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SUMMARY:Illuminated Seasons
DESCRIPTION:Highlighting the four seasons and local plants of the Outaouais region in Quebec\, L’atelier de l’Aube (Marie Drolet and Oleksandr Polishchuck)\, in collaboration with Emily Rose Michaud\, created Illuminated Seasons. \nUsing hand carving and moulding techniques\, each porcelain tile is illuminated to showcase the delicate and intricate craftmanship. Each piece holds personal meaning to the artists and serves as a greater symbol of our innate connection to Earth.
URL:https://ottawaeventscalendar.ca/event/illuminated-seasons/
LOCATION:National Arts Centre\, 1 Elgin St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1P 5W1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Concerts/music
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SUMMARY:Beetlejuice
DESCRIPTION:He earned his stripes on Broadway… now the ghost-with-the-most is coming to Ottawa. \nIt’s showtime! Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film\, this hilarious musical tells the story of Lydia Deetz\, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes. \nWith an irreverent book\, an astonishing set\, and a score that’s out of this Netherworld\, BEETLEJUICE is “SCREAMINGLY GOOD FUN!” (Variety). And under its uproarious surface (six feet under\, to be exact)\, it’s a remarkably touching show about family\, love\, and making the most of every Day-O! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMature themes \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nStrong language \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlashing lights \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHaze \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLoud noises
URL:https://ottawaeventscalendar.ca/event/beetlejuice/
LOCATION:National Arts Centre\, 1 Elgin St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1P 5W1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Concerts/music
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SUMMARY:Jann Arden
DESCRIPTION:For two nights at the NAC: Jann Arden!  \nJann Arden is a multi-platinum\, award-winning singer\, songwriter\, actor\, and author. She has released 15 albums and 19 top-ten singles. Her most recent album\, Descendant\, was released in January 2022.   \nArden’s accolades include 9 JUNO Awards\, including Female Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year\, 10 SOCAN Awards and 4 Western Canadian Music Awards\, to name a few. In 2021\, she was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame\, joining the ranks of Canadian music icons\, including Alanis Morisette\, Bryan Adams\, Barenaked Ladies\, Bachman Turner Overdrive\, Joni Mitchell\, Shania Twain and many more. Arden has also been inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame\, has a Star on Canada’s Walk of Fame and has been awarded the Order of Canada.   \nArden has written six books\, the most recent being her debut novel\, The Bittlemores\, released November 7th\, 2023. Her latest memoir\, If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging\, follows her 2017 Canadian best-seller\, Feeding Your Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss\, which spent a combined 44 weeks on The Globe and Mail bestseller lists.   \nSeason 3 of Arden’s CTV hit original comedy series Jann premiered in September 2021. With Arden serving as co-creator and star of the show\, where she plays a fictionalized version of herself\, Season 1 of Jann was the most-watched new Canadian comedy series of the 2018-19 broadcast season. Other screen credits include guest appearances in Wynonna Earp (Syfy)\, Private Eyes (Fox)\, The Detour (TBS)\, and Workin’ Moms (Netflix).   \nWhether she is captivating audiences with her heartfelt music\, entertaining them with her quick wit or sharing her written word in a boldly honest voice – Arden is a Canadian original – a brilliant multi-dimensional talent.  
URL:https://ottawaeventscalendar.ca/event/jann-arden/
LOCATION:National Arts Centre\, 1 Elgin St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1P 5W1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Concerts/music
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SUMMARY:Threads of Fate - James McGowan Ensemble & Kingdom Theatre
DESCRIPTION:This show combines the internationally acclaimed\, award-winning troupe of performers in KingDom Theatre with the jazz-classical fusion James McGowan Ensemble (JME). The JME has released two extended concept albums that have received positive reviews and airplay from all over the world. This non-verbal show is recommended for adults (youth ages 10+ are particularly welcome to join). \nStep into Threads of Fate\, an original physical theatre performance where the path twists and turns with every decision you make as in a labyrinth. It’s the intricate web of choices\, desires\, and fears that shape our lives. With every step\, we are pulled deeper\, questioning our choices yet trying to resist being oppressively controlled. Guided by the ensemble of actors\, you will traverse this labyrinth—one not built of walls\, but of thoughts and emotions in a community. McGowan’s original music composed and adapted for this production amplifies the emotional depth of the experience. \n\”The work is at times theatrical in its parts\, sometimes classical\, sometimes jazz-inspired\, but undoubtedly a grand and beautiful artistic creation” (Paris Move). At times heart-felt\, playful\, chaotic\, epic\, or intimate\, the unique jazz-classical fusion\, twelve-piece ensemble adds a powerful voice to the creation. Each audience member will create their own unique path within\, shaped by a shared collective experience.
