What to do on
Friday, August 22 2025
🚗 Road Trip: Take a scenic drive to Long Sault for Lost and Sound Festival 2025. One of the area's newest craft beer producers, Lost Villages Brewery, will celebrate the last of summer's lazy days with live music, craft beer. It's all getting underway at 2:00 pm today and continues tomorrow (Saturday August 23).
🆓 Road trip: Ontario Moonshine Festival is back in Perth, ON for a fourth year. Choose from Friday, Saturday, or Sunday visit times. Limited free tickets are available.
🆓 Vendors at last year's Navatara’s Indian Food Festival sold out, so don't miss your chance to sample regional favourites and catch the live cultural performances. It's all happening in Clarke Fields Park today (2:00 pm to 10:00 pm) through Sunday.
Singing Pebble books has much to celebrate as it turns 37 years young. Get in on the celebration with a visit to the shop during the the anniversary sale (today through Sunday August 24). You'll save 20% on all items, and anyone who spends more than $37 will be entered into a draw to win a private guided shopping experience and a discount on rare and used books.
There are cash prizes up for grabs in the one-on-one dance battles at ByWard Market (George St) tonight from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
🪗 Road Trip: Ottawa Valley Buskerfest kicks off with a BBQ in Pembroke's Waterfront Park, followed by an evening of entertainment.
🆓 Ottawa Greek Festival programming begins at 5:00 pm.
ByTowne Cinema: Hola Frida, Eddington, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, Drunken Cinema: Speed
Mayfair Theatre: Souleyman’s Story, F1, There Will Be Blood
Gigs
Every Rose (tribute to Poison). Brass Monkey
Super K, Dead Gong. LIVE on Elgin
Double Impact Robert Clarot and Alex. Hard Rock Ottawa Council Oak Stage
Niel Young Experience. Hard Rock Cafe
Whiskey River Fever. Irene’s Pub
80s Dance Party, The Underground. House of TARG
Motherland. Dominion Tavern.
🏳️🌈 Today at Capital Pride:
Montréal’s Queen & Queer headline the TD Main Stage; Cuffed: Leather, Lace & Chains is a lesbian-sapphic QTBIPOC-centered party at Avant-Garde Bar; Crowned in Colour: A Night of Kings is at Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden; City at Night hosts the house and techno Pride Festival After Party with NV: Solstice.