Capital Cultures
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Festival · 7–8 August 2027 · LeBreton Flats

Two days, one field, one plan.

Capital Cultures is a free two-day multicultural festival planned for 7–8 August 2027 at LeBreton Flats Park in Ottawa, Ontario, where each community runs its own pavilion and keeps what its counter takes. Permits from the City of Ottawa and the National Capital Commission are pending. The whole weekend lives on seven pages, and every one of them says where it stands today. What happens on the ground, who takes a pavilion, where the kitchens are, how you reach the site, what we owe a visitor who needs a flat path, and the questions people already write in.

Our plan for 7–8 August 2027 at LeBreton Flats, subject to permits

The pavilion avenue at blue hour, canvas walls tied back in yellow, red, green and indigo, strings of bulbs strung between the tents and the Peace Tower lit at the end of the walk.
The pavilion avenue at blue hour, looking towards the Hill

What is decided, and what the gate decides.

Six lines are settled. The size of the first edition is settled on one day in February 2027, at the meeting that counts confirmed cash, and this page carries whichever answer that meeting gives.

Rewritten the day a line changes

The first edition as it stands today. Every line ahead of today is our plan.
LineWhere it stands
DatesSaturday 7 and Sunday 8 August 2027, both days
VenueLeBreton Flats Park, on National Capital Commission ground
EntryFree at the gate
Scale we budget to10 community pavilions and one stage
Above the funding threshold14 pavilions, a second stage and a Friday evening
Reserve weekend21–22 August 2027
PermitsApplied for in stages · nothing is booked until the City and the NCC answer
Free at the gate, both days, for everybody who walks up.
A decided line of the first edition · our plan for 7–8 August 2027 at LeBreton Flats, subject to permits
Tall banners standing along the boardwalk beside the light-rail platform, passengers walking towards the park past a rack of share bicycles.

Put your community on this field.

The pavilion fee is zero and the whole counter stays with the community that runs it. A year is what it takes to gather people, agree the kitchen and plan a stand, which is why this door opened first.