Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997
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Today • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Book Launch: Atelier
with Chef Marc Lepine
25
Thursday
Oct
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Thu Oct 25 • 12:00pm • e18hteen
Literary Luncheon
with Ian Rankin
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Thu Oct 25 • 5:00pm • 414 Sparks St.
Thursday's Menu
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Thu Oct 25 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Trust: Twenty Ways to Build a Better Country
with David Johnston
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Poetry
Thu Oct 25 • 6:35pm • Christ Church Cathedral
In/Words Presents Dis(s)ent
With Sanita Fejzić
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Thu Oct 25 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
In a House of Lies
One on One with Ian Rankin
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Thu Oct 25 • 8:35pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Bywords 2018 John Newlove Poetry Award Reading and Ceremony
26
Friday
Oct
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Fri Oct 26 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Friday's Menu
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Fri Oct 26 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The Good Life
with Lisa Moore and Patrick DeWitt
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Fri Oct 26 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Past Is Present
with Ondjaki and Esi Edugyan
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Fri Oct 26 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Modern Love
With Jordan Tannahill and Dionne Brand
27
Saturday
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Sat Oct 27 • 12:00pm • Metropolitain Brasserie
On Starlight: Literary Brunch
with CBC’s Shelagh Rogers
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Non-Fiction
Sat Oct 27 • 2:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
How Schools Can Prepare Our Children
for the Challenges of Tomorrow with Kelly Gallagher-Mackay and Nancy Steinhauer
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History
Sat Oct 27 • 4:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
First Person
with Darrel J. McLeod and Tom Wilson
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Sat Oct 27 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Saturday's Menu
Free
Fiction
Sat Oct 27 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub
Plan 99 Fiction
with Martha Bátiz, D. Nandi Odhiambo and Tamara Faith Berger
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Poetry
Sat Oct 27 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The Blue Clerk
One on One with Dionne Brand
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Poetry
Sat Oct 27 • 8:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Cancelled: I Am a Body of Land
with Shannon Webb-Campbell and Lee Maracle
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Sat Oct 27 • 9:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
I’m Afraid of Men
with Vivek Shraya
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Sunday
Oct
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History
Sun Oct 28 • 2:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The Secret History of Soldiers
with Tim Cook
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Sun Oct 28 • 4:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The Extreme Centre
with Tariq Ali
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Poetry
Sun Oct 28 • 5:00pm • Manx Pub
Plan 99 Poetry
with Deanna Young, Julie Bruck, Paul Vermeersch and Hana Shafi
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Sun Oct 28 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Sunday's Menu
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Fiction
Sun Oct 28 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
True North
with Waubgeshig Rice and Eden Robinson
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History
Sun Oct 28 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Living History
with Wayne Grady, Natalie Morrill and Alix Hawley
29
Monday
Oct
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Mon Oct 29 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Monday's Menu
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Fiction
Mon Oct 29 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Criminal Minds
with Amy Stuart, Ron Corbett and Barbara Fradkin
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Fiction
Mon Oct 29 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Character
With Gillian Wigmore and Helen Humphreys
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Mon Oct 29 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Subjective Truths
with Iain Reid and Craig Davidson
30
Tuesday
Oct
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Tue Oct 30 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Tuesday's Menu
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Fiction
Tue Oct 30 • 6:00pm • National Gallery of Canada
Between the Pages
An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists
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Poetry
Tue Oct 30 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
25th Anniversary of above/ground press
with Sandra Ridley, Gil McElroy and Sarah Mangold
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Poetry
Tue Oct 30 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
ARC Magazine 40th Anniversary Launch
1
Thursday
Nov
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Non-Fiction
Thu Nov 1 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church
My Stories, My Times
with Jean Chretien
8
Thursday
Nov
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Thu Nov 8 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church
Rick Mercer’s Final Report
9
Friday
Nov
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Fri Nov 9 • 7:00pm • Centretown United Church
One on One
with Charles Frazier
15
Thursday
Nov
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Thu Nov 15 • 7:00pm • 25OneCommunity
Books and Biryani: Dislocation: Finding Ourselves Again
with Djamila Ibrahim
19
Monday
Nov
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Mon Nov 19 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Defying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe
With Dr. Dave Williams