The Carleton University Poetics Society, CUSA and Impact Present Verses for Change Time and Place: January 8 at 6:00 pm. Ollies Pub, University Centre, 1125 Colonel By, 1st Floor Web:tinyurl.com/v4c2026 an open mic event to support the Unified Support Centre’s Food Centre. The venue is wheelchair accessible, and attendees are encouraged to bring some items the Food Centre is looking for this time of year to create hampers for students, such as non-perishable food items and personal care products. Trade in items for raffle tickets, play trivia about the USC to win prizes, and participate in games before the show starts and during intermission! Although doors open at 6, performances will not start until 6:30p.m. As always, you can sign up in advance or at the door. Interested in being an opener to support a good cause? Email poeticssociety@gmail.com or D.M us on Instagram or Discord. Performers may sign up at the link
The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30amMedia Club of Ottawa Meetings 5:00pm SPEAKER: David Currie, Director of Communications for the Ottawa International Writers Festival TOPIC: What his job entails WHERE: In a private room at Perkins restaurant. ADDRESS: 1130 St. Laurent Blvd, adjacent to St. Laurent shopping centre. There is parking at the restaurant as well as the shopping centre where there is also bus service, plus easy access to highway 417. TIME: The room is booked from 4:30p.m.-8p.m. so there will be plenty of time to network and eat before the speaker begins to talk around 6:45-7p.m.Asian Sounds 6:00pmOttawa Scrabble Club 7:00pmOttawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pmThandizo Joy: A Little Death 7:30pm
