Are you looking for a relaxing activity that is low stress and doesn't require any special skills? Then colouring may be for you! Join us to explore your creative side, relax and meet new friends. All supplies will be provided.
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Wednesdays, Apr 24, 2024 - Jun 26, 2024
2:00pm
90 minutes10 sessions remaining
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Wednesday Apr 24, 2024 at 2:00pm
60 minutesDrop-in program
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Do you already have some basic English language skills, and are you looking for a casual, friendly environment where you can practice your English speaking skills?
Join our English conversation group!
Receive guidance from our leaders, meet new people and gain confidence in your ability to speak English.
Vous avez déjà une base en anglais et vous cherchez un endroit avec une ambiance décontractée et amicale pour pratiquer vos habiletés de converser en anglais?
Joignez-vous à notre groupe de conversation en anglais!
Recevez des conseils, rencontrez de nouvelles personnes et gagnez de la confiance à converser en anglais.
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Wednesdays, Apr 24, 2024 - Jul 31, 2024
4:00pm
120 minutes15 sessions remaining
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Join us for open games of chess. Whether you're a beginner or more advanced, this is a relaxed environment where everyone is welcome. Bring your own board or borrow one of ours.
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Wednesdays, Apr 24, 2024 - Jun 26, 2024
6:30pm
120 minutes10 sessions remaining
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Practice your English conversation skills in a low-pressure, friendly environment. All levels are welcome.
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Wednesdays, Apr 24, 2024 - May 29, 2024
6:30pm
90 minutes6 sessions remaining
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Improve your English, share stories and make new friends!
Améliorez votre anglais, partager des histoires et faites des amis!
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Wednesday Apr 24, 2024 at 6:30pm
90 minutesDrop-in program
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Got a portable craft project? Bring it along and chat with some fellow crafters while you work! Share your expertise if you're comfortable, and learn about what other folks are working on (or just make friends and bond over your latest tv show obsession)! Knitting, crochet, embroidery, felting, beading, and more.
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Wednesdays, Apr 24, 2024 - Jun 26, 2024
6:30pm
60 minutes10 sessions remaining
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Practice your English conversation skills in a relaxed and friendly environment. All levels are welcome to this drop-in program.
**Note: No program March 13, 2024.
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Wednesdays, Apr 24, 2024 - Jun 26, 2024
6:30pm
90 minutes10 sessions remaining
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Learn and practice new English language skills and meet new people in a relaxed and friendly environment. Offered in partnership with the Catholic Centre for Immigrants of Ottawa. All are welcome to this drop-in program!
Apprenez et pratiquez votre anglais parlé et rencontrez des gens dans un milieu décontracté. Offert en partenariat avec le Centre catholique pour immigrants d'Ottawa. Tout le monde est bienvenue à ce programme sans inscription!
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Wednesdays, Apr 24, 2024 - May 15, 2024
6:30pm
90 minutes4 sessions remaining
2024 will be one of the most consequential years in the history of democracy. Elections have been or will be held in many countries ranging in size and power from El Salvador to India. The decisions of voters will determine whether the worldwide growth in authoritarianism over the past twenty years will continue or democracy will begin to make a comeback.
The US Presidential and Congressional elections on Tuesday November 5 stand out as an especially critical democratic moment for two reasons: first because they will be a supreme test of American democracy; and second because they will send a powerful message to the rest of the world, including the dictatorships and wannabe dictatorships.
The group will discuss the background and issues of Democracy on Trial and week by week follow the important democratic events and developments of 2024.
Mr. Robert Miller will lead the discussion. He is the author of Canada and Democratic Development and, prior to his retirement, served as President and CEO of the Parliamentary Centre, Canada’s leading institution promoting and supporting international democratic development.
Session #1 Wednesday, April 3: Is History Repeating Itself?
Session #2, Wednesday April 10: Democratic Fatigue and the Appeal of the Strong Man
Session #3, Wednesday, April 17: Big Countries and Small: The Cases of El Salvador and Rwanda, Russia and India
Session # 4, Wednesday, April 24: The Fire Next Door: The Authoritarian Impulse in the United States
Session #5, Wednesday, May 1: Donald Trump and the Invention of Trumpism
Session #6, Wednesday, May 8: Can it Happen Here? If Trump wins, is Canada next? A discussion with John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail columnist and one of Canada’s leading authors on politics and public affairs.
Registration recommended.
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Wednesday Apr 24, 2024 at 6:30pm
60 minutesDrop-in program
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Join us for the ultimate armchair travel around Europe. The European Book Club is offered in partnership with European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Ottawa to promote contemporary European authors and their works. A book title from an EU country is selected for discussion each month.
We will be discussing "Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World" by Irene Vallejo.
IRENE VALLEJO
Irene Vallejo earned her European Doctorate from the Universities of Zaragoza and Florence. Papyrus was awarded the National Essay Prize, the Critical Eye Prize for Narrative and the Bookstore Recommendation Award, and will be published in thirty countries. She is a regular columnist for El País and Heraldo de Aragón, and is the author of two children’s books, two novels, and three collections of essays, articles, and short fiction.
PAPYRUS
Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of the earth to bring them back.
Papyrus, traces the dramatic history of the book and the fight for its survival. This is the story of the book’s journey from oral tradition to scrolls to codices, and how that transition laid the very foundation of Western culture. And it is a story full of heroic adventures, bloodshed and megalomania – from the battlefields of Alexander the Great and the palaces of Cleopatra to the libraries of war-torn Sarajevo and Oxford.