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Arts Court Theatre
A theatre like no other! Since 1985
09/27/2024
We are very grateful to be a recipient of Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario funding! This invaluable support empowers us to bring vibrant theatre to life and deepen our connection with the community.
We were thrilled to welcome Lucille Collard MPP and Daniel Carter to the opening night of Myth, Lore and Stories of Wonder this summer. Together, we celebrated the importance of the arts.
Thank you for believing in our mission and for your continued support!
09/23/2024
Calling all professional physical theatre artists!
Applications are now open for the Ontario Arts Council’s Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators! Odyssey is proud to be a recommender and to support the creation of new works in the field of physical theatre.
Don’t miss your chance to secure funding for your new work. Apply by January 9th, 2025 at 1PM.
For more details, visit our website: http://www.odysseytheatre.ca/index.php/workandtrain/recommender-grants-for-theatre-creators/
09/19/2024
We’re hiring!
Join Ottawa’s premier open-air theatre as an Arts Management Intern. This is your chance to dive into the world of arts and not-for-profit management.
As part of our team, you’ll gain valuable experience in marketing, grant writing, fundraising, communications, outreach, special events, and more.
The position starts October 15, 2024 until March 31, 2025 (with potential for extension).
Ready to kickstart your career in the arts? Visit our website to learn more and apply by September 27: http://www.odysseytheatre.ca/index.php/blog/2024/08/arts-management-intern/
08/31/2024
Last call to place a bid or top up your existing bid in Odyssey’s Legendary Silent Auction! Don’t let these fantastical prizes slip away! The auction closes at 11:59pm tonight.
Your contribution helps us continue creating imaginative theatre and offering vital community programs. Your bid makes a difference!
Hurry! Bid on 20 incredible prize packages before it’s too late: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/81245d72-7195-417f-96da-73095e49128e
A heartfelt thank you to all our generous donors who made this auction possible!
08/30/2024
A huge shoutout to our incredible food and beverage partners who added extra flavour and energy to our Myth, Lore, and Stories of Wonder creative arts fair!
A heartfelt thank you to Planet Coffee in the Byward Market for keeping us energized with your fantastic coffee throughout the week. Your support was a perfect pick-me-up!
And a big thanks to East India Company at 210 Somerset St W for providing the delicious food and drink that made our Opening Reception unforgettable.
We truly appreciate your support and are grateful for the amazing flavours you brought to our fair!
08/29/2024
Don’t miss your chance to win an unforgettable experience while supporting Odyssey Theatre! There are only 3 days left to place your bids in our Legendary Silent Auction, closing this Saturday, August 31.
Check out 10 more of our fantastical prizes that could be yours!
We need your support! Our silent auction is Odyssey Theatre’s most important fundraiser, with all proceeds dedicated to producing imaginative theatre and making the arts more accessible.
Help us reach our goal by bidding on one of our 20 incredible prize packages now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/81245d72-7195-417f-96da-73095e49128e
Thank you to our silent auction donors!
1000 Islands Cruise and Trolley Tours
1000 Islands Kayaking
Absolute Comedy
Align Massage Therapy Lindenlea
Black Squirrel Books & Espresso
Bytowne Cinema
Café Le Hibou
Gray Line Bus Tours Ottawa
Holtz Spa
Jerome Photography
Kingston Grand Theatre
Les Suites
Level One
Madawaska Kanu Centre
Merry Diary
Motel Chelsea
Oiseau Bleu
Ottawa International Animation Festival
Pure Yoga Westboro
Saunders Farm
Vivianna Day Spa
Wakefield Mill Hotel and Spa
08/27/2024
Start your next adventure with our Legendary Silent Auction! From exciting trips to thrilling Ottawa adventures, check out 10 of our fantastical prize packages up for grabs!
Don’t miss your chance to win an unforgettable experience while supporting Odyssey Theatre. Act fast — you have 5 days left to secure your prizes before bidding ends on Saturday, August 31!
Discover all 20 of our prizes and place your bids now at our online auction: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/81245d72-7195-417f-96da-73095e49128e
Stay tuned as we highlight more of our legendary prizes later this week!
Thank you to our silent auction donors!
Absolute Comedy
Ace Art Studio
Advanced Wellness Centre
Arthur Murray Dance
Bear & Co.
Black Squirrel Books & Espresso
Brew Donkey
Broadhead Brewery
Delta Force Paintball
Elevate Yoga
Escape Manor
The Gladstone Theatre
Great Canadian Theatre Company
Hair Fellas
Hammond Hill Golf
The Haunted Walk
Knifewear Ottawa
Metcalfe Golf Club
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum
The Old Spaghetti Factory
Ottawa Little Theatre
ROM
Shaw Festival Theatre
Tarragon Theatre
The Tattoo Machine
Three Sisters
Vivianna Day Spa
Wheelhouse Cycle
Where I Thrive
Yuk Yuks
08/26/2024
A massive shoutout to the incredible artists, volunteers, and audience members who brought our Myth, Lore, and Stories of Wonder creative arts fair to life! Your enthusiasm and talent made this summer truly magical. It was a wonderful weekend filled with art, inspiration, and creative joy.