URL:https://ottawaeventscalendar.ca/event/threads-of-fate-james-mcgowan-ensemble-kingdom-theatre/
LOCATION:Threads of Fate – James McGowan Ensemble & Kingdom Theatre\, Azrieli Studio\, NAC\, 1 Elgin Street\, Ottawa
CATEGORIES:Concerts/music
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SUMMARY:2025 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting and elegant celebration of Canada’s highest distinction in the performing arts! \nYour night of fun will kick off at 6:30 pm\, with red-carpet arrivals of this year’s laureates and special guests starting at 7 pm. You’ll then be treated to a series of amazing\, touching and incredibly moving tribute performances highlighting the accomplishments of the laureates (show commencing at 8 pm in Southam Hall). It will be a wonderful evening of celebration\, music\, and dancing! \nYour concert-only ticket (starting at $75) will provide you with an unforgettable evening of performances\, an after-party with live band\, and cash bar in the Canal Lobby. \nWhile the recommended dress is formal\, we’d love to see you just the way you are! \nYour evening includes:\n\n6:30 pm: Doors open. Cash bar. (Refreshments in Ovation Lounge for Ovation Package holders only)\n7 pm: Red carpet\n8 pm: Tribute performance in Southam Hall\n10 pm: After-party with cash bar in the Canal Lobby\, featuring live band. (Refreshments in Ovation Lounge for Ovation Package holders only)\n\nOvation Package\nMake the evening extra special! Limited tickets available for an additional $100 each. Add the Ovation Package for access to: \n\nA pre-show reception in the Ovation Lounge\, with complimentary drinks and light canapés;\nAfter-party in the Ovation Lounge\, featuring curated chef stations and special cocktails; and\nA dance party in the Canal Lobby with live band.\n\nLe Germain Hotel Ottawa special offer\nBook now with Le Germain Hotel Ottawa and enjoy an exclusive discount on your stay for the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards. To take advantage of this offer\, please click here and enter the promo code GGPAA at the time of booking.\n 
URL:https://ottawaeventscalendar.ca/event/2025-governor-generals-performing-arts-awards/
LOCATION:National Arts Centre\, 1 Elgin St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1P 5W1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Concerts/music
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SUMMARY:Shelley conducts The Rite of Spring
DESCRIPTION:This NACO Mentorship program is made possible in part through the generous support of the Friends of the NAC Orchestra. \n—– \n\nExperience an evening of music that celebrates the joyful eruptions of spring and the warm serenity of the desert. \nElemental\, primordial\, dissonant\, pagan: words that describe Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring making it a deliciously shocking and essential musical experience! \nJohn Luther Adams’s ethereal Become Desert completes a musical trilogy he never intended to write.\n\nThis is a night for mysteries and magic\, as Alexander Shelley leads the NAC Orchestra and participants of the NACO Mentorship Program through some of the classical world’s most otherworldly music from both traditional and contemporary composers.  \nBecome Desert\, by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams\, is a sensory experience that will conjure the sprawling\, shimmering beauty of a vast sea of sand. The warm sun rises\, its tone and intensity changes throughout the day\, and desert life comes and goes. The music evokes the movement of a beautiful but unforgiving landscape.  \nFor years\, the narrative about the riot caused by the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in 1913 Paris was that the whirling dervish of music and choreography drove audience members to lose their minds. It’s almost a shame it’s not true. But make no mistake: Rite of Spring creates a cathartic\, unruly\, and beautiful musical world that will viscerally pull you in and keep you spinning long after the final note. 
URL:https://ottawaeventscalendar.ca/event/shelley-conducts-the-rite-of-spring/
LOCATION:National Arts Centre\, 1 Elgin St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1P 5W1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Concerts/music
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SUMMARY:Ottawa Jazz Festival
DESCRIPTION:Layers of Sound & History.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrating its 45th anniversary in 2025\, the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s programming continues to be a trailblazer in the complexities and explorations of jazz.\n\n\nThe Ottawa Jazz Festival exists to advance the appreciation and knowledge of all music\, in particular jazz\, by programming music that richly underscores the continuing creativity and diversity of the artists and the music itself.
