| The holiday season is officially here!
For any last minute Christmas or New Years Eve ideas
check out our featured Christmas
and New
Years Guide! Make sure to take in Christmas
Lights Across Canada at Parliament Hill over the holiday
break. Enjoy a beavertail, delicious hot chocolate and
300,000 dazzling Christmas lights which illuminate the
heart of Ottawa-Gatineau with the friends and family.
Don't miss a once in a lifetime chance this holiday to
train with Canada's Pan-Am Gold medallist and member of
the 2008 Olympic Silver Medal winning Canadian Equestrian
Team, at the Hunter/Jumper
clinic at Ashland Farm with Jill Henselwood.
For those looking to catch the latest films over the
break, enter for a chance to win our various contests
for free movie passes to see films such as A
New Moon, A
Single Man, Youth
in Revolt and the holiday favourite A
Christmas Carol!
From our family to yours, we would like to wish you a
very merry Christmas and safe and happy holidays with
our very own Christmas
Card!
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Win
Tickets For The Big Game
Until January 9, 2010
Do you want to win Super Bowl tickets?
OLG Slots Rideau Carleton's Big Game Jet Away promotion
is your chance to win two tickets to the big game in February.
Visit OLG Slots Rideau Carleton every Saturday night
from November 21, 2009 - January 9, 2010 between 5:00
p.m - 11:00 p.m. and swipe your Winner Circle Rewards
card in order to receive a ballot in the weekly qualifying
draw.
Print
off extra Ballots
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 Wedding
Palace Bridal Show
Dates: January 9th and 10th, 2010
Time: 11am - 5pm each day
Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec's Biggest & Best
Bridal Show.
The Premier Bridal Show Event on the Bridal Industry's
2010 Calendar - the one you can't afford to miss!
The Wedding Palace Bridal Show delivers the most unique
and creative bridal show that Ottawa region Brides, Grooms
and Exhibitors will ever experience.
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 Shen
Yun
Sunday Jan 10 -11, 2009
Meet the world's premier Chinese dance and music company.
Shen Yun Performing Arts is a triumph of collaboration,
bringing together leading dancers, choreographers, and
musicians from around the world.
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 Hunter/Jumper
clinic @ASHLAND FARM with JILL HENSELWOOD
December 27- 30, 2009
We've added more Days!
Response has been overwhelming and Jill has graciously
offered up 2 additional days to pass on valuable insights
and riding instruction to clinic participants and auditors.
Don't miss the chance to train with Canada's Pan-Am
Gold medallist and member of the 2008 Olympic Silver Medal
winning Canadian Equestrian Team Jill Henselwood!
There will be a wide range of groups offered geared towards
the improvement of horse & rider. Each groups will
consist of 5 riders and will be approximately 1.5 hrs
in length.
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 Mamma
Mia! Broadway Musical
December 29, 2009 - January 3, 2010
MAMMA MIA! is the ultimate feel-good show that has audiences
coming back again and again to relive the thrill. Now
it's your turn to have the time of your life at this smash-hit
musical that combines ABBA's greatest hits, including
"Dancing Queen," "S.O.S.," "Super
Trouper," "Take A Chance on Me" and "The
Winner Takes It All," with an enchanting tale of
love, laughter and friendship. Whether it's your first
visit or your fourteenth, see the show that has the whole
world coming back for more, because every time feels like
the first time at MAMMA MIA!
NAC presale - starts October 29 @ 10am, ends November
1 @ 10pm
Show dates - December 29, 2009 - January 3, 2010
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Christmas
Lights Across Canada
Until January 7, 2010
From December 13, 2009 to January 7, 2010, every day
from 4:30 pm to 2 am, Canada's Capital Region will sparkle
with more than 300,000 dazzling lights.
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 Coats
For Kids
Believes no child should be cold this winter!
Please drop off your gently used coats of all sizes at
any Hilary's locations or The Ottawa Citizen.
They will clean and mend each one and donate them on
your behalf.
When you donate you will receive $10.00 Gift Voucher
off your next dry cleaning pick up.
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 Christmas
Exchange
The Christmas Exchange of Ottawa is a volunteer driven
organization headed by a volunteer Board of Directors.
Since 1915, Christmas Exchange has been delivering food
and hope to eligible families referred each year by churches,
schools and social agencies -those who know the need first
hand. We also provide a central registry to cross reference
clients and avoid duplication.
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 New
Years Eve Dance
Thursday December 31, 2009
All 30+ Singles and Couples are welcome!
