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Door Allan November 2025
Building an Accessible Circle Garden
Door Channing Rodman October 2025
BYB Brunch
Door Pamela Nga October 2025
Capital History Kiosks: Pop-up Histories
Door David Dean September 2025
FAB Festival 2025
Door Shireen Faza August 2025
Secondhand Stories Open House
Door Liz Wheeler July 2025
Ottawa High Hookers
Door Colleen Gray June 2025
Sound of Life
Door Nieve Xiao May 2025
Messages from Ottawa / Elbows Up
Door Velvet LeClair April 2025
#WriteOttawa
Door Susan Johnston March 2025
Mesh Up Ottawa
Door Patricia Oliveira Verissimo March 2025
Lens of Hope
Door Alois Mulinda Nashali February 2025
Artistic Gratitude Ottawa
Door Jenn Hayward February 2025
Community Gatherings to Enhance Mental Health
Door Mechanicsville Community Association January 2025
Inside Voice
Door Toni van Eeden January 2025
Purple Shovel Project
Door Merge Robotics November 2024
Pumpkins for the Planet
Door Marianne Ariganello October 2024
Legacy Squares
Door Melody St. Pierre September 2024
Seniors for Climate Mural Project
Door Letitia Charbonneau August 2024
Everyone Archives
Door Ben Compton July 2024
Trans Health Clinic Client Celebration
Door Ava Anderson and Holly Brown June 2024
Use Improv to Disrupt!
Door Hingman Leung, Adrienne Row - Smith, and Velvet Wells May 2024
Frank St Bee & Butterfly Garden
Door Sam Rohe and Carlos Murray April 2024
The Get Down (in O-Town)
Door Frank Amisi March 2024
Giggles4Health
Door Jocelyn Umengan February 2024
Did You Know? Unearthing Urban Creatives
Door Jason and Lindsay Machinski January 2024
Ottawa Outdoor Gear Library
Door Chris Osler December 2023
Winter Hot Chocolate & Donuts Skating Event
Door Emily Andruchow and the Overbrook Community Association December 2023
Women's Provincial Pinball Championship
Door Alisa McClain and Pinball Women Ottawa November 2023
Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Mayfair
Door Samuel Kellerman October 2023
Seniors AI Art Collective
Door Luc Lalande September 2023
SlutWalk Ottawa 2023
Door Julia Winterhalder and Purple Sisters Youth Advisory August 2023
Latin at Lansdowne
Door Tara Howlett, Victor Perez, and Jose Sandoval July 2023
Epic Box War
Door Edouard Marava June 2023
Kitigan-Garden
Door Harmony Eshkawkogan May 2023
Strathcona Faerie Pop-UP
Door Rachel Conlon April 2023
Below the Dirt Art Exhibit
Door Stephanie Plouffe March 2023
Petrie Island Turtle Project
Door Malcolm Fenech February 2023
Ottawa's Freelance Photography
Door Patrick Lescard January 2023
From Idea to Implementation School
Door Mykola Apetyk and Sofia Zhestokova December 2022
Saving History, One Treasure at a Time
Door William Webb, Jeff Bardell, and Eric Isa November 2022
Capital History Ottawa (#colourized)
Door Ashley Newall October 2022
Sharing our Stories
Door Paul Weber September 2022
Clementine Towers Food Pantry
Door Cathy Hamilton August 2022
Drag Queen Mah Jong with China Doll
Door Edward Kwan aka China Doll August 2022
The Bench Of Life
Door Akil Mesiwala July 2022
Pig Paradise Expansion Project
Door Sarah Hogg June 2022
Walkable Ottawa
Door Carolyn Mackenzie May 2022
Ottawa Design Club
Door Ariane Bédard, Isabelle Poirier, and Firdous Nizar April 2022
Documenting the Undocumented
Door Sinda Garziz March 2022
MudLake Microbes
Door Beth Tyler February 2022
Finding Gnomey
Door Finding Gnomey January 2022
Kids’ Community Culture Exchange
Door Marianna Connors December 2021
Adventure Report Camp Gear Lending Library
Door Megan Kelly and Asiya Hilowle November 2021
Parkways for People
Door Neil Saravanamuttoo and Erin Maher October 2021
Toadstool Town 613
Door Olivia Wittenburg September 2021
Project IDRIS: Smith/Capaldi TARDIS Console
Door Robin Vernell August 2021
The Princess Party Project
Door Fadhili July 2021
The Ara Ilu Showcase
Door Abdul Muse June 2021
Breath
Door Merritt Decloux, Michaela Van Beinum, and Zainab Muse May 2021
Cooking Together
Door Richard Stewart April 2021
Drag Queen Colouring Book
Door Don Kwan and John Cameron March 2021
The Pick and Grow
Door Alea de Castro February 2021
Talk Description to Me
Door Christine Malec and J.J. Hunt January 2021
Spacepeare
Door Nicholas Amott December 2020
A Christmas Carol: An Interactive Audio Play
Door Nicholas Leno and Norah Paton November 2020
Safety Hug
Door David Narbaitz and Jesse Burcsik October 2020
The League of Extraordinary Gentlepeople
Door Ashley Proulx, Laura Wheeler, Steven Lafond, Garret Brink, and Zach Counsil September 2020
Elderflower Project
Door Kate Punnett August 2020
Community Supported Gratitude
Door Heather Dewar July 2020
#takeoutart613
Door Young Arts Leaders Collective June 2020
Project Local Love
Door Sofie Sharom May 2020
Ottawa Children's Choir - At Home Edition
Door Carol Ann Northcott May 2020
Quarantine Natural Care
Door Manock Lual April 2020
Ottawa Medical Makers & Make-a-thon
Door Erin Austen March 2020
Ottawa Air Guitar Championships
Door Genevieve LeBlanc February 2020
Winter Morning Warm Up!
