Arts + culture corner
Cultural happenings for you to enjoy / Des événements culturels pour votre plaisir
By Robin Etherington
GALLERIES – GALERIES
City Hall Art Gallery
- 110 Laurier Avenue West
- 44.4 Mother Artist Collective, Don’t worry, I’ll Only Show You The Good Parts
- March 14 to June 1
Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron
- 150 St. Patrick Street
- Tremplin 2025 – Visual Arts Graduating Students
- March 5 – 23
Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
- 293 Dalhousie Street
- Valerie Ryan, February 27 – March 18
- Clara Kim, March 20 – April 8
- Benoit Genest-Rouillier, April 10 – 29
- Jeff Rosen, May 1 – 20
- Anastessia Bettas, May 22 – June 10
Let’s skate and glide through our winter cultural activities into spring!
Karsh-Masson Gallery
- 110 Laurier Avenue
- Nicholas Crombach, Landslip
- Until March 23
- Sébastien Gaudette, Langage éphémère
- April 17 – August 7
L.A. Pai Gallery
- 13 Murray Street
- Contemporary jewellery and sculptural arts
National Gallery of Canada
- 380 Sussex Drive
- Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, until March 2
- Governor General’s Award Winners in Visual and Media Arts, until March 23
- 2024 Sobey Art Award, until April 6
- Gathered Leaves: Discoveries from the Drawings Vault, until April 13
- Pucker up! The Lipstick Prints of Joyce Wieland, until October 26
- Jin Me Yoon, Honouring a Long View, until March 2026
Ottawa Art Gallery
- 50 Mackenzie King Bridge
- Jeff Thomas, Stories My Father Couldn’t Tell Me, until March 16
- Coast to Coast to Coast: Celebrating Canadian Craft, until April 20
- Rachel Kalpana James, Bright Oriental Star, until June 8
- Visions and Views: Landscape and Abstraction in the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, until January 11, 2026
MUSEUMS – MUSÉES
Canadian War Museum
- 1 Vimy Place
- Cyprus – A Divided Island, until March 16
- Liberation! Canada and the Netherlands, 1944–1945, until May 9
- Winners of the National Youth Remembrance Contests, until October 13
Canadian Museum of Nature
- 240 McLeod Street
- Our Land, our Art, until August 17
- Rewilding: The David Suzuki Foundation Arts Prize, until September 8
- Butterflies in Flight, until January 4, 2026
Canadian Museum of History
- 1100 Laurier Street, Gatineau
- The Witness Blanket, until May 5
Musée Bytown Museum
- 1 Canal Lane
- Exploring the stories our city from the earliest days of Bytown to the present moment as the nation’s capital.
Indigenous Peoples Space
- 100 Wellington Street
- Exhibitions by the First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Peoples
- Open Wednesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Vanier Museoparc
- 300 des Pères-Blancs Avenue
- Un musée communautaire dédié à la francophonie de Vanier et entièrement rénové avec un parcours numérique vous attend.
PERFORMANCE
La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins
- 333 King Edward Avenue
- Ce centre de production et de diffusion des arts de la scène y présente une programmation théâtrale variée de ses quatre compagnies résidentes d’Ottawa.
Ottawa Little Theatre
- 400 King Edward Avenue
- The Shawshank Redemption,
- February 26 – March 15
- Now and Then, April 2 – 19
- And Then There Were None, May 7 – 24
FESTIVALS
- International Film Festival of Ottawa, March 12 – 23
- Vanier Sugar Festival, March 24 – 30, Museoparc Vanier
- Ottawa Tulip Festival, May 9 – 19
(Photo: Jennifer Campbell)
