Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997
Non-Fiction
Mon Jan 16 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Empathy: Turning Compassion into Action
with David Johnston
Non-Fiction
Sat Jan 28 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion Chalmers Center
POSTPONED: Munro Beattie Lecture
with Waubgeshig Rice
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 01 • Thu Feb 2
1. Teaching in the Anthropocene
with Stan Wilson
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 02 • Thu Feb 2
2. Teaching in the Anthropocene
with Alysha Farrell
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 03 • Thu Feb 9
3. Teaching in the Anthropocene
with Maria Vamvalis
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 04 • Thu Feb 9
4. Teaching in the Anthropocene
with Candy Jones
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 05 • Thu Feb 16
5. Teaching in the Anthropocene
with Michelle Lam
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 06 • Thu Feb 16
6. Teaching in the Anthropocene
with Jenalee Kluttz
Fiction
Sat Feb 25 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
A World of Curiosities
with Louise Penny
Fiction
Sat Feb 25 • 7:01pm • LIVE STREAM
LIVESTREAM ONLY: A World of Curiosities
with Louise Penny 
Non-Fiction
Science
Mon Mar 20 • 7:00pm • St John the Evangelist
Book Launch: BLEED 
With Tracey Lindeman
Fiction
Thu Apr 13 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist
Book Launch: Snow Road Station
With Elizabeth Hay
Fiction
Poetry
Youth
Sat Apr 15 • 3:00pm • OPL Cumberland Branch
Climate Feelings: A Writing Workshop for Teens
With Alexis Shotwell
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Wed Apr 19 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Between Good and Evil
with Mellissa Fung
Thu May 4 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Festival Cafe: Thursday's Menu
Politics
Non-Fiction
Thu May 4 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
When The Convoy Came to Town
With Paul Wells and Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah
Fiction
Thu May 4 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Until We Are Lost
with Priya Guns, Sofia Mostaghimi and Lindsay Wong
Fri May 5 • 5:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Festival Cafe: Friday's Menu
Politics
Non-Fiction
Fri May 5 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
On Class
with Deborah Dundas
Non-Fiction
Fri May 5 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The New Masculinity
with Alex Manley
Non-Fiction
Fri May 5 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Park Cruising
with Marcus McCann
Non-Fiction
Science
Sat May 6 • 12:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
with Jeremie Harris
Non-Fiction
Sat May 6 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
How Big Things Get Done
with Dan Gardner
Fiction
Sat May 6 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Past Imperfect
with Janika Oza and Paul Harding
Sat May 6 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Festival Cafe: Saturday's Menu
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Sat May 6 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The Patriarchs
with Angela Saini
Non-Fiction
Science
Sat May 6 • 6:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Fire Weather
with John Vaillant
Non-Fiction
Science
Sat May 6 • 7:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
On the Ravine
with Vincent Lam
Fiction
Sat May 6 • 9:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
What Tomorrow Brings
with Thomas Wharton and Jaroslav Kalfar
Non-Fiction
Sun May 7 • 1:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Outsider
with Brett Popplewell
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Sun May 7 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Ordinary Notes
with Christina Sharpe
Sun May 7 • 3:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Festival Cafe: Sunday's Menu
Non-Fiction
History
Sun May 7 • 4:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity
with Gerald McMaster and Nina Vincent
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun May 7 • 6:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The End of This World
with Angele Alook, Bronwen Tucker and David Gray-Donald
Fiction
Sun May 7 • 8:30pm • Christ Church Cathedral
No Place Like Home
Michelle Porter, Saeed Teebi and Lisa Bird-Wilson
Fiction
Sat May 13 • 6:00pm • Perfect Books
Perfect Books
Presents Kai Thomas
Fiction
Sat May 13 • 7:30pm • St John the Evangelist
Yellowface
with R.F. Kuang
Poetry
Tue May 16 • 7:00pm • Club Saw
Celebrating Arc 100
With Frances Boyle, Sadiqa de Meijer, Katia Grubisic, rob mclennan and Brandon Wint
Non-Fiction
Tue Sep 12 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Book Launch: Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
With Charlotte Gray
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Thu Sep 28 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
with Michelle Good