Door Liz Takac January 2020
Circle Goods
Door Grace Kirby December 2019
Period Packs
Door Meghan White November 2019
Moéitou
Door Corinne Sauvé October 2019
Ottawa Scale Solar System
Door Lynne Rowe September 2019
Gender Reveal Party
Door Master Cameron Eric Leon August 2019
#1000Strings
Door Carol Gimbel July 2019
613 Day Block Party
Door Apartment613 June 2019
The Company of Adventurers
Door Cynthia Sugars May 2019
Sound Around Town
Door Zara Ansar and Jason Cobill April 2019
Digitization of Lost Bosnian Magazines and Comics
Door Almir Sehalic March 2019
Electro-Stitches: Free E-Textile Workshops
Door Lee Jones February 2019
Th3rd Fridays
Door Alea de Castro January 2019
Hygge Homesharing
Door CJ Blake December 2018
Babies Who Volunteer
Door Jessica Turner December 2018
Helping with Bikes
Door Chris Taylor November 2018
Pumpkin Alley
Door Ott Mahmud October 2018
Generation Queer
Door Scott Sharma September 2018
The Living Colouring Book Project
Door Brenda Dunn August 2018
Wish of a Lifetime
Door Monica Harvey July 2018
Community Kicks
Door Aaron Thornell June 2018
Pop-up Pizza Potlucks
Door Lyn Elliott May 2018
Robot Missions Municipal Trials
Door Erin Kennedy April 2018
Airbnbeing John Malkovich
Door Kill Cooper March 2018
Jane’s Walk Ottawa-Gatineau: Jane’s Mob
Door Leigh A. Thorpe March 2018
Girls on the Spectrum Ottawa Drop-in
Door Suzanne Allen January 2018
Awesome Weekend
Door Awesome Ottawa December 2017
Newcomer Reads
Door Abdulnour Sakhniya November 2017
Growing Futures
Door Lucia Eyzaguirre October 2017
Tiny Street Art for the Keen Eye
Door Street Art Miniature September 2017
Foodsharing Ottawa
Door Carolin Ross August 2017
Community Cup
Door Shawn MacDonell and Chris Sheppard July 2017
Soul Cave
Door Zayyan Ahmed June 2017
Rhythm Jumpers: A Skipping Party
Door Zara Ansar and Ryan Mason May 2017
Torchlight Shakespeare: Fools in Your Park!
Door Alexandra Isenor and A Company of Fools April 2017
Apidictor Symphony
Door Annette Hegel and Deborah Margo March 2017
Retro Photos
Door Jen Rosenthal February 2017
In Search of Batman: Amazing Bats of Sibuyan
Door James Alvarez January 2017
2017 Ottawa Improv Festival
Door The Improv Embassy - Dani Alon, Chris Hannay, and Val Perelshtein January 2017
#AwesomeTenners
Door Michelle Thompson December 2016
OCAPDD GLEEKs
Door Ottawa-Carleton Association for Persons with Developmental Disabilities November 2016
Project Cold Days
Door Stephen R. Coleman October 2016
Picturing the Past
Door Bytown Museum Youth Council September 2016
CSArt Ottawa Community Launch
Door Megan Piercey Monafu August 2016
Bike Repair and Pizza Fair
Door Clayton Dignard July 2016
Sprout
Door Kim Kerton, Maria Anghelidis, and the Sprout team June 2016
Love Letters from Anonymous
Door Brittany Paulhus May 2016
Ottawa in Colour
Door Jason Cobill and Maxime Gauthier-Kwan April 2016
Percy Station
Door John McClelland March 2016
Forever Young Roller Disco
Door Simone Healey February 2016
Hintonbeasts, the Guardians of the 'burg
Door Brenda Dunn and Shawn MacDonell January 2016
Bike Brite Ottawa
Door Phillippe Dessaint-Ash December 2015
The Roller
Door Jean-François Jacques November 2015
Ottawa Zine Fair
Door Lee Pepper October 2015
Cellfie
Door Tina Haase and Dan Modulevsky October 2015
The Art of Guilloché and Enamel
Door Chris Manning October 2015
Feel the Food: It's Your Fridge Too
Door Karen Secord September 2015
Design For Citizens
Door Jeffrey Neto, Tatiana Ulloa, and Cathryne Lillian Milburn August 2015
Dogs Playing Poker: LIVE!