We can’t wait to welcome you back to Strathcona Park next summer for our 39th season of Theatre Under the Stars. We’re looking forward to returning to our major open-air productions. Stay tuned for details on the play! 🌟✨
Photo 2: Haiyan Dance
Photo 3: The Tennessee Cree; 📸 Andrew Alexander
Photo 4: Jacqui Du Toit
Photo 5: Bougie Birch; 📸 Andrew Alexander
Photo 6: Haiyan Dance
Photo 7: Jacqui Du Toit; 📸 Andrew Alexander
Photo 8: Laurie Steven; 📸 Andrew Alexander
Photo 9: Clelia Scala; 📸 Andrew Alexander
Photo 10: (L-R) Chandel Gambles, Marlow Stainfield, Scott McCulloch
08/18/2024
An intimate group took part in the Create Your Own Story workshop ’s Artistic Director Laurie Steven put together for our Creative Arts Fair! 📝
From conception to performance, Laurie led her participants in how to create their own intriguing stories.
It was creative and imaginative experience had by all! 🤩
ODYSSEY’S MYTH FAIR MOVING INDOORS TODAY
*LOCATION CHANGE DUE TO WEATHER*
Today (SUNDAY August 18th), Odyssey Theatre’s Myth, Lore and Stories of Wonder is moving indoors to Arts Court at 2 Daly Ave (Daly and Nicholas). Please help spread the word to others attending!
Paid parking is available at the Rideau Centre, the Les Suites Parking Garage, Parking Lot behind St Jospeh’s Church (Wilbrod and Cumberland)
Transit routes that take you to the nearby Rideau Centre include:
1 (O-Train), 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 15, 18, 39, 45, 57, 61, 75, 97
It may be wet outside, but the Fair is on (and dry) inside.
For any questions, please call Sophie at 613-232 8407
See you at the Fair!
If you were wowed by yesterday's performances, you will be in for a treat for what we have scheduled for our LAST day of ! 🤯
Have a look 👀 at our schedule of events and continue this journey through myths, legends, and epic tales with us.
Check out our website to find out more about schedule!
➡️ http://www.odysseytheatre.ca
We can't wait to share all of this with you! 😀
08/17/2024
With drummer Denis Akashi providing the rhythm, Jacqui du Toit danced and sang while she took us to Africa for the tale of Anansi the Spider! 🕷️
Jacqui got us moving and singing along with her while we discovered how Anansi came to have 8 legs!
It was an amazing performance to experience.
🎉Toay is Day 2 of Myth, Lore and Stories of Wonder!🎉
Take a look 👀 at all of the events we have planned for you to watch and discover!
Don't worry about the rain! 🌧 We have moved everything INDOORS at Arts Court (2 Daly Avenue) for you to enjoy!
We can't wait to see you! 😃
🚨ODYSSEY’S MYTH FAIR MOVING INDOORS TODAY🚨
LOCATION CHANGE DUE TO WEATHER
Today (SATURDAY August 17th), Odyssey Theatre’s Myth, Lore and Stories of Wonder is moving indoors to Arts Court at 2 Daly Ave (Daly and Nicholas). Please help spread the word to others attending! 📢
Paid parking is available at the Rideau Centre, the Les Suites Parking Garage, Parking Lot behind St Jospeh’s Church (Wilbrod and Cumberland).
Transit routes that take you to the nearby Rideau Centre include:
1 (O-Train), 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 15, 18, 39, 45, 57, 61, 75, 97
It may be wet outside, 🌧 but the Fair is on (and dry) inside. 😀
For any questions, please call 📱☎️ Sophie at 613-232 8407.
See you at the Fair!
☀️We are a-go for the Park!☀️
We will be kicking off our festivities for tonight in Strathcona Park!
Please join us from 7:00pm-9:00pm as Odyssey Theatre opens our Fair on our stage with their powerful reading of "The Girl With No Hands."
We can't wait to see you!
08/16/2024
Thank you Apt613 for helping to share the news about Myth, Lore and Stories of Wonder! 😃
If you haven't read it yet, check it out now! 👀
08/15/2024
Plan to spend your entire weekend with us at ! 🗓🖋
Explore how to engage in a creation process that gracefully marries tradition with contemporary expression in our Creation Tent!
Meet many old faces and places from all types of mythology, legend and true stories of wonder in the Stathcona Park Legendary Scavenger Hunt! 🗺
All of these fantastic adventures happen Saturday, August 17th and Sunday, August 18th, from 10:30am-5:00pm.
Go to our website to jump into this day of fun and exploration with us! 🤩
➡ http://www.odysseytheatre.ca
08/15/2024
The Dreamcatcher Workshop with Bougie Birch at the Creation tent will allow guests to engage in a creation process that gracefully marries tradition with contemporary expression. 🤩
Through storytelling that embraces the nuances of history and hands-on engagement, Bougie Birch aims to foster a profound understanding and appreciation for Indigenous artistry.
Bougie Birch will be with us Saturday, August 17th and Sunday, August 18th, from 10:30am-5:00pm to guide you through this expressive process.
