Ottawa Events Calendar

Ikebana - Nature's Beauty Reimagined
2025-09-12 - 2025-09-14 | 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, K1P 6P4, 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, K1P 6P4
Discover the art of Japanese floral design with Ikebana International Ottawa Centennial Chapter. This year’s theme, Nature’s Beauty Reimagined, showcases over 20 arrangements from the Sogetsu and Ohara schools, blending modern and traditional styles. Presented for three days only, this tranquil exhibition celebrates 40 years of partnership through the timeless beauty of flowers.

Black and Bluegrass Fest
2025-09-13
A full day on the farm of the most beautifully, baddest bluegrass from around the whole country featuring two stages with non-stop music!
Enjoy musical performances from all over, including; Vancouver, Prince Edward Island, Montreal and Ottawa!

Taste of Manotick
2025-09-13
Local businesses will line Main Street showcasing all that the Vibrant Village of Manotick has to offer, from fantastic specialty/gift stores, stylish clothing and many other services. There will be tasting, samples, draws and demonstrations. The restaurants will be open to serve you a variety of menus as well as offer excellent service. Come out and enjoy live music, entertainment and food at its best!

Heating up the Capital
2025-09-13 | 23 Pepperrall Crescent, Ottawa, K2J 3W7, 23 Pepperrall Crescent, Ottawa, K2J 3W7
Meet the makers, sample their sauces and buy some to take home with you!
Quench your appetite with adult beverages, food and quench the heat with ice cream! Even Jalapeno beer!!

Butter Tart Festival
2025-09-13
The Market at the Barn hosts the 4th Annual Butter Tart Festival, known as Stittsville’s Sweetest Day, celebrating all things butter tart with options to suit every taste, including gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, and 100% vegan varieties. The festival offers fun for all ages with children’s games, a snow-clearing tractor to explore, hot food and sweet treats, ice cream, artisan vendors, temporary tattoos, and even the chance to enjoy a wild animal show. It is a day designed for the entire family to enjoy together.

BanFest
2025-09-13
BanFest brings together Haitian culinary excellence, artistic creativity, and the strength of the business community. This unique event unites Haitian restaurants, acclaimed artists, community leaders, and an engaged audience for an evening of culture, prestige, and meaningful connections. More than a gala, BanFest offers opportunities to network, raise your profile, and strengthen ties within the Afro-descendant community and beyond.

Open NCC
2025-09-13 | 40 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 1C7, 40 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 1C7
Curious to see what the National Capital Commission does? Join them for a behind-the-scenes peek into the day-to-day activities and projects happening in the National Capital Region.
There will be walking and cycling tours, kiosks and NCC expert presentations at many sites across the region. You’ll learn about architecture, landscape design, archaeology, sustainable farming and more!

Canadian Butter Tart Festival & Competition
2025-09-13 - 2025-09-14
Celebrate Canadian deliciousness at the Canadian Buttertart Festival & Competition, part of a sweet and savoury weekend of fun. Sample a variety of classic and creative butter tarts, enjoy local vendors and vote for your favourites. This proudly Canadian experience is a treat for all ages.

Ottawa Bonsai Society annual show
2025-09-13 - 2025-09-14
Come admire around 40 of the most beautiful bonsais in the region! Ottawa Bonsai Society members will be available to answer all your questions. The show is free and is an excellent activity for the whole family! Come and learn about this ancient art form. Visitors will also be able to learn all the activities offered by the Ottawa Bonsai Society.

1860s Fall Fair Weekend & Quilt Show
2025-09-13 - 2025-09-14 | 13740 County Road 2, Morrisburg, K0C 1X0, 13740 County Road 2, Morrisburg, K0C 1X0
Step back in time for an immersive 1860s Fall Fair Weekend and Quilt Show at Upper Canada Village. Enjoy heritage displays of farm animals, agricultural products, vegetables, flowers, and fine arts, along with classic treats like fresh apples and cider. The weekend also features old-fashioned games, music, and magic shows for all ages.

Carp Farmers’ Market
2025-09-13 08:00 - 13:00 UTC | Carp Farmers’ Market
The largest producer-based farmers’ market in Eastern Ontario, with over 100 vendors offering produce, baked goods and crafts.

