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Time and Place: June 12 at 5:00 pm. The Black Pug, 1785 Kilbourne Ave
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June 2025 Events
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
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
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic Online 7:30pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Silent Book Club - Constance Bay 7:00pm
Elgin Street Public School Book Fair
3-9pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Elgin Street Public School Book Fair
3-9pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Urban Legends Poetry Collective 7:00pm
Season closer poetry slam with Rusty Priske.
Elgin Street Public School Book Fair
8am to 4pm + bake sale
Jolly Bimbachi
The Spooky Blue Jay, 2020 Tenth Line, Unit 2, 5pm
Ottawa Trans Library Readings
Poetry Night: bring your own and others' poems. 5:30 to 7:30pm
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Elgin Street Public School Book Fair
8am to 4pm
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
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
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
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
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Canadian Authors' Association National Capital Region MONTHLY MEETINGS 7:00pm
Don Butler, Confessions of a Crime Novel Novice
Dan Rubenstein 5:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
Parker AM Johnston Zine Launch: Isn't Being A Man Supposed to Mean Something 5:00pm
Book Talk with Nino Ricci 7:00pm
ArtsPark: Meet Local Authors 10:00am
Kanata North Book Fair 1:30pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
The Carleton Poetics Society Writers' Circle 3:00pm
Silent Book Club Ottawa - Kanata 7:00pm
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Current Conversations: Poetry by the River 6:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pm
Storytelling Open Mic 7:15pm
The Zine Scene: Tools for Social Change
Phase 1: Develop and Create. Emmy & Victor Abboud Music Studio, Fill out form at link if interested.
Silent Book Club - Hintonburg 2:00pm
Third World Players 6:00pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm
Indigo Pinecrest Readings and Signings
Andrew Coyne, 7pm
The Zine Scene: Tools for Social Change
Phase 1: Develop and Create. Emmy & Victor Abboud Music Studio, Fill out form at link if interested.
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am
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
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale 10:00am
ottawa small press book fair 12:00pm
spring edition
Zine Workshop 6:00pm
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CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
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
CKCU FM Words and Culture 9:30am
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
Words & Culture 7:00pm
Live on Elgin Open Mic 8:00pm
CKCU FM Literary News 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 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
CKCU FM Friday Special Blend 7:00am Indigo Pinecrest Readings and Signings
Erin Forget, 1-3pm
Ottawa Afrocentric Book Club
Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah tinyurl.com/afrocentricJune28
The Zine Scene: Tools for Social Change
Phase 1: Develop and Create. Emmy & Victor Abboud Music Studio, Fill out form at link if interested.
Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair 10:00am
Silent Book Club Stittsville 12:00pm
Cap City Cyphers 7:00pm
Open Mic Night at Britannia Coffeehouse 8:00pm
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The Zine Scene: Tools for Social Change
Phase 1: Develop and Create. Emmy & Victor Abboud Music Studio, Fill out form at link if interested.
CKCU FM: An Indian Morning 10:00am
Culture géniale 1:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
cancelled
Namaashoum 7:00pm