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