North Gower Farmers' Market
2025-09-13 08:30 - 13:00 | North Gower Farmers’ Market
Come purchase vegetables, honey, meat, sauces, cheese, and other goods from local producers in rural Ottawa. The market was founded in 1994 by local residents Carolyn Seabrook and Andrew Harkness. Carolyn sold Andrew on the idea of a farmers’ market in her family’s vacant barn, and together they launched the project.

Main Street Farmers' Market
2025-09-13 09:00 - 14:00 | Main Street Farmers’ Market, PO Box 4465 Ottawa Postal Station E, ottawa, K1S 5B4
Support your local farmers’ market every Saturday from May to October! Discover the finest fresh produce, baked goods, pantry staples, crafts, hot meals and more. As a producer-only market, all vendors make, bake and grow everything within 100 kilometers of Ottawa. Enjoy live music and special programming while you shop.

Bodies of Art
2025-09-13 18:00 - 23:00
Bodies Of Art invites audiences to experience a night where art, music, movement, and a touch of mischief collide. Performers become living canvases — painted, glittered, and adorned — bringing burlesque, pole artistry, dance, and acrobatics together in a dazzling display. Guests can also join the transformation with live body and face painting and take the stage during the open-mic-style Stage Jam. 19+.

Zumba on the Hill
2025-09-14
Zumba classes at the Parliament Hill! Come and party on Canada’s Parliament Hill!

Wood and Forest Expo
2025-09-14
Wood & Forest is an immersive celebration of nature, discovery, and inspiration hosted by Boisés Est. The event features forest experts and exhibitors, nature workshops, wildfire prevention demonstrations, and hands-on activities for children such as treasure hunts, birdhouse building, and a mini zoo. Attendees can explore a woodcraft market, watch live demonstrations including chainsaw carving and antique tool exhibits, enjoy live music and storytelling, view forest films, and taste local food. A wood auction showcases air-dried, kiln-dried, and torrefied timber. The festival highlights the forest as essential to life, air, and water, offering an engaging experience for visitors of all ages.

Lansdowne Farmers' Market
2025-09-14 10:00 - 15:00 | Aberdeen Pavilion, Aberdeen Pavilion
From the heart of the land to the heart of the city! Connect with 85+ local vendors in the historic Aberdeen Pavilion every Sunday. Shop for the freshest seasonal produce, meat & dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts, and more. Stop by the food court for lunch and enjoy the market musicians. Everything is authentic (no resellers) and produced within 100km of Ottawa!

The Shop List at St. Laurent Centre
2025-09-15 11:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-16 11:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-17 11:00 - 16:00 | The Shop List at St. Laurent Centre, 1200 St Laurent Boulevard, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Ontario
The Shop List at St. Laurent Centre
Discover your fall style with The Shop List, running September 16–30 alongside our Share It to Win It Contest for a chance to win a $1,000 shopping spree! ✨Visit the Rules and Regulations for more information about the contest.
📅 Event Hours
Saturday, September 20 & Sunday, September 21 | 11 AM – 4 PM
Saturday, September 27 & Sunday, September 28 | 11 AM – 4 PM
🎁 What’s happening during event hours:
Free limited-edition tote bags (while supplies last)
On-site brand styling ambassadors to guide you through The Shop List and curated fall capsule collections from St. Laurent retailers
Step into the season with style inspiration, shopping perks, and your chance at an unforgettable shopping spree.

Asinabka Film and Media Arts Festival
2025-09-16 - 2025-09-21
An opportunity for Indigenous peoples to tell their own stories and showcase their rich and vibrant culture in Canada’s capital region.

Parliament Hill Yoga
2025-09-17 | 111 Wellington Street, Ottawa, K1A 0A4, 111 Wellington Street, Ottawa, K1A 0A4
Ottawa’s iconic summer lunchtime activity returns. Every Wednesday at 12 pm, join local yoga instructors for a one-hour outdoor reset on the lawn of Parliament Hill. Expect movement, breath, and community — all under the open sky. Free.

