Letters from Anonymous
От Brittany Paulhus May 2016Ottawa in Colour
От Jason Cobill and Maxime Gauthier-Kwan April 2016Percy Station
От John McClelland March 2016Forever Young Roller Disco
От Simone Healey February 2016Hintonbeasts, the Guardians of the 'burg
От Brenda Dunn and Shawn MacDonell January 2016Bike Brite Ottawa
От Phillippe Dessaint-Ash December 2015The Roller
От Jean-François Jacques November 2015Ottawa Zine Fair
От Lee Pepper October 2015Cellfie
От Tina Haase and Dan Modulevsky October 2015The Art of Guilloché and Enamel
От Chris Manning October 2015Feel the Food: It's Your Fridge Too
От Karen Secord September 2015Design For Citizens
От Jeffrey Neto, Tatiana Ulloa, and Cathryne Lillian Milburn August 2015Dogs Playing Poker: LIVE!
От Leah Bartlett July 2015Buddy Bench
От Jenny Guth June 2015Rehabilitative and Assistive Exoskeleton
От Sean Horn May 2015Quilts for Roger's House
От Sarah Heath May 2015Ottawa Community Beekeepers
От Graeme Peterson April 2015Fungus Among Us
От Scott Perrie March 2015Ottawa Tool Library
От Bettina Vollmerhausen & Frédéric Sune February 2015Ottawa Sports Officials
От Wendy Liang & Tanveer Mostafa January 2015Awesome Tenners
От Ashley Cabecinha December 2014Ghosts of the Internet
От Evan Roth November 2014Ottawa City Woodshop
От Michael Grigoriev October 2014Take This Note
От Sierra L. Wooldridge September 2014HopShop
От Brent Kaesler August 2014Breathlace - The Breathalyzer Necklace
От Britta Evans-Fenton July 2014_____ Make(s) me Happy
От Anne Wanda Tessier June 2014Dau
От Magill Foote June 2014Set the Stage
От Sarah Gelbard (with Impromptu Playground and Kent Aitken) May 2014Good Art Shouldn't be Hard to Find
От Kristina Corre April 2014Chirps, Tweets, and Trills
От Adam Smith March 2014Ottawa #PopScope
От Michael O'Shea, Vivasvat Dadwal February 2014Twice Upon a Time
От Alexandra Yarrow January 2014Herbs and Edibles - Help Yourself
От Gail McGuire December 2013Sesquisharp Productions
От Megan Johnson & Jacob Caines December 2013Walk (Bike) Your City
От Lana Stewart November 2013Bureaucratease
От Rhapsody Blue, Nicholas Charney, and Adam Tupper October 2013The End of Your Tale
От Andrew Conte September 2013Ottawa Past & Present
От Alexandre Laquerre August 2013Firefly
От Mark Stephenson, Michael Grant, and Darcy White July 2013Byward Market Dumpster Pool Party
От Kyle McInnes June 2013Great Mo-Ments in Bytown
От Grant Vogl June 2013Neon Forestation
От Lisa "Justy" Dennis May 2013RightBike
От Schuyler Playford April 2013Musical Underground Ottawa
От Kent Aitken March 2013YouthCanSlam Ottawa 2013
От Ikenna Onyegbula February 2013Speed-Gaming!
От Ashley Cabecinha & Ka Lei Ku January 2013Trade School Co-op Ottawa
От Shirley Manh December 2012Senior Organic Gardeners
От Margaret Tourond-Townson November 2012Laser Musicbox
От Christopher Smeenk October 2012Ottawa Mini Maker Faire
От Remco Volmer and Britta Evans-Fenton September 2012Citizens Academy Ottawa
От Caroline Andrew, Manjit Basi, Davis Carr, Mitchell Kutney, Judith Maxwell, Maureen Molot, and Ken Victor August 2012Karen Community Farm Project
От Meaghan Kenny July 2012Dance Dance (Office) Revolution
От Natalie Fraser and Meena Rajulu June 2012Yarnbombing a Bus
От Lisa Dennis May 2012The Capital Reading Garden
От Mary Beth Baker April 2012Hidden Harvest Ottawa
От Katrina Siks & Jason Garlough March 2012University of Ottawa Quidditch Team
От Clare Hutchinson February 2012Apartment613 Lecture Series
От Ryan Saxby Hill January 2012The First Kagate Dictionary
От Lauren Gawne December 2011Hello Ottawa
От Anne Patterson November 2011Top Secret Project
От Terri Ann Daniels October 2011OTTAWA, a survey
От Tony Fouhse September 2011Fashion on Display
От Malorie Bertrand and Maureen Dickson August 2011LovetheLabel: Advocates for safe cosmetics!
От Marina DeMarco July 2011Burundi Film Center
От Christopher Redmond June 2011Cadaver Dog Scent Generator
От Kim Cooper May 2011Phone books to mushrooms
От Alexis Williams April 2011Murder Mystery Interactive Event
От Gregory Jack March 2011100 Strangers
От Kym Shumsky January 2011The Word According to Youth
От Debora Barkun December 2010The Great Balloon Launch
От Tim Richards November 2010Vuvuzela Virtuosos
От Micah Melnyk October 2010Ottawa Global Work Party
От Erin Broome September 2010Transplant
От Emily Comeau & Emily Cook July 2010Art Flash Mob
От Alicia Dobson May 2010За Нас
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