Calendar compliments of www.bywords.ca.

Perfect Books
Time and Place: 258A Elgin
Web: perfectbooks.ca/
readings, signings; accessibility note: 1 stair up to store; Additional accessibility via walkway from Somerset Street
March 11 - Everything But Money Book Launch, Jessica Moorehouse 7-8:30pm
March 18 - Steven High Book Launch: The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and The Working Class. 7-8:30pm
March 25 - Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada’s North. 7-8:30pm

  February 2025 Events
Submit upcoming events to events@bywords.ca
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Black History Month 2025
Perfect Books
Book Signing with Eve Krakow 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Weather
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
CANCELLED
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Naked Boys Reading 8:00pm
Riot Grrrlz Don't [heart emoji] You
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
Riverbed Reading Series Season 5 7:30pm
Erín Moure, Dupil Collective, Melissa Davidson
Black History Month 2025
Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Urban Legends Poetry Collective 7:00pm
ULPC Broken Mic 3 ft. Namitha Rathinappillai, and Fatima Baloch. Pay-what-you-decide. Tickets: https://bit.ly/ULPCfeb21tickets
Black History Month 2025
Octopus Books Glebe
The Octopus Books Reading Club 7pm Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Open Pages Book Club Ottawa
bring your own book 1-3pm
Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am
Indigo Kanata Book Signings 11:00am
Parvin Kolahdooz
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Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Briarpatch Magazine's Ottawa Skate-a-thon 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers Signature Series 2024/2025 2:00pm
Whispers from Tradition: Nigeria’s Untold Legends Explore Nigeria’s untold legends with Alaukwu Anozie and Uchechi Ogbonna
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
Join the Digital Day of Action www.freedomtoread.ca/newsbytes/join-the-digital-day-of-action-on-monday-february-24/
In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Zine Workshop 6:00pm
Happiness Book Walk Club: Happiness Habits 613 x Ottawa Public Library 6:30pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore Readings and Signings
Decolonizing Mental Health: A Conversation on Racism and Racial Trauma 6:30pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Carleton University PhD Speaker Series
Dr. Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Experimental Poetry and the Aesthetics of Criticism. 4-6pm
Freedom to Read Week
Mathilde Barraband, Préserver la liberté intellectuelle en bibliothèque, un travail d’équilibriste; Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 395, rue Wellington. 19h. Gratuit. Reserver votre place: tinyurl.com/Barraband
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
Amie Wright, The Freedom to Read Graphically: A (Brief) History of Comics Censorship. Bayview Yards, 7 Bayview Station Road. Free. Reservations: tinyurl.com/comicsbayview
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Authors Meet Readers 5:30pm
The Trudeau Record: Promise v. Performance
Third World Players 6:00pm
Kinks and Coffee: Smutty Storytelling 7:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
University of Ottawa Undergraduate English Students Association Clothing, Food and Book Drive 5:00pm