Visit our website to explore and discover in our Creation Tent!
➡ http://www.odysseytheatre.ca
08/14/2024
Theatre artists Chandel Gambles and Marlowe Stainfield have one goal in mind for you to begin your Sunday at : Making you feel great! 😃
You will take a few minutes to move through breathing, gentle physical loosening and stretching, an easy voice exercise, warming up your imagination and creativity through improv in an environment that is supportive, filled with warmth and welcome. 🎭
Stay afterwards for Coffee and Mingling before you start your daytime adventure in the park! ☕
Visit our website to get your Sunday morning at our Fair off to an amazing start!
➡ http://www.odysseytheatre.ca
08/14/2024
🌞Start your day at with a classic theatre-style warm-up to awaken your body and your mind before you embark on a day of storytelling and discovery with the talented facilitators from Creative Well Theatre. 🌞
You and other Fair attendees will use this time as a chance to start play and to start your day off with energy and warmth. 🎭
Stay afterwards for Coffee and Mingling before you start your daytime adventure in the park! ☕
Head over to our website to start your journey with us with fun!
➡ http://www.odysseytheatre.ca
08/14/2024
Did you watch us on CTV Ottawa Morning Live this morning? 👀
Nigerian storyteller Uchechi Ogbonna and our Fair's Program Director, Julia Rocchi, were on-air with Rosey Edeh speaking about ! 🎥
Uchechi then shared a sneak peek of her performance at our Fair this Sunday from 11:00am-12:00pm. It was an amazing performance, and we can't wait for you to discover all of what are Fair has in tore for you! 🤩
Go to www.odysseytheatre.ca to come and explore worlds of myths, lore and stories of wonder with us!
08/13/2024
💫Come with us as the Ottawa StoryTellers guide you on a walk with Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya and Idun, as these quarrelsome gods and goddesses travel the rock-strewn pathways of the nine worlds in their spoken-word adventures! 💫
This epic journey will happen on our stage at on Saturday, August 1️⃣7️⃣, 2024, from 3:00pm-4:00pm.
Go to our website to join us on this mythical experience!
➡ http://www.odysseytheatre.ca
08/13/2024
Delight in this dynamic and captivating performance of epic tales of Indian legend through Bharatanatyam, the oldest classical Indian Dance form by Rathi School of Dance! 🤩
This performance will be peppered with on-your-feet instruction from Dance leaders who will share and teach how Bharatanatyam interprets old tales into lasting performances.
Rathi School of Dance will perform on our stage at on Sunday, August 1️⃣8️⃣, 2024, from 1:30pm-2:30pm.
Visit our website to get your seat to take in this performance of epic proportions!
➡ http://www.odysseytheatre.ca
08/12/2024
💫Travel with Erica O’Reilly from Into the Circle as she will take you into the shadows of our heroine’s journey, into the Otherworld, sacredly held by some of Ireland’s most ancient and prolific goddesses. 💫
Her performance will take place on Saturday, August 1️⃣7️⃣th, from 2:15pm -2:45pm.
Visit our website at http://www.odysseytheatre.ca to get ready to journey into this mystical world!
08/12/2024
Journey to Nigeria with celebrated storyteller Uchechi Ogbonna as she will deliver illustrative tales and stories, with passionate Nigerian narratives. 🤩 She creates a bridge to Nigeria and back, that will capture you in engaging, relatable stories.
Her performance takes place on Sunday, August 1️⃣8️⃣ from 11:00am-12:00pm.
Visit our website to come away with Uchechi and us at ! ➡ http://www.odysseytheatre.ca
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Odyssey Theatre celebrates 35 years of being a theatre like no other
Every summer since 1986, Odyssey Theatre has been producing innovative shows for our dynamic summer program – Theatre Under the Stars. These performances take place against the beautiful backdrop of Strathcona Park, nestled on the banks of the Rideau River and are a summer highlight for performing arts aficionados in Ottawa.
Odyssey Theatre is Canada’s award-winning mask and Commedia dell’Arte theatre. For over three decades we have stirred imaginations with extraordinary plays that include epics, comic fantasies, satires, tragedies, and madcap comedies. Our stunning performances weave masks, puppets, music, dance and ritual. Behind the scenes we create original plays, train professional artists and reach out to the community to introduce new audiences to the magic of live theatre.
When faced with the reality of not being able to produce an in-person show for the 2020 season due to COVID-19, Odyssey Theatre decided to not go dark. Instead, we created an interactive digital theater series for everyone - bringing together audiences and artists everywhere. A Virtual Odyssey – is an innovative digital theatre series which will captivate audiences with creative and interactive online programs for families, youth, adults and artists.
“While we are disappointed not to perform in the Park this summer, the safety of our audiences and artists comes first. But I am thrilled to launch an exciting online theatre series that will bring Odyssey into the homes of our patrons and reach a whole new audience in Ottawa and across Canada,” says Laurie Steven, Odyssey’s Artistic Director. Steven, an award-winning director and playwright, along with a talented team of Odyssey actors, designers and playwrights, are collaborating to create entertaining programs that offer something for everyone.
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