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Victorian Art of Mourning (Workshop)

Billings Estate National Historic Site Billings Estate National Historic Site, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Learn to make sculptural flower art using hair with artist Cindy Stelmackowich. This workshop will explore Victorian mourning traditions, including hair wreaths and jewelry. While it might seem macabre today, the practice of weaving the hair of a loved one into intricate pieces of art was considered both sentimental and fashionable in the19th century and […]

$70
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Artist-in-Residence Exhibition – Justin Case: The Enemy Within (The Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum)

Diefenbunker : Canada's Cold War Museum 3929 Carp Road, Carp, Ontario, Canada

Visit the Diefenbunker's 2022 Artist-in-Residence exhibition, featuring the work of Ottawa-based artist Christos Pantieras. Through a multi-layered installation and series of reinvented propaganda posters, this exhibition explores the LGBT Purge and the resulting personal struggles of those in the 2SLGBTQ+ community beginning in the 1950s during the Cold War and continuing up until the mid-1990s. […]

Makers at the Museum: Birch Bark Quill Earrings – The Nepean Museum

Nepean Museum 16 Rowley Avenue, Nepean, Ontario, Canada

Led by a facilitator from FabLab Onaki, participants in this workshop will use digital fabrication tools to craft a pair of earrings from traditional materials, including birch bark and porcupine quills. FabLab Onaki is the first Indigenous FabLab in Canada. Adapting the Digital Fabrication Laboratory model developed by MIT, FabLab Onaki integrates the traditional values of […]

$75

Thirteen Strings Presents “Mirage?” — Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre 355 Cooper Street, Ottawa

One of Canada’s leading percussionists, Beverley Johnston, will be gracing the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre stage as Thirteen Strings initiates its 2022-23 season on October 18 with Mirage? The vibraphone/percussionist will share a fulsome evening with John Burge’s CD release along with the familiar names Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky. The concert takes its name from Christos Hatzis’ Mirage?  […]

Jimmy Carter: Chalk River and Beyond

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When, as a young U.S. naval officer, Jimmy Carter played a courageous role in repairing the damage from the world's first nuclear meltdown — here in the Ottawa Valley — it was the beginning of a lifelong connection with Canada for the future U.S. president. This speaker series presentation will take place on Zoom. Registration: tinyurl.com/HSO-26-Oct-2022 All are […]

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