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TRIVIA NIGHT from 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday night at the Royal Oak Pub Orléans. Free to play. Prizes for the winning team! The Royal Oak Pub is located at 1981 St. Joseph Blvd. near Jeanne d'Arc. For more info visit 
OYSTER NIGHT every Wednesday from 6-9 pm at the Orléans Brewing Co. Two types of oysters served with lemon, Tobasco, horseradish, salt and mignonette. The Orléans Brewing Co. is located at 4380 Innes Rd., next to McDonalds.
OPEN MIC NIGHT at the Stray Dog Brewing Company, 501 Lacolle Way. Registration begins at 7 p.m. Music at 8 p.m. with your host Matthew Palmer.
SDBC TAPROOM CONCERT SERIES presents Redial live and in concert from 7-9 p.m. at the Stray Dog Brewing Company, 501 Lacolle Way in the Taylor Creek Business Park. Advance tickets $10 available at 
ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY 11 a.m. at the Orléans Cenotaph beside the Orléans Legion Branch 632, 800 Taylor Creek Drive. Sandwiches and desserts following the ceremony inside the Legion.
THE ROTARY CLUB OF ORLEANS is hosting a Holiday Dinner at the St. Elias Banquet Centre, 750 Ridgewood Ave. Tickets: $75/person. 4 course dinner (choice of turkey, salmon or vegetarien), dessert and punch. Contact Mashooda Sayed at mashoodasyed@yahoo.ca or call 613-255-0872.
SDBC TAPROOM CONCERT SERIES presents East Coast Experience live and in concert from 7 p.m. at the Stray Dog Brewing Company, 501 Lacolle Way in the Taylor Creek Business Park. Advance tickets $25 available at 
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The east end’s glitterati turned out at the Shenkman Arts Centre Thursday night to celebrate the arts and raise a few dollars for the AOE Arts Council at the 7th annual ARTinis soirée. Supporters paid $75 each to listen to live music, nosh on fine food and sip their favourite cocktail while rubbing elbows with the likes of Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, Ottawa-Orléans MPP Marie-France Lalonde and newly-elected Orléans MP Andrew Leslie. This is the first year that the event took on a Hallowe’en theme, with many of the patrons dawning for the occasion. According
to AOE executive director Victoria Steele, the event raised
over $40,000. The money will be used to help the AOE in
its continued support of local artists. Planning for this year’s event started as soon as last year’s gala was over. A committee of dedicated volunteers takes care of everything from booking the caterers and musical talent, to raising all the items for the silent auction and decorating the room.
Some of the added touches this year were a trio of pumpkin carvers in keeping with the Hallowe’en theme, and a make-up station provided by On Scene FX where patrons could get their ghoul on. Musical entertainment was provided by the Miguel de Armas Latin Jazz Quartet. The Arts Council will soon be launching kicking off the second year of its successful Arts Place program which places artists in non-traditional spaces and allows them to share their with non-profit groups and organizations for the benefit of the entire community. The program had six artists-in-residence in its inaugural year who worked with six different non-profit groups including the Amethyst Women’s Addiction Centre; Immigrant Women Services Ottawa; Résidence Saint-Louis; the Zonta Club of Ottawa; The Ottawa Mission and Hospice Care Ottawa; and the Élisabeth-Bruyère Residence. For more information about the AOE Arts Council and the important work they do in supporting local artists visit their website at www.artsoe.ca. (This story was made possible thanks to the generous support of our local business partners.) |
AOE
Arts Council executive director Victoria Steele
holds up a glass skull during the opening
of the ARTinis fundraisng soirée Thursday
niight. Fred Sherwin/Photo
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