Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997

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Wed May 18 • 7:00pm

Take Your Breath Away

With Linwood Barclay

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Tue May 3 • 7:00pm

Have You Eaten Yet?

With Cheuk Kwan

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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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Sun Mar 27 • 7:00pm

Books and Biryani: Zarqa Nawaz and the Comedy of Errors

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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 Dec 14 • 1:00pm

Seen and Heard: Children’s Art and Activism with Marah Gubar

In Conversation with Neil Wilson

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Tue Dec 14 • 12:30pm

The Healing Power of Stories: A Muslim View with Rukhsana Khan

In Conversation with Neil Wilson

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Tue Dec 14 • 12:00pm

Changing the World One Story at a Time with Natasha Deen

In Conversation with Neil Wilson

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Tue Nov 30 • 7:00pm

Writing and Activism: Words in Action

with Monia Mazigh

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Mon Nov 29 • 7:30pm

What Strange Paradise

with Omar El Akkad

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Mon Nov 15 • 7:30pm

Exile: Celebrating 50 Years in Publishing

with Barry Callaghan, Michael Callaghan, Darlene Madott, Katie Zdybel and George Elliott Clarke

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Wed Nov 10 • 7:30pm

Launch of ARC 96

Featuring: Junie Désil, Simone Dalton and Shery Alexander Heinis

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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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Thu Nov 4 • 7:30pm

Book Launch: Best Canadian Poetry 2021

With Anita Lahey, Souvankham Thammavongsa and many more!

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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

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Tue Oct 26 • 7:00pm

Book Launch: My Stories, My Times, Volume 2

with The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien

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Mon Oct 25 • 7:30pm

BYWORDS JOHN NEWLOVE AWARDS

with Megan Misztal and John Ian

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Wed Oct 20 • 6:00pm

THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS & PRIX DU LIVRE D’OTTAWA

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Tue Oct 19 • 7:30pm

BOOK LAUNCH: Hunting by Stars

with Cherie Dimaline

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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

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Thu Oct 14 • 7:30pm

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Tue Oct 12 • 7:30pm

Not a Happy Family

with Shari Lapena

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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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Tue Sep 28 • 7:30pm

with Katherena Vermette

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Mon Sep 27 • 7:30pm

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Sun Sep 26 • 5:30pm

Book Launch: Masses on Radar

by David O’Meara

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Thu Sep 23 • 7:30pm

"Indian" in the Cabinet

with Jody Wilson Raybould

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Wed Sep 22 • 7:30pm

The Mystery of Right and Wrong

with Wayne Johnston

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Tue Sep 21 • 7:30pm

with Jesse Wente

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Tue Sep 14 • 7:30pm

August into Winter

with Guy Vanderhaeghe

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Mon Sep 13 • 7:30pm

with Ashley Bristowe

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Tue Aug 31 • 7:30pm

Operation Angus

with Terry Fallis

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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

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Thu Jun 17 • 5:30pm

The Life and Times of Robbie Burns

with John Ivison and Pauline Mackay

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Mon May 31 • 7:00pm

with Andrew O’Hagan

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Thu May 27 • 7:00pm

One Page: The Window Seat

with Aminatta Forna

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Wed May 26 • 7:35pm

with Thomas King

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Tue May 25 • 7:30pm

with Brad Fraser

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Thu May 20 • 7:00pm

One Page: Monkey Boy

with Francisco Goldman

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Mon May 17 • 8:00pm

The Shadow List

with Jen Sookfong Lee

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Thu May 13 • 7:00pm

One Page: Goodbye, Again

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Mon May 10 • 7:30pm

with Linwood Barclay

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Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm

Take Back the Fight

with Nora Loreto

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Thu Apr 22 • 9:00pm

One Page: Under the Wave at Waimea

with Paul Theroux

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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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Thu Apr 15 • 12:00pm

One Page: The Soul of a Woman

with Isabel Allende

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Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm

The New Climate War

with Michael E. Mann

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Thu Apr 8 • 7:00pm

One Page: Klara and the Sun

with Kazuo Ishiguro

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Mon Mar 29 • 7:30pm

Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity

With Darrel J. McLeod

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Thu Mar 25 • 7:00pm

One Page: Foregone

with Russell Banks

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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

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Tue Mar 16 • 7:00pm

If I Tell You The Truth

with Jasmin Kaur

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Mon Mar 15 • 7:30pm

Return of the Trickster

with Eden Robinson

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Mon Mar 8 • 7:30pm

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Thu Mar 4 • 12:00pm

One Page: This Strange and Violent World

with Elif Shafak

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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

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Thu Dec 3 • 7:00pm

One Page: Close to the Bone

with Lisa Ray and Deepa Mehta

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Mon Nov 30 • 7:30pm

Creative Writing For Teens: Using Texts and Social Media for Inspiration

with Lindsay Wong

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Thu Nov 26 • 9:00pm

One Page: There There

With Tommy Orange and Waubgeshig Rice

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Thu Nov 26 • 12:00pm

One Page: The Kingdom

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Mon Nov 23 • 7:30pm

with Christina Hammonds Reed

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Thu Nov 19 • 7:00pm

One Page: Deacon King Kong

with James McBride and Omar El Akkad

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Mon Nov 16 • 7:30pm

Masterclass: Connecting Plot and Character

with Kenneth Oppel

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Tue Nov 10 • 7:30pm

VerseFest Presents:

with Angye Gaona, Irfan Ali and stephanie roberts

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Mon Nov 2 • 7:30pm

Masterclass: Discovering your Voice

with Kagiso Lesego Molope

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Mon Oct 26 • 7:30pm

Bywords 2020 John Newlove Poetry Award

with David Groulx

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Thu Oct 22 • 7:30pm

National Book Launch: Love After the End

With Joshua Whitehead, jaye simpson, Nazbah Tom and Adam Garnet Jones

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Mon Oct 19 • 7:30pm

with Jesse Thistle and David A. Robertson

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Sun Oct 18 • 8:00pm

Musical Language

with Martha Baillie, Stuart Ross, and Maria Reva

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Thu Oct 15 • 12:00pm

One Page: Actress

With Anne Enright

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Tue Oct 13 • 7:30pm

Ending Inequality

with Thomas Philippon

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Sat Oct 10 • 12:00pm

One Good Reason to Celebrate Mental Health Day

With Séan McCann and Andrea Aragon

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Thu Oct 8 • 12:00pm

One Page: How to Fly

with Barbara Kingsolver

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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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Tue Sep 22 • 7:30pm

National Launch for Burning Sugar

with Cicely Belle Blain

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Mon Sep 21 • 7:30pm

with Kaie Kellough and Ian Williams

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Mon Sep 14 • 7:30pm

The World as We Know It

with Catherine Hernandez and Saleema Nawaz

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Tue Sep 8 • 7:30pm

with Eva Holland

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Mon Aug 31 • 7:30pm

The Silver Arrow

with Lev Grossman

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Mon Aug 24 • 7:30pm

The Pull of the Stars

With Emma Donoghue

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Tue Aug 18 • 7:30pm

Virtual Book Launch: The Company We Keep

with Frances Itani

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Tue May 26 • 1:00pm

With Hugh Segal