June 10. LONER & The Healing Concert at Emergenza Festival Ottawa Final.
Aylmer-based band will compete against 13 other bands from Ottawa and Gatineau.
6pm Doors Open @ Capitol Music Hall at 200 Rideau St. Ottawa. Concert time TBA.
ALL AGES SECTION! Tickets are $18 through the band. $25 at the door.
For more information call: 819-684-4386. 

June 11. 1st Annual West Quebecers Awards Banquet. Deborah Thomson of Chelsea, winner of the 2004 West Quebecers Award for Community Service in Arts and Culture is one of eight Outaouais residents being honored for their outstanding community achievements at the Regional Association of West Quebecers inaugural awards banquet at Camp Fortune. The banquet's special guest speaker, Arctic explorer Richard Weber,
is winner of the 2004
J.D. Coulson award for Outstanding  Achievement. Awards banquet tickets are $25. each. To reserve a seat or for more information call: 819-682-9602,
email: clco@magma.ca or see RAWQ website: www.westquebecers.com

June 11.  Vernissage exhibiting works by John Tenasco, Algonquin artist from the
...KITIGAN ZIBI RESERVE... at
Galleria 173, 173 Preston Street, Ottawa. 
The exhibition runs to June 26.
For information call: (613) 230-9903.

June 11. Amplify 819. 
Final details of the first concert in this series.  Five bands will be performing, including Fully Down (headlining), No Other Way, The Less You Know, In Safe Hands and one other to be announced. The concert begins at 6:30 pm at the Recreational Activities Centre, 455 Hillcrest Avenue, Shawville (behind Pontiac High School). Admission: $5.00. Drinks
(non-alcoholic) and light refreshments for purchase. This is a youth music project, intended especially for young people in the Pontiac, who would otherwise never have the opportunity to hear alternative rock bands in their area.  It is designed to enhance their lives by introducing them to new music and cultural expression geared to their age group.  The event is to be staged in a location free of alcohol and drugs.  Young people will be encouraged to participate in organizing the concerts.  Donations are being asked for to cover the cost of this concert and the two which are planned for July 16 and August 6.  For information call: Samantha Everts at (819)  648 - 5766 or
E-mail: thats_me_samantha@yahoo.ca 

June 11.  “Birds Get Entangled by their Feet, People by their Tongues.” Vernissage of an exhibition of collaborative mixed media, constituting a visual dialogue between two Wakefield area artists, John F. Marok and Suzanne Evans. 7 pm at Galerie McKenzie Marcotte, 26 Sully Road, Wakefield. The exhibition continues until July 6.  Weekends 10 am – 5 pm. During the week by appointment or by chance.
For information: call (819) 459-3164.