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Today - The 4th Ottawa Black Film Festival will screen 40 films from across the globe in person and online this weekend. In person screenings will take place at Library and Archives Canada. 2022 feature Tania’s Journey (Belgium/Senegal/Luxembourg) opens the festival tonight.
- The second annual DiverCity Film Festival continues with films by Chris Ikongo, Dimitri Abdul Nour, Ben Bergeron, Christalla Buttle, Simba Yakibonge, and Chris Nyce, beginning at 4:30 pm.
- Experience the music of Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi at tonight’s Candlelight Concert featuring the lists String Quartet.
- Not one but two exhibitions open at Studio Sixtysix this evening. Rose Tinted Glasses by Christos Pantieras and Rah Eleh “unveils intergenerational narratives that invite viewers to engage with the complexities of Western political systems and their entanglement with colonial legacies, oppressive structures, and exclusionary ideologies, particularly concerning LGBTQ+ existence and memory.” Meanwhile, Alchemical, a series of new works by Kristy Gordon, “challenges divisions between high art, decoration, and illustration.”
- International Film Festival of Ottawa continues. Today’s Screen Summit 2024 at Arts Court Theatre (2 Daly Ave) is sold out. Today’s screenings: Let the Dance Begin (Argentina, Spain) with The Legend of Ismael LBG (Ottawa), Have a Good Day (Canada), Cinema’s First Nasty Women: Queens of Destruction, Evil Does Not Exist (Japan) with Our Grandmother the Inlet (British Columbia), and Archangel (Canada).
- ByTowne Cinema: One Life, The Queen of My Dreams, International Film Festival of Ottawa: Let the Dance Begin, Love Lies Bleeding
- Mayfair Theatre: They Shot the Piano Player, Cinema’s First Nasty Women: Queens of Destruction, Archangel
Gigs
Laughs-Cadabra Featuring Aaron and Caroline Matthews. Laugh Lounge Live Music Friday: Casey McCann. Broadhead Brewery The Back Beat. Busters Bar & Grill Matteo Lane. Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe John Moorhead. LIVE on Elgin Birthday Bonanza 4.0. Café Dekcuf Benjamin Dakota Rogers. Club SAW Deadweight, In All Fairness, Growing Fires, Shootin Blanks. Avant-Garde Bar Adrian Sutherland. National Arts Centre Jeremy Albino (Long Road Home tour). Club SAW Jeff Rosenstock. Bronson Centre Cohezion, Feed After Midnight, Eve of Uprise. Dominion Tavern Wade-Laroche Duo. Montgomery Scotch Lounge
Tomorrow 🐇 Easter may not be for another 10 days, but Easter Egg Hunts can be found all over town this Saturday March 23. Here’s a short list: Bright Eyes & Bushy Tails is offering free dog nail trimmings and 20% off the entire store, and pups will enjoy the Doggie Egg Hunt from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. The Easter Bunny will be on site for portraits with your pet. 5734 Hazeldean Road, Unit 3. While St. Andrews Presbyterian Church’s Easter Egg Hunt is aimed at kids, with its egg hunt, crafts, games, and snacks, organisers say that adults might also find it “egg-citing.” So hippity hop it over to 82 Kent St. from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm is always busy with maple syrup production at this time of year, but this weekend they’re adding an egg hunt to the farm’s family activities. You’ll take a tractor-drawn wagon ride into the sugarbush to hunt for the hidden eggs. Bring your basket of found eggs back to the Bunnies in exchange for a reward. 613Flea is back at Lansdowne Park, with 150 vendors. Entrance is free. Today’s film screenings at the Ottawa International Film Festival: The Gullspång Miracle (Sweden) with Execution Triptych (Ontario); Sira (Burkina Faso, France, Germany, Senegal) with 6 minutes / km (Atikamekw, Quebec); Close to You (Canada) with Dream Tricks: Over a Six Stair (Ontario); Lazaro’s Daughter (Costa Rica, in Spanish with English subtitles) with Motherland (Ontario, in English and Farsi). Ottawa Black Film Festival’s first full day of programming includes the round table talks Black Women in Media, AI’s Acceleration: Evaluating Its Implications for the Film Industry, and Securing a Space for Black Creatives in Ottawa’s Thriving Film Industry; plus screenings of narrative short films, the documentary short film series Being Black in Canada - Montréal, Ottawa and Halifax; and features Je Suit La France, and Semret. The second annual DiverCity Film Festival continues with films by Charlandjuna, Stephanie Lalonde, Jonna Bouliane, Deidre J., Freshh Anderson, Deena A. Alsaweer, and Kishan Sondagar. From 3:00 pm at the Digital Arts Resource Centre, 67 Nicholas St.
Road Trips Meet antiques and vintage dealers, craftspeople, and designers from near and far at the Russell Flea (Russell High School, 982 North Russell Road, Russell ON. (We're aware that we typed ‘Russell’ a lot in that sentence). Raquette River Brewing in Tupper Lake, New York brings back the 80s with Total Eclipse of the Heart: Adult Prom. Dance to the hits of the 80s with the band Night School, enjoy the award-winning Adirondack ales and beers, and support the Town Of Tupper Lake Day Camp Program. Tickets available at the door or online. ByTowne Cinema: International Film Festival of Ottawa: The Gullspång Miracle, One Life, The Queen of My Dreams, Love Lies Bleeding Mayfair Theatre: This Isn’t The End, They Shot the Piano Player, The Taste of Things, Big Shark Gigs Liftoff Trio: Marc Decho, Richard Page, Jose Garcia. Montgomery Scotch Lounge New Wave Dance Party with Underground. Busters Bar & Grill Live Music Saturday: Eric Luca. Broadhead Brewery Party Sergeant. The Brass Monkey
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