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Staff Blog / Aboriginal, Arts and culture, Hobbies and crafts

Tales and Tunes: Family Fun Day at the Library!

By OPL_BPO_Comms

The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) invites you to “Tales & Tunes: Family Fun Day at the Library” on Saturday, July...
Staff Blog / eBooks and audiobooks, Newcomers

New Chinese eReading Room

By Feng_Library

Great news! The Ottawa Public Library just added about 200 new Chinese eBook titles for children and adults in either...
Staff Blog / Aboriginal, Arts and culture, Music
Album covers for Shelter as We Go by Quantum Tangle; Apu Peikussiaky by Shauit; Medicine Songs by Buffy Sainte-Marie; and Miigis by Red Sky Performance

Discover Music by Indigenous Artists

By Céline_Biblio

Celebrating National Indigenous History Month in June is an important tribute to the heritage and diversity of First Nation, Inuit...
Staff Blog / Aboriginal

Celebrate National Indigenous History Month at the Library!

By OPL_BPO_Comms

June is National Indigenous History Month (NIHM), and OPL invites you to celebrate and explore with us! NIHM is a...
Staff Blog / Books and reading, Kids
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Get Your Summer Read On at the Ottawa Public Library!

By Jessica_library

This summer, kids are invited to participate in the TD Summer Reading Club, to explore new passions and celebrate the...
Staff Blog / Aboriginal
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Joséphine Bacon

By OPL_BPO_Comms

Accidental poet Joséphine Bacon is an Innu from Pessamit, Quebec. As a songwriter, director and translator-interpreter, she has a wealth...
Staff Blog / Writing and poetry

Solar Bones wins 2018 International Dublin Literary Award!

By CD_Librarian

This is exciting news! Solar Bones by Mike McCormack, an Irish writer, has won the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award,...
Staff Blog / Kids

Father's day read: Zach Hyman and the Magician's Secret

By Chris_biblio

It's an easy sell for any hockey loving boy when you bring a home a book by a player on...
Staff Blog / Aboriginal, Arts and culture, Film

Indigenous Voices on Screen

By Daniel_Library

Through bold and often-innovative work, film is but one of many media in which First Nations, Métis and Inuit voices...
Staff Blog / Aboriginal
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Leanne Simpson

By IndigenousAutochtone

As a girl who grew up in Quebec visiting the cabane à sucre, and admiring the tubing hung between maple...

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Events / Computers and technology

How to Take Better Vacation Photos

Orléans

Saturday Jun 23, 2018 at 1:00pm

Events / Aboriginal

Make an Inukshuk Wall Hanging

Cumberland

Saturday Jun 30, 2018 at 10:30am

Events / Arts and culture
Celebrating Cultures

Folktale Screening

Greenboro

Saturday Jun 30, 2018 at 10:30am

Events / Arts and culture, Hobbies and crafts
Cultures

Henna Art || L’art du henné

Elmvale Acres

Friday Jun 22, 2018 at 3:30pm