Ottawa
Lone Mitten Project
By Caitlin Imrie December 2025
opncnvs pop up
By Allan November 2025
BYB Brunch
By Pamela Nga October 2025
Building an Accessible Circle Garden
By Channing Rodman October 2025
Capital History Kiosks: Pop-up Histories
By David Dean September 2025
FAB Festival 2025
By Shireen Faza August 2025
Secondhand Stories Open House
By Liz Wheeler July 2025
Ottawa High Hookers
By Colleen Gray June 2025
Sound of Life
By Nieve Xiao May 2025
Messages from Ottawa / Elbows Up
By Velvet LeClair April 2025
#WriteOttawa
By Susan Johnston March 2025
Mesh Up Ottawa
By Patricia Oliveira Verissimo March 2025
Lens of Hope
By Alois Mulinda Nashali February 2025
Artistic Gratitude Ottawa
By Jenn Hayward February 2025
Community Gatherings to Enhance Mental Health
By Mechanicsville Community Association January 2025
Inside Voice
By Toni van Eeden January 2025
Purple Shovel Project
By Merge Robotics November 2024
Pumpkins for the Planet
By Marianne Ariganello October 2024
Legacy Squares
By Melody St. Pierre September 2024
Seniors for Climate Mural Project
By Letitia Charbonneau August 2024
Everyone Archives
By Ben Compton July 2024
Trans Health Clinic Client Celebration
By Ava Anderson and Holly Brown June 2024
Use Improv to Disrupt!
By Hingman Leung, Adrienne Row - Smith, and Velvet Wells May 2024
Frank St Bee & Butterfly Garden
By Sam Rohe and Carlos Murray April 2024
The Get Down (in O-Town)
By Frank Amisi March 2024
Giggles4Health
By Jocelyn Umengan February 2024
Did You Know? Unearthing Urban Creatives
By Jason and Lindsay Machinski January 2024
Ottawa Outdoor Gear Library
By Chris Osler December 2023
Winter Hot Chocolate & Donuts Skating Event
By Emily Andruchow and the Overbrook Community Association December 2023
Women's Provincial Pinball Championship
By Alisa McClain and Pinball Women Ottawa November 2023
Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Mayfair
By Samuel Kellerman October 2023
Seniors AI Art Collective
By Luc Lalande September 2023
SlutWalk Ottawa 2023
By Julia Winterhalder and Purple Sisters Youth Advisory August 2023
Latin at Lansdowne
By Tara Howlett, Victor Perez, and Jose Sandoval July 2023
Epic Box War
By Edouard Marava June 2023
Kitigan-Garden
By Harmony Eshkawkogan May 2023
Strathcona Faerie Pop-UP
By Rachel Conlon April 2023
Below the Dirt Art Exhibit
By Stephanie Plouffe March 2023
Petrie Island Turtle Project
By Malcolm Fenech February 2023
Ottawa's Freelance Photography
By Patrick Lescard January 2023
From Idea to Implementation School
By Mykola Apetyk and Sofia Zhestokova December 2022
Saving History, One Treasure at a Time
By William Webb, Jeff Bardell, and Eric Isa November 2022
Capital History Ottawa (#colourized)
By Ashley Newall October 2022
Sharing our Stories
By Paul Weber September 2022
Drag Queen Mah Jong with China Doll
By Edward Kwan aka China Doll August 2022
Clementine Towers Food Pantry
By Cathy Hamilton August 2022
The Bench Of Life
By Akil Mesiwala July 2022
Pig Paradise Expansion Project
By Sarah Hogg June 2022
Walkable Ottawa
By Carolyn Mackenzie May 2022
Ottawa Design Club
By Ariane Bédard, Isabelle Poirier, and Firdous Nizar April 2022
Documenting the Undocumented
By Sinda Garziz March 2022
MudLake Microbes
By Beth Tyler February 2022
Finding Gnomey
By Finding Gnomey January 2022
Kids’ Community Culture Exchange
By Marianna Connors December 2021
Adventure Report Camp Gear Lending Library
By Megan Kelly and Asiya Hilowle November 2021
Parkways for People
By Neil Saravanamuttoo and Erin Maher October 2021
Toadstool Town 613
By Olivia Wittenburg September 2021
Project IDRIS: Smith/Capaldi TARDIS Console
By Robin Vernell August 2021
The Princess Party Project
By Fadhili July 2021
The Ara Ilu Showcase
By Abdul Muse June 2021
Breath
By Merritt Decloux, Michaela Van Beinum, and Zainab Muse May 2021
Cooking Together
By Richard Stewart April 2021
Drag Queen Colouring Book
By Don Kwan and John Cameron March 2021
The Pick and Grow
By Alea de Castro February 2021
Talk Description to Me
By Christine Malec and J.J. Hunt January 2021
Spacepeare
By Nicholas Amott December 2020
A Christmas Carol: An Interactive Audio Play
By Nicholas Leno and Norah Paton November 2020
Safety Hug
By David Narbaitz and Jesse Burcsik October 2020
The League of Extraordinary Gentlepeople
By Ashley Proulx, Laura Wheeler, Steven Lafond, Garret Brink, and Zach Counsil September 2020
Elderflower Project
By Kate Punnett August 2020
Community Supported Gratitude
By Heather Dewar July 2020
#takeoutart613
By Young Arts Leaders Collective June 2020
Project Local Love
By Sofie Sharom May 2020
Ottawa Children's Choir - At Home Edition
By Carol Ann Northcott May 2020
Quarantine Natural Care
By Manock Lual April 2020
Ottawa Medical Makers & Make-a-thon
By Erin Austen March 2020
Ottawa Air Guitar Championships
By Genevieve LeBlanc February 2020
Winter Morning Warm Up!
