It may not feel like it, with the weather still being generally chilly, but we have made it to May! Spring market season is upon us, and there are several of them happening this weekend, alongside a bunch of other fun things—so without further ado, we give you the Weekend Roundup!
Pulitzer Prize finalist and long-time climate and wildlife activist Lydia Millet will be discussing her anti-
memoir, We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, with poet Stephen Brockwell at the Ottawa International Writers Festival (OIWF) on Saturday, May 4, 2024.
Renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann will discuss his new book, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis, at the Ottawa International Writers Festival (OIWF) on Saturday, May 4.
Ottawa International Writers Festival (Spring edition) opens today, May 2, and runs until May 5 with many exciting events happening every day, including a “Life in Pictures” event to talk about “Denison Avenue,” a poignant book about gentrification of one Chinatowns neighbourhood.
One small step for Shohini Ghose, one giant leap for women in STEM. She will speak at the 2023 Ottawa International Writers Festival about her book, Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe.
Bob Joseph will close the Ottawa International Writers Festival on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 8pm with a talk on 21 Things We Need to Do After the Indian Act. Joseph is an author and corporate trainer well-known for his bestselling 2018 book, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act.
“Never stand between audience members and their wine,” says Natalie MacLean, sommelier and author of Wine Witch on Fire, about her October 27 event at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. The book is a memoir covering a year in MacLean’s life, which she calls her “no good, terrible, very bad vintage.”
Spooky season is upon us! This weekend you’ve got your pick of Halloween activities, ranging from family friendly to truly terrifying.
Ottawa writer Kate Heartfield will be on a panel speaking about her book, The Valkyrie, on October 29 as part of the 2023 Ottawa International Writers Festival, along with authors Eva Crocker and Emma Donoghue.
Author and activist Naomi Klein will discuss her new book Doppelganger tonight at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, and the conversation is bound to be a compelling one.
Need to start planning your Halloween costume? Want to get out for some great shows? Pick up a new skill? We’ve got you covered for all that and more in this weekend’s roundup.
After what has been a rainy week, we are fortunate to have dry skies this weekend and to be able to make the most of one of the final (dare we say it?) weekends of fall. We may not get to enjoy some of the liberties we had before returning to Stage 2 of city shutdowns amidst this global pandemic, but we folks are creative and there is still plenty going on in this fine city.
This might be the first weekend that we are suggesting you don’t get together with friends and, rather, that you stay home, or at least as far away from other humans as possible.
Don’t forget friends, April precipitation brings May flowers, so all this wet weather we’ve been getting will pay off in the long run.
Haunted Houses and pumpkin carving parties may be at the very top of your to-do list this weekend, and if so, enjoy the heck out of that. If you’re still not sure what else there is to do, we’ve got your back. From a writing festival to choral music and an outdoor movie screening get out and about this weekend with your people and take in some of the nicer weather before the snow flies.
