Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997

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Podcast • Today • Premiering at 12:00pm

The Spectacular

with Zoe Whittall

Podcast • Today • Premiering at 12:01pm

with Alison MacLeod

Live Online Event • Sun Sep 26 • 5:30pm

Hybrid Book Launch: Masses on Radar

by David O’Meara

Live Online Event • Mon Sep 27 • 7:30pm

Live Online Event • Tue Sep 28 • 7:30pm

with Katherena Vermette

Live Online Event • Wed Sep 29 • 7:30pm

with Kamal Al-Solaylee

Podcast • Fri Oct 1

Ripping down half the trees

Podcast • Fri Oct 1

The Death of Francis Bacon

with Max Porter

Live Online Event • Mon Oct 4 • 7:30pm

Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future

with Esi Edugyan

Live Online Event • Thu Oct 7 • 7:30pm

An Embarrassment of Critch’s

with Mark Critch

Live Online Event • Tue Oct 12 • 7:30pm

Not a Happy Family

with Shari Lapena

Live Online Event • Thu Oct 14 • 7:30pm

Live Online Event • Mon Oct 18 • 7:30pm

with Chris Hedges

Play Now

Live Online Event

Thu Sep 23 • 7:30pm

"Indian" in the Cabinet

with Jody Wilson Raybould

Live Online Event

Wed Sep 22 • 7:30pm

The Mystery of Right and Wrong

with Wayne Johnston

Live Online Event

Tue Sep 21 • 7:30pm

with Jesse Wente

Episode 10 • Fri Sep 17

with Kathleen Winter

Episode 9 • Fri Sep 17

with Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Live Online Event

Tue Sep 14 • 7:30pm

August into Winter

with Guy Vanderhaeghe

Live Online Event

Mon Sep 13 • 7:30pm

with Ashley Bristowe

Episode 8 • Fri Sep 10

Life in the City of Dirty Water

with Clayton Thomas-Muller

Episode 7 • Fri Sep 10

The Last Exiles

Episode 6 • Fri Sep 3

Where Beauty Survived

with George Elliott Clarke

Episode 5 • Fri Sep 3

How to Be Animal

with Melanie Challenger

Live Online Event

Tue Aug 31 • 7:30pm

Operation Angus

with Terry Fallis

Episode 4 • Fri Aug 27

with Genki Ferguson

Episode 3 • Fri Aug 27

with Tessa McWatt

Episode 2 • Fri Aug 20

Better Not Bitter

with Yusef Salaam

Episode 1 • Fri Aug 20

with Jordan Abel

Episode 29 • Fri Jun 25

The Traitor's Blade

with Kevin Sands

Live Online Event

Sun Jun 20 • 7:30pm

with Richard Van Camp

Live Online Event

Fri Jun 18 • 7:30pm

The Menopause Manifesto

With Dr. Jen Gunter

Episode 28 • Fri Jun 18

The Bright Side

with Cathrin Bradbury

Episode 27 • Fri Jun 18

with David Macfarlane

Live Online Event

Thu Jun 17 • 5:30pm

The Life and Times of Robbie Burns

with John Ivison and Pauline Mackay

Episode 26 • Fri Jun 11

with M.G. Vassanji

Episode 25 • Fri Jun 11

Change: How to Make Big Things Happen

with Damon Centola

Episode 24 • Fri Jun 4

A Girl Called Echo

with Katherena Vermette

Episode 23 • Fri Jun 4

Because the Sun

with Sarah Burgoyne

Live Online Event

Mon May 31 • 7:00pm

with Andrew O’Hagan

Live Online Event

Thu May 27 • 7:00pm

One Page: The Window Seat

with Aminatta Forna

Live Online Event

Wed May 26 • 7:35pm

with Thomas King

Live Online Event

Tue May 25 • 7:30pm

with Brad Fraser

Episode 22 • Fri May 21

with Edward Rutherfurd

Episode 21 • Fri May 21

The Good Father

with Wayne Grady

Live Online Event

Thu May 20 • 7:00pm

One Page: Monkey Boy

with Francisco Goldman

Live Online Event

Mon May 17 • 8:00pm

The Shadow List

with Jen Sookfong Lee

Episode 20 • Fri May 14

Hummingbird Salamander

with Jeff VanderMeer

Episode 19 • Fri May 14

with Tanya Boteju

Live Online Event

Thu May 13 • 7:00pm

One Page: Goodbye, Again

Live Online Event

Mon May 10 • 7:30pm

with Linwood Barclay

Episode 18 • Fri May 7

with Nina Berkhout

Episode 17 • Fri May 7

Elizabeth & Margaret

with Andrew Morton

Episode 16 • Fri Apr 30

On Time and Water

with Andri Snaer Magnason

Episode 15 • Fri Apr 30

The Girl from Dream City

with Linda Leith

Live Online Event

Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm

Take Back the Fight

with Nora Loreto

Episode 14 • Fri Apr 23

A Desolation Called Peace

with Arkady Martine

Episode 13 • Fri Apr 23

Live Online Event

Thu Apr 22 • 9:00pm

One Page: Under the Wave at Waimea

with Paul Theroux

Live Online Event

Mon Apr 19 • 7:30pm

A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency

with Seth Klein

Episode 12 • Fri Apr 16

Hana Khan Carries On

with Uzma Jalaluddin

Live Online Event

Thu Apr 15 • 12:00pm

One Page: The Soul of a Woman

with Isabel Allende

Live Online Event

Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm

The New Climate War

with Michael E. Mann

Episode 11 • Fri Apr 9

Tainna: The Unseen Ones

with Norma Dunning

Live Online Event

Thu Apr 8 • 7:00pm

One Page: Klara and the Sun

with Kazuo Ishiguro

Live Online Event

Mon Mar 29 • 7:30pm

Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity

With Darrel J. McLeod

Episode 10 • Fri Mar 26

Four Lost Cities

with Annalee Newitz

Episode 9 • Fri Mar 26

with Camilla Gibb

Live Online Event

Thu Mar 25 • 7:00pm

One Page: Foregone

with Russell Banks

Live Online Event

Mon Mar 22 • 7:30pm

Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders

with André Picard

Episode 8 • Fri Mar 19

The Deficit Myth

with Stephanie Kelton

Episode 7 • Fri Mar 19

Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted

with Gary Barwin

Live Online Event

Tue Mar 16 • 7:00pm

If I Tell You The Truth

with Jasmin Kaur

Live Online Event

Mon Mar 15 • 7:30pm

Return of the Trickster

with Eden Robinson

Episode 6 • Fri Mar 12

with Jael Richardson

Episode 5 • Fri Mar 12

A Town Called Solace

with Mary Lawson

Live Online Event

Mon Mar 8 • 7:30pm

Episode 4 • Fri Mar 5

with Kim Echlin

Episode 3 • Fri Mar 5

with Catherine Bush

Live Online Event

Thu Mar 4 • 12:00pm

One Page: This Strange and Violent World

with Elif Shafak

Live Online Event

Tue Mar 2 • 7:30pm

The New Age of Empire

with Kehinde Andrews

Episode 2 • Fri Feb 26

The Centaur’s Wife

with Amanda Leduc

Episode 1 • Fri Feb 26

with Ashley Audrain

Live Online Event

Thu Feb 25 • 7:30pm

Can You Hear Me Now?

with Celina Caesar-Chavannes

Live Online Event

Mon Feb 22 • 7:30pm

with Rinaldo Walcott