By Liz Takac January 2020
Circle Goods
By Grace Kirby December 2019
Period Packs
By Meghan White November 2019
Moéitou
By Corinne Sauvé October 2019
Ottawa Scale Solar System
By Lynne Rowe September 2019
Gender Reveal Party
By Master Cameron Eric Leon August 2019
#1000Strings
By Carol Gimbel July 2019
613 Day Block Party
By Apartment613 June 2019
The Company of Adventurers
By Cynthia Sugars May 2019
Sound Around Town
By Zara Ansar and Jason Cobill April 2019
Digitization of Lost Bosnian Magazines and Comics
By Almir Sehalic March 2019
Electro-Stitches: Free E-Textile Workshops
By Lee Jones February 2019
Th3rd Fridays
By Alea de Castro January 2019
Hygge Homesharing
By CJ Blake December 2018
Babies Who Volunteer
By Jessica Turner December 2018
Helping with Bikes
By Chris Taylor November 2018
Pumpkin Alley
By Ott Mahmud October 2018
Generation Queer
By Scott Sharma September 2018
The Living Colouring Book Project
By Brenda Dunn August 2018
Wish of a Lifetime
By Monica Harvey July 2018
Community Kicks
By Aaron Thornell June 2018
Pop-up Pizza Potlucks
By Lyn Elliott May 2018
Robot Missions Municipal Trials
By Erin Kennedy April 2018
Airbnbeing John Malkovich
By Kill Cooper March 2018
Jane’s Walk Ottawa-Gatineau: Jane’s Mob
By Leigh A. Thorpe March 2018
Girls on the Spectrum Ottawa Drop-in
By Suzanne Allen January 2018
Awesome Weekend
By Awesome Ottawa December 2017
Newcomer Reads
By Abdulnour Sakhniya November 2017
Growing Futures
By Lucia Eyzaguirre October 2017
Tiny Street Art for the Keen Eye
By Street Art Miniature September 2017
Foodsharing Ottawa
By Carolin Ross August 2017
Community Cup
By Shawn MacDonell and Chris Sheppard July 2017
Soul Cave
By Zayyan Ahmed June 2017
Rhythm Jumpers: A Skipping Party
By Zara Ansar and Ryan Mason May 2017
Torchlight Shakespeare: Fools in Your Park!
By Alexandra Isenor and A Company of Fools April 2017
Apidictor Symphony
By Annette Hegel and Deborah Margo March 2017
Retro Photos
By Jen Rosenthal February 2017
In Search of Batman: Amazing Bats of Sibuyan
By James Alvarez January 2017
2017 Ottawa Improv Festival
By The Improv Embassy - Dani Alon, Chris Hannay, and Val Perelshtein January 2017
#AwesomeTenners
By Michelle Thompson December 2016
OCAPDD GLEEKs
By Ottawa-Carleton Association for Persons with Developmental Disabilities November 2016
Project Cold Days
By Stephen R. Coleman October 2016
Picturing the Past
By Bytown Museum Youth Council September 2016
CSArt Ottawa Community Launch
By Megan Piercey Monafu August 2016
Bike Repair and Pizza Fair
By Clayton Dignard July 2016
Sprout
By Kim Kerton, Maria Anghelidis, and the Sprout team June 2016
Love Letters from Anonymous
By Brittany Paulhus May 2016
Ottawa in Colour
By Jason Cobill and Maxime Gauthier-Kwan April 2016
Percy Station
By John McClelland March 2016
Forever Young Roller Disco
By Simone Healey February 2016
Hintonbeasts, the Guardians of the 'burg
By Brenda Dunn and Shawn MacDonell January 2016
Bike Brite Ottawa
By Phillippe Dessaint-Ash December 2015
The Roller
By Jean-François Jacques November 2015
Ottawa Zine Fair
By Lee Pepper October 2015
Cellfie
By Tina Haase and Dan Modulevsky October 2015
The Art of Guilloché and Enamel
By Chris Manning October 2015
Feel the Food: It's Your Fridge Too
By Karen Secord September 2015
Design For Citizens
By Jeffrey Neto, Tatiana Ulloa, and Cathryne Lillian Milburn August 2015
Dogs Playing Poker: LIVE!
