What to do on

Thursday, January 30 2025

▪️ Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival rolls out with gigs by Caity Gyorgy and George.

▪️ At the NAC, the Ottawa Jazz Orchestra presents Exotic Explorations. 

▪️ Enjoy all the fun of Family Feud without the fancy set and live studio audience. Broadway Bar & Grill Central’s Feud Time Trivia will have teams competing to find the top three survey answers to questions. 

▪️ It’s probably best not to bring the kids to Epidermis Circus: The Weirdest Puppet Show You’ve Ever Seen, what with its adult content, puppet suicide, and swearing. 

▪️ It’s Rockabilly Theme Night at Aspie Drummer’s Guiness World Record Attempt for Autism at the Brass Monkey. $10 cover; $2 will go to the Ability Dogs Fund. 

▪️ Road Trip: The Cold Bear Brewing Bingo night in Arnprior will support the Arnprior Optimist Club. Your $30 entry includes your first drink. 

▪️ Thrill your friends with your 90s knowledge at The Bridge Public House at RSC. Trivia Night: 90s Pop Culture gets underway at 7:00 pm. 

▪️ Learn to Salsa with Jose Sandoval Dance at the Hardini Community Centre. 

▪️ Dominion City Brewing welcomes Fire Box Pasta to the taproomfrom 5:00 pm. Then, don your round glasses for Harry Potter-themed trivia at 7:00pm. 

▪️ Escape Manor has been creating exciting escape room experiences in Ottawa for 10 years. This Thursday’s Manorversary Celebration is a gala party with food, drinks, games, and fun. 

▪️ Strip Joker puts the audience in the driver’s seat. If you laugh when the comic tells a joke, they continue. If you don’t, they remove one article of clothing. And so on. 

▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Brutalist, The Room Next Door. 

▪️ Mayfair Theatre: The Last Showgirl, Breaking Social, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens 

Gigs

▪️ Friendly Frogs Freak Show. House of TARG

▪️ Chris Breitner. Irene’s Pub

▪️ Shane Pendergast. Red Bird

▪️ Emma Fradd. LIVE on Elgin