32 events happening today in Downtown. Festivals, concerts, sports, and activities.
32 events · 24 per section
Sink into some seriously relaxing weekend vibes as you experience intimate performances from some of your favourite NACO musicians. Surrounded by the acoustic and architect...
Drip Duo performs improvised viola and double-bass music, followed by a solo set from Jury Kobayashi-Mackay.
JUNO Award-winners The East Pointers are innovators within the ever-evolving genre of modern folk, crafting a joy-conjuring, dancefloor-shaking, roof-rattling fusion of folk, pop, and dance music. ...
Come to the Jackson Café to discover two large murals, featuring the digital artwork of Eric Chan (aka eepmon)! In Future Garden, eepmon provokes an emotional response synonymous with that evoked b...
The Qikiqtait exhibition in the Polar Knowledge Canada Northern Voices Gallery celebrates Inuit knowledge and innovation from the Arctic Eider Society in Sanikiluaq. The Power of Knowledge, Innovat...
Find out how life took its first steps onto land. Discover Tiktaalik, an iconic fossil that helps us understand how fins became limbs. Inuktitut | Inuinnaqtun | English Find out how life took its f...
Created by Ottawa-based artist Jennifer Macklem with studio assistance from Faezeh Maleki, these three large dragonfly wings reflect the artists’ interest in the natural world. Suspended and sensit...
In this work, Ottawa-based artist Jennifer Macklem draws inspiration from an enlarged image of a diatom – microscopic jewel like microalgae that produce up to 50% of the oxygen on our planet. Found...
Our upcoming temporary exhibition, What’s in a Frame? 200+ Years of Community Portraits, officially launches on May 15th! Reflecting on 200+ years, we look to portraits of past and present Ottawa r...
This interactive artwork encourages visitors to handle, move, and stack magnetic shapes – moths, butterflies and children’s silhouettes – across a map of the Great Lakes. The map is presented upsid...
This banner combines detailed images from artist Stephanie Tenasco’s beaded deer hide work Kìwàbandamogoban “he/she had seen it long ago, well before my time” (2026) with the word Sàgàbigonì, the A...
Diego Rivera Meets Henry Moore pairs an international loan with a work from the Gallery’s collection to tell new stories about art. Gallery: C217, European and American Galleries
This exhibition explores the artist’s experience under the shadows of the pandemic. During her almost daily walks, Roxanne Lafleur took notice of her environment along the Rideau Canal and began to...
Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this exhibition explores different aspects of Canada’s involvement in the war against Japan — including the Battle of Hong Kong, the...
Discover the history behind one of Canada’s most powerful symbols of remembrance. Marking 25 years since the repatriation of Canada’s Unknown Soldier, this 18-panel wall display explores the histor...
Through nearly 200 specimens, audio stories, and immersive colour zones, Wild Colour reveals how living things use colour to communicate, attract, and survive. Experience a world bursting with colo...
Mélanie Myers’ forest mural explores atmosphere, historic architecture and humidity at CUAG Centretown inside Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, May 25, 2026–April 30, 2027. Viewing follows Sanctuary events and announced visiting hours.
Explore the ways that the American Civil War (1861-1865) shaped Canadian society, politics and military - and why its legacies still matter today. Today, Canada stands as a proud and independent po...
In the context of Ottawa’s bicentennial anniversary, and the large-scale environmental transformation that has occured on Anishinābe Aki over the last 200 years, this exhibition foregrounds the con...
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Have you ever experienced a feeling so intensely, yet struggled to find the right word for it? The Amharic word Haleta originated from an ancient language spoken in Ethiopia called Ge’ez. It descri...
In collaboration with the Sobey Art Foundation, the National Gallery of Canada is proud to present works by six artists from across the country who have been shortlisted for the 2026 Sobey Art Awar...
Spanning five decades, this exhibition highlights the enduring relevance of the figurative practice of Montreal-based artist Marion Wagschal. Gallery: Gallery C218
Shaped by artists, filmmakers, researchers and studios, animation in Ottawa has evolved through a dynamic exchange of creativity, experimentation and innovation. From the establishment of the anima...
· National Gallery of Canada · Included with admission
· The Royal Oak – 188 Bank St · Free
· Ottawa Art Gallery · Free
· Ottawa Art Gallery · Free
· Ottawa Public Library — Main · Free
· Ottawa Little Theatre · Adult $32; senior $28; student $10
· Canadian War Museum — Lobby (near the Gift Shop) · Included with museum admission
· Ottawa Public Library — Main · Free
