Broadway Bar & Grill Central rolls out the red carpet for the first of this year's GreekFest After Parties. $10 per person gets you all the music and dancing your heart desires. 

🆓 Carp Farmers’ Market celebrates 35 years and the humble Allium sativum in all its fine forms at the Carp Garlic Festival today and tomorrow). 

Road Trip: The Cornwall Chaos music festival supports Cornwall’s Carefor Hospice. $25 per day or $40 for the weekend.

As Ottawa Craft Beer Week continues, Orléans Brewing Co is pairing its latest release – TAHI New Zealand IPA – with traditional New Zealand meat pies made here in Ottawa.  

🆓 Mayor Mark Sutcliffe’s annual Community BBQ in Barrhaven is fun and festive and you'll need to register. 

There's another Ottawa Wildflower Seed library Plant Exchange / Giveaway this weekend.

It’s the grand finale of Les Grands Feux. 

Enjoy a real East Coast Kitchen Party with Dram and A Draw, who are visiting all the way from New Brunswick. 

Odyssey Theatre’s The Girl With No Hands, a the world premiere retelling of the Brothers Grimm folk tale, plays under the stars in Strathcona Park Tuesday through Sunday until August 24. 

Metcalfe Plaza - details for Saturday.

Stroll Wellington West from Parkdale West to Bayswater in the Heart of Hintonburg Sidewalk Sale. 

🆓 It’s all about the stuffed tortilla at the 19th Festival Salvadoreño de la pupusa. Savour the Salvadoran culture and food all day in Brewers Park. 

It’s House Night at the Metcalfe Plaza Outdoor Party.

The 50th annual Ottawa Greek Fest continues.  

There’s only one more Vpop market in Summer 2025, and it's this weekend. Shop from an impressive lineup of vintage vendors selling collectibles, second-hand clothing, and treasures for your home. 

🆓 Watch as top rated athletes from Indigenous communities around the world compete in the Masters indigenous Games(today through Sunday).  

One of today’s Ottawa Craft Beer Week highlights has got to be Covered Bridge Brewing Co's Rock 'N' Hops At the Brewery. Listen to live music and wash down BBQ Bison burgers from White Pine Bison with locally made craft beer. #ocbw2025  

The Big Summer Vpop at Next Door (today and tomorrow) 

There’s more shopping and good times at the Pride Night Market at Parkdale Market. 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 

ByTowne Cinema: Golden Age: Shanghai Express,. Soleymane's Story, Restoration: High and Low, Boys Go To Juplter 

Mayfair Theatre: Shook, My Mother’s Wedding, Punch-Drunk Love, Saturday Night Sinema 

Gigs

Fandango. Hard Rock Café

Close Enough. Avant-Garde Bar

Micheal Benn. Hard Rock Casino Council Oak Stage

The Oscillators, Tenenbaums, Thee Soreheads. House of TARG

Cowboys From Hell (Pantera Tribute). Brass Monkey

Comedian Trevor Thompson. Yuk Yuk's Ottawa West

Nick Adema. Irene's Pub