Registration is now open for 14 free, unique online sessions in the arts featuring some of Ottawa-Gatineau region’s top professionals. From visual arts and ceramics to creative movement, screenwriting, instrumental music, voice and dramatic arts, these individual...
Wednesday, February 3, 2-3 pm ABCs in Action: An Introduction to Contemporary Dance with Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson Participants will explore a variety of ways to transform ideas into action through games and fun exercises using principles of direction, weight, speed...
What difference can PAL Ottawa make in the life of an arts worker? Plenty, as Maria Hawkins, long considered Ottawa’s Blues Lady, can attest. In 2015, Hawkins required surgery to prevent permanent vision damage. When the Ottawa General’s Eye Institute invited her to...
Get Moving in 2021 With Free Online Exercise Classes! Register by December 16 In partnership with the boutique physiotherapy and fitness experience offered by Ottawa’s Movement Union, PAL Ottawa is offering a series of gentle online exercise classes. They will...
Creative Arts Workers! PAL Ottawa is offering $1000 for on-line presentations! PAL Ottawa is seeking submissions from a wide range of arts workers to give Zoom and similar platform sessions during the first three months of 2021. We are seeking presentations that are...
PAL Ottawa just received a grant from the Federal Government’s New Horizons Program to assist seniors during the COVID pandemic. The funding will enable PAL Ottawa to provide a diverse program of activities to support our members. These will include:...
A virtual Annual Membership Meeting for PAL Ottawa takes place on Monday, October 19 at 7:30 pm. While all details (including the Zoom address) will be announced shortly, please mark this date in your calendar, and register by clicking here: The...
As an organization that believes in honouring the dignity of all people, PAL Ottawa is deeply disturbed to hear from young women in our national capital arts community who are now sharing their experiences of abuse at the hands of our fellow arts...
Join the Board of Directors of PAL Ottawa, a dedicated group of community leaders working together to offer vulnerable senior artists and arts workers in the Capital affordable housing and personal support in a creative, caring community so they can continue to live,...
Dear fellow senior artists and arts workers, How are you coping with the pandemic? For many of us in the arts, things are precarious at the best of times, when worries about making the rent, getting the next contract, and staying healthy are always top of mind. In the...