By Leah Bartlett July 2015
Buddy Bench
By Jenny Guth June 2015
Quilts for Roger's House
By Sarah Heath May 2015
Rehabilitative and Assistive Exoskeleton
By Sean Horn May 2015
Ottawa Community Beekeepers
By Graeme Peterson April 2015
Fungus Among Us
By Scott Perrie March 2015
Ottawa Tool Library
By Bettina Vollmerhausen & Frédéric Sune February 2015
Ottawa Sports Officials
By Wendy Liang & Tanveer Mostafa January 2015
Awesome Tenners
By Ashley Cabecinha December 2014
Ghosts of the Internet
By Evan Roth November 2014
Ottawa City Woodshop
By Michael Grigoriev October 2014
Take This Note
By Sierra L. Wooldridge September 2014
HopShop
By Brent Kaesler August 2014
Breathlace - The Breathalyzer Necklace
By Britta Evans-Fenton July 2014
_____ Make(s) me Happy
By Anne Wanda Tessier June 2014
Dau
By Magill Foote June 2014
Set the Stage
By Sarah Gelbard (with Impromptu Playground and Kent Aitken) May 2014
Good Art Shouldn't be Hard to Find
By Kristina Corre April 2014
Chirps, Tweets, and Trills
By Adam Smith March 2014
Ottawa #PopScope
By Michael O'Shea, Vivasvat Dadwal February 2014
Twice Upon a Time
By Alexandra Yarrow January 2014
Herbs and Edibles - Help Yourself
By Gail McGuire December 2013
Sesquisharp Productions
By Megan Johnson & Jacob Caines December 2013
Walk (Bike) Your City
By Lana Stewart November 2013
Bureaucratease
By Rhapsody Blue, Nicholas Charney, and Adam Tupper October 2013
The End of Your Tale
By Andrew Conte September 2013
Ottawa Past & Present
By Alexandre Laquerre August 2013
Firefly
By Mark Stephenson, Michael Grant, and Darcy White July 2013
Byward Market Dumpster Pool Party
By Kyle McInnes June 2013
Great Mo-Ments in Bytown
By Grant Vogl June 2013
Neon Forestation
By Lisa "Justy" Dennis May 2013
RightBike
By Schuyler Playford April 2013
Musical Underground Ottawa
By Kent Aitken March 2013
YouthCanSlam Ottawa 2013
By Ikenna Onyegbula February 2013
Speed-Gaming!
By Ashley Cabecinha & Ka Lei Ku January 2013
Trade School Co-op Ottawa
By Shirley Manh December 2012
Senior Organic Gardeners
By Margaret Tourond-Townson November 2012
Laser Musicbox
By Christopher Smeenk October 2012
Ottawa Mini Maker Faire
By Remco Volmer and Britta Evans-Fenton September 2012
Citizens Academy Ottawa
By Caroline Andrew, Manjit Basi, Davis Carr, Mitchell Kutney, Judith Maxwell, Maureen Molot, and Ken Victor August 2012
Karen Community Farm Project
By Meaghan Kenny July 2012
Dance Dance (Office) Revolution
By Natalie Fraser and Meena Rajulu June 2012
Yarnbombing a Bus
By Lisa Dennis May 2012
The Capital Reading Garden
By Mary Beth Baker April 2012
Hidden Harvest Ottawa
By Katrina Siks & Jason Garlough March 2012
University of Ottawa Quidditch Team
By Clare Hutchinson February 2012
Apartment613 Lecture Series
By Ryan Saxby Hill January 2012
The First Kagate Dictionary
By Lauren Gawne December 2011
Hello Ottawa
By Anne Patterson November 2011
Top Secret Project
By Terri Ann Daniels October 2011
OTTAWA, a survey
By Tony Fouhse September 2011
Fashion on Display
By Malorie Bertrand and Maureen Dickson August 2011
LovetheLabel: Advocates for safe cosmetics!
By Marina DeMarco July 2011
Burundi Film Center
By Christopher Redmond June 2011
Cadaver Dog Scent Generator
By Kim Cooper May 2011
Phone books to mushrooms
By Alexis Williams April 2011
Murder Mystery Interactive Event
By Gregory Jack March 2011
100 Strangers
By Kym Shumsky January 2011
The Word According to Youth
By Debora Barkun December 2010
The Great Balloon Launch
By Tim Richards November 2010
Vuvuzela Virtuosos
By Micah Melnyk October 2010
Ottawa Global Work Party
By Erin Broome September 2010
Transplant
By Emily Comeau & Emily Cook July 2010
Art Flash Mob
By Alicia Dobson May 2010
About Us
Awesome Ottawa awards a $1,000 grant every month, no strings attached, to forward the interest of awesome in the universe — usually, though not always, in Ottawa. Since 2010, we've given away $197,000!
Need $1,000 to pull off your awesome project? Applying couldn't be easier!
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Maybe you'd like to become a trustee? Trustees get together one evening per month, each contributing $100 toward the $1,000 award and deciding by consensus who will receive it. Let us know!
Meet the Trustees
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Zara Ansar ➚
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Rebecca Bennett
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Gavin Cramer
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Nina Damsbaek
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Cale Ettenberg
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Melina Found
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Cheryl Frankiewicz
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Desneiges Mitchell
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Connie Paris
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Greg Roderick ➚
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Josh Snider ➚
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Leigh Thorpe
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Singer Wang ➚
