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. […]

Speaker: Julia Scott Details: This presentation will tell the story of a young man, born in Barbados, descendent of an enslaved woman, who enlisted at age 15 in the British Army.  Robert served as a drummer and then a private in the 100th (later the 99th) Regiment of Foot (Prince Regent’s County of Dublin Regiment), settling […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]