Calendar of Events

35th Anniversary Programming is underway! Let yourself be inspired by 2020's featured international presentations. Crazy acrobatic stunts, playful theatre, amazing puppetry and much, much, more!

The festival is not only Ottawa and Gatineau’s flagship festival it is Canada’s most colourful festival with over a million tulips in bloom across the Capital as well as an artistic interpretation of the tulips by the artistic community.

Since 1970, the NCC has hosted Sunday Bikedays, allowing cyclists to experience the Capital’s scenic parkways car-free. The program provides more than 50 kilometres of parkways to hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Parliament Hill Yoga (PHY) will be returning to the Hill on May 20th 2020

This annual neighbourhood-wide porch and driveway sale is held rain or shine, on the fourth Saturday in May. The next sale will be held on Saturday May 23, 2020.

Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend brings together tens of thousands of runners from across Canada and around the world. The Ottawa 10K on Saturday and the Marathon on Sunday are IAAF Gold Label events.

Explore Ottawa’s culture, history, and architecture for FREE June 6 and 7, 2020!

The Ottawa Italian Week Festival Organizing Committee prepares to bring you yet another amazing festival offering to everyone from anywhere, the experience of “Being Italian” and celebrating all that is Italian Art, Culture and History.

The Ottawa Fringe Festival provides all performing artists, both emerging and established, with the opportunity to produce their work – regardless of content, form or style – and makes the Festival as affordable and accessible as possible.

Escapade Music Festival is an annual electronic dance music festival held in Ottawa, Ontario and hosts some of the biggest names in the electronic dance music industry.

Ottawa's Original Sticky Social! Located on historic Sparks Street in Ottawa!

Recognized as North America's largest dragon boating festival, the four day celebration offers free admission to concerts, amusement attractions, sports demonstrations, a variety of artisans, exhibitors, delicious culinary treats, children’s area and non-stop racing.

Don’t miss the biggest Canada Day party in Ottawa as we celebrate Canada’s anniversary of Confederation.

Music and Beyond presents classical music in all formations. The festival pursues links between other art forms and cultural disciplines and music, including visual art, drama, poetry, dance, architecture, circus, magic, science, comedy, law, food and wine and even yoga.

Playing the 25th edition of the Ottawa festival are the likes of The Killers, Eric Church, Backstreet Boys, Kygo, Alexisonfire, Logic, Jessie Reyez, Snoop Dogg, Kane Brown, the Glorious Sons, Wu-Tang Clan, CHVRCHES, First Aid Kit and the Offspring.

HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere) was started 38 years ago by Fred Logan and his friends as part of a group of events, inspired by Terry Fox, whose sole purpose was to give back to the Ottawa Community.

The 28th edition of this festival will take place under a big tent in the parking lot of the Centre Robert-Guertin. More than 100 artists will perform on stage.

The Capital Fair features a fabulous Midway, an awesome Monster Truck show, great horse shows, lots of free Grandstand entertainment, an amazing kids area, those great fair food vendors and diversions of every type.