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Ottawa International Writers Festival May 1 - 4, 2025
6:30 PM Theory of Water with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 8:00 PM Crime and Punishment with Liann Zhang, Katie Tallo and Eliza Reid
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm |
Ottawa International Writers Festival May 1 - 4, 2025
6:30 PM Past as Present with Gwen Tuinman, Jack Wang and Linda McQuag 8:00 PM The Social Safety Net with Nora Loreto
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am |
Ottawa International Writers Festival May 1 - 4, 2025
11:30 AM The Certainty Illusion with Timothy Caulfield 1:00 PM Ends of the Earth with Neil Shubin 2:30 PM A Billion Butterflies with Dr. Jagadish Shukla 4:00 PM: On Oil with Don Gillmor 5:30 PM: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All with Sandy Hudson 7:00 PM: Inheritance with Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and Iryn Tushabe 8:30 PM: The River Has Roots with Amal El-Mohtar
Sip & Read
Jenni tea. 98 Rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville Gatineau, QC. Inscription: www.eventbrite.ca/e/sip-read-a-literary-experience-like-no-other-ottawagatineau-tickets-1318976035829 $30 |
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Ottawa International Writers Festival May 1 - 4, 2025
1:00 PM Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope with Garry Gottfriedson and Victoria Handford 2:30 PM On Book Banning with Ira Wells 4:00 PM From Truth to Reconciliation with Bruce McIvor and Rose LeMay 5:30 PM Canada in the New World Order with Lloyd Axworthy 7:00 PM Long Story Short with Bill Gaston, Catherine Bush and Andre Alexis 8:30 PM: Everything Everywhere with Emily Austin, Matt Jones and Georgia Toews
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Poets’ Pathway: City Archives Plaque for William Pittman Lett 2:00pm |
Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition Red Dress Day 2025 10:00am
Sunnyside Writers' Group with Michael F. Stewart 6:00pm
You Talk. We Taco 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm |
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Online Story Swap 7:30pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm |
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm |
Third World Players 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Vanier 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm |
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am |
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm |
Collage Club 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
In Our Tongues 7:00 PM EST Register via form at the bottom of page, to attend either attend… IN-PERSON at Saw Centre (67 Nicholas St, Ottawa, ON, Canada) Online via YouTube live steam (link provided day of via email you registered with) KIMMORTAL, SHAY, KING KIMBIT 7pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm |
Open Pages Book Club Ottawa
Ottawa Trans Library, 1104 Somerset W. 5--7pm
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Ottawa International Writers Festival May 14 - 16, 2025
Southminister United Church, 15 Aylmer. 6:30 PM: Scene of the Crime with Uzma Jalaluddin and Nita Prose 8:00 PM Criminal Intent with Sue Hincenbergs, Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm |
Bywords.ca
Submissions
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Ottawa International Writers Festival May 14 - 16, 2025
Cafe Nostalgica, 601 Cumberland. 7:00 PM Happily Ever After with Emma Theriault, Uzma Jalaluddin and Jackie Lau
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Ottawa International Writers Festival May 14 - 16, 2025
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington. 6:00 PM 52 Ways to Reconcile with David A. Robertson 8:00 PM Baldwin, Styron, and Me with Mélikah Abdelmoumen and Catherine Khordoc
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am |
Kitab Book Fair
Open Pages Book Club Ottawa
312 Laurier E. 1-3:30pm
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Zine Workshop 6:00pm |
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Kitab Book Fair
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Book Launch: Unsilenced – Poems for Palestine 11:00am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Jordana Globerman, Soul Machine book launch 6:00pm
Media Club of Ottawa Meetings 6:00pm
Jean-François Pinsonneault, author, organizational development practitioner, mediator, consultant and coach.
Ottawa Public Library Storytelling Open Mic for Teens 7:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm |
Brenda Chapman Readings and Signings
Who Lies in Wait, 4th in the Hunter and Tate Mysteries. 7-9pm; Ottawa Curling Club, 440 O'Connor
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Third World Players 6:00pm
Jamie Liew, Monia Mazigh, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Narratives of Belonging: Stories of Identity, Community and Kinship 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm |
Librairie du Soleil
Lancement du nouveau livre de Martine Batanian le 23 mai de 5 à 7
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am |
Open Pages Book Club Ottawa
312 Laurier E. 1-3:30pm
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Capital Comic Book Convention 11:00pm |
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Open Pages Book Club Ottawa
Coffee and Tea Social, Ottawa Trans Library, 1104 Somerset W. 12:30 - 3:30pm
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
Open Mic Poetry Night 7:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Collage Club 6:00pm
Monday Director Spotlight - Lee Chang-dong - Poetry 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Made in Alta Vista Market 4:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Ottawa Social Girl Club Book Club
Funny Story by Emily Henry, Octopus Books, 116 Third. 7pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Is a River Alive? with Robert Macfarlane 7:00pm
PS Guelph presents: Aedan Corey (KINAUVUNGA?), Emily Henderson (Hold Steady My Vision) & Janice Grey (Cautionary Tales). 7:00pm |
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month
Ottawa Social Girl Club Book Club
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisaw, The Hub Market Cafe, 9 Byward Market Square 11am to 1pm
Westboro Books Readings and Signings
Jagjeet Sharma 1-3pm signing
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am
Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Uzma Jalaluddin Book Reading Event - Détective Aunty 2:00pm
Erin Forget 3:00pm
Manahil Banduwala, Natalie Lim, Ellen Chang-Richardson 3:00pm
Thugs Need Love Too " Community Art Showcase 5:00pm |