Door Leah Bartlett July 2015
Buddy Bench
Door Jenny Guth June 2015
Rehabilitative and Assistive Exoskeleton
Door Sean Horn May 2015
Quilts for Roger's House
Door Sarah Heath May 2015
Ottawa Community Beekeepers
Door Graeme Peterson April 2015
Fungus Among Us
Door Scott Perrie March 2015
Ottawa Tool Library
Door Bettina Vollmerhausen & Frédéric Sune February 2015
Ottawa Sports Officials
Door Wendy Liang & Tanveer Mostafa January 2015
Awesome Tenners
Door Ashley Cabecinha December 2014
Ghosts of the Internet
Door Evan Roth November 2014
Ottawa City Woodshop
Door Michael Grigoriev October 2014
Take This Note
Door Sierra L. Wooldridge September 2014
HopShop
Door Brent Kaesler August 2014
Breathlace - The Breathalyzer Necklace
Door Britta Evans-Fenton July 2014
_____ Make(s) me Happy
Door Anne Wanda Tessier June 2014
Dau
Door Magill Foote June 2014
Set the Stage
Door Sarah Gelbard (with Impromptu Playground and Kent Aitken) May 2014
Good Art Shouldn't be Hard to Find
Door Kristina Corre April 2014
Chirps, Tweets, and Trills
Door Adam Smith March 2014
Ottawa #PopScope
Door Michael O'Shea, Vivasvat Dadwal February 2014
Twice Upon a Time
Door Alexandra Yarrow January 2014
Sesquisharp Productions
Door Megan Johnson & Jacob Caines December 2013
Herbs and Edibles - Help Yourself
Door Gail McGuire December 2013
Walk (Bike) Your City
Door Lana Stewart November 2013
Bureaucratease
Door Rhapsody Blue, Nicholas Charney, and Adam Tupper October 2013
The End of Your Tale
Door Andrew Conte September 2013
Ottawa Past & Present
Door Alexandre Laquerre August 2013
Firefly
Door Mark Stephenson, Michael Grant, and Darcy White July 2013
Great Mo-Ments in Bytown
Door Grant Vogl June 2013
Byward Market Dumpster Pool Party
Door Kyle McInnes June 2013
Neon Forestation
Door Lisa "Justy" Dennis May 2013
RightBike
Door Schuyler Playford April 2013
Musical Underground Ottawa
Door Kent Aitken March 2013
YouthCanSlam Ottawa 2013
Door Ikenna Onyegbula February 2013
Speed-Gaming!
Door Ashley Cabecinha & Ka Lei Ku January 2013
Trade School Co-op Ottawa
Door Shirley Manh December 2012
Senior Organic Gardeners
Door Margaret Tourond-Townson November 2012
Laser Musicbox
Door Christopher Smeenk October 2012
Ottawa Mini Maker Faire
Door Remco Volmer and Britta Evans-Fenton September 2012
Citizens Academy Ottawa
Door Caroline Andrew, Manjit Basi, Davis Carr, Mitchell Kutney, Judith Maxwell, Maureen Molot, and Ken Victor August 2012
Karen Community Farm Project
Door Meaghan Kenny July 2012
Dance Dance (Office) Revolution
Door Natalie Fraser and Meena Rajulu June 2012
Yarnbombing a Bus
Door Lisa Dennis May 2012
The Capital Reading Garden
Door Mary Beth Baker April 2012
Hidden Harvest Ottawa
Door Katrina Siks & Jason Garlough March 2012
University of Ottawa Quidditch Team
Door Clare Hutchinson February 2012
Apartment613 Lecture Series
Door Ryan Saxby Hill January 2012
The First Kagate Dictionary
Door Lauren Gawne December 2011
Hello Ottawa
Door Anne Patterson November 2011
Top Secret Project
Door Terri Ann Daniels October 2011
OTTAWA, a survey
Door Tony Fouhse September 2011
Fashion on Display
Door Malorie Bertrand and Maureen Dickson August 2011
LovetheLabel: Advocates for safe cosmetics!
Door Marina DeMarco July 2011
Burundi Film Center
Door Christopher Redmond June 2011
Cadaver Dog Scent Generator
Door Kim Cooper May 2011
Phone books to mushrooms
Door Alexis Williams April 2011
Murder Mystery Interactive Event
Door Gregory Jack March 2011
100 Strangers
Door Kym Shumsky January 2011
The Word According to Youth
Door Debora Barkun December 2010
The Great Balloon Launch
Door Tim Richards November 2010
Vuvuzela Virtuosos
Door Micah Melnyk October 2010
Ottawa Global Work Party
Door Erin Broome September 2010
Transplant
Door Emily Comeau & Emily Cook July 2010
Art Flash Mob
Door Alicia Dobson May 2010
Over Ons
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