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The Chris Robinson
Travel Show
Saturday April 02, 2011
10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
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Weekly Prize: Expires Apr 02, 2011
Click the yellow Enter Contest box to send your Newstalk 1010 email question to Chris on Ottawa and for a chance to win a trip for two to Ottawa with VIA Rail, two nights at the Capital Hill Hotel and Suites, a Canadian Tulip Festival Passport, a special edition Canadian Tulip Festival Souvenir and passes to the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
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Visit Ottawa for the tulips - stay for the experience!
This week on the Travel Show – Ottawa, where over three million tulips create an exotic mosaic of colour and beauty during the Capital Region’s “Canadian Tulip Festival”. This dazzling event runs for 18 days from May 6, 2011 to May 23 2011. The theme is Kaleidoscope - a celebration of spring awakening through colour, culture and community. Stroll by as artists ply their trade amongst the tulips and musicians serenade you. And best of all – most of the activities at the Canadian Tulip Festival are FREE!
The 2011 edition of the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa takes place at Major’s Hill Park (between the Chateau Laurier hotel & The National Gallery of Canada, overlooking Parliament) and at Commissioners Park (by Dows Lake Pavilion, adjacent to the historic Rideau Canal - a UNESCO World Heritage).
Visit www.OttawaTourism.ca, or phone 1-888-OTTAWA-8 for some great short break ideas. The “Tulip Celebration Package”, for example, includes shopping discounts plus “The Canadian Tulip Festival Passport” with valuable vouchers to national attractions, local museums and restaurants. You can book all this, plus two nights’ accommodation, from only $127 per person.
Now you can create your own Ottawa Getaway thanks to Ottawa Tourism’s NEW website that brings you the ability to book flexible packages online. Get great deals and a wide range of hotel choices as you create your own escape to Ottawa. And using the "print at home" vouchers, you can make your booking right up to the day before departure.
The Tulip Festival has recently achieved coveted recognition as one of the top 10 events in Canada, and one of the top 100 events in North America in the prestigious American Bus Association rankings. Ottawa's tulip heritage is the result of a 1945 gift to Ottawa from Princess Juliana of the Netherlands in thanks for the safe haven the city provided the Dutch Royal Family during the Second World and the role Canadian troops played in liberating Holland during that conflict.
“Come for the Tulips, stay for the experience!” There are topflight national and international musical acts, movies in the park, a kid’s zone, a Garden Party (“Tea in the Tulips”), an International Pavilion and Food Emporium, and much, much more! Visit www.tulipfestival.ca for the latest announcements on entertainment and attractions coming to this year’s festival.
And just as there’s more to the Tulip Festival than just tulips, there is much more to Ottawa than just vibrant national festivals! Come for the Tulip Festival, stay for the great entertainment and culture Ottawa has to offer!
At the National Gallery of Canada (17 June – 11 September 2011) you can see the exhibition “Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome”.
Not since Michelangelo or Raphael has one artist in Europe affected so many of his contemporaries over such a broad geography and irrevocably changed the course of painting in Italy's major cultural centre. Presented exclusively in Canada at the National Gallery of Canada, this ambitious exhibition explores the profound impact of the work of Caravaggio on a wide range of painters of Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish and Spanish origin who resided in Rome either during his lifetime or immediately afterwards. Approximately 60 paintings by some of the most important artists of the Baroque period will be included in this exhibition together with other major artists who were inspired by Caravaggio's example.
At the Canadian Museum of Civilization (April 21, 2011 to April 15, 2012) you can discover Canada’s Far North in an unforgettable expedition of success and tragedy at “Expedition: Arctic”.
Walk in the boots of the scientists, explorers, Inuit guides and the many others who took part in this first major Canadian scientific expedition to the Arctic. The exhibition revives the goals, human drama and achievements of the Expedition, exploring its impacts on the local people and landscape of Canada’s Far North. Ultimately, it redrew the map of the Arctic and expanded our understanding of its environment and cultures.
At the Canada Aviation and Space Museum a new exhibition from the Canadian Space Agency called “Living in Space” (opening May 4, 2011) takes you aboard the International Space Station!
At the National Arts Centre don't miss “i think i can” (May 11- 28, 2011). It is a great show for families and young people ages 8 and up and an opportunity to get audiences interested in dance and to show that tap dancing isn’t just something ‘that our grandparents used to do’! Here’s a story told without words: characters listen with their ears and speak with their feet. Using the rhythms of tap, hip hop and percussive sound, “I think I can” is about a physically-challenged young man who overcomes the bullying and aggression of his peers through the beauty of physics and a fanciful project in a science fair.
And at the Casino du Lac-Leamy - after 80,000 tickets sold in Québec since its debut in March 2008, and after two weeks headlining at the Panasonic Theatre in Toronto, “The Man in Black A Tribute to Johnny Cash” is back (May 12 – 15, 2011). Shawn Barker will make a third appearance at the Théâtre du Casino, charting the course of Johnny Cash’s celebrated career from his early years right up to his very last recording. This year the Casino du Lac-Leamy is celebrating its 15th Anniversary with special events and offers.
Listen to the show this Saturday for your chance to win a trip for two to Ottawa including:
For your chance to win, phone into the show at 416-872-1010, 1-877-518-5151 or *TALK on your cell, or send your question any time this week by entering the contest here online by clicking on the Yellow "Enter Contest" button.
Photo Credits: Ottawa Tourism and "i think i can" photo by Daniel Alexander