Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997

Upcoming Live Online Events

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
All's Well
with Mona Awad
Live Online Event • Tue Sep 28 • 7:30pm
The Strangers
with Katherena Vermette
Live Online Event • Wed Sep 29 • 7:30pm
Return
with Kamal Al-Solaylee
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
Em
with Kim Thuy
Live Online Event • Mon Oct 18 • 7:30pm
The Class
with Chris Hedges

Replay

Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Thu Sep 23 • 7:30pm
"Indian" in the Cabinet
with Jody Wilson Raybould
Live Online Event
Fiction
Wed Sep 22 • 7:30pm
The Mystery of Right and Wrong
with Wayne Johnston
Live Online Event
History
Memoir
Tue Sep 21 • 7:30pm
Unreconciled
with Jesse Wente
Live Online Event
Fiction
Tue Sep 14 • 7:30pm
August into Winter
with Guy Vanderhaeghe
Live Online Event
Memoir
Mon Sep 13 • 7:30pm
My Own Blood
with Ashley Bristowe
Live Online Event
Fiction
Tue Aug 31 • 7:30pm
Operation Angus
with Terry Fallis
Live Online Event
Fiction
Non-Fiction
History
Poetry
Sun Jun 20 • 7:30pm
Gather
with Richard Van Camp
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Fri Jun 18 • 7:30pm
The Menopause Manifesto
With Dr. Jen Gunter
Live Online Event
Fiction
History
Poetry
Thu Jun 17 • 5:30pm
The Life and Times of Robbie Burns
with John Ivison and Pauline Mackay
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon May 31 • 7:00pm
Mayflies
with Andrew O’Hagan
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Thu May 27 • 7:00pm
One Page: The Window Seat
with Aminatta Forna 
Live Online Event
Fiction
Wed May 26 • 7:35pm
Sufferance
with Thomas King
Live Online Event
Memoir
Tue May 25 • 7:30pm
All the Rage
with Brad Fraser
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu May 20 • 7:00pm
One Page: Monkey Boy
with Francisco Goldman
Live Online Event
Poetry
Mon May 17 • 8:00pm
The Shadow List
with Jen Sookfong Lee
Live Online Event
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Memoir
Thu May 13 • 7:00pm
One Page: Goodbye, Again
with Jonny Sun
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon May 10 • 7:30pm
Find You First
with Linwood Barclay
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm
Take Back the Fight
with Nora Loreto
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Apr 22 • 9:00pm
One Page: Under the Wave at Waimea
with Paul Theroux
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Mon Apr 19 • 7:30pm
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
with Seth Klein
Live Online Event
Memoir
Thu Apr 15 • 12:00pm
One Page: The Soul of a Woman
with Isabel Allende
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The New Climate War
with Michael E. Mann
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Apr 8 • 7:00pm
One Page: Klara and the Sun
with Kazuo Ishiguro
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Mar 29 • 7:30pm
Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity
With Darrel J. McLeod
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Mar 25 • 7:00pm
One Page: Foregone
with Russell Banks
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Mar 22 • 7:30pm
Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders
with André Picard
Live Online Event
Fiction
Poetry
Tue Mar 16 • 7:00pm
If I Tell You The Truth
with Jasmin Kaur
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Mar 15 • 7:30pm
Return of the Trickster
with Eden Robinson
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Mar 8 • 7:30pm
White Feminism
with Koa Beck
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Mar 4 • 12:00pm
One Page: This Strange and Violent World
with Elif Shafak
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Mar 2 • 7:30pm
The New Age of Empire
with Kehinde Andrews
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Thu Feb 25 • 7:30pm
Can You Hear Me Now?
with Celina Caesar-Chavannes
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Feb 22 • 7:30pm
On Property
with Rinaldo Walcott