Ottawa Events Calendar

Almonte Fair
2025-09-05 - 2025-09-07
The North Lanark Agricultural Society (NLAS) is thrilled to have you join in for this beloved annual tradition that has been a part ​of the community for over a century.

Mirror Mountain Film Festival
2025-09-05 - 2025-09-07
Mirror Mountain presents the 7th edition of its festival at ODD Box in Arts Court, showcasing 48 original films from some of the world’s most distinctive creative voices. The program features groundbreaking independent dramas and documentaries, alternative animation and experimental works, as well as an innovative interactive 360° video experience. More than a festival, Mirror Mountain is a state of mind.

F2F Tour Ottawa CommandFest
2025-09-05 - 2025-09-07
CommandFest Ottawa brings together fans of Magic: The Gathering for a weekend of nonstop Commander gameplay, casual and competitive events, and chances to meet artists and creators. Enjoy shopping with vendors, prize-supported tournaments, and themed entertainment, plus a Planeswalker VIP party with food and drinks.

Ottawa RedBlacks
2025-09-05 19:30 - 22:30 UTC | TD Place, 1015 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 3W7, Canada
Ottawa’s Canadian Football League (CFL) team home game

Latin Sparks Festival
2025-09-06 | , Ottawa, , Ottawa
Don’t just watch as Ottawa turns into a night in Havana – be there! Join the thousands at Latin Sparks Festival for a night entrenched in Latin Culture. Start the night with Latin dance workshops to get your groove on, then cool down with drinks from the bar and a bite to eat from the authentic Latin Food trucks. Enjoy as our featured artists bring the night to life with music, performances and more. Something to see on every corner from rhythmic drummers to Salsa dancers and live animation. Start the summer right- at Latin Sparks.

Stray Dog Day of Summer - 8th anniversary celebration
2025-09-06 | 501 Lacolle Way, Orleans, K4A 5B6, 501 Lacolle Way, Orleans, K4A 5B6
Join us for food, drinks, and good times as we celebrate 8 years! Family- and dog-friendly, with activities for kids, cornhole, live music, special anniversary releases, and a Best in Show contest.

Art in Strathcona Park
2025-09-06
Spend a day at the park and enjoy one of the area’s most enjoyable fresh-air event featuring many talented artists and artisans. Established artists and artisans and undiscovered talents will come together to sell their work directly to the public and to raise public awareness about mental illness.

Afrofestival Ottawa
2025-09-06 - 2025-09-07
Celebrate African culture at Afrofestival Ottawa, a free two-day festival at Mooney’s Bay Park. Enjoy live music, dance, fashion, and family-friendly fun, plus a vibrant marketplace and authentic food from local vendors. Experience the rich heritage and diverse traditions of African Canadians in the heart of the capital.

Expressions of Art
2025-09-06 - 2025-09-07
The West Carleton Arts Society presents the return of its Expressions of Art Sale, an exhibition and sale featuring the creative talents of 25 artists from the Ottawa region. Visitors can explore a wide selection of high-quality works, including fine art, woodwork, photography, and soapstone sculptures.

Rooted - A South Asian Block Party
2025-09-06 06:00 - 10:00
Rooted is a genre-blending, culture-rich dance party that celebrates the music of the South Asian global diaspora. Showcasing styles from chutney, UK garage, and Punjabi jungle to South Indian percussion, dancehall, techno, soca, and more, the event creates a vibrant soundscape rooted in tradition and fused with contemporary influences. More than a party, Rooted is storytelling through music, food, dance, and community, highlighting the history and artistry of South Asian cultures.

Carp Farmers’ Market
2025-09-06 08:00 - 13:00 | 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
2025-09-06 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
2025-09-06 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.

Ottawa SuperWalk
2025-09-06 09:30 - 13:00 | Ottawa SuperWalk, 102 Greenview Ave, Ottawa, ON K2B 8J8
SuperWalk is the largest annual fundraiser for Parkinson Canada, an important and ever-expanding resource for Canadians living with Parkinson’s and their care partners. Every September, Canadians from coast-to-coast unite by walking – either as part of a local team, a national team, or as a virtual walker – to fuel research, support tools, and advocacy for People living with Parkinson’s.

Beechfest
2025-09-06 15:00 - 21:00 | 261 Montreal Road, Ottawa, K1L 7C8, 261 Montreal Road, Ottawa, K1L 7C8
BeechFest is the annual street party celebrating the vibrant community along Beechwood Avenue. Enjoy live music, arts and crafts, food and drinks, and a variety of entertainment as the street comes alive from St-Charles to Marier. It’s a perfect opportunity to support local businesses and connect with the local community.

