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Hand wipes at the ready: Bring your appetite to Orléans Ribfest and Poutine, starting today and running through Sunday at 255 Centrum Blvd in Orléans.
Today at CityFolk festival: Rise Against headlines the TD Stage with guests Explosions in the Sky and Soen. Cat Power Sings Dylan ’66 on the Fasken Stage, supported by Kellie Loder and Amanda Lowe Warnakulasuriya. Meanwhile, Cinno plays the Plaza at 5:00 pm.
Fifteen years of knitting; ninety pounds of yarn; one man’s artistic and spiritual journey. The Knitting Pilgrim is a multidisciplinary one-man show combining storytelling, image/video projection, and three huge, knitted panels that look like stained glass windows, breathtaking to behold in person. Free, but a suggested donation of $15 is suggested. 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm tonight at St. Andrew’s Church
🆓 The Working on Wellness Festival brings Mental Health, Physical Health and Substance Use Health communities together as one collective to increase wellness for people living in Canada. The WOW Festival 2024 is your chance to engage with Ottawa’s wellness communities and allies, as well as support CAPSA’s #WorkingOnWellness campaign. 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at Marion Dewar Plaza (16 Avenue Laurier Ave West).
Capital Pop-up screens ET the Extra-Terrestrial at the Beechwood Cemetery.
ByTowne Cinema: Nos belles-sœurs (Sisters and Neighbors!), L’étoile filante (The Falling Star), Widow Clicquot, Drunken Cinema: Friday the 13th: The final Chapter
Mayfair Theatre: His Three Daughters, Across the River and Into the Trees, Cuckoo
Gigs
The Barrow Gang. Atomic Rooster
Melwood Cutlery. Red Bird
Bad Egg. Avant-Garde Bar
MLNY with Jonas Brown. Rainbow Bistro
Smelloship. Irene’s Pub
The Space Wizards with The Burningtree and Aurora’s Reef. Café Dekcuf
Bourbon House. The Brass Monkey
Jeremy Dutcher. National Arts Centre
Richard Page. Montgomery Scotch Lounge