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February 2025 Events
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            Black History Month 2025
Traditional Storytelling, Ottawa Public Library, Emerald Plaza Boardroom, 1547 Merrivale. 3:30pm biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/traditional-storytelling
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Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Memorial for Elisabeth Harvor 12:30pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Black History Month 2025
OmiSoore Dryden presents Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation 2:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
2024-2025 Munro Beattie Lecture with Ann-Marie MacDonald 7:30pm
Ottawa Storytellers Online Story Swap 7:30pm
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Traditional Storytelling, Ottawa Public Library, Hazeldean Branch, 50 Castlefrank Rd, 3:45pm biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/traditional-storytelling-0. Mélodie Joseph, Afrofuturism. La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins - 333 King Edward 7pm.
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Literary Futures Guest Lecture Series 4:00pm
Adeline Johns-Putra - “Apocalypse Now and Then, Here and There: Comparative Cultural Histories of Climate”
Black History Month 2025
Traditional Storytelling with Jacqui Du Toit, OPL Blackburn Hamlet, 199 Glen Park. 2:30pm
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Black History Month 2025
Character Development Workshop with Jacqui Du Toit, OPL Carlingwood, 281 Woodroffe. 3:30pm biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/character-development-workshop
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Book Launch for Barbara Fradkin's Shipwrecked Souls 3:00pm
Black History Month 2025
In the Company of Writers 2:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
In Our Tongues: Nonso Morah, Grey Brisson, Darby Bradford, and Dawn Xanklin, Saw Gallery, 67 Nicholas. 7-9pm PWYC. Registration: www.inourtongues.ca/upcoming-gathering
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
Pen and Paper Writer's Group 5:55pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Every Person Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Writing Circle 3:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Vanier 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Black History Month 2025
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Black History Month 2025
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Ksenija Spasic, Sneha Madhavan-Reese and Ellen Chang Richardson. 4:00pm
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Black History Month 2025
Weather
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Black History Month 2025
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
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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
Black History Month 2025
Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am
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Black History Month 2025
Freedom to Read Week
Salon du livre de l'Outaouais
Book Fair at Robert Plante Greenhouses 10:00am
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
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
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