Calendar compliments of www.bywords.ca.

December 19, 2025
Ottawa Trans Library: Shared Stories Witness Circle
Time and Place: 5:00 pm. Ottawa Trans Library, 1104 Somerset W.
Shared Stories Witness Circle is a monthly community event designed to create a warm and supportive space where people can reflect on their lives through writing, journaling, and shared conversation.
December 2025 Events
Return to today
Submit upcoming events to events@bywords.ca
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
  1 2 3 4 5 6
  SOIRÉE POÉSIE AU PUB À LA DÉRIVE: UNE PINTE OU UN VERS ? 6:00pm
Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 12:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
The Me in the Mirror: Multi-media event commemorating the 16 days of activism to end gender-based violence 6:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: A conversation with Alex Himelfarb 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic Online 7:30pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm		 Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 CBC All in A Day Book Club Sale for Make the Season Kind 3:00pm
Nesting”: A Community Poetry Reading on Home 7:00pm
The Calligraphy Society of Ottawa 7:00pm
General Meeting - Annual Holiday Card Swap, City View United Church, 6 Epworth		 Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Library Lecture Series: The "Secret" Writings of Henry VIII and Katherine Parr (His Sixth Wife!)​ ​ 2:00pm
Poetry Night 5:30pm
Zine Workshop 6:00pm
Slavery and Capitalism Book Launch | Slavery and Capitalism by David McNally 7:00pm
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm
Commonhouse Magazine: Issue 6 Release Party 7:00pm		 Madelaine Drohan: How Benjamin Franklin Set the Stage for Donald Trump 12:00pm
Indie Author Group with N.G. Avant 1:00pm
Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm
battleaxe press Winter Launch 7:00pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 12:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Guernica In-Person Ottawa Launch 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 Alex Neve: Renewing human rights in a fractured world 4:30pm
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm		 Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		   Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Albert Dumont: The Sound My Heart Makes 2:00pm
les cafés-rencontres de l’Association des auteurs et auteures de l’Outaouais 2:00pm
Exploratory Writing Workshops - Write With Us 2:30pm		 Ottawa Urbanism Book Club 6:15pm
Cities and the Constitution: Giving Local Governments in Canada the Power They Need by Alexandra Flynn and others
Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Salon of the Refused Ottawa, 2025 7:00pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 12:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pm
Riverbed Reading Series Season 6 7:30pm
Mars Aspen Jason Christie, Cara Goodwin		 Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
The Carleton University Poetics Society Poetry Anthology: Cake Edition 6:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 Ottawa Trans Library: Shared Stories Witness Circle 5:00pm
free with registration www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/shared-stories-witness-circle		  
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Ottawa Silent Book Club, Downtown 1:30pm
Global Cypher Day for Climate Justice 2025 7:00pm		 Namaashoum 7:00pm The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 12:30pm
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm		 Third World Players 6:00pm   Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
the peter f yacht club : regatta/reading/christmas party 2025 7:00pm
28 29 30 31      
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Anina's Book Swap 3:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm		 Namaashoum 7:00pm The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 12:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
The Greenhouse 6:30pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm