Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997

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Tue Jun 14 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral

Run Towards the Danger

with Sarah Polley

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Episode 04 • Tue May 10

with Chloe Cooper Jones

Episode 03 • Tue May 10

The Nutmeg's Curse

with Amitav Ghosh

Episode 02 • Tue May 3

This Is Assisted Dying

with Dr. Stefanie Green

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Tue Apr 26 • 7:00pm

The Power of Teamwork

With Dr. Brian Goldman

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Tue Apr 19 • 7:00pm

Spotlight on our Virtual Seasons: Keeping Connected While Maintaining our Distance

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Tue Apr 12 • 7:30pm

The Next Civil War

With Stephen Marche

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Tue Mar 29 • 8:00pm

What Would Freedom Look Like?

With Rinaldo Walcott, Clayton Thomas-Mueller and Mona Eltahawy

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Tue Mar 22 • 7:00pm

Who is Served and What is Protected?

With Desmond Cole and Brandi Morin

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Tue Nov 30 • 7:00pm

Writing and Activism: Words in Action

with Monia Mazigh

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Tue Nov 9 • 7:30pm

Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future

with Drew Hayden Taylor, Norma Dunning and Darrel J. McLeod

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Mon Nov 1 • 7:30pm

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

With Alexander McClelland, Eddie Walker, Kate Doyle Griffiths and Ryan Conrad

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Wed Oct 27 • 7:30pm

My Best Mistake

with Terry O’Reilly

Episode 19 • Fri Oct 22

Nice White Ladies

with Jessie Daniels

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Wed Oct 20 • 6:00pm

THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS & PRIX DU LIVRE D’OTTAWA

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Mon Oct 18 • 7:30pm

with Chris Hedges

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Sun Oct 17 • 7:00pm

Books and Biryani: A Muslim History of the Americas

with Omar Mouallem

Episode 18 • Fri Oct 15

On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years

with Elaine Dewar

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Thu Oct 7 • 7:30pm

An Embarrassment of Critch’s

with Mark Critch

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Tue Oct 5 • 7:30pm

BOOK LAUNCH: Off the Record

with Peter Mansbridge

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Mon Oct 4 • 7:30pm

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

with Esi Edugyan

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Wed Sep 29 • 7:30pm

with Kamal Al-Solaylee

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Thu Sep 23 • 7:30pm

"Indian" in the Cabinet

with Jody Wilson Raybould

Episode 5 • Fri Sep 3

How to Be Animal

with Melanie Challenger

Episode 2 • Fri Aug 20

Better Not Bitter

with Yusef Salaam

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Sun Jun 20 • 7:30pm

with Richard Van Camp

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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

Episode 25 • Fri Jun 11

Change: How to Make Big Things Happen

with Damon Centola

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Thu May 27 • 7:00pm

One Page: The Window Seat

with Aminatta Forna

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Thu May 13 • 7:00pm

One Page: Goodbye, Again

Episode 17 • Fri May 7

Elizabeth & Margaret

with Andrew Morton

Episode 16 • Fri Apr 30

On Time and Water

with Andri Snaer Magnason

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Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm

Take Back the Fight

with Nora Loreto

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Mon Apr 19 • 7:30pm

A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency

with Seth Klein

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Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm

The New Climate War

with Michael E. Mann

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Mon Mar 29 • 7:30pm

Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity

With Darrel J. McLeod

Episode 10 • Fri Mar 26

Four Lost Cities

with Annalee Newitz

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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

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Mon Mar 8 • 7:30pm

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Tue Mar 2 • 7:30pm

The New Age of Empire

with Kehinde Andrews

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Thu Feb 25 • 7:30pm

Can You Hear Me Now?

with Celina Caesar-Chavannes

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Mon Feb 22 • 7:30pm

with Rinaldo Walcott

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Thu Dec 10 • 7:00pm

One Page: Wow No Thank You

Episode 29 • Fri Dec 4

Breathing Life into Art and Art into Life, The Art of Is

with Stephen Nachmanovitch

Episode 28 • Tue Dec 1

The Challenges Facing Canada in Protecting the Well Being of Children

Featuring Kim Hellemans and Jane Bertrand

Episode 27 • Fri Nov 27

Student Activism and the Climate Crisis

Featuring Vidya Shah and Alexis Benns

Episode 15 • Tue Nov 24

Education and Social Mobility

with Andy Hargreaves

Episode 23 • Tue Nov 17

Yes, It's Systemic

Featuring Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt

Pre-Recorded Event

She Come By It Natural

with Sarah Smarsh

Episode 21 • Wed Nov 11

Fighting for Peace

Featuring Tim Cook and Scott Anderson

Episode 20 • Fri Nov 6

A Life with Books, Writers and Virago:

Emma Donoghue in conversation with Lennie Goodings

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with Merlin Sheldrake

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The Education of an Idealist

with Samantha Power

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The Lost Spells

with Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris

Episode 15 • Tue Oct 20

Letting Go of Anxiety

with Tara Henley

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War: How Conflict Shaped Us

with Margaret MacMillan

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Tue Oct 13 • 7:30pm

Ending Inequality

with Thomas Philippon

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Mon Oct 5 • 7:30pm

Missing from the Village

with Justin Ling

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Mon Sep 28 • 7:30pm

Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos

with Steven Heighton

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Commanding Hope

with Thomas Homer-Dixon

Episode 08 • Fri Sep 25

Neurodiversity and The Ever-Changing Brain

Featuring Sarah Kurchak and David Eagleman

Episode 06 • Fri Sep 18

Marathon of Hope

with Darrell Fox

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Magdalena: River of Dreams

with Wade Davis

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Tue Sep 8 • 7:30pm

with Eva Holland

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Twilight of Democracy

with Anne Applebaum

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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

with Gaia Vince

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A History of My Brief Body

with Billy-Ray Belcourt

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Virtual Book Launch: On Pandemics

With Dr. David Waltner-Toews

Live Online Event

Tue May 26 • 1:00pm

With Hugh Segal