Finally got around for a Saturday morning to check out 613flea in Lansdowne Park. 613flea is a not-for-profit marketplace where Ottawa’s creative community along with entrepreneurs and small businesses showcase their products and creations to shoppers. Artisans, artists, designers, makers and entertainers come together with antiques dealers, independent boutiques, food merchants and vintage clothing vendors …
Music.Art.Ppl held their first volume of the Echoes Series at Club Saw on October 11, 2019. About Echoes: “Striving to capture the shapes and sounds of culture across our great landscape, Echoes will bring you the best local and international talent in the fields of visual arts, music, deco creation, sound production and performance.” Their …
Went to this show at Cinqhole on October 11, 2019. Presented by Hot Tramp Management and First Crush Promotion. Performing was Montreal Hip-hop artist Backxwash, Montreal Electronica & R&B act Maryze and Ottawa Poet & Rapper Htebasile (No site yet). Check out the photos
Birling had their release party for Raised by Wolves‘ Jungle Vision Cruiser on October 10, 2019. Check out the photos
Another art opening took place at Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery with Terramatter on October 10, 2019. Terramatter is a group exhibition by Helga Jakobson, Gillian King and Whitney Lewis-Smith. About the exhibition: All three artist frame this exhibition as a triptych, divided into three layers based on geologic time and layers of the earth. …
National Gallery of Canada held their opening for “Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography“. This exhibition which is on view for the first time outside Japan, calls attention to a period of socio-political upheaval in Japan, through photographs from the Yokohama Museum of Art. Inspired by the Japanese word for flooding, overflow, or deluge, Hanran reflects early …
Silla and Rise held their Worldwide album launch for Galactic Gala at Mercury Lounge on October 5, 2019. Pretty much a packed house where everyone was having a fun time to their blend of Inuit Throat Singing and global dancefloor mixology. No one was disappointed! 9/10.
Wonderful Friday night at Club Saw with Operators and Legal Vertigo. Part of a three night tour which started from Toronto and ends in Montreal. Kicking off was Legal Vertigo, the band formerly known as Napster Vertigo performed a nice mix of art-rock and pop with some added twang. The 6 piece band which included …
Ottawa Art Gallery held their launch of the fall exhibition 2019. The 4 new exhibitions which are Facing Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, Inaabiwin, Molly Lamb Bobak: A Woman of the Crowd in the Firestone Gallery and Adrian Baker: Watershed in the Annexe. Check out the photos from the opening night. Facing Claude Cahun and …
Busy Saturday night and I ended my night at House of Targ. It was the long awaited debut LP release show for Ottawa’s Warp Lines. Their album is called Human Fresh and it is 12 insane post-punk rocking tunes and out on Dirt Cult Records. Totally loud rocking set to end my Saturday night! 8/10. …