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📢 New Date‼️
Join us at our spring Contributor Meetup on May 31st at our new home in Artengine at Arts Court! We’re going to bring together experienced and potential contributors, editors, and a few folks from the performing arts sector to chat, Q&A and just spend some time in the same room!🎪
📝We are always learning from one another, so don’t be shy to come along even if the performing arts aren’t your regular beat. It will be nice to see you there!
💌 RSVP to the contributor’s invitation that arrived in your inbox or directly to: community@apt613.ca so we can get an idea of attendance numbers!
📍May 31
2-4pm
Artengine
Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave

🏰 Apt613 has found an apartment with the coolest roommates!
🖨️ For the first time ever, Apt613 will have an actual office space, and it’s already one of our highlights of the year. We'll be the organization in residence, with @artengineat @artscourt, and we’re incredibly grateful and excited for this opportunity!
📫This next chapter gives us space to be closer to artists and collaborators, and to root ourselves more deeply in the arts community we serve. It also opens up new ways of working together, from storytelling to shared programming.
📍Find us at Artengine!
April 2026 – March 2027
We can’t wait to see you there!
📸: @remitheriault

🏰 Apt613 has found an apartment with the coolest roommates!
🖨️ For the first time ever, Apt613 will have an actual office space, and it’s already one of our highlights of the year. We'll be the organization in residence, with @artengineat @artscourt, and we’re incredibly grateful and excited for this opportunity!
📫This next chapter gives us space to be closer to artists and collaborators, and to root ourselves more deeply in the arts community we serve. It also opens up new ways of working together, from storytelling to shared programming.
📍Find us at Artengine!
April 2026 – March 2027
We can’t wait to see you there!
📸: @remitheriault

🏰 Apt613 has found an apartment with the coolest roommates!
🖨️ For the first time ever, Apt613 will have an actual office space, and it’s already one of our highlights of the year. We'll be the organization in residence, with @artengineat @artscourt, and we’re incredibly grateful and excited for this opportunity!
📫This next chapter gives us space to be closer to artists and collaborators, and to root ourselves more deeply in the arts community we serve. It also opens up new ways of working together, from storytelling to shared programming.
📍Find us at Artengine!
April 2026 – March 2027
We can’t wait to see you there!
📸: @remitheriault

🏰 Apt613 has found an apartment with the coolest roommates!
🖨️ For the first time ever, Apt613 will have an actual office space, and it’s already one of our highlights of the year. We'll be the organization in residence, with @artengineat @artscourt, and we’re incredibly grateful and excited for this opportunity!
📫This next chapter gives us space to be closer to artists and collaborators, and to root ourselves more deeply in the arts community we serve. It also opens up new ways of working together, from storytelling to shared programming.
📍Find us at Artengine!
April 2026 – March 2027
We can’t wait to see you there!
📸: @remitheriault

🏰 Apt613 has found an apartment with the coolest roommates!
🖨️ For the first time ever, Apt613 will have an actual office space, and it’s already one of our highlights of the year. We'll be the organization in residence, with @artengineat @artscourt, and we’re incredibly grateful and excited for this opportunity!
📫This next chapter gives us space to be closer to artists and collaborators, and to root ourselves more deeply in the arts community we serve. It also opens up new ways of working together, from storytelling to shared programming.
📍Find us at Artengine!
April 2026 – March 2027
We can’t wait to see you there!
📸: @remitheriault

💗 Each year, the Ottawa Art Gallery’s Give to Get Art Auction brings together a dynamic range of artworks and unique art objects donated by artists from across the region and beyond, presented for auction. A highlight of the annual event is the Critics’ Choice selection, when a panel of jurors shines a spotlight on some of the most compelling works.
This year’s jurors were captivated by works that immediately drew viewers in through compelling perspectives, materiality, and attention to detail.
This year's Critics' Choice stars in alphabetical order are:
🌟 Urban Migration by Anna Williams
🌟 Chief Red Robe in London, UK and Three Onlookers by Jeff Thomas, Haudenosaunee
🌟 Then and Now by Tavi Weisz
🌟 A Portrait of the Artists in Objects by Vern Navarra Martin Ivie
Read all about the special eventat the link in our bio! 🔗
💗OAG’s Give to Get Art Auction on May 21 is a vibrant annual celebration of creativity, connection, and community. Get your tickets now!
@ottawaartgallery #PaintTheTownPink #GiveToGetArt #LoveTheOAG #OttawaArtGallery