Black Out Loud | Ottawa Afro-Folkloric Festival
2025-09-06 16:00 - 20:00
Noir à tue tête, Ottawa’s Afro-Folklore Festival presented by Black Out Loud, is a free, family-friendly event that celebrates Black culture through live performances, short films, art exhibitions, dance workshops, food tastings, raffles, and an intercultural market featuring diverse local businesses. More than a festival, it is a movement dedicated to amplifying the voices, stories, and creativity of Black communities, while fostering solidarity and community support.

Atlético Ottawa
2025-09-06 19:00 - 22:00 | TD Place, 1015 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 3W7, Canada
Ottawa’s Canadian Premier League (CPL) soccer team takes on an opponent on the home pitch at TD Place Stadium.

Atlético Ottawa vs Pacific FC
2025-09-06 19:00 - 23:59 | TD Place, 1015 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 3W7, Canada
Atlético Ottawa vs Pacific FC
Atlético Ottawa takes on Pacific FC in CPL action.

Beechwood’s Annual Living Library
2025-09-07 | 280 Beechwood Avenue, Ottawa, K1L 8E2, 280 Beechwood Avenue, Ottawa, K1L 8E2
Explore the stories of four remarkable Canadians during the Annual Historical Tour at Beechwood Cemetery. Presented in partnership with the Ottawa School of Theatre, this immersive walking experience features live performances that bring history to life across the cemetery grounds. Guests will encounter portrayals of trailblazers in fields such as paleontology, agriculture, military service, and women’s sports.

Zumba on the Hill
2025-09-07
Zumba classes at the Parliament Hill! Come and party on Canada’s Parliament Hill!

Lansdowne Farmers' Market
2025-09-07 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!

Kanata Multicultural Dance, Music and Food Festival
2025-09-07 11:00 - 19:00
The Kanata Multicultural Dance and Music Festival is a family-friendly, admission-free, and packed with fun for all ages that brings together talented artists, performers, and diverse communities to showcase their cultural heritage and artistic talents.

Zones Théâtrales
2025-09-08 - 2025-09-13 | 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 5W1, 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 5W1
Zones Théâtrales is a biennial event whose mandate is to provide a showcase and meeting point for professional theatre from Francophone communities across Canada and the Quebec Regions. It’s an opportunity to discover fully staged theatre productions, new plays and works in progress, and to meet the artists behind these works.

Akoustik at St. Charles
2025-09-10
Akoustik at St. Charles is a free outdoor live music event in Vanier. Enjoy performances by local artists in a relaxed open-air setting at the St. Charles Market. A celebration of community and culture, open to all.

Parliament Hill Yoga
2025-09-10 | 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.

Tosca - Opera in concert
2025-09-10 | 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 5W1, 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 5W1
Semi-staged production presented in Italian with English subtitles.Set in early 19th-century Rome, Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca intertwines art, politics, and dangerous romance, captivating audiences for over 125 years.At the heart of the opera is Floria Tosca, Rome’s prima donna, who risks everything to save her rebellious lover, Mario Cavaradossi, from the corrupt chief of police, Baron Scarpia. Will she surrender to Scarpia to save Cavaradossi from the firing squad, or will she find a way to protect them both?

Deathtrap by Ira Levin
2025-09-10 - 2025-09-13
Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student—a thriller that he recognizes as a potential Broadway smash. His plan is to offer collaboration to the student for co-credit. Or is it?

Nigamon/Tunai
2025-09-10 - 2025-09-13 | 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 5W1, 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K1P 5W1
Nigamon/Tunai is a powerful poetic manifesto by Émilie Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) and Waira Nina (Inga Nation, Colombian Amazon). This immersive performance places the audience on stage alongside the artists, surrounded by living trees, pools of water, and copper instruments that resonate with flowing water.The work confronts the environmental destruction of water and land in the Colombian Amazon caused by Canadian mining companies extracting copper—a mineral sacred to Anishinaabe culture. Through voice, breath, movement, and song in Spanish, French, English, Anishinaabemowin, and Inga, the artists create a ceremonial experience that embodies Indigenous resistance.

CityFolk
2025-09-10 - 2025-09-14 | , Ottawa, K1S 5J3, , Ottawa, K1S 5J3
This four-day September celebration of music, dance and community at Lansdowne Park and throughout the Glebe area features an eclectic mix of musical performances on multiple stages.
Every year, Ottawa’s CityFolk festival offers more than 30 shows on indoor and outdoor stages. These range far beyond folk to encompass rock, alternative, bluegrass, hip hop, country and other musical genres—past acts have included everyone from Van Morrison and David Byrne to Lorde, Vampire Weekend, Robert Plant and Bon Iver.
On site, you can also discover new brews at the craft beer fair, shop for unique local products made by artisan and craft vendors, and even bring the kids for special children’s activities and family performances.

Metcalfe Plaza
2025-09-11 - 2025-09-13
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.
