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December 9, 2025
Guernica In-Person Ottawa Launch
Time and Place: December 9 at 7:00 pm. Avant-Garde Bar, 135 1/3 Besserer
✨️ "On The News that Sagittarius A* Grows Hungrier" by Nicola Vulpe (Essential Poets)⁠ ✨️"Ajar" by Margo LaPierre (Essential Poets)⁠ ✨️ "Count On Me" by Ann Cavlovic (Essential Prose)⁠ ✨️ "A Mouth of Vowels" by Sophie Anne Edwards (1366 Books)⁠ ✨️ "A Ladder of Bones" by Bunmi Oyinsan (Essential Prose)⁠ ✨️"The Grand Tour of Park Ex & Assorted Half-Told Yarns" by Andreas Kessaris (MiroLand)⁠
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe
Time and Place: 7:00 pm. Lieutenant's Pump, 361 Elgin
Web: www.ottawastorytellers.ca/story-cafe
Pay-What-You-Can event, and donations are accepted in person, via canadahelps.org, or by sending an e-transfer to ostbusiness@ottawastorytellers.ca. Suggested donation: $10.
December 2025 Events
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  Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 The Me in the Mirror: Multi-media event commemorating the 16 days of activism to end gender-based violence 6:00pm
Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: A conversation with Alex Himelfarb 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic Online 7:30pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm		 Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 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 at the Ottawa Trans Library 5:00pm
Poetry Night 5:30pm
Zine Workshop 6:00pm
Slavery and Capitalism Book Launch | Slavery and Capitalism by David McNally 7:00pm
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
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
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
battleaxe press Winter Launch 7:00pm		 Guernica In-Person Ottawa Launch 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
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		 Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		    
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
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		 Elmvale Writers Group 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Salon of the Refused Ottawa, 2025 7:00pm		   The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pm		 The Carleton University Poetics Society Poetry Anthology: Cake Edition 6:00pm
Ottawa Public Library Beaverbrook Writing Group 6:30pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		    
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Global Cypher Day for Climate Justice 2025 7:00pm		 Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		   The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm		     the peter f yacht club : regatta/reading/christmas party 2025 7:00pm
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm		 Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		   The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm