Hai Nghiem
“My name is Hai and I recently moved here to Centretown. I work in AI and every day I interact a lot with Main Street business owners, whether they’re going to a shop or you know, grocery shopping. And recently we decided to collaborate with the BIA of Centretown to run some events and hackathons on Bank […]
Bill Staubi
“Hello, Centretown. My name is Bill. I’ve been living here in Centretown for the last 25, 26 years. I think of myself as a friend of the artists and the arts community here in Centretown and throughout the city and the Ottawa region. One of the things that I like about coming to a place like Highjinx Ottawa. […]
Jose Palacios
“Hey, Centretown. My name is Jose Palacios. I’m an artist from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I was born in Lima, Peru, but I’ve lived in Ottawa most of my life. I do music, visual art, and I’m also a DJ in Ottawa. I’ve held a couple of longstanding events as a DJ. The first was Kitchen Party, and […]
Sarah Farmer
“Hi Centretown, my name is Sarah. I’m the owner of Gumption Studio. I used to be a chef in Centretown and now I’m a photographer and I’ve worked with many restaurants in the area. Since having a baby, I’m essentially starting from scratch. I’ve redone my website, yeah and essentially getting all new clients. It’s a challenge that a lot […]
Hayley Pugh
“Hi, Centretown. I am Hayley and I live in Centretown and I work in Centretown. I’m very proud to live my life in Centretown. I love this neighborhood. I love the community here. I primarily bartend at Union 613 in the main level at Union also in the basement, The Staff Room. You can always find me […]
Izzy Poirier
“Hey, Centretown, I’m Izzy, founder of the Ottawa Design Club. The Ottawa Design Club is a speaker event series where we meet quarterly under a theme and we have three speakers talking about their pivotal moments, their journeys, and it’s also a place for all of us to network. Following the speaker events, we wanted […]
Sacha Jackman
“Hi Centretown, my name is Sacha and I’m a communications professional and an art director and I live in Centretown. I wanted to talk about multi-sensory design, it’s something that is really interesting to me. I love all things design, I started off by being really interested in visual design and as I started down […]
Ryan Jordan
“My name is Ryan Jordan. I’ve been a resident of Centretown for the past five years. Before that, in the early 2000s, I started off competing in mixed martial arts in the onset of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. And I came to a crossroads. I either pursue my passion and become a pro fighter, which we didn’t really know […]
Fletcher Gailey-Snell
“Let’s go rollin’, rolling, rolling the whole world ‘roundThat fine gal of mine’s on the Georgia line And we’ll roll the woodpile down Hello, Centretown, my name’s Fletcher Gailey-Snell and I’m one of the members of the Bytown Sea Shanty Collective! Ottawa’s only sea shanty group. Bytown Sea Shanty Collective is a group of four guys. We’ve known […]
Maren K Elliott
“My name is Maren Kathleen Elliott and I’m a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of movement, visual arts and sound. I’m really inspired by stories, emotion, seeing what I observe around me and then bringing that back in using humour, using curiosity to express that with different non-verbal forms and then bringing that back […]