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Tue Mar 22 • 7:00pm
Who is Served and What is Protected?
With Desmond Cole and Brandi Morin
Live Online Event
Fiction
Sun Mar 27 • 7:00pm
Books and Biryani: Zarqa Nawaz and the Comedy of Errors
Zarqa Nawaz
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Mar 29 • 8:00pm
What Would Freedom Look Like?
With Rinaldo Walcott, Clayton Thomas-Mueller and Mona Eltahawy
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The Next Civil War
With Stephen Marche
Live Online Event
Fiction
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Poetry
Memoir
Tue Apr 19 • 7:00pm
Spotlight on our Virtual Seasons: Keeping Connected While Maintaining our Distance
Podcast
Episode 01 • Tue Apr 26
Look Back at Season 1
Podcast
Episode 02 • Tue Apr 26
Look Back at Season 2
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Tue Apr 26 • 7:00pm
The Power of Teamwork
With Dr. Brian Goldman
Podcast
Episode 03 • Wed Apr 27
Look Back at Season 3
Music
Poetry
Fri Apr 29 • 8:00pm • Online Event
Arc Poetry Magazine Spring Launch: Tribute to Diana Brebner
With John Barton, Dessa Bayrock, Anita Lahey, Sneha Madhavan-Reese and music by Ensemble Allure
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 01 • Tue May 3
The Fell
With Sarah Moss
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 02 • Tue May 3
This Is Assisted Dying
with Dr. Stefanie Green
Live Online Event
History
Tue May 3 • 7:00pm
Have You Eaten Yet?
With Cheuk Kwan
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 03 • Tue May 10
The Nutmeg's Curse
with Amitav Ghosh
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 04 • Tue May 10
Easy Beauty
with Chloe Cooper Jones
Politics
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Tue May 10 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Still Hopeful
with Maude Barlow
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 05 • Tue May 17
Animal Person
with Alexander MacLeod
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 06 • Tue May 17
Nuclear Family
with Jean van Loon
Live Online Event
Fiction
Wed May 18 • 7:00pm
Take Your Breath Away
With Linwood Barclay
Youth
Thu-Mon May 19-23 • 10:30-11:15am & 2:00-2:45pm • LeBreton Flats Park
Mindfullness Workshops
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 07 • Tue May 24
Intimacies
with Katie Kitamura
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 08 • Tue May 24
The Artist and the Assassin
with Mark Frutkin
Podcast
Fiction
History
Episode 09 • Tue May 31
Looking for Jane
with Heather Marshall
Podcast
Fiction
Youth
Episode 10 • Tue May 31
Jamilah at the End of the World
with Mary-Lou Zeitoun
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Memoir
Episode 11 • Tue Jun 7
The Book of Grief and Hamburgers
with Stuart Ross
Podcast
Fiction
Poetry
Episode 12 • Tue Jun 7
Poguemahone
with Patrick McCabe
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 13 • Tue Jun 14
Night in the World
with Sharon English
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 14 • Tue Jun 14
The Embroidered Book
with Kate Heartfield
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 15 • Tue Jun 21
I Am Billy the Kid
with Michael Blouin
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 16 • Tue Jun 21
A Hero of Our Time
with Naben Ruthnum
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Sun Jun 26 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Run Towards the Danger
with Sarah Polley
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 17 • Tue Jun 28
But the sun
with Conyer Clayton
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 18 • Tue Jun 28
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi
with Keith Seifert
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 19 • Tue Jul 5
Poison Lilies
with Katie Tallo
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 20 • Tue Jul 5
And a Dog Called Fig
with Helen Humphreys
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 21 • Tue Jul 12
Ymir
with Rich Larson
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Fri Sep 9 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Making Love with the Land
with Joshua Whitehead
Fiction
Mon Sep 19 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
When We Lost Our Heads
With Heather O'Neill
Poetry
Sat Sep 24 • 5:00pm • The Manx Pub
Plan 99 Presents
Thomas Lynch and Jean Van Loon
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 01 • Thu Sep 29
Haven
with Emma Donoghue
Fiction
Sat Oct 1 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Book Launch: The Cold Edge of Heaven
with Whit Fraser
Non-Fiction
Science
Sat Oct 1 • 6:59pm • LIVESTREAM
LIVESTREAM: The Myth of Normal
with Gabor Mate
Non-Fiction
Science
Sat Oct 1 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
SOLD OUT: The Myth of Normal
with Gabor Mate
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 2 • Thu Oct 6
Dream of Me as Water
with David Ly
Fiction
Wed Oct 12 • 6:00pm • National Gallery of Canada
Between the Pages An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists
with Kim Fu, Rawi Hage, Suzette Mayr and past winner Ian Williams
Poetry
Sat Oct 15 • 5:00pm • Manx
Plan 99 presents
Mike Garry & Ellen Chang-Richardson
Wed Oct 19 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Wednesday’s Menu at the Festival Café
Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet
Non-Fiction
Wed Oct 19 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Becoming Kin
with Patty Krawec
Fiction
Wed Oct 19 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Young Mungo
with Douglas Stuart
Poetry
Thu Oct 20 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Bywords John Newlove Poetry Awards
Richard-Yves Sitoski and Subrahj Singh
Fri Oct 21 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Friday’s Menu at the Festival Café
Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet
Fiction
Fri Oct 21 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Scene of the Crime
with Joy Fielding and Adrian McKinty
Fiction
Fri Oct 21 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Strike Back The Empires
with JM Miro and RF Kuang
Sat Oct 22 • 11:30am • Christ Church Cathedral
Saturday Snacks at the Festival Café
Non-Fiction
Science
Sat Oct 22 • 12:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
with Moiya McTier
Science
Sat Oct 22 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Civilization and the Stars
with Jo Marchant
Science
Sat Oct 22 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
with Gaia Vince
Fiction
Sat Oct 22 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Mothers of Invention
With Shyam Selvadurai
Sat Oct 22 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Saturday’s Menu at the Festival Café
Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet
Fiction
Sat Oct 22 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The Ties That Bind
with Katherine Alexandra Harvey and Lisa Moore
Fiction
History
Sat Oct 22 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Past Imperfect
with Suzette Mayr
Fiction
Sat Oct 22 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Truth and Consequences
with Leah Mol and Fawn Parker
Sun Oct 23 • 1:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Sunday Snacks at the Festival Café
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Sun Oct 23 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
My Road from Damascus
with Jamal Saeed
Fiction
Sun Oct 23 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The River Twice
with John Bemrose
Poetry
Sun Oct 23 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Poetry Cabaret
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Shani Mootoo, Phoebe Wang, and Michael Crummey
Sun Oct 23 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Sunday’s Menu at the Festival Café
Our apologies but there has been a change to the menu tonight!
Fiction
Sun Oct 23 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Running in the Family
with Jamie Chai Yun Liew, Tanis Rideout and Tsering Yangzom Lama
Politics
Non-Fiction
Sun Oct 23 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Culture of Conspiracy
with Sarah Kendzior
Mon Oct 24 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Monday’s Menu at the Festival Café
Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet
Fiction
Mon Oct 24 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Fayne: One on One
with Ann-Marie MacDonald
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Oct 24 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Surviving Apocalyptic Economics
with Douglas Rushkoff, Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
Tue Oct 25 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Tuesday’s Menu at the Festival Café
Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet
Fiction
Tue Oct 25 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Is Truth Stranger?
with Colin McAdam and Graeme Macrae Burnet
Fiction
Tue Oct 25 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Homecoming
with Camille Fouillard and David A Robertson
Fiction
Tue Oct 25 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Belonging
with Danny Ramadan and Billy-Ray Belcourt
Wed Oct 26 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Wednesday's Festival Café Menu
Prepared fresh daily by Chef Harriet
History
Memoir
Wed Oct 26 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Kiss the Red Stairs
with Marsha Lederman
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Wed Oct 26 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Abolitionist Intimacies
with El Jones
Memoir
Wed Oct 26 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Son of Elsewhere
with Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Episode 03 • Thu Nov 3
The Myth of Normal
with Dr. Gabor Maté
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 04 • Tue Nov 8
We Are All Birds of Uganda
With Hafsa Zayyan
Fiction
Tue Nov 8 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
A Heart Full of Headstones
With Ian Rankin
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 5 • Wed Nov 9
Where The Air Is Sweet
With Tasneem Jamal
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 6 • Wed Nov 9
Orange for the Sunsets
With Tina Athaide
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Wed Nov 9 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
True Reconciliation
with Jody Wilson-Raybould
Fiction
Mon Nov 14 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre
Carleton Presents: No New Land?
With Tina Athaide, Tasneem Jamal, and Hafsa Zayyan
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 7 • Thu Nov 17
Try Not to Be Strange
with Michael Hingston
Memoir
Sat Nov 19 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
All Roads Home
With Bryan Trottier
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 8 • Thu Nov 24
Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood
with Wayne Johnston
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 9 • Thu Dec 1
The Petroleum Papers
with Geoff Dembicki
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 10 • Thu Dec 1
The Opportunist
with Elyse Friedman
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 11 • Fri Dec 9
Almost Visible
with Michelle Sinclair
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 12 • Fri Dec 9
Lifesavers and Body Snatchers
with Tim Cook
Fiction
Mon Dec 12 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The Last Chairlift
With John Irving
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 13 • Thu Dec 15
MONUMENT
with Manahil Bandukwala
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 14 • Thu Dec 15
The Pursuit of Urban Utopias
with John Lorinc