What to do on

Thursday, August 21 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Today at Capital Pride: 

• New royalty will be crowned tonight at the Capital Pride Pageantat the National Arts Centre.  The official Pride Pageant After Party will dance the night away at Bar Robo. 

• Meanwhile, in the brand new pop up space at Metcalfe Plaza, expect a night of disco, house, and a whole lot of joy (plus, free entry). 

• At Art House, Crafts & Gabs is a  ‘craft and social night for not-cis-man-queers who wanna be social in a low-stimulus space’. 
  
   

• Ottawa Greek Fest presents a night of comedy with Angelo Tsarouchas. Tickets from $50. 

• Red Apron keeps Taco Thursday local with your choice of Enright Cattle Co Flank Steak or Corben's Rooster Ranch Pulled Chicken. $16.25 per person, dine-in only.

• Spend the night in the early 80s as the ByTowne Cinema hosts a Desperately Seeking Susan Slumber Party. 

• Take a beginner Ottawa Vintage Swing dance class for $10. 

• Silent Book club meets at Absinthe on the third Thursday of every month. Come and meet other book-minded introverts for some brief chit chat and a drink followed by an hour of silent reading, all between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm. 

• Today is your final day to save on tickets for the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival. Prices rise at midnight. 

• OK Naledi plays Songs from the Shed. 

• Swing your partner into the final Square Dance of Saunders Farm’s summer season.  

• ByTowne Cinema: Folktales, Slumber Party: Desperately Seeking Susan, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley 

• Mayfair Theatre: My Mother’s Wedding, Shook, Punch-Drunk Love  
  
  Gigs

• Matt Gower. Night Oat

• Four Eyed Muscle Man. Rainbow Bistro

• Concepthurs. GridWrks 

• Leslie Rohonczy. Irene's Pub