URL:https://ottawaeventscalendar.ca/event/ottawa-jazz-festival/
LOCATION:National Arts Centre\, 1 Elgin St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1P 5W1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Concerts/music,Festival
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250622T230000
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SUMMARY:Three Days Grace & Volbeat
DESCRIPTION:Three Days Grace & Volbeat\nSunday\, June 22\, 2025 7 PM\nThree Days Grace\nThree Days Grace balance moments of extreme emotion on an axis of pummeling hard rock anthems and pensive balladry. Along the way\, the Juno Award-nominated multiplatinum record-breaking Ontario\, Canada quartet have amassed billions of streams and millions of album sales\, sold out arenas on multiple continents\, and reached unprecedented heights\, earning a staggering 17 total #1 entries on the Mediabase Active Rock Chart and sharing the record for “Most #1 singles on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs Chart” with 16. In the wake of 2018’s Outsider\, they picked up “Rock Artist of the Year” at the iHeartRadio Music Awards and “Rock Songwriters of the Year” for the single “The Mountain” at the SOCAN Awards. The album garnered nods for “Album of the Year” and “Rock Album of the Year” at the 2019 Juno Awards. Three years prior\, 2015’s Human housed the gold-selling “I Am Machine” and “Painkiller.” Achieving dozens of gold and platinum certifications worldwide\, their catalog comprises the double-platinum Three Days Grace [2003]\, triple-platinum One-X [2006]\, gold-certified Life Starts Now [2009]\, and epic Transit of Venus [2012]. As “one of the most-streamed rock bands in the world\,” they impressively attract over 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Speaking to quietly inescapable presence\, they appeared on the NBA2K19 Soundtrack curated by Travis Scott\, while Jeris Johnson served up a viral cover of “Never Too Late” and the late Lil Peep and Lil Tracy have sampled “The Real You.” Thus far\, their number one smashes span “Chalk Outline\,” “The High Road\,” “Misery Loves My Company\,” “World So Cold\,” “Good Life\,” “Break\,” “Never Too Late\,” “Animal I Have Become\,” “Pain\,” “Just Like You\,” and “Home.” However\, the band ascend to another stratosphere on their 2022 seventh full-length offering\, Explosions [RCA Records]. \nVolbeat\nVolbeat are two decades deep into a career that has found them sharing stages with genre legends like Black Sabbath\, Metallica\, Motorhead\, Slipknot\, Megadeth\, Anthrax and more. They have racked up nearly three billion cumulative streams over the course of their career\, earned gold and platinum certifications all over the world\, scored a Best Metal Performance Grammy nomination for “Room 24 (feat. King Diamond)” from 2014’s acclaimed (and U.S. gold-certified) Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies\, and have won multiple Danish Music Awards.
URL:https://ottawaeventscalendar.ca/event/three-days-grace-volbeat/
LOCATION:Canadian Tire Centre\, 1000 Palladium Dr\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2V 1A4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Concerts/music
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250625T200000
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SUMMARY:Shelley Conducts Zarathustra
DESCRIPTION:You have heard the opening to Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra \, but did you know it has nine spectacular parts? Experience them all.\nComposer Claude Debussy’s love for the ocean rises and falls in giant waves of sound in La mer. \nIan Cusson is a Canadian Indigenous composer whose music maps and explores the Canadian Indigenous experience.\n\nThus Spake Zarathustra has been an inspiration to other great composers like Aaron Copland and superstar movie score composer John Williams. The first section of this opus was famously used in 2001: A Space Odyssey and most recently in the very first trailer for the blockbuster film Barbie. From the moment you hear its opening low hum and those three crystalline trumpet notes\, you will get why Zarathustra is one for the ages.  \nWe then move onto La mer by the French composer Claude Debussy\, who once thought he would become a sailor but thankfully changed course and turned to music. But he always loved “my old friend\, the sea; it is always endless and beautiful. It really is the thing in nature that best puts you in your place.”  \nThe evening is capped off with music by composer Ian Cusson\, who explores the Canadian Indigenous experience\, including the history of the Métis people and the intersection of Western and Indigenous cultures.  \nAlexander Shelley leads the NAC Orchestra and musicians of the NACO Mentorship Program for the closing night of the season. \n—– \nThe NACO Mentorship program is made possible in part through the generous support of the Friends of the NAC Orchestra. \n\n\n			\n			There are no program notes for this event.
URL:https://ottawaeventscalendar.ca/event/shelley-conducts-zarathustra/
LOCATION:National Arts Centre\, 1 Elgin St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1P 5W1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Concerts/music
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SUMMARY:Sesame Street Live
DESCRIPTION:Elmo\, Abby Cadabby\, Cookie Monster\, and their friends from Sesame Street are coming to Ottawa to say hello! At Sesame Street Live! Say Hello\, sing\, dance\, and play alongside your favourite furry friends\, all while you follow Elmo’s puppy\, Tango\, in a fun game of hide & seek. So put on your dancing shoes and make your way to where the air is sweet for this all-new celebration on Sesame Street! \n  \nMeet the Characters of Sesame Street Live\, Say Hello! \n \nIn this exclusive post show experience\, you and your family will have the opportunity to make a lasting memory of your visit by taking a photo alongside characters from Sesame Street Live\, Say Hello! Here’s how it works: Each adult and child in a group must purchase a Photo Experience ticket to attend and participate in the Photo Experience. The Photo Experience will start shortly after the end of show. Please make sure to bring your camera\, as you will want to capture every moment! \n \nParents\, please note that while most children are excited to meet their favorite characters up-close\, others can feel frightened. If your child is scared or hesitant to meet the characters\, we recommend moving to the back of the line; This will allow your child the extra time they may need to warm up to the characters and see how they interact with other children present. For the safety of all guests and performers\, no touching or hugging will be permitted. \n \nPhoto experience tickets: $50  \n**Admission to the performance is not included in the Photo Experience ticket. This is a separate upgrade that must be purchased in advance.  \n**Children aged 12 and under must be accompanied by a Parent/Guardian. Each Child\, Parent or Guardian must have a show ticket as well as a Photo Experience ticket to attend
URL:https://ottawaeventscalendar.ca/event/sesame-street-live/
LOCATION:National Arts Centre\, 1 Elgin St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1P 5W1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Concerts/music
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