Dief the Chief: October '62
2025-09-17 | 3929 Carp Road, Ottawa, K0A 1L0, 3929 Carp Road, Ottawa, K0A 1L0
Experience Dief the Chief: October ’62, a captivating theatrical journey 75 feet underground at the Diefenbunker. Follow Canada’s 13th Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker, as he navigates the tense Cuban Missile Crisis, revealing the personal and political challenges faced during history’s closest brush with nuclear war. This unique blend of storytelling and history, performed by Pierre Brault and Peter Haworth, offers an immersive perspective on a defining moment in Canadian and global relations.

Mélissa Ouimet
2025-09-17 | 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 5W1, 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 5W1
Mélissa Ouimet presents SOS, a heartfelt show blending pop, rock, neo-soul, and R&B. With her band, she explores themes of resilience, hope, and life’s challenges through catchy melodies and moving lyrics. Genuine and warm, her performance feels like sharing stories and songs among friends around a campfire.

Fifteen Dogs
2025-09-17 - 2025-09-20 | 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 5W1, 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 5W1
What if two greek gods settled a bet by giving fifteen dogs human consciousness?
Greek gods, Hermes and Apollo, throw back a few beers at an Ottawa tavern and contemplate whether it’s possible to die happy. They decide to make a bet, grant 15 dogs human consciousness, and watch as the pups discover the beauty and pitfalls of complex thought and emotion. This epic ‘tail’ explores who we are as living beings and the primal, vital connections we make with each other and ourselves. A true ensemble piece about dogs that’s poignantly human.

Super Simple presents ... Caitie's Super Simple Songs Surprise Party!
2025-09-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Super Simple presents … Caitie’s Super Simple Songs Surprise Party!, 218 Princess St, Kingston, ON K7L 1B2
Caitie is throwing a surprise party for Tobee… and you’re invited! Get ready for a 90-minute interactive musical adventure with Caitie and your favorite friends from Super Simple Songs — including The Bumble Nums, Finny the Shark, Noodle & Pals, and of course, Tobee! Sing, dance, and play along to hit songs from the beloved YouTube channel for preschoolers, including ’Here Comes The Fire Truck’ and ’My Happy Song.” With catchy tunes, colorful characters, and plenty of surprises, this is a party your little ones won’t want to miss! Super Simple Songs is one of the world’s most trusted and beloved names in children’s entertainment with over 40 million YouTube subscribers and billions of views. Join us for an unforgettable live experience that brings the joy of Super Simple Songs from your screen to the stage. It’s the perfect first concert for young children—and a memory the whole family will treasure!

