Hors Pair Social

10/03/2025

Open call for performing artists in Ottawa🚨

Next February, we will celebrating Black History Month with the second edition of the Ottawa Black Creatives Hub Showcase, a performing arts show featuring some of Ottawa’s best Black performing artists.

All applicants must:
- Live in the Ottawa-Gatineau area
- Be a performing artist: music, dance, poetry, theatre - any artistic performance that could be performed on stage
*with the addition of film
- Be available on rehearsal days and the day of the show
Apply using the registration form by October 24th at 11:59PM

Note: This opportunity is exclusively for Black artists.

To apply, visit horspairsocial.com/events

05/12/2025

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03/24/2025

What better way to launch our Youtube channel than with a behind-the-scenes look at Renaissance, the Black Out Night after-party we curated at the National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts.

Take a look and let us know what you think in the comments.

Thank you to the NAC for trusting us on this project!

Welcome to our first YouTube video, and the first instalment in our Dans Les Coulisses series. This BTS video captures the planning process for "Renaissance"...

03/18/2024

03/11/2024

Exciting news! We have teamed up with Rogers TV to bring the showcase to a TV near you.

The Ottawa Black Creatives Hub Performing Arts Showcase will air on Rogers TV on March 15th at 7 PM.

We hope you all will tune in on March 15th!

Picture by Ali Boty

02/22/2024

15 acts, 42 artists, 4 panelists, 7 speakers, 4 sponsors and partners, 6 jurors, 5 technicians and small and mighty 3-person Hors Pair Team. This is the very first Ottawa Black Creatives Hub Performing Arts Showcase.

We can’t thank you all enough. Thank you our partners and sponsors, our wonderful artists and speakers and to you - our community for your constant support.

Picture by .vzn

This show is supported by The Ottawa Arts Council (Ottawa Arts Council) through their Mandala project, the Algonquin Student Association (Algonquin SA (Students' Association), Youth Action Now (Youth Action Now) and the City of Ottawa (City of Ottawa)

02/16/2024

Moments from showcase's dress rehearsal. All we can say is it's going to be a great show!

The Ottawa Black Creatives Hub Performing Arts Showcase
February 20th 2024 at 6PM
Algonquin Commons Theatre
Tickets available the Hors Pair Social website.

02/13/2024

Hors Pair Social presents the Ottawa Black Creatives Hub Performing Arts Showcase on February 20, 2024, from 6:30-9:30 pm at the Algonquin Commons Theatre. Hosted in collaboration with the Ottawa Arts Council, the show features some of Ottawa's best emerging Black artists with performances in music, dance, poetry and more. We hope to see you there! Tickets & more info here: https://www.horspairsocial.com/events/obchshowcase