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