Leah Geller
Music WriterLeah loves to dance and to listen to jazz music, often at the same time. Her day job is as a writer and editor, which comes in handy for crafting previews and reviews of dance and music events around town.
Get your groove on at Ottawa Dance Directive’s Freakin’ Fun Friday
Deck the halls with Christmas concerts!
NAC Popular Music’s fall season is crisp and cool
Preview: 2023 Ottawa Jazz Festival welcomes back favourites and fresh new faces
From yak wool to YouTube: How Ottawa women are advancing sustainable fashion
Preview: Alex Cuba at NAC’s Babs Asper Theatre 02.04.2023
Ottawa Jazzfest back in full force for summer 2022
Jazzfest is finally back in full force, live and in-person! The festival will take place at Confederation Park, the National Arts Centre, and Marion Dewar Plaza in front of Ottawa City Hall.
Film Review: My Mom’s Co-op is a heartwarming, intimate portrait of people living in Gatineau co-op
My Mom’s Co-op is screening at the ByTowne Cinema on Monday, December 13 at 6:45pm.
Takeout Talk: What are you ordering this weekend?
In this weekly feature, Apt613 asks blog contributors and local figures about their takeout habits and highlights—to help you find new tasty treats to discover or revisit when you’re just OVER IT with making dinner. This week, Takeout Talk covers curry, noodles, poutine, coffee, beer, and baked goods.
Takeout Talk: What are you ordering this weekend?
In this weekly feature, Apt613 asks blog contributors and local figures about their takeout habits and highlights—to help you find new tasty treats to discover or revisit when you’re just OVER IT with making dinner. This week, some of Apt613’s regular contributors share their latest recs and weekend food plans.
Nederlands Dans Theater brings some of world’s top performers, choreographers together for spectacular evening of dance—03.17.20 & 03.18.20
The company was created 60 years ago and attracts some of the most technically brilliant and versatile dancers in the world. You could probably ask them to dance the Macarena and it would still be glorious and mesmerizing.
Jodi Cobb: Stranger in a Strange Land at the National Arts Centre—03.03.20
Renowned photographer Jodi Cobb, known for lifting the curtain on hidden societies, comes to the National Arts Centre on Tuesday March 3 in the first of its new National Geographic Live Speaker Series.
Gig Pick: Kellylee Evans at the NAC—12.21.19
This Saturday, Kellylee Evans will be serenading her devoted Ottawa fans with a combination of Christmas classics, new holiday standards and a couple of her own creations.
A roundup of free Welcoming Ottawa Week events—until 06.30.19
Welcoming Ottawa Week continues until June 30, 2019.
Apt613 Contributor Picks: Best bets at Jazzfest—06.21.19 to 07.01.19
With concerts scattered over ten days across the Marion Dewar Plaza (TD Main Stage), Confederation Park (OLG Stage), and the National Arts Centre (NAC), sorting out which artists you want to see may be challenging. We’ve compiled concerts highlighting the must-see acts of this year’s festival.