💗 Each year, the Ottawa Art Gallery’s Give to Get Art Auction brings together a dynamic range of artworks and unique art objects donated by artists from across the region and beyond, presented for auction. A highlight of the annual event is the Critics’ Choice selection, when a panel of jurors shines a spotlight on some of the most compelling works.
This year’s jurors were captivated by works that immediately drew viewers in through compelling perspectives, materiality, and attention to detail.
This year's Critics' Choice stars in alphabetical order are:
🌟 Urban Migration by Anna Williams
🌟 Chief Red Robe in London, UK and Three Onlookers by Jeff Thomas, Haudenosaunee
🌟 Then and Now by Tavi Weisz
🌟 A Portrait of the Artists in Objects by Vern Navarra Martin Ivie
Read all about the special eventat the link in our bio! 🔗
💗OAG’s Give to Get Art Auction on May 21 is a vibrant annual celebration of creativity, connection, and community. Get your tickets now!
@ottawaartgallery #PaintTheTownPink #GiveToGetArt #LoveTheOAG #OttawaArtGallery

💗 Each year, the Ottawa Art Gallery’s Give to Get Art Auction brings together a dynamic range of artworks and unique art objects donated by artists from across the region and beyond, presented for auction. A highlight of the annual event is the Critics’ Choice selection, when a panel of jurors shines a spotlight on some of the most compelling works.
This year’s jurors were captivated by works that immediately drew viewers in through compelling perspectives, materiality, and attention to detail.
This year's Critics' Choice stars in alphabetical order are:
🌟 Urban Migration by Anna Williams
🌟 Chief Red Robe in London, UK and Three Onlookers by Jeff Thomas, Haudenosaunee
🌟 Then and Now by Tavi Weisz
🌟 A Portrait of the Artists in Objects by Vern Navarra Martin Ivie
Read all about the special eventat the link in our bio! 🔗
💗OAG’s Give to Get Art Auction on May 21 is a vibrant annual celebration of creativity, connection, and community. Get your tickets now!
@ottawaartgallery #PaintTheTownPink #GiveToGetArt #LoveTheOAG #OttawaArtGallery

💗 Each year, the Ottawa Art Gallery’s Give to Get Art Auction brings together a dynamic range of artworks and unique art objects donated by artists from across the region and beyond, presented for auction. A highlight of the annual event is the Critics’ Choice selection, when a panel of jurors shines a spotlight on some of the most compelling works.
This year’s jurors were captivated by works that immediately drew viewers in through compelling perspectives, materiality, and attention to detail.
This year's Critics' Choice stars in alphabetical order are:
🌟 Urban Migration by Anna Williams
🌟 Chief Red Robe in London, UK and Three Onlookers by Jeff Thomas, Haudenosaunee
🌟 Then and Now by Tavi Weisz
🌟 A Portrait of the Artists in Objects by Vern Navarra Martin Ivie
Read all about the special eventat the link in our bio! 🔗
💗OAG’s Give to Get Art Auction on May 21 is a vibrant annual celebration of creativity, connection, and community. Get your tickets now!
@ottawaartgallery #PaintTheTownPink #GiveToGetArt #LoveTheOAG #OttawaArtGallery

