What to do on

Thursday, May 29 2025

• Ottawa Improv Festival begins with Battle of the Neighbourhoods, which pits five groups of local Improvisors against one another for glory. Come and support the group from your neck of the woods. 

• Le Grand PoutineFest - Gatineau is four days of poutine, sweets, micro brews, and music.

• See how the student finalists of the NCC's Urban Design Challenge 2025envisioned possible futures for the Bronson Channel Lands at LeBreton Flats. 

• Odyssey Theatre's 2nd Annual Trivia Night is more of a Trivia Extravaganza, and it's all in support of the company's 39th season of Theatre Under the Stars.

• Don't miss your chance to bid in the Give To Get Art Auction, in support of the Ottawa Art Gallery's community programs, Permanent Collection, and public exhibitions. It's the art event of the Spring. 

• Also at OAG tonight: as it's the final Thursday of the month, the Studio is offering an experience in observational sketching techniques, by donation. All materials are provided.

• Urban Art Collective's Hintonburg Night Market always offers more than the specially curated group of vendors: check out the latest exhibition, listen to live music, and get something fresh and local for dinner.

• The Ottawa premiere of the Croatia-Canada feature Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day, will be introduced by film critic Tom McSorley.

• ByTowne Cinema: Exhibition on Screen: Michelangelo: Love and Death, Friendship, The Zone: Tetsuo: The Iron Man 

• Mayfair Theatre: Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines, That They May Face the Rising Sun, Party Girl

  Gigs

• Thursday Blues Sessions with Guest Host Iyono Ede. Irene's Pub

• Jerry Leger. Motel Chelsea

• Comedy. Pour Boy

• Urban Tones: Djari Trio. Night Oat