Ottawa Movement Community

A shared online home for the undefined but very real community around slacklining, climbing, acro, contact improv, juggling, and every other movement practice in Ottawa.

Somewhere between the climbing gym, the slackline in the park, the juggling jam in someone's living room, and the acro session at the farmers' market, there's a community. It doesn't have a name. It doesn't have a website. It mostly exists through word of mouth, Instagram DMs, and showing up to the right place at the right time.

I've been part of this scene in Ottawa for years. I slackline. I climb. I juggle. I show up to things. And I keep meeting people who do the same kinds of things — people who are deeply embedded in one practice but loosely connected to others, people who didn't know there was a weekly slackline meetup, people who drove to Gatineau to boulder and had no idea there was a local gym worth trying.

This site is an attempt to give this undefined but very real community a shared home online — a place to find out what's happening, where to go, who's doing what, and how to get started if you're new.

I'm not trying to formalize anything or turn this into an organization. The community works because it's loose and self-organizing. I just want to make it a little easier to find.

If you slackline, climb, juggle, flow, acro, contact improv, parkour, handstand in parks, or do any of the dozen other movement practices that live in this corner of the city, this is for you.

An initial scope

Knowing the community will shape it from here.