Thursday, June 14, 2012

June 16 & 17 events (UPDATED)



 Friday

Ottawa Horror and Fangoria Present Father's Day Ottawa Premiere at the Mayfair Theatre

    A $10 000 budget film for father's day. A man, obsessed with avenging his father, joins forces with a hot-headed, street-wise rascal to find and defeat the Father's Day Killer.
   Also addresses such Father Day oriented themes as unplanned pregnancy and sodomy.
The trailer (don't watch it).
Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street. $10.00, cash only. 11:45 p.m. to 2 a.m. Contact.


Saturday

BIA Lambs Down Park Festival

    The Carleton Place Business Association is the largest distribution centre for lamb wool in Canada. There will be hands-on demonstrations of sheep herding, sheep shearing, and spinning wool. There will also be fresh produce, tractor displays, A PETTING ZOO, and pony rides. There is also a Partytime Inflatables airbounce, but it's for kids only. Ugh, kids.
    After spending your day bonding with this industrious animal, hit up the food facilities to check out the special lamb dishes cooked up by local restaurants. Eeee.
Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Limited, 142 Franktown Road. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 613-257-8049.

Carivibe Beach Festival

    Caribbean food and drink, steel bands, masqueraders, entertainers, dance groups, arts & crafts, something called a Booty camp, and sunshine!
     God damn it! There's going to be a bouncy house here, too, but it's only for kids! This egregious and continued oversight of adults who like to bounce is enraging.
Petrie Island, 727 Trim Road. $15.00. 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. ish. 613-590-1588.



Sunday

Father's Day Antique Car Show

   You can take a picture with a 1959 Cadillac. There will also be a barbecue, a barbershop quartet (right?!), and crafts for kids.
    No word on their bouncy house situation.
Billings Estate National Historic Site, 2100 Cabot Street. $6.00. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 613-247-4830.


All Weekend

Ottawa Fringe Festival

   It's a bunch of performances and shows put on to “unite artists and audiences in a fun, exploratory environment”.
   Late comers will not be admitted.
Various venues. Box Office, 2 Daly Avenue, Suite 100. $3.00 for your Fringe Pin  $13.00/show. 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. 613-232-6162.



   I'll be in Orillia this weekend for Father's Day and my big brother's birthday (25 years old!). I've been working on a little project for the event and am so excited to see the family (and adopted family members, of course). Hit me up (yick. I'm too old to use that phrase) if anyone knows of a good yoga studio in the little-o.


 Father's Day 2012
a painting for my dad!

My dad is half of Ottawa This Weekend's biggest fans. For this, the day of fathers, he has an OTW-style painting of himself and three of his favourite people!






   This weekend also marked the 25th year of my big brother's life being lived (it's just like him to steal the spotlight from the daddies... ass.)
   My mom, my Jen, and I drew and cut out 25 anatomically-accurate bulldogs to stick into his front lawn. I booked it back to Ottawa before the big reveal so as to avoid the backlash. 
   Behold:
You can only see 10 here but trust me... there are 25.
I'm still waiting on pictures of their real-life bulldog interacting with these ones.

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