Korn
2025-09-17 18:00 | Canadian Tire Centre, 1000 Palladium Dr, Ottawa, Ontario, K2V 1A4, Canada
KORN ANNOUNCES 2025 CANADIAN TOUR DATES WITH SPECIAL GUESTS GOJIRA AND LOATHE
Tickets Available Starting Tuesday, March 25 with Pre-sales
General On-sale Begins Friday, March 28 at 10am
(March 24, 2025) TORONTO, ON – On the heels of their hugely successful 2024 tour run, two-time GRAMMY-award winning band Korn will bring their show to fans across Canada this fall with Korn: Kanada Tour 2025. Produced by Live Nation Canada, the 8-city tour kicks off on Wednesday, September 17 at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, making stops in Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary and more before wrapping up in Vancouver at Rogers Arena on Wednesday, October 1. GRAMMY-nominated group Gojira and UK’s Loathe will join the band as special guests.
Korn celebrated their 30 year milestone with a massive 2024 North American tour to coincide with their self-titled, debut studio album turning 30 on October 11, 1994. Playing 25 dates in arenas and amphitheaters across North America alongside Gojira and Spiritbox, the rock cultural icons captivated audiences in cities including Detroit, Los Angeles, Toronto, Houston, and more, marking one of their largest tours yet.
More recently, the band is set to deliver electrifying performances at a handful of major festivals this summer, headlining Welcome To Rockville in Daytona Beach, Download Festival in the UK, Lollapalooza in Chicago, and more. This year will be Korn’s first time hitting the iconic Lollapalooza stage since 1997. In addition, the iconic rock band will perform two stadium shows at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey with System Of The Down on August 27 and 28th, 2025.
TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with artist pre-sales beginning Tuesday, March 25 at 10am local time. Additional pre-sales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning Friday, March 28 at 10am local time at KornOfficial.com
KORN: KANADA TOUR 2025 DATES:
Wed Sep 17 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre
Fri Sep 19 – Quebec City, QC – Videotron Centre
Sat Sep 20 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
Mon Sep 22 – London, ON – Canada Life Place
Thu Sep 25 – Winnipeg, MB – Canada Life Centre
Sun Sep 28 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome
Mon Sep 29 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
Wed Oct 1 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
About Korn:
Korn changed the world with the release of their self-titled debut album in 1994. It was a record that would pioneer a genre, and blur others-leading into a larger cultural movement. Since forming, Korn has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide, collected two Grammys, toured the world countless times, and set many records in the process that will likely never be surpassed. Korn has continued to push the limits of the rock, alternative and metal genres, while remaining a pillar of influence for legions of fans, and generations of artists around the globe.
The level of Korn’s reach transcends accolades and platinum certifications. They are “a genuine movement in a way bands cannot be now,” attests The Ringer. They represent a new archetype and radical innovation, their ability to transcend genre makes barriers seem irrelevant.
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About Gojira:
Gojira bend extremes to their whim, emerging as an entrancing enigma equally driven by intuition and intensity. Balancing metallic proficiency, primal grooves, and otherworldly melodies, the French quartet continue to facilitate heavy music’s progression into the future by burning down all boundaries. As such, they’ve unassumingly risen to the forefront of the genre as quiet trailblazers. Thus far, they’ve earned three GRAMMY® Award nominations and even claimed a coveted spot on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time” with 2005’s landmark From Mars To Sirius. Their catalog spans groundbreaking records such as L’Enfant Sauvage [2012], Magma [2016], and their most recent studio album Fortitude [2021]. With restless creativity and infinite vision, Gojira always inspire thought, awaken passion, and incite catharsis as heavy music’s most unconventional, yet undeniable force.
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About Loathe:
Loathe have been making waves in the British underground heavy music scene since their inception in 2014. Two Eps and one full-length debut album have already put them on the map and the band has already been nominated for Best New Band at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods and Best UK Breakthrough Band in the Heavy Music Awards. Their intense, visceral multi-media live show extravaganza has marked them out as a band who have ambitions far beyond that of their peers. Debut full-length The Cold Sun was a heady hybrid of meaty down-tuned riffs, lacerating screams and pile-driving rhythms. Their second full length album I Let It In and It Took Everything retains those elements, albeit delivered with a searing potency and sharpened focus that bests its predecessor in almost every conceivable way. Rather than existing within one style or taking one approach, Loathe pepper their music with a range of influences and musical motifs that move fluidly and give the Liverpool quintet a dynamism that was merely hinted at before.
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Harvest - A Feast of Fall
2025-09-17 18:00 - 22:00
Celebrate the fall harvest with bold flavours, seasonal dishes, and a warm sense of community. This unique culinary event features tasting stations by local chefs and beverage artisans, all in support of Youturn Youth Support Services. Enjoy a meaningful evening that blends great food with an even greater cause.

Korn: Kanada Tour 2025
2025-09-17 18:30 - 23:00 | 1000 Palladium Drive, Ottawa, K2V 1A5, 1000 Palladium Drive, Ottawa, K2V 1A5
Korn changed the music industry with the release of their self-titled debut album in 1994. The record pioneered a genre, blurred musical boundaries, and led to a larger cultural movement. Since forming, Korn has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide, won two Grammy Awards, toured the world countless times, and set records that stand unchallenged today.
Korn continues to push the limits of rock, alternative, and metal while remaining a pillar of influence for legions of fans and generations of artists. Their impact extends beyond accolades and platinum certifications. As The Ringer describes, they are “a genuine movement in a way bands cannot be now.” Korn represents a new archetype, proving that genre barriers are irrelevant.

Metcalfe Plaza
2025-09-18 - 2025-09-20
From August 14 to September 20, the Downtown BIA, in collaboration with Aire Commune and AMASHOWZA, is turning this central space into a high-energy hub of art, music, and culture. Think DJs under the stars, live performances, sweat-worthy fitness classes, buzzing markets, and epic weekend vibes. Whether you’re catching a show, grabbing drinks with friends, or just soaking in the atmosphere, Metcalfe Plaza is where the party’s at.
