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Some in-branch programs require registration with your library card. Please log in with your library account or follow this link to apply for a card online. You can also apply for a card in person at any of our 33 locations.

  • Thursdays, May 09, 2024 - Jun 27, 2024
    6:30pm
    90 minutes

    8 sessions remaining

    Join our free English conversation group to practice speaking in English in a relaxed and friendly environment. All levels are welcome to this drop-in program.

    Rejoignez notre groupe de conversation en anglais gratuit pour pratiquer l'anglais dans une atmosphère détendue. Tous les niveaux sont les bienvenus à ce programme , inscription non requise.

  • Thursdays, May 09, 2024 - May 30, 2024
    6:45pm
    60 minutes

    4 sessions remaining

    Améliorez votre français parlé et rencontrez des gens dans une ambiance décontractée et conviviale. Niveau intermédiaire. Practice your French language conversation skills and meet new friends in a relaxed and friendly environment. Intermediate level.

  • Thursdays, May 09, 2024 - Jun 13, 2024
    7:00pm
    60 minutes

    2 sessions remaining

    Share the enjoyment of good books in an informal and relaxed atmosphere. Second Thursday of every month. New members welcome.

    April 2024: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

    May 2024: Violeta by Isabel Allende

    June 2024: What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam Chancy

  • Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street

    Thursday May 09, 2024 at 7:00pm
     minutes

    Library and Archives Canada (LAC), the Ottawa International Writers Festival and the Ottawa Public Library invite you to the launch of Canadians Who Innovate: The Trailblazers and Ideas That Are Changing the World by Roseann O’Reilly Runte, president of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.

    This remarkable new book profiles of some of the most inventive and creative Canadians and the ideas that are making Canada a leading nation in innovation. 

    This special occasion will include a discussion on innovation with the author and Nobel laureate, Art McDonald, and a performance by OrKidstra introduced by Tina Fedeski and Margaret Maria Toblowska. A number of innovators featured in the book will also be present.

    Featuring brilliant thinkers from coast to coast to coast and others from around the world who now call Canada home, Canadians Who Innovate paints a promising picture of a cleaner, healthier, more innovative future for us all.

    Seating is limited, please register.

  • Friday May 10, 2024 at 11:00am
    60 minutes

    Join us for a tour of the Digitization Lab. This lab is equipped with bookable work stations that allow you to digitize your old photographs, slides and negatives, as well as your VHS tapes and 8mm film reels. This tour will be an orientation of the equipment, the stations and the online booking system.

  • Friday May 10, 2024 at 12:00pm
    90 minutes

    Vers la fin des années 1990, la communauté acadienne de Moncton est marquée à jamais lorsque la mort frappe une école secondaire. Dans un film impressionniste tout en douceur, Samara retourne dans la ville qu’elle a fuie alors qu’elle était adolescente pour se replonger dans les souvenirs qui y sont toujours enfouis, en différents lieux ainsi que dans les boîtes poussiéreuses renfermant des journaux intimes, des photos et des cassettes VHS. 1999 n’est pas une histoire de fantômes, bien qu’elle soit peuplée de spectres. Les rues enneigées, les corridors et les vestiaires de l’école sont intacts, comme dans un rêve, mais l’absence laissée par la vague de suicides d’adolescents résonne encore de questions sans réponses, de traumatismes et de regrets. Samara rencontre des gens inspirants qui portent en eux une grande douleur et qui, 16 ans plus tard, peuvent enfin se conforter mutuellement en brisant un long silence. En fin de compte, le film entremêle différentes voix et suscite une réflexion collective sur l’intériorisation du deuil et sur la nécessité d’apprendre à affirmer son désir de survivre. 

    2018, 93 min. | Cette œuvre traite d'un sujet controversé. Pour public averti.

    When death haunts a high school in a small town in the late 1990s, everyone is forever transformed. In this gentle, prismatic film, Samara returns to the town she fled as a teen to re-immerse herself in the memories still lurking there, in its spaces and within the dusty boxes of diaries, photos and VHS tapes. 1999 is not a ghost story, but the ghosts are palpable at every turn. The snow-covered streets, the school’s hallways and lockers are preserved as in a dream. The absences left by the relentless teenage suicides still shimmer with questions, trauma and regret. Samara encounters people who are as breathtaking as they are heartbroken, and, finally, 16 years later, the community strengthens itself by sharing the long-silenced memories. Ultimately the film weaves together multiple voices in a collective essay on how grief is internalized—and how, as children, we so painfully learn to articulate our desire to stay alive.

    This film contains mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised. | 2018, 93 min, French with English subtitles.

    Provided by the National Film Board.

  • Fridays, May 10, 2024 - Jun 14, 2024
    1:30pm
    90 minutes

    2 sessions remaining

    Meet new people and join in discussions on selected titles in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere every second Friday of the month. Newcomers are welcome.

  • colourful balls of yarn

    Fridays, May 10, 2024 - May 31, 2024
    2:00pm
    90 minutes

    4 sessions remaining

    Bring your knitting or crochet project (or needlepoint, cross-stitch, etc) and share tips and tricks, ideas and conversations with fellow enthusiasts. For adults of all abilities. Drop-in.

    Apportez votre projet de tricot ou de crochet (ou broderie, point de croix, etc) afin d'échanger des conseils, des idées et converser avec d'autres passionnés. Pour les adultes de tous les niveaux. Aucune inscription requise.

  • two embroidered felt corner bookmarks

    Friday May 10, 2024 at 2:00pm
    60 minutes

    Sorry this event and its waiting list are full

    Join us for an afternoon of crafting!  Participants will embroider a beautiful corner bookmark to take home.  All supplies are provided.

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    Friday May 10, 2024 at 2:00pm
    60 minutes

    Photos and narration from two trips - one via ship and one via tour bus. Sights include Cork, Dublin, Northern Ireland (Belfast, Londonderry, Giant’s Causeway) and the west coast (Cliffs of Mohr, Connemara). 
    Presented by Lynda Buske from the Ottawa PC Users’ Group and the Orleans Photo Club.