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🆓 Road Trip: Christmas in the Valley Artisan Show. John Levi Community Centre Arena Upper Hall, 182 Bridge Street in Almonte. More than 25 artists and crafters. Continues tomorrow (Sunday November 3).
🆓 Take the kids to the 30th Annual Ottawa Public Library Children’s Storytelling Festival at Ben Franklin Place.
▪️ Be inspired by the Vankleek Hill Christmas Home Tour. You’ll view six stylish homes that have been decorated to the hilt for the holiday season. $30 per person.
▪️ Bring Your Own Vinyl to Kichesippi Beer, where you’ll also find a record sale in the tap room.
▪️ Visit four working farms and a vineyard in Québec at the Luskville Farm Hop and Holiday Eco Fair.
▪️ Christmas Craft Fair season is on. Visit All Saints Catholic High School (5115 Kanata Ave) where you’ll find more than 170 tables of locally made gifts and decor.
▪️ Make this the year you learn to Tango. The Argentine Tango Beginner Boot Camp will teach you the correct embrace and steps, as well as how to be a good tango citizen. $55 per person.
▪️ Shop, connect, and explore the local businesses at the Manotick Village Women’s Day event.
▪️ From 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm watch as poppies representing fallen Canadian Veterans cascade virtually down the Peace Tower at Parliament Hill and on the Senate Building.
▪️ Ottawa Stray Cat Rescue holds an Adoption & Fundraising event at the Stittsville Pet Valu, to aid the cats in their care.
▪️ Enjoy a catwalk show and outstanding curated vintage shopping at The Drag Party Vintage Market at Next Door, which will raise funds for Kind Space.
▪️ Bring your broken small appliance to the Ottawa Tool Library Repair Café at Zibi.
▪️ Ottawa Canadian Film Festival winds up with a screening of Stealing Vows by Bobby Singh Brown (Toronto) at the ByTowne Cinema.
🆓 ByWard Market’s Day of the Dead Festival continues with music performances from 2:30 pm, The Mexicans Folk Ballet of Toronto at 3:00 pm, a Day of the Dead Procession at 4:00pm, and more.
▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Goonies, Conclave, Detour: Risky Business
▪️ Mayfair Theatre: The Outrun, Megaopolis, Saturday Night Cinema
Gigs
▪️ Jesse Singh The Baby Goat Comedy Tour. LIVE on Elgin
▪️ Ed Lister. Irene’s Pub
▪️ Steve Hill. Rainbow Bistro
▪️ Thick as Thieves. Queen St Fare
▪️ Root Cause. House of TARG
▪️ Mod Nite: 1960s Rock & Soul Dance Party (from 10:00 pm). LIVE on Elgin
▪️ Day of the Dead with Insanity of Sorrow, Coppershop, Tourelle. Café Dekcuf
▪️ Rusty Breezes. Broadhead Brewery
▪️ Mystara. Sonny’s Bar and Grill