Awesome Ottawa

July’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Liz Wheeler to support the Secondhand Stories chicken sanctuary’s second annual open house.

June’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Colleen Gray and the Ottawa High Hookers to support the local arm wrestling community.

May’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Nieve Xiao to bring young musicians together with seniors through Sound of Life.

April’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Velvet LeClair to support political art out of papier mâché and cardboard.

Awesome Ottawa is giving two awards for March, one to Susan Johnston to support walking tours of Ottawa fiction and poetry, and one to Patricia Oliveira to support new mesh nets for basketball courts across the city.

February’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Visionary Voices, a local non-profit creating spaces where stories can challenge systemic inequities to support video production workshops to empower racialized youth.

January’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Jenn Hayward to support a week-long gratitude and artistic expression initiative.

Awesome Ottawa is giving two awards for December, one to Amanda Palmer and the Mechanicsville Community Association to support community gatherings for mental health, and one to Toni van Eeden to support a series of sensory-immersive live music shows using interconnected wireless headphones.

November’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to community-based robotics team Merge Robotics to support purple shovels – the team’s colour – for clearing snow from Kanata bus shelters.

October’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Marianne Ariganello to support pumpkin rescue in the days after Halloween.

September’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Melody St. Pierre to support the creation of “legacy squares” sharing important life messages from seniors.

August’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Letitia Charbonneau for a climate action mural project by seniors and youth.

July’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Ben Compton for workshops to support those pursuing their own archiving projects outside of major institutions.

June’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Ava Anderson and Holly Brown for a client celebration for Centretown Community Health Centre’s Trans Health Clinic. “We would like to have a celebration,” explains Ava, “to foster connections between our clients, uplift and celebrate the trans community of Ottawa, and provide services that may otherwise be unavailable.” “Ultimately,” […]

May’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Hingman Leung, Adrienne Row-Smith, and Velvet Wells to support a series of experimental workshops exploring the use of improvisational theatre techniques to respond to racism. “No matter how much training I take on anti-racism,” explains Hingman, “I always freeze up when someone says something to me that feels like […]