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