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