💗 Each year, the Ottawa Art Gallery’s Give to Get Art Auction brings together a dynamic range of artworks and unique art objects donated by artists from across the region and beyond, presented for auction. A highlight of the annual event is the Critics’ Choice selection, when a panel of jurors shines a spotlight on some of the most compelling works.
This year’s jurors were captivated by works that immediately drew viewers in through compelling perspectives, materiality, and attention to detail.
This year's Critics' Choice stars in alphabetical order are:
🌟 Urban Migration by Anna Williams
🌟 Chief Red Robe in London, UK and Three Onlookers by Jeff Thomas, Haudenosaunee
🌟 Then and Now by Tavi Weisz
🌟 A Portrait of the Artists in Objects by Vern Navarra Martin Ivie
Read all about the special eventat the link in our bio! 🔗
💗OAG’s Give to Get Art Auction on May 21 is a vibrant annual celebration of creativity, connection, and community. Get your tickets now!
@ottawaartgallery #PaintTheTownPink #GiveToGetArt #LoveTheOAG #OttawaArtGallery

🐝 Review: The Birds and the Bees is soon to be a Canadian classic
Written by Canadian theatre actor and playwright, Mark Crawford, The Birds and the Bees at Ottawa Little Theatre is a charming comedy about everything awkward, embarrassing and hilarious about having a late-in-life sexual awakening.🐦
🎭 The play is set in the farmhouse of Gail Bickers, a lonely beekeeper who clashes with her daughter when she comes home after her marriage, like many of Gail’s bee colonies, has collapsed.
Read the full review at apt613.ca. Link in our bio 🔗
📝: Vanessa Foran
📸: Maria Vartanova
@theottawalittletheatre

🐝 Review: The Birds and the Bees is soon to be a Canadian classic
Written by Canadian theatre actor and playwright, Mark Crawford, The Birds and the Bees at Ottawa Little Theatre is a charming comedy about everything awkward, embarrassing and hilarious about having a late-in-life sexual awakening.🐦
🎭 The play is set in the farmhouse of Gail Bickers, a lonely beekeeper who clashes with her daughter when she comes home after her marriage, like many of Gail’s bee colonies, has collapsed.
Read the full review at apt613.ca. Link in our bio 🔗
📝: Vanessa Foran
📸: Maria Vartanova
@theottawalittletheatre

🐝 Review: The Birds and the Bees is soon to be a Canadian classic
Written by Canadian theatre actor and playwright, Mark Crawford, The Birds and the Bees at Ottawa Little Theatre is a charming comedy about everything awkward, embarrassing and hilarious about having a late-in-life sexual awakening.🐦
🎭 The play is set in the farmhouse of Gail Bickers, a lonely beekeeper who clashes with her daughter when she comes home after her marriage, like many of Gail’s bee colonies, has collapsed.
Read the full review at apt613.ca. Link in our bio 🔗
📝: Vanessa Foran
📸: Maria Vartanova
@theottawalittletheatre

🎬 The lovely spring weather is coaxing people outside, so watching films may not be at the top of your to-do list, so let’s see what’s on at the ByTowne and the Mayfair to tempt you indoors. There seems to be a bumper crop of films from the vault, and a few new surprises in store.
✔️Ghost in the Shell - Japanese director Mamoru Oshii’s award-winning 1995 cyber-tech animated thriller is screening at The Mayfair
✔️The Christophers - Our in-house film expert calls this a "masterclass in direction and acting"
✔️10 Things I Hate About You -Prom attire is encouraged for this teenage classic! There’s spiked/non-spiked punch and a pre-film drag performance included
✔️Ponyo - This charming 2009 animated feature from the Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki is sure to delight you
✔️Blue Heron - A Canadian film told from the point of view of an eight-year-old girl whose family is being torn apart by the increasingly odd behaviour of the eldest son
✔️ Shrek - The ByTowne is showing everyone's favourite swamp dweller in their Drunken Cinema series
✔️Farewell, My Concubine -The 1993 historical melodramatic epic won Cannes’ Palme d’Or
✔️The Mayfair's Wes Anderson film festival continues to bring more silliness to the screen with a triple threat month including: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Darjeeling Limited
✔️ The ByTowne is presenting Canadian documentary "The End of the Internet" as a hybrid screening experience that combines traditional cinema with an interactive installation inside the theatre, for something completely different!
Find all our recommendations at the link in our bio! 🔗
📝: Barbara Popel
@bytownecinema @mayfairtheatre

