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June 20, 2025
Khaleefa 'Apollo the Child' Hamdan, Poems For Fools Who Fell In Love Launch
Time and Place: June 20 at 7:00 pm. Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum
Web: shenkmanarts.ca/en/poems-fools-who-fell-love-launch
tickets: $13.25
The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 20: Pirie, MA|DE, Bandukwala, Moran + Smith,
Time and Place: June 20 at 7:30 pm. Anina's Cafe, 280 Joffre-Bélanger Way
Web: abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-factory-reading-series-pre-small.html
Pearl Pirie (QC) MA|DE (Windsor ON) Manahil Bandukwala (Ottawa ON) James K. Moran (Ottawa ON) + Mahaila Smith (Ottawa ON) Doors: 7pm
June 2025 Events
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Culture géniale 1:00pm
Amanda Earl, rob mclennan, Christine McNair 2:00pm		 Sunnyside Writers' Group with Michael F. Stewart 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic Online 7:30pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm		 Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 Urban Legends Poetry Collective 7:00pm
Season closer poetry slam with Rusty Priske.		  
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Culture géniale 1:00pm Collage Club 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Ottawa Centre 7:00pm		 The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Why We Write: Ottawa 5:30pm
Poets Laureate Reading: David O'Meara, Véronique Sylvain and Chimwemwe Undi 6:00pm
RPL Acoustic Music Jam 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Bells Corners 6:30pm
In Our Tongues Reading and Art Series: Indigenous History Month 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm		 Dan Rubenstein 5:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 Parker AM Johnston Zine Launch: Isn't Being A Man Supposed to Mean Something 5:00pm
Book Talk with Nino Ricci 7:00pm		 Kanata North Book Fair 1:30pm
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Culture géniale 1:00pm Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Current Conversations: Poetry by the River 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pm		 Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 Khaleefa 'Apollo the Child' Hamdan, Poems For Fools Who Fell In Love Launch 7:00pm
The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 20: Pirie, MA|DE, Bandukwala, Moran + Smith, 7:30pm		 ottawa small press book fair 12:00pm
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Culture géniale 1:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm		 Collage Club 6:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 Books on Beechwood Book Club 1:30pm
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Book Launch: Where the Jasmine Blooms by Zeina Sleiman 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm		 Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Silent Book Club - East End 7:00pm		 Third World Players 6:00pm
Queers Bash Back II: Stories from Queer Elders; Zine Making with the Queer Zine Collective 6:30pm
Phyllis Webstad 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		   Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
Cap City Cyphers 7:00pm
Open Mic Night at Britannia Coffeehouse 8:00pm
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Culture géniale 1:00pm Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm