Although Fresh Meat Fest isn’t until October, the local theatre festival is getting ready to open up its submissions portal from May 8 to June 9 for talented artists to join their lineup come fall. Apt613 sat down with Cullen Elijah McGrail–the producer and media and marketing director of the festival–to learn more.

Renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann will discuss his new book, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis, at the Ottawa International Writers Festival (OIWF) on Saturday, May 4.

In this new biweekly feature, Apt613 asks blog contributors and local food lovers about their recent Ottawa area restaurant highlights to help you find new tasty treats to discover or revisit when someone inevitably asks, “Where do you want to eat?” We want to hear about something that you ate and loved! Leave comments below, […]

The Bronson Theatre played host to Pop Evil on Thursday night, as part of their Skeletons Tour that has been making the rounds throughout North America for the past year.

On March 31, 2024, Ottawa author N.P. Thompson’s children’s book River of Crows won a silver medal in the 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards.

Are you pink carpet ready? OAG will be painting the town pink at its annual art auction on May 16, 2024!

Ottawa International Writers Festival (Spring edition) opens today, May 2, and runs until May 5 with many exciting events happening every day, including a “Life in Pictures” event to talk about “Denison Avenue,” a poignant book about gentrification of one Chinatowns neighbourhood.

This past weekend, Axé World Fest hosted the “Empowering Women in the Music Industry” Conference in venues around Ottawa. The Ottawa-based organization’s mission is to promote music and culture from Canada and around the world with a special focus on BIPOC artists and those in marginalized groups. After attending on Friday night and hearing amazing […]

April showers have brought us May flowers! Although we’re still a week away from the start of the annual Canadian Tulip Festival, some of the early tulips have bloomed in Major’s Hill Park, along the Rideau Canal, and at Dow’s Lake. While I could easily spend a weekend touring the tulips, there are plenty of other options to pass your time this weekend.

The time has arrived: ETC opens its premiere production on May 1 with Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years.

On Sunday evening, Art House Café held another successful “Zine Swap” – a fantastic initiative that encourages local creatives and DIY-ers to swap/share their works with others in the artistic community. The zines varied and included comics, collage, poetry, photography, and more. Blue Hour Zine Library also had their photo zine collection available for browsing […]