💖If you’re familiar with Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 pop-culture hit movie Moulin Rouge!, then you’re in for a treat with the musical version from Broadway Across Canada at the National Arts Centre, which follows the same fantastic story, but has updated music and songs and some spectacular staging, immersing audiences into the Parisian tale!🎪
💃 The ensemble elevates every number and fills the stage to every corner. Join the bohemian revolution, indulge in the sparkle and grandeur, but above all, bask in a story of love down at the Moulin Rouge! at the NAC until May 17th.
Read the full review at apt613.ca🔗
📝: Samara Caplan and Laura Gauthier @bffs613
📸: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade @murphymadephotography
@nac.cna @bactouring

💖If you’re familiar with Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 pop-culture hit movie Moulin Rouge!, then you’re in for a treat with the musical version from Broadway Across Canada at the National Arts Centre, which follows the same fantastic story, but has updated music and songs and some spectacular staging, immersing audiences into the Parisian tale!🎪
💃 The ensemble elevates every number and fills the stage to every corner. Join the bohemian revolution, indulge in the sparkle and grandeur, but above all, bask in a story of love down at the Moulin Rouge! at the NAC until May 17th.
Read the full review at apt613.ca🔗
📝: Samara Caplan and Laura Gauthier @bffs613
📸: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade @murphymadephotography
@nac.cna @bactouring

💖If you’re familiar with Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 pop-culture hit movie Moulin Rouge!, then you’re in for a treat with the musical version from Broadway Across Canada at the National Arts Centre, which follows the same fantastic story, but has updated music and songs and some spectacular staging, immersing audiences into the Parisian tale!🎪
💃 The ensemble elevates every number and fills the stage to every corner. Join the bohemian revolution, indulge in the sparkle and grandeur, but above all, bask in a story of love down at the Moulin Rouge! at the NAC until May 17th.
Read the full review at apt613.ca🔗
📝: Samara Caplan and Laura Gauthier @bffs613
📸: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade @murphymadephotography
@nac.cna @bactouring

You saw that right. TK ALL DAY!!
We’re linking up with @apt613 and @fono.613 to bring the TIMEKODE sound you know and love to FONO for 613 Day.
Come celebrate @apt613’s birthday with @likeadayoftheweek, @lifeboogie, @seiiizi and your nearest and dearest. We’ll be keeping the dance floor locked all afternoon.
June 13. Noon–6:13PM.
More details to come.
See you on the dance floor!

🌷 The first long weekend of the summer is here and there’s plenty to do!
🎭 The stages in town are full of musicals and live music including Moulin Rouge at the NAC,Fun Home at the Gladstone, and the Ottawa Jazz Orchestra. Support local at farmers' markets, 613flea, or the Hintonburg Night Market. 🧁
It is not only the second weekend of Tulip Festival, but it's also the second weekend of NCC Bike Weekends, if you want to play outside!🚴♀️
For all of this and a bumper crop of weekend plans, check out the Weekend Roundup at the link in our bio 🔗
📝: Hannah Manning
📸: Hannah Manning @hannahkgm
@ncc_ccn @nac.cna @bactouring @gladstonetheatre @ottawaartgallery@ottawa_titans @pwhl_charge @613flea @urbanartcollective.ca @tototootheatre
@cdntulipfest @barrobo @houseoftarg @27club_ottawa @cflredblacks @canadajazzworks @hrhcottawa @thefray @themovingartgallery @_obak_ @thehph @atletiottawa @perfectbooksottawa @happinesshabits613 @ovrollerderby @ottnightnuit @bywardmarket @centretownottawa @downtownrideau @ottawatourism











