Cultural happenings for you to enjoy
Entries and photos by Robin Etherington
Bundle up and let’s go to museums, galleries, concerts, and the theatre
GALLERIES – GALERIES
Barbara Ann Scott Gallery
- 110 Laurier Avenue West
- Cultivating Community: Agriculture Rooted in Ottawa’s History, November 5, 2025 to November 5, 2028
City Hall Art Gallery
- 110 Laurier Avenue West
- Natasha Mazurka, Space Created by Distance, until November 30
- City of Ottawa Art Collection – 2025 Additions, December 11, 2025 to March 29, 2026
Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron
- 150 St. Patrick Street
- Michel V. Cheff – Oeuvres récents, November 6 to December 7
Galerie St. Laurent + Hill
- 293 Dalhousie Street
- Isabelle Gauvreau, November 6 – 25
- Jean-François Provost, November 27 to December 16
Karsh-Masson Gallery
- 110 Laurier Avenue
- Rah Eleh, Kite & Alisha B. Wormsley, Adrienne Matheuszik, Komi Olafimihan, Isabella Salas, and Kira Xonorika, And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways, until February 8, 2026
L.A. Pai Gallery
- 497 Sussex Drive
- Contemporary jewellery and sculptural arts
National Gallery of Canada
- 380 Sussex Drive
- Pucker Up: The Lipstick Prints of Joyce Wieland, Until November 26
- Things Which Are Per Se continuous: The Michael Nesbitt Collection, Winnipeg, Until December 14, 2025
- Sylvia Safdie: Terra, December 12, 2025 to October 25, 2026
- Camera and the City, December 12, 2025 to March 15, 2026
- 2025 Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Until February 8, 2026
- Winter Count: Embracing the Cold, Until March 22, 2026
- In Relief: The Work of Dora Pédery-Hunt, Until April 12, 2026
Ottawa Art Gallery
- 50 Mackenzie King Bridge
- Visions and Views: Landscape and Abstraction in the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, Until January 11, 2026
- Art + Parcel: A Holiday Sale, Until January 18, 2026
- Endless Becomings: Explorations in Contemporary Art, Until March 15, 2026
- Grotto: The Bill Staubi Collection, Until February 8, 2026
- Endless Becomings: Exploration in Contempory Art, to March 15, 2026
SAW
- Arts Court, 67 Nicholas Street
- Check out the fabulous happenings!
MUSEUMS – MUSÉES
Canadian War Museum
- 1 Vimy Place
- Last Voices of the Second World War, until January 18, 2026
- Canada’s Unknown Soldier, Until May 24, 2026
- Canada at War Against Japan, 1941–1945, until August 31, 2026
Canadian Museum of Nature
- 240 McLeod Street
- Butterflies in Flight, until January 4, 2026
- Qikiqtait: The Power of Knowledge, Innovation and Community, until September 6, 2027
Canadian Museum of History
- 100 Retro: Popular Music in Canada from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, until January 18, 2026
- River of Dreams – Impressionism on the St. Lawrence, until August 30, 2026
- Wi’k+palu’k Sam Glodeo’q ta’n wetapeksitaq: Honouring the Belonging of Sam Glode, until November 29, 2026
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
- A Sherlock Carol, December 3 – 20
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, February 25 to March 14, 2026
The National Arts Centre
- 1 Elgin Street
University of Ottawa Theatre Club
- Twelfth Night, December 3 – 6, at the Gladstone Theatre
- Carrie The Musical, February 4 – 7, 2026, at the Kailash Mital Theatre, Carleton University
FESTIVALS
- A Country Christmas, November 29 – December 30 at Saunders Farm
- Winterlude 2026, January 30 to February 16, 2026
