What to do on
Saturday, June 21 2025
🆓 Catch upwards of 200 corporate, charity, and community teams participating in the Tim Hortons Dragon Boat Festival
In addition to big ticket performances, today's Ottawa Jazz Festival programming includes seven free events.
To mark Filipino Heritage Month, Ottawa Fiesta Extravaganza brings non-stop music, food, cultural shows, and fun for the entire family to EY Centre. Today and tomorrow.
Calling all Geeks: you're needed at the Geek Hoard Haul in the Sensplex, to meet vendors of comic books, collectibles, games, and more.
City at Night takes on Escapade Official Afterparty duties with underground sounds rooted in tech house.
Cirque du Paris's residency at Tanger Outlets ends Sunday.
To mark National Indigenous Peoples Day teams from the Inuit and First Nations communities face off in the Tea and Bannock Cup 2025.
🆓 See everything from Pow Wow artistry to the World Champion Hoop Dancer on the Celebration Stage at Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival and Pow Wow. Bring your fun money (cards and cash) to spend with onsite vendors.
If the woodland sprites are having trouble accessing your garden spaces, you'll want to attend the Whimsical Fairy Doors workshop at LOAM Studio.
Book a Saturday morning yoga sesh with a view of the Ottawa River. Every Saturday morning Pure Yoga holds Pure Flow sessions at Tavern at the Gallery.
🆓 Fabrications is staying open late for a Solstice Soirée featuring a summer craft, light non alcoholic refreshments, and sweet deals. 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Catch a glimpse of some impressive water vessels at Brockville Tall Ships' Festival.
Experience workshops, sound healing and more at Rooted in Wellness Festival on Rideau Pines Farm.
Experience a guided beer tasting at Broken Stick's Dandelion Festival.
You'll have a berry good time (sorry) at Berry Fest at Kiwan Farms & Garden Centre. You'll find local vendors of produce, baked goods, pantry items, crafts, and food trucks.
The Vets on Main Open House is a chance to meet the team and introduce them to your furry family members (dogs on leashes, cats in carriers, please). Plus: Merry Dairy will be on site.
The Pick Your Own Strawberries season is always too short and very sweet. After a cool and wet spring the berries are finally playing ball. Visit locations in all corners of Ottawa, including this short list: Proulx Farm Kinburn Berries, Shouldice Berry Farm & Market, Millers Farm, Market & Garden Centre, Jardin Rochon Garden, and Beckwith Berries.
Meet local rescue organizations and adoptable rabbits, cats, and dogs at PetValue (2641 Alta Vista Drive).
Thr33's Co Snack Bar is kicking off Summer 2025 with a Parking Lot Party featuring Collective Arts beer, pulled pork sliders, backyard games, art, and tunes.
🆓 It's another cool event from Urban Art Collective: the Made by Us, Just For You Market.
Shop for gorgeous bouquets or visit the Build Your Own Bouquet Bar at Ottawa Flower Market.
Dogs are welcome at 613Flea, where you’ll find more than 150 vendors of vintage and antiques ready to serve you. Aberdeen Pavilion.
Back in the day one of our favourite haunts in London was the Bonneville in Clapton, which used taxidermy ravens to full effect on the route downstairs to the washrooms (which were themselves filled with mist provided by dry ice). You can capture that mood with your own taxidermy decor from Ottawa Mystic Market Summer Solstice edition, where you'll also source crystals, candles, and spells.
It's back: the crowd loves a session of Sing a Sea Shanty with ByTown Sea Shanty Collective. It all gets underway at 8:00 pm at Beyond the Pale's 250 City Centre location.
ByTowne Cinema: Endless Cookie, Les Barbares, The Life of Chuck, Sinners
Mayfair Theatre: Sinners, Streets of Fire
Gigs
The New Hires, The Hunt Club, Mike Mitani, Liam Mayhew. Rainbow Bistro
DJ Faust. LIVE on Elgin
Ethan Mitchell. Irene's Pub
Emo Night. The 27 Club
Born of Osiris, The Browning, Convictions. The Brass Monkey
Marc Copland. National Arts Centre