Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Tue Feb 4 • 7:30pm • Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre
Carleton University Presents: Munro Beattie Lecture
with Ann-Marie MacDonald
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Thu Mar 6 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
with Omar El Akkad
Fiction
Poetry
Youth
Tue Mar 18 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre
Carleton University Presents: Spring Showcase
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Wed Mar 26 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Chasing Shadows
with Ronald J. Deibert
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Wed Apr 2 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church
Sucker Punch
with Scaachi Koul
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sat Apr 5 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist
Perfect Books Presents: Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre
with Mark Bourrie
Fiction
Science
Tue Apr 15 • 7:00pm • Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre
Carleton University Presents: A Half-Built Garden
with Ruthanna Emrys
Poetry
Wed Apr 16 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist
House of Anansi Poetry Bash
with AF Moritz, Clémence Dumas-Côté, Farah Ghafoor and Karen Solie.
Fiction
Tue Apr 22 • 7:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Book Launch: I Remember Lights
with Ben Ladouceur
Thu May 1 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Thursday in the Festival Cafe
Non-Fiction
History
Thu May 1 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Theory of Water
with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Fiction
Thu May 1 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Crime and Punishment
with Liann Zhang, Katie Tallo and Eliza Reid
Fri May 2 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Friday in the Festival Cafe
Fiction
History
Fri May 2 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Past as Present
with Gwen Tuinman, Jack Wang and Linda McQuaig
Politics
History
Fri May 2 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Corporate Control
with Nora Loreto
Fiction
Sat May 3 • 11:00am • Begins at Le Moulin de Province
Jane's Walk: Plotlines & Pathways
Guided Tour by Susan Johnston
Sat May 3 • 11:00am • Library and Archives Canada
Saturday Morning in the Festival Cafe
Non-Fiction
Science
Sat May 3 • 11:30am • Library and Archives Canada
The Certainty Illusion
with Timothy Caulfield
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Sat May 3 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Ends of the Earth
with Neil Shubin
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Memoir
Sat May 3 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
A Billion Butterflies
with Dr. Jagadish Shukla
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Sat May 3 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
On Oil
with Don Gillmor
Sat May 3 • 4:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Saturday Evening in the Festival Cafe
Politics
Non-Fiction
Sat May 3 • 5:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All
with Sandy Hudson
Fiction
Politics
History
Sat May 3 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Inheritance
with Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and Iryn Tushabe
Fiction
Sat May 3 • 8:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
The River Has Roots
with Amal El-Mohtar
Sun May 4 • 6:00am • Library and Archives Canada
Sunday Morning Traffic Disruptions
Sun May 4 • 12:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Sunday Afternoon in the Festival Cafe
Non-Fiction
History
Sun May 4 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope
with Garry Gottfriedson and Victoria Handford
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun May 4 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
On Book Banning
with Ira Wells
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun May 4 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
From Truth to Reconciliation
with Bruce McIvor and Rose LeMay
Poetry
Sun May 4 • 4:00pm • Maman Sculpture
Jane's Walk: Ottawa in Verse
Guided Tour by Susan Johnston
Sun May 4 • 4:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Sunday Evening in the Festival Cafe
Politics
Non-Fiction
Sun May 4 • 5:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Canada in the New World Order
Senator Peter M. Boehm and Lloyd Axworthy
Fiction
Sun May 4 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Long Story Short
with Bill Gaston, Catherine Bush and Andre Alexis
Fiction
Sun May 4 • 8:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Everything Everywhere
with Emily Austin, Matthew James Jones and Georgia Toews
Fiction
Wed May 14 • 6:30pm • Southminster United Church
Scene of the Crime
with Uzma Jalaluddin and Nita Prose
Fiction
Wed May 14 • 8:00pm • Southminster United Church
Criminal Intent
with Sue Hincenbergs, Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti
Fiction
Thu May 15 • 7:00pm • Nostalgica
Happily Ever After
with Emma Theriault, Uzma Jalaluddin and Jackie Lau
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Fri May 16 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
52 Ways to Reconcile
with David A. Robertson
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Fri May 16 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Baldwin, Styron, and Me
with Mélikah Abdelmoumen and Catherine Khordoc
Non-Fiction
Science
Fri May 30 • 7:00pm • Southminster United Church
Is a River Alive?
