What to do on

Thursday, June 26 2025

• An Evening of Sin presents … An Evening of Sin, at the Rainbow Bistro. It's drag, burlesque, and a variety show all in one raucous night.

• Take your mind off the heat with a visit to the Hintonburg Night Market, by Urban Art Collective. Shop for cool stuff from local vendors, eat, and gaze at the latest exhibition.

• 🆓 Soak up the art, enjoy refreshments, and feel revived at the National Gallery of Canada Free Thursday Nights from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

• 🆓 Take your mind off the midday heat at the Jukebox Lunch Concert featuring Jana Salameh. Peter A. Herrndorf Place in the National Arts Centre.

• Pick up something fresh and local for dinner at Orléans Farmers' Market, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at Ray Friel Recreation Complex.

• Check out today's Jazz Festival lineup.

• Enjoy zine-making, music, and drag at Queers Bash Back.

• Ottawa Vintage Swing says you don't need any experience to enjoy their Thursday night events. Just bring $10 cash for the door and a desire to have fun.

• Grumpy Old Men play a hyper-local gig (441 Landswood Way, K2S 0A4) in aid of The Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. Bring a lawn chair and a donation to this Stittsville Front Porch Concert.

• It's your second chance to hear the program directed by Alexander Shelley, to close the NAC Orchestra's 2024-2025 season.

• ByTowne Cinema: Les Barbares, Sinners

• Mayfair Theatre: Two Women, Sinners, Streets of Fire

  Gigs

• Disney Trivia Night. Saunders Farm

• Enuff Z'Nuff, Permacrush, Geletin Skelatin, SP!T. Brass Monkey

• Comedy Night. Pour Boy

• I, The Prophet, The Disconnect, Hypersex, Banshee. House of TARG

• Not Your Momma's Mixtape, Thee Electric Goats. Avant-Garde Bar

• Rock 'n' Roll Trivia. The Bridge Public House at RSC