WEEK AHEAD
SUNDAY
Enjoy Savour Ottawa’s
Harvest Table family-style luncheon, featuring local ingredients prepared by local chefs, noon to 2 p.m., Horticulture Building, Lansdowne Park. Tickets: $75. www.savourottawa.ca Be immersed in the world of the gladiator today, with re-enacted fights (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), a chance to dress up in armour and pose and make your own graffiti for the “Colosseum,” Canadian War Museum. warmuseum.ca
By Ward Market vendors are
roasting corn for sale for $1 in aid of local charities, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. www.byward-market.com
MONDAY
A tiny chipmunk reveals
surprising perseverance in the 23-minute Tiny Giants 3D movie at the Canadian Museum of Nature, in English and French throughout the day. Tickets: $4. nature.ca
TUESDAY
The world’s best freestyle
paddlers will be showing off their tricks at the 2015 ICF Kayak Freestyle World Championship on the Ottawa River, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. all week at Wilderness Tours, 503 Rafting Rd., Foresters Falls. Tickets: free. www.worldfreestylekayakchampionships.com
WEDNESDAY
Today is the last day for kids aged 8 to 12 years to apply for jury duty — at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, to select the top short children’s films and TV shows on Sept. 19. Submit a paragraph about their favourite animated films before 4 p.m. to info@animationfestival.ca. / www.animationfestival.ca
Japanese Film Week continues, with Rent-A-Cat, a comedy about a lonely woman who rents out cats to other lonely people, with English subtitles, 6:30 p.m., Embassy of Japan, 255 Sussex Dr. Tickets: Free. www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp
THURSDAY
Australian, long-lasting rock
superstars AC/DC play TD Place, Lansdowne Park, 7 p.m. Tickets: $99.50-$129.50. www. tdplace.ca
Laugh with the comedic theatrical trilogy The Norman Conquests, skewering the middle class by award-winning and arguably most produced (and still living) British playwright, Alan Ayckbourn. Each of the three plays will be shown over the next six weeks starting with Table Manners at The Gladstone Theatre. Tickets: $26.40. thegladstone.ca
FRIDAY
The three-day Heartfest, in
aide of local charities, has its “biggest ever lineup” of hardcore punk and metal bands, 42 Hanson St., Gatineau. Tickets: $25, $65/pass. heartfest.ca
House of Targ is holding a two-day Ska Fest, starting with show from hazy swagger of The Beatdown, The Sentries, Freshly Cut, The Taco Bandits and Rich Chris, 10 p.m., 1077 Bank St. Tickets: $5 before 10 p.m. www.houseoftarg.com
For those desperate for
hockey (or a very reasonablypriced evening out), the Ottawa 67’s take on their cross-river rivals the Gatineau Olympiques at TD Place, 7 p.m., in pre-season action. Tickets: $2.74-$7.74. capitaltickets.ca