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May 16, 2019

Asian Heritage Month
Web: http://www.asianheritagemonth.net/
check site for events

Third World Players
Time and Place: Every Thursday at 6:00 pm. CKCU FM 93.1
Web: www.ckcufm.com/
readings from Third World literature

Literary Landscape
Time and Place: Every Thursday at 6:30 pm. CKCU FM 93.1
Web: www.ckcufm.com/
with hosts Liam Burke, Arielle Contreras, Kathryn Hunt

On the Path to Reconciliation
Time and Place: 6:30 pm. pin Biblio Wakefield Library 38 Valley Drive, Wakefield, Quebec
Web: www.facebook.com/events/1800931253300472/
monthly book club that discusses Indigenous issues

8th Generation Live Storytelling Thursdays
Time and Place: Every Thursday at 7:00 pm. www.instagram.com/8thgenstory/
Web: 8thGenStory Live - IG
fam jam

Open Mic at Cafe Nostalgica
Time and Place: Every Thursday at 8:30 pm. Cafe Nostalgica, 601 Cumberland
music, poetry, spoken word

	May 2019 Events Return to today
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			Asian Heritage Month Mayworks Ottawa Workers Cabaret: Resistance Is Beautiful May 1 @ 7:00 pm poetry, music, aerial artists, food. Arts Court Theatre, 2 Daly Avenue $ 8th Generation Live Storytelling Wednesdays 11:00am Ottawa - Archives Unshelved with Librarian Vivian Lewis 5:30pm Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm Celtic Folk Night 7:30pm	Asian Heritage Month Third World Players 6:00pm Literary Landscape 6:30pm 8th Generation Live Storytelling Thursdays 7:00pm Ottawa Storytellers Monthly Downtown Story Swap 7:00pm Open Mic at Cafe Nostalgica 8:30pm	Asian Heritage Month	Asian Heritage Month Tales from the Silk Road Free Comic Book Day 10:00am Jacobs 101: An introduction to the ideas of Jane Jacobs 12:00pm
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Asian Heritage Month Tales from the Silk Road Guernica Editions Spring Launch Ottawa 3:00pm Slam Outaouais 5:00pm	Asian Heritage Month 8th Generation Live Storytelling Mondays 2:00pm Monday Night Scribes 10:00pm	Asian Heritage Month	Asian Heritage Month 8th Generation Live Storytelling Wednesdays 11:00am Apocalypse Chow Book Launch 6:00pm Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild - Ottawa Valley Chapter 6:30pm Capital Crime Writers 7:00pm Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm Celtic Folk Night 7:30pm	Asian Heritage Month Third World Players 6:00pm Literary Landscape 6:30pm 8th Generation Live Storytelling Thursdays 7:00pm Spring Book Social 7:00pm Open Mic at Cafe Nostalgica 8:30pm	Asian Heritage Month Ottawa Comic Con Spring 2019 Friday Vibe Open Mic Nights 8:00pm	Asian Heritage Month Ottawa Comic Con Spring 2019 Launch of Special Issue of the Cafe Review edited by Robert Hogg 2:00pm The Fembassy - May (Mother's Day Edition!) 8:00pm
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Asian Heritage Month Ottawa Comic Con Spring 2019	Asian Heritage Month Mayworks Ottawa Storytelling and Panel on the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, Council Chambers at Centrepointe Nepean, 7:30pm $10 8th Generation Live Storytelling Mondays 2:00pm West End Story Swap 7:00pm Monday Night Scribes 10:00pm	Asian Heritage Month Cracking Labour’s Glass Ceiling: Transforming Lives through Women’s Union Education 7:00pm Ottawa Zine Swap 7:00pm Rencontre-échange avec l'auteure Leïla Hamoutene 7:00pm Stories and Tea 7:00pm	Asian Heritage Month Bywords.ca Submissions 8th Generation Live Storytelling Wednesdays 11:00am Speakers' Night - Editors Association of Canada - Ottawa-Gatineau Branch 6:30pm Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm Celtic Folk Night 7:30pm	Asian Heritage Month Third World Players 6:00pm Literary Landscape 6:30pm On the Path to Reconciliation 6:30pm 8th Generation Live Storytelling Thursdays 7:00pm Open Mic at Cafe Nostalgica 8:30pm	Asian Heritage Month MECA 8 with Geza Tatrallyay, John Delacourt and Ian Thomas Shaw 7:00pm Dear Freaks: One Hit Wonders 9:00pm	Asian Heritage Month Coles Bayshore Book Signings Michel Weatherall 11am - 2pm www.facebook.com/events/467378637130244/
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Asian Heritage Month Happy Goat Open Mic 2:00pm	Asian Heritage Month 8th Generation Live Storytelling Mondays 2:00pm Monday Night Scribes 10:00pm	Asian Heritage Month Octopus Books Centretown A New Kind of Union with Fred Wilson and Maude Barlow 7pm www.facebook.com/events/317188632300622/	Asian Heritage Month 8th Generation Live Storytelling Wednesdays 11:00am Re/Découverte du sentier des auteur(e)s avec Marc Haentjens 6:00pm Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm Celtic Folk Night 7:30pm	Asian Heritage Month OIWF Reviewers Meet Up and Coffee 5:00pm Third World Players 6:00pm Literary Landscape 6:30pm SOFT ART: PANEL & SHOW FT. FRIZZ KID 6:30pm 8th Generation Live Storytelling Thursdays 7:00pm Asian Canadian Narratives: Using Non-fiction and Fiction to tell our stories 7:00pm Cloud Circuit, Dimitri Georgaras and Faizal Deen 7:00pm Open Mic at Cafe Nostalgica 8:30pm	Asian Heritage Month	Asian Heritage Month Book Launch for Jagjeet Sharma 2:00pm
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Asian Heritage Month Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Book Drive at the Ottawa Farmers' Market 9:00am Lancement du livre "Il n'y a que le train" de Danielle Guérin 2:00pm The Short Reading Series 4:00pm Elise Levine and Natalie Southwark	Asian Heritage Month 8th Generation Live Storytelling Mondays 2:00pm Book Launch: Teardown: A Handbook of Democratic Solutions in Troubled Times Dave Meslin 7:00pm Monday Night Scribes 10:00pm	Asian Heritage Month Andrew King 7:00pm Stories and Tea 7:00pm	Asian Heritage Month 8th Generation Live Storytelling Wednesdays 11:00am One on One with Geddy Lee 7:00pm Ottawa Scrabble Club 7:00pm Celtic Folk Night 7:30pm	Asian Heritage Month Octopus Books Centretown Outside In: Libby Davies' Book Launch 7pm www.facebook.com/events/402797627169241/ David Chernushenko 1:30pm Liam Burke 5:00pm Third World Players 6:00pm Literary Landscape 6:30pm 8th Generation Live Storytelling Thursdays 7:00pm Open Mic at Cafe Nostalgica 8:30pm	Asian Heritage Month Express Session - Open Mic + Conscious Art Show Display 7:00pm Write Bloody North Book Launch: Ian Keteku and Titilope Sonuga 7:00pm