🏡 Fun Home, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, explores the author’s childhood, family dynamics, and sexuality.
🎭 Based on the groundbreaking graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, the story of Fun Home is poignant, relevant, and profoundly moving — the show is a beautiful exploration of what it means to be human.
TotoToo Theatre brings this emotional, funny, and ambitious production to the Gladstone this month, so we chatted with director Rebecca Russell to learn more.🎶
Read the full interview, and get insights into the show at the link in our bio 🔗
📝: Samara Caplan and Laura Gauthier @bffs613
@tototootheatre @gladstonetheatre

⚾The Ottawa Titans have started the 2026 season with a record-setting sellout!
Spring has sprung, and baseball is back.For the first time since 2002, the Ottawa Stadium was completely sold out, with over 10,278 tickets sold, setting a new Frontier League attendance record on Friday.
Who are our returning stars? Is fan favourite Jackie Urbaez still stealing hearts in the 613? 🌭Have they brought back twoonie hotdogs? What's the beer selection like? Can I bring my dog? Has the team posted any internet-breaking thirst traps yet?🔥 (oh yes)
For all this and SO much more, check out our Ottawa Titans Season Preview on our website. Link in bio!🔗
📝: Kiersten Vuorimaki
📸: Kiersten Vuorimaki @kvuorimaki
@ottawa_titans #FullSwing

🥩 Foodie Friday: Council Oak Steaks & Seafood Brunch Buffet
🍤Council Oak Steaks & Seafood, Hard Rock Ottawa’s steakhouse, is serving up all you can eat brunch on Sunday mornings and it did not disappoint when we were invited recently to give it a try!
🥐 From the fresh pastries, seafood raw bar, carving station, and omelette bar, to the sides, and dessert… we came hungry and left happy!
☕️ Read the whole article on our website at apt613.ca 🔗
📝: Hannah Manning
📸: @hannahkgm
@hrhcottawa

🥩 Foodie Friday: Council Oak Steaks & Seafood Brunch Buffet
🍤Council Oak Steaks & Seafood, Hard Rock Ottawa’s steakhouse, is serving up all you can eat brunch on Sunday mornings and it did not disappoint when we were invited recently to give it a try!
🥐 From the fresh pastries, seafood raw bar, carving station, and omelette bar, to the sides, and dessert… we came hungry and left happy!
☕️ Read the whole article on our website at apt613.ca 🔗
📝: Hannah Manning
📸: @hannahkgm
@hrhcottawa

🥩 Foodie Friday: Council Oak Steaks & Seafood Brunch Buffet
🍤Council Oak Steaks & Seafood, Hard Rock Ottawa’s steakhouse, is serving up all you can eat brunch on Sunday mornings and it did not disappoint when we were invited recently to give it a try!
🥐 From the fresh pastries, seafood raw bar, carving station, and omelette bar, to the sides, and dessert… we came hungry and left happy!
☕️ Read the whole article on our website at apt613.ca 🔗
📝: Hannah Manning
📸: @hannahkgm
@hrhcottawa

🥩 Foodie Friday: Council Oak Steaks & Seafood Brunch Buffet
🍤Council Oak Steaks & Seafood, Hard Rock Ottawa’s steakhouse, is serving up all you can eat brunch on Sunday mornings and it did not disappoint when we were invited recently to give it a try!
🥐 From the fresh pastries, seafood raw bar, carving station, and omelette bar, to the sides, and dessert… we came hungry and left happy!
☕️ Read the whole article on our website at apt613.ca 🔗
📝: Hannah Manning
📸: @hannahkgm
@hrhcottawa

🥩 Foodie Friday: Council Oak Steaks & Seafood Brunch Buffet
🍤Council Oak Steaks & Seafood, Hard Rock Ottawa’s steakhouse, is serving up all you can eat brunch on Sunday mornings and it did not disappoint when we were invited recently to give it a try!
🥐 From the fresh pastries, seafood raw bar, carving station, and omelette bar, to the sides, and dessert… we came hungry and left happy!
☕️ Read the whole article on our website at apt613.ca 🔗
📝: Hannah Manning
📸: @hannahkgm
@hrhcottawa
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