MAX Ottawa

Be Gay, Do Art
2025-12-29 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Kind Space, 400 Cooper St. suite 9001, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2N1, Canada
Are you 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️+?Are you creative?

Then join us for our last Be Gay & Do Art of 2025!

☆ All ages, art, creative mediums, and skill levels are welcome! ☆

BGDA is an all-ages drop-in program, so feel free to come and go as needed!

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📅 Monday December 29th⏰️ 5:00 – 8:00 PM📍Kind Space (400 Cooper St.)

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We will have snacks, drinks, and donated art supplies for folks to use, including collage supplies, jewelry making, painting, and more!

We also encourage folks to bring extra supplies they’d be willing to share (or donate) for those who might want to learn a new art form or try out a new medium!

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This month we will also have supplies to decorate picture frames! While we encourage folks to B.Y.O.F. (bring your own frame), we will also have some available in various sizes, alongside lots of potential decorations!

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Wheelie Productions is committed to accessibility & disability justice. If you require any extra support to attend this event, please reach out.

As part of this commitment, we will be requiring masks for those attending. We ask that all attendees wear a high-quality mask/respirator (KN95 or better) to increase the safety of our space. We will have extra KN95 & N95 masks available for anyone who needs one!

To maintain a masked space, we will have a separate room with extra air purifiers for those who are eating/drinking (thus having to remove their masks!).

More Access Notes:

☆ Kind Space has extra air purification throughout the space.☆ Kind Space is wheelchair accessible, with an elevator to access the space and automatic doors!☆ There are both gendered, stalled washrooms and accessible non-gendered washrooms.☆ Accessible by public transit (#11, #6 & #7) with paid on-street parking (subject to availability!)☆ Low/no-scent space☆ Quiet space available

5-Pin Bowling
2025-12-29 18:30 - 20:00 | West Park Lanes, 1205 Wellington St. W, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 2Z8, Canada
EVERYONE is welcome (please bring your friends!) to join us for a fun evening of 5-pin bowling at the West Park Lanes bowling alley at 1205 Wellington Street West. We play two games. The cost is $10.00, including shoe rental. It’s quite informal. You don’t have to join a team, just show up at West Park Lanes. Please come to the lanes early—at least 15 minutes early.

Soft & Low Seasonal Social
2025-12-29 18:30 - 21:30 | Probe Ottawa, 41 York St 3rd & 4th floor, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 5S7, Canada
Welcome to the Soft and Low Social Night! Embracing the spirit of the eponymous play party, Probe and the Soft and Low Crew are bringing you this event on the last Monday of every month. Join us for light conversation, bring your scent-free arts and crafts, or enjoy board and card games with us during this chill evening!

Feel free to dress in your favourite winter spirit attire to celebrate the holidays with us. ❄️ If you’re feeling extra naughty this year, bring your Krampus horns! Escape from the cold and join us for some hot chocolate, crafts, and fun games to celebrate the end of 2025 and welcome 2026! 🎉

Why Soft and Low? Social Nights can be so much fun and a great way to get to know the community! However, for those with sensory processing issues and multiple chemical sensitivities, they can become overwhelming and unmanageable due to lighting, noise and loud talking, and wafts of perfume. Soft and Low events strive to create a pleasant, quieter atmosphere with dimmed lighting for those who require a less overstimulating environment.

We request that attendees refrain from using scented body and hair products such as perfumes, sprays, colognes, fragranced shampoos/conditioners, scented lotions, strong deodorants, hairsprays, etc. the day of or during the event. Please ensure any craft items brought into the space are non-toxic, easy to clean up, and don’t produce fumes or odors (i.e. no glues, markers, glitter, varnishes, or paints except watercolours). Those wearing fragranced products will kindly be offered the opportunity to return at another time, thus ensuring a scent-free environment for all participants with sensitivities or allergies.

This is a drop in event. Membership is not required. Light snacks and non alcoholic beverages are always provided. Feel free to contribute to our intergalactic cause with a donation – your support fuels our mission to explore and connect the community together.

At this event, play is not permitted. Our social nights and non-membered events are for connection, conversation, and community. We ask all attendees to respect the space and keep interactions within the boundaries of a social setting.
