Arts & Event Centres
Bronson Centre
The Bronson Centre is a not-for-profit community hub that provides affordable rental space for Ottawa and surrounding communities. Other not-profit organisations, individuals and creatives can rent affordable spaces with the Bronson Centre.
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All Saints Event Centre
Located within a repurposed heritage church in Sandy Hill, All Saints Event Centre is a rental venue that hosts a number of events such as conferences, private events, performance, weddings, and more.
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NAC
The National Arts Centre is a performing arts venue on Elgin Street, situated along the Rideau Canal. Performing arts programming happens across streams such as the NAC Orchestra, Dance, English Theatre, French Theatre, Indigenous Theatre, and Popular Music and Variety.
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Minotaure
Located in Gatineau, Minotaure is a bar with a performance space offering a range of different shows as well as arcade games.
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Shenkman Arts Centre
Shenkman Arts Centre, located in Orléans, is a creative hub providing opportunities for engagement between artists and audiences through live performances, art classes, exhibitions, as well as events.
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New Edinburgh Community & Arts Centre
New Edinburgh Community & Arts Centre (NECTAR) is a community arts space that offers artist studio rentals as well as various onsite programming.
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uOttawa Richard L’Abbé Makerspace
uOttawa Richard L’Abbé Makerspace is an on-campus space that provides a number of services to both uOttawa students and the community at large. Some of the services include: Makerstore which sells supplies to students/ community members in order for them to fulfil projects in the Makerspace. Workshops and training are also offered for participants to familiarise themselves with equipment and offerings in the space. Some of the equipment you can find in the Makerspace are 3D printers, laser cutters, virtual reality (VR) products and more.
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Ottawa Little Theatre
Ottawa Little Theatre is located in Sandy Hill and runs a nine-play season from March-December.
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Arts Court
Connected to the Ottawa Art Gallery, Arts Court is a City-operated arts centre with performance venues, rehearsal halls, screening rooms, and creation studios. Within Arts Court, venue rental is available for clients with a selection of four theatres, seven plus studio spaces and conference rooms.
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uOttawa theatre
The University of Ottawa Faculty of Arts Theatre Department offers various rentable facilities to accommodate events for the public, small non-profit, large non-profit and corporate/government events.
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L'avant-Première
Located in Gatineau, L'avant-Première provides collaborative spaces for cultural organisations and artists to make use of this performing arts space. Artist in residence programs are available here as well as continuous performing arts programming.
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La Nouvelle Scène
La Nouvelle Scène is a francophone performing arts theatre located on King Edward Street. There are two studios which can hold approximately 173 and 80 guests respectively. A third studio is also available with a bar/terrace that can accommodate 200 people for special events.
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Kanata Theatre
Community and volunteer-run, Kanata Theatre company runs five main-stage plays as well as a children’s holiday show annually.
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