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September 28, 2025
An Indian Morning
Time and Place: Every Sunday at 10:00 am. CKCU FM 93.1
Web: cod.ckcufm.com/programs/30/info.html
An Indian Morning celebrates not only the music of India but equally its various arts and artisans, poets and potters, kings and patriots.
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In
Time and Place: Every Sunday at 1:00 pm. Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch, 120 Metcalfe, Room MA 117
Web: booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/capital-region-writers-group-write-0
drop in. adult. 60 minutes
Culture géniale
Time and Place: Every Sunday at 1:00 pm. unique 94.5 fm
Web: uniquefm.ca/emission-culture-geniale
La culture est la possibilité même de créer, de renouveler et de partager des valeurs. Culture géniale est une émission hebdomadaire animée par Jean-Paul Moreau qui explore le monde du cinéma, de la littérature, des arts vivants, et bien plus encore.
A.J. Dolman, Amanda Earl, James K. Moran
Time and Place: September 28 at 2:00 pm. Lieutenant's Pump, 361 Elgin
Web: angelhousepress.com/
poetry & fiction. doors 1:30pm. a free event
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers
Time and Place: 7:00 pm. Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper Street, Room 14.
Web: www.ottawastorytellers.ca/untold
tickets are free but spaces are limited. tickets on site
Art-N-Tell
Time and Place: 7:00 pm. Pour Boy, 495 Somerset W.
if you made it, bring it: It’s your chance to share whatever you’ve been creating—whether it’s polished and ready or still in progress. Paintings, poems, songs, sketches, fashion, whatever you’re working on—we want to see it! Not ready to share yet? Come hang out and support your fellow artists.a free event,
The Paris Express with Emma Donoghue
Time and Place: September 28 at 7:00 pm. St John the Evangelist • 154 Somerset Street West
Web: writersfestival.org/events/fall-2025/the-paris-express
$25
The Factory Reading Series Presents nathanael o'reilly, ben ladouceur + michael lithgow
Time and Place: September 28 at 7:30 pm. Avant-Garde Bar, 135 1/3 Besserer
Web: abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-factory-reading-series-september-28.html
free. books available for sale. doors 7pm
September 2025 Events
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  Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic Online 7:30pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm		 Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing with Susan Aglukark 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 Thank You for Asking, featuring Brandon Wint, May Spoken and Amanda Lowe 7:00pm Collaborative Zine Making 2:00pm
Poetry Night at the Ottawa Trans Library 5:00pm
Poetry Night 5:30pm
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm		 Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Ottawa StoryTellers: Story Cafe 7:00pm
Valentine in Montreal with Arizona O’Neill and Heather O’Neill 7:00pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm		 Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm    
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm		 Indie Author Group with N.G. Avant 1:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
A Truce That Is Not Peace with Miriam Toews 7:00pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm
Ottawa Storytellers Open Mic In Person 7:00pm
Sandy Hudson and Nora Loreto, Challenging Power: Corporate Control, Policing, and the Price of Inequality 8:00pm		 Open Pages Queer Writers Circle 6:30pm
Sad Girl Cafe 7:00pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		 Fifteen Dogs Unleashed, From Page to Stage: A Creative Discussion 6:00pm Dagne Forrestt, Nancy Hugget, Susan Robertson 2:00pm
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm		 Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Elbows Up! Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance with David Moscrop, Carol Off and Elamin Abdelmahmoud 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm
Arc Poetry Magazine 2025 Archibald Lampman Award Finalists Reading 7:00pm		 The Lit Room with Susan Johnston 9:30am
The Carleton Poetic Society Outdoor Open Mic 5:30pm
sign up here: tinyurl.com/carletonopenmicsept24
Asian Sounds 6:00pm
Night Oat Open Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm		 Le Cinq-Zéro, Une célébration du le cinquantenaire du drapeau franco-ontarien 6:30pm
Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden Open Mic 8:00pm		    
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An Indian Morning 10:00am
Capital Region Writer's Group Write-In 1:00pm
Culture géniale 1:00pm
A.J. Dolman, Amanda Earl, James K. Moran 2:00pm
(un)told 2025 - Ottawa StoryTellers 7:00pm
September: Lessons Learned, School Daze
Art-N-Tell 7:00pm
The Paris Express with Emma Donoghue 7:00pm
The Factory Reading Series Presents nathanael o'reilly, ben ladouceur + michael lithgow 7:30pm		 Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Art House Cafe Open Mic 7:00pm
Book Launch: Judy Darcy presents Leading from the Heart 7:00pm
Namaashoum 7:00pm		 Ottawa Public Library Vanier Community Writing Workshop 6:00pm