What to do on
Saturday, May 3 2025
St. Andrew's is holding its Rummage Sale to benefit those in need in our downtown community. Come spend the morning browsing through an amazing bargain selection of clothes, shoes, toys, sporting goods, books, treasures, and much more! Please bring your own shopping bags. Cash only.
Wear your comfy shoes to the 2025 Blackburn Hamlet Community Garage Sale. You never know what kind of treasures you’ll unearth.
Creatives, sewists, and crafters: find deals on fabric, patterns, buttons, zippers, embroidery and cross stitch supplies, and more at the Hintonburg Fabric Flea Market. $3 admission, cash event.
Today at the European Union Short Film Festival: The Places You’ll Go is a series of family-friendly short films about the road of life (3:00 pm). Then, at 7:00 pm the festival closes with Band of Outsiders: a series examining the resilience of marginalized people in contemporary society.
The Parkdale Orchestra plays music from Canadian composer Harold Kaufmann, Ottorino Respighi, and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Cumberland Farmers Market’s Spring Market will feature 85 local farms and vendors.
🚗 Road Trip: the impossibly attractive town of Almonte welcomes the Cheefully Made Spring Market. It’s an indoor and outdoor affair with 100 Canadian vendors, live music, a guest canteen, games, and craft workshops.
You might not know that stamp collecting is alive in the 21st Century. Visit the Ottawa National Stamp Exhibition at Nepean Sportsplex this weekend.
🚗 Road Trip 🆓 The Indigenous Cultural Fair Carleton Place will raise funds for Art for Aid, a local project that collects and ships art supplies to resource-challenged Indigenous schools across Canada.
Join Urban Sketchers Ottawa for an on-location drawing session on Elgin St.
Buy, sell, or donate your gently used outdoor gear at the MEC Gear Swap.
It’s Bike Day at the New Edinburgh Field House. Buy and sell bikes and other non-moterized wheeled conveyances (10% of the proceeds will go to Crichton Community Council. Have your bike checked out by a volunteer mechanic from Full Cycle. Take part in the Kidical Mass Bike Ride at 10:00 am (every child must be accompanied by an adult).
Cranium Showcase 2025 is your chance to see tomorrow’s stars now. The lineup features performers from Ottawa, Toronto, and Glasgow, Scotland.
🆓 Explore the possibilities of crystals, energy healing, tarot and psychic readings, and more at the Ottawa Mothers Day Holistic Healing Fair.
ByTowne Cinema: The Penguin Lessons, I’m Still Here, Bonjour Tristess, Mickey 17
Mayfair Theatre: The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Spoils, Tenebrae
Gigs
Graham Greer. Red Bird
Alice Longyu Gao, Arthritis Kid, and Los3r. SAW Centre
Wicked Grin with The Blind & The Beautiful. Irene’s Pub
Switched-On Synths: ACTORS, Frissons, Groupe B. House of TARG