Hosted by the Kanata Singles Club, the dance has been
so successful in introducing singles, that many couples
who have met at the dance enjoy coming out with their
friends for great nights of socializing and dancing. So,
this year, an official invitation has been extended to
all couples as well
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 New
Years Eve at the Royal Canadian Legion
Dec 31, 2009
Join in on the fun!
New Years Eve at the Royal Canadian Legion Westboro Branch
480 Entertainment by Peter C.
This event is open to the public so put on your dancing
shoes and help us ring in 2010...
Tickets $10.00 each.
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 Experience
the Magic
January 2, 2010
If you don't believe in magic spend an evening with Michael
Bourada and he will definitely change your mind. Forget
the tails, top hats and capes, this not your traditional
magic show but an energized, exciting and hilarious show
choreographed to special effects, lighting and music.
Simply put, it leaves the audience wanting more! His modern
look and style definitely adds a different and unique
spin to magic and illusion.
Tickets go on sale Nov 20th!
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 Join
us for Twelfth Night
Tuesday Jan. 5, 2009
Come celebrate a little of the old and a lot of the new
with the Fools on January 5th at the National Arts Centre's
Fourth Stage!
Join us for our annual fundraiser and season launch with
food, gifts, goodies, music, silliness and Shakespeare.
Together we will visit the ghosts of seasons past, take
a sneak peek at our upcoming 21st season and have a little
fun with Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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 Simply
Meditation
Tuesday Jan. 5 at 7:00pm
ANCIENT YOGA TRUTHS REVEALED
Join us for this enlightening Two-Night Presentation on
Karma, Reincarnation, and Meditation by renowned Master,
Balakiya das. Balakiya das has been studying and practicing
meditation for more than 40 years. He travels in over
30 countries, sharing his deep understanding of the yoga
philosophy. January 5 and 6 at 7:00 pm at the Ottawa Public
Library (Laurier & Metcalfe) In the auditorium. Free
of charge. No registration necessary
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 Drinking
Alone
January 12 - 30, 2010 @ 8pm
Sunday Matinee - January 24 @ 2pm
Ottawa Little Theatre
What can possibly go wrong when a man hires an escort
to pose as his fiancee at a family reunion? Norm Foster
does it again in this fast-paced comedy of family values
and dysfunctional relationships.
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 Orchestral
Showpiece - Pierre Chretien
January 25, 2010
In January it is fitting, for a concert celebrating OSO's
mentorship program of University of Ottawa students, that
we showcase the talents of the cellist Brian Yoon, a student
and a member of the OSO cello section, in Shostakovich's
haunting Cello Concerto No.1. The concert ends with Bartók's
magnificent and spectacular Concerto for Orchestra
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 Steve
Wright
Friday January 29, 2010
Centerpointe Theatre
Steven Wright will be performing at Centerpointe Theatre
on Friday January 29, 2010. Academy Award Winner Steven
Wright is a prototype comedian that many others continually
try to follow.
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 Colin
James
Sun, Jan 31, 2010 08:00 PM
Colin James has juggled his skills as a singer, guitarist
and big-band leader so well over the years that diversity
seems almost synonymous with his stellar career. He's
also been a restless voyager, traversing genres—from
blues and rock to pop and swing and back again. Throughout
it all, Colin has always forged ahead, without regard
to fads or trends, going wherever his wandering muse takes
him.
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 Beauty
and The Beast
January 31, 2010
To repay a debt that her father has brought upon himself,
Beauty has agreed to live in a castle with its owner and
sole occupant, an ill-tempered beast. He's not exactly
the kind of housemate that a young woman (or anyone, for
that matter!) would choose. But what should Beauty do
when she begins to actually like the Beast? DuffleBag
Theatre adapts this classic story into a hilarious, whirlwind
performance that's sure to delight and amuse. And the
best part? With audience members starring in the main
roles, it's like living a fairy tale!
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 Bon
Appetit Ottawa
Tuesday May 4th, 2010, 5:30-9 p.m.
This food and wine show features over 90 restaurants
and caterers and dozens of wineries and breweries. Over
2000 people enjoy the delicious creations of the region's
top chefs and samplings of renowned wineries served up
in the beautiful and historic setting of the Aberdeen
Pavillion.
Bon Appetit 2010 Gift Certificate Purchase
November 10 to December 15, 2009
Tickets for the best cocktail party of the year are just
$75 it's the perfect gift for anyone or everyone on your
list!
For each ticket purchased, you will receive a gift certificate
redeemable for a Bon Appetit Ottawa 2010 ticket when they
become available.
Online Ticket purchases will be available until December
15, 2009
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