with Robert Macfarlane
Podcast
Fiction
Music
Poetry
Episode 1 • Tue Sep 2
S07E01
with Arizona and Heather O'Neill and Stuart Ross
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Thu Sep 4 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing
with Susan Aglukark
Fiction
Tue Sep 9 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist
Valentine in Montreal
with Arizona O’Neill and Heather O’Neill
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 2 • Tue Sep 16
S07E02
with Emma Donoghue and Michael Redhill
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Tue Sep 16 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist
A Truce That Is Not Peace
with Miriam Toews
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Sep 22 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Elbows Up! Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance
with Stephanie Sinclair, David Moscrop, Carol Off and Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Fiction
History
Sun Sep 28 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist
The Paris Express
with Emma Donoghue
Music
Poetry
Tue Oct 14 • 6:30pm • Club Saw
Bywords John Newlove Poetry Awards
PLUS Margo LaPierre, Domina Eliahou, Stuart Ross and The Archibald Lampman Award
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Episode 3 • Sat Oct 18
S07E03
with Quill Christie-Peters and Linden MacIntyre
Wed Oct 22 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Wednesday in the Festival Cafe
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Memoir
Wed Oct 22 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
On Wholeness
with Quill Christie-Peters
Fiction
Wed Oct 22 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
The Trial of Katterfelto
with Michael Redhill
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 4 • Thu Oct 23
S07E04
with Souvankham Thammavongsa and Elaine Feeney
Thu Oct 23 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Thursday in the Festival Cafe
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Thu Oct 23 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
On the Ground
with Brian Stewart
Fiction
Thu Oct 23 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
What Dreams May Come
with Sara Peters and Mona Awad
Fri Oct 24 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Friday in the Festival Cafe
Fiction
Fri Oct 24 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
One Life to Live
with Marc Bendavid, Susie Taylor and Shani Mootoo
Non-Fiction
Music
Memoir
Fri Oct 24 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Playlist
with Ivan Coyote
Fiction
Sat Oct 25 • 9:30am • Suzy Q Donuts
Jane's Walk: Hintonburg and Wellington West
Guided Tour by Susan Johnston
Sat Oct 25 • 11:00am • Library and Archives Canada
Saturday Morning in the Festival Cafe
Non-Fiction
Science
Sat Oct 25 • 11:30am • Library and Archives Canada
The Explorer’s Gene
with Alex Hutchinson
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Sat Oct 25 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
John Candy: A Life in Comedy
with Paul Myers
Non-Fiction
Science
Sat Oct 25 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
The Science of Pets
with Jay Ingram
Fiction
Sat Oct 25 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
More than Human
with Kendra Coulter, Thomas Wharton and Sibylle Grimbert
Sat Oct 25 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Saturday in the Festival Cafe
Fiction
History
Sat Oct 25 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Displaced
with Zeina Sleiman, Aaron Kreuter and Brian Thomas Isaac
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Sat Oct 25 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Enshittification
with Cory Doctorow
Sun Oct 26 • 11:00am • Library and Archives Canada
Sunday Morning in the Festival Cafe
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Oct 26 • 11:30am • Library and Archives Canada
An Accidental Villain
with Linden MacIntyre
Fiction
Poetry
Sun Oct 26 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
This Love
with Ziyad Saadi and Tracey Lindberg
Fiction
Sun Oct 26 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Pick a Colour
with Souvankham Thammavongsa
Fiction
Sun Oct 26 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Now and Then
with Elaine Feeney and Eimear McBride
Sun Oct 26 • 5:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Sunday in the Festival Cafe
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Sun Oct 26 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
You Will Not Kill Our Imagination
with Saeed Teebi
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Oct 26 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Human Rights in a Fractured World
with Alex Neve
Fiction
Wed Oct 29 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian
Final Orbit
with Chris Hadfield
Poetry
Mon Nov 10 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist
Poetry Cabaret
with Billy Ray Belcourt, Canisia Lubrin and katherena vermette
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Wed Nov 12 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
with Lyse Doucet
Non-Fiction
History
Wed Nov 19 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
We Breed Lions
with Rick Westhead
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Tue Nov 25 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The Smiling Land
with Alan Doyle
Non-Fiction
History
Thu Nov 27 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian
Against the Grain
with Terry O'Reilly