Event Details
Event Date: Jun 9, 2022 - Jun 19, 2022Location: Preston Street
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Italian Week Ottawa is an annual arts and cultural festival that promotes Italian culture in the National Capital Region during June. This year it will be held June 9-19. Originally founded in 1975, the festival is among the longest running arts and cultural festivals in Ottawa. Our mandate is to share Italian cultural experiences with Italians, non-Italians, and visitors in the Ottawa community.
Each year the Ottawa Italian Week Festival builds a rich arts, history, and cultural program to celebrate all aspects of Italian and Italian-Canadian life. The festival offers a variety of free and reasonably priced activities highlighting historical and contemporary Italian art, music, dance, food, literature, film, and design. Events are held throughout Ottawa, with a focus in the Little Italy neighbourhood on and around Preston Street. The Festival’s programming is emblematic of the broader impact Italian-Canadians have had both locally, and nationally. The Festival features annually recurring programming as well as new events, all linked by an overarching and unifying theme.
Highlights
- Opening day ceremonies with the mayor and other special guests
- Bedtime stories with Strega Nona
- Scavenger hunt with Escape Manor
- Guide to Italian wines masterclass
- Ferrari displays
- Soccer games
- Performing and visual arts contests
- Focaccia bread art masterclass
We will have to organize one ourselves !
Maybe take over the spot allocated for those Ferrari Upstarts… it will only be their 75th…
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