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  • Tuesday Mar 28, 2023 at 1:30pm / until Jun 20, 2023

    Cover to Cover - Book Club

    Book club for adults that love to share a good book!

    Please register online (each date individually) and pick up your copy of the book about a month before the meeting date at the main desk of the Cumberland Branch.

    These are the next books:

    An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - March 28, 2023

    The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George - April 25, 2023

    A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson - May 23, 2023

    One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle - June 20, 2023

  • Poetry month
    Saturday Apr 8, 2023 at 1:00pm

    Using figures of speech and other simple literary techniques, learn to develop your writing skills.

    Stimulate your imagination with a series of visual prompts to create original and lively works. With a few tools and strategies of the craft, discover the joys of writing poetry. 

    This workshop promotes the development of rich, colourful and personal work. No steadfast rules, no competition, just fun for everyone!

    For adults and teens ages 15+. 

  • Thursday Apr 13, 2023 at 2:00pm / until Jun 08, 2023

    NOUVEAU!  Le chapitre suivant - Club de lecture

    Club de lecture pour adultes qui aiment discuter de leur expérience littéraire.

    Veuillez vous inscrire en ligne (chaque date individuellement) et ramassez une copie du livre (environ 1 mois avant la prochaine rencontre) au comptoir de la bibliothèque - succursale Cumberland. Il n'est pas nécessaire de commander un livre.

    Voici les prochains livres:

    Dans l'ombre de la sainte mafia par Claire Bergeron - 9 mars, 2023

    Ceci n'est pas un fait divers par Philippe Besson - 13 avril, 2023

    La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert par Joël Dicker - 11 mai, 2023

    Montréal-Nord par Mariana Mazza - 8 juin, 2023

  • Climate feelings: A writing workshop for teens
    Saturday Apr 15, 2023 at 3:00pm

    The world is on fire and nothing is okay. What does this feel like? There are a lot of standard names for what we feel when we think about global warming, wide-spread extinction of creatures, and, well, [gestures generally]: Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, blankness. Sometimes the way we talk about feelings shapes what we feel, and so it matters what words we have. We might not have all the words we need to understand the experience of climate crisis.

    In this hands-on workshop, we’ll discuss some theories about emotions and expression, why writing is a good way to explore feelings we don’t have a name for, and how to practice finding our “outlaw emotions” about big problems.

    About the presenter

    Alexis Shotwell is a professor at Carleton University, on unceded Algonquin land. She is a writer, SF nerd, queer, functional potter, currently obsessed with doing handstands. She’s the author of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times and working on a book about getting together to solve big problems in which we are complicit.

    Presented in partnership with the Ottawa Writers Festival.

  • Poetry month
    Tuesday Apr 18, 2023 at 6:30pm

    Using figures of speech and other simple literary techniques, learn to develop your writing skills.

    Stimulate your imagination with a series of visual prompts to create original and lively works. With a few tools and strategies of the craft, discover the joys of writing poetry. 

    This workshop promotes the development of rich, colourful and personal work. No steadfast rules, no competition, just fun for everyone.

    For adults and teens aged 15+.

  • Saturday Mar 25, 2023 at 1:30pm

     Welcome to Writing Series - Narration and Narrators with Thom Whalen

    The Stittsville Creative Writing Group, in conjunction with the Ottawa Public Library, is pleased to present the Welcome to Writing Series. This is a collection of seminars or workshops with the goal of making you a better writer. Our intent is to foster creativity, literacy, and love of the written word. Members of the SCWG will present on the indicated topic.  

    Often an author will often have a fictional character tell a story from his or her point of view, using his or her voice. This character is called the internal narrator. The choice of the internal narrator is a major factor in determining, not just the way the story is told, but what is included in the story and how it is to be interpreted. Thus, different narrators will tell different stories about the same events. Six short stories will be used to illustrate and stimulate discussion of the implications of using different internal narrators.

  • Mois de la francophonie - ONF
    Saturday Mar 25, 2023 at 1:30pm

    Ces huit courts métrages offrent un riche tour d’horizon de la chanson francophone au Canada. Avec le nouveau film Assez French, l’auteure-compositrice-interprète Alexis Normand met en relief les combats et les victoires que comporte la reconquête de son identité canadienne francophone dans les Prairies.

    Suit un bouquet de chansons en images mettant en valeur certains des plus grands artistes d’ici : Daniel Lavoie, dans Jours de plaine de Réal Bérard et André Leduc ; Jean-Pierre Ferland, dans Les fleurs de macadam de Laurent Coderre ; Claude Léveillée, dans Taxi de Roland Stutz ; sans oublier le groupe acadien Zéro °Celsius dans Joséphine d’Anne-Marie Sirois ; la chanson d’Émile Benoit puisée dans le répertoire traditionnel francophone de Terre-Neuve pour Vive la rose de Bruce Alcock ; et la musique de Florent Vollant portant la langue innue dans Florent Vollant : Je rêve en innu de Nicolas Renaud.

  • Saturday Mar 25, 2023 at 1:30pm / until May 27, 2023

    For children 7-12, interested in learning to play chess and finding out more about the game. 

    Teen volunteers will be on hand to help those who are learning!

    Saturdays from 1:30-3. Drop-in.

  • Storyteller telling a story to a group of children
    Saturday Mar 25, 2023 at 1:30pm / until May 13, 2023

    Everyone has a story. Some of us have 1001 stories! Marie Victoria Robertson and Brad Denys will introduce you to the art of storytelling. How do you find a story to tell? Shape the story? Present the story in a way that others want to listen?

    The workshop will weave in the use of digital media: as a learning tool

  • Men sitting playing go game
    Saturday Mar 25, 2023 at 2:00pm / until Aug 26, 2023

    The Ottawa Go Club (https://ottawagoclub.wixsite.com/ogcs) organizes a series of workshops for people who want to improve their knowledge of the Go game. We will discuss various aspects of the game, do practical exercises and problems, explore and practice. Designed for beginners and intermediate players.

    Le Club de Go d'Ottawa (https://ottawagoclub.wixsite.com/ogcs) organise des ateliers pour tous ceux qui aimeraient approfondir leurs connaissances du jeu de Go. On y discute plusieurs aspects du jeu, on fait des exercices et des problèmes, on explore et on s’entraîne. Conçu pour les débutants et les intermédiaires.