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Book Banter (2024-2025 Season)

Hazeldean

Fridays, Oct 04, 2024 - Mar 07, 2025
1:30pm
90 minutes
5 sessions remaining

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Share the enjoyment of good books in a relaxed atmosphere at the Hazeldean Library.

Join us for discussions on the first Friday of every month.

September 13: Meet & Greet - Talk about our summer reading

October 4: "All Things Consoled" by Elizabeth Hay (Memoir)

November 1: "Light Between Oceans" by M.L. Stedman (Fiction)

December 6: "State of Terror" by Hillary Clinton & Louise Penny (Fiction)

No Meeting in January

February 7: "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline (Canadian)

March 7: "Cul-de-Sac" by Joy Fielding (Canadian-Mystery)

April 4: "Looking for Jane" by Heather Marshall (Canadian)

May 2: "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (Canadian-Fiction)

June 6: "The Dinner" by Herman Koch (Fiction)
Calm & Creative - Fall Painting

Beaverbrook

Friday Oct 04, 2024 at 2:30pm
60 minutes

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Join us for a relaxing afternoon, with a craft and a cup of tea. All supplies will be provided. All skill levels welcome. In this session, we will be painting a fall scene on canvas with acrylic paint.
La société secrète fondée à Ottawa

St-Laurent

Saturday Oct 05, 2024 at 1:00pm
60 minutes

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Comme les catholiques irlandais, avec les Chevaliers de Colomb, et les protestants anglais, avec leurs loges maçonniques et l'Ordre d'Orange, le Canada français avait sa propre société secrète : l' Ordre de Jacques-Cartier .

Communément appelé « La Patente », l'Ordre fut établi en 1926 dans l'est d'Ottawa et deviendra, pendant cinq décennies, l'épée et le bouclier de tout le Canada français.

Conférencier invité: Hugues Théorêt , Auteur de La Patente l'Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, le dernier bastion du Canada français

Organisé par la Société d'histoire d'Ottawa

Présentation en français, aucune inscription requise
Aging in Place with Home Modifications with The Council of Aging

Carlingwood

Monday Oct 07, 2024 at 1:00pm
120 minutes

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Participants will explore what’s involved (practically, emotionally, and financially) in considering whether they can or should stay in their current home, and which home modifications might ease their lives now and allow them to stay in their homes longer.

Registration limited. Please pre-register online.
Writing Workshop

North Gloucester

Mondays, Oct 07, 2024 - Dec 02, 2024
6:00pm
120 minutes
3 sessions remaining

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Come and share your writing and participate in guided writing activities with other writers in the neighborhood. Writers of all genres and skill levels are welcome.
Fun With Zentangle

Stittsville

Monday Oct 07, 2024 at 6:30pm
90 minutes

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Adults are welcome to join as we learn how to create unique designs with this meditative art form. Zentangle is a form of art that involves drawing patterns and lines. Supplies and instructions are provided.
Purls of Wisdom

Beaverbrook

Mondays, Oct 07, 2024 - Dec 16, 2024
6:30pm
120 minutes
3 sessions remaining

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Join us monthly at the Beaverbrook Branch for an evening of crafting. Bring your knitting, crochet, embroidery, felting and sewing projects and work on them in the company of fellow crafters. Share tips and techniques and show of your projects if you like! All are welcome!
Monday Evening Book Club

Rideau

Mondays, Oct 07, 2024 - Dec 02, 2024
6:45pm
90 minutes
3 sessions remaining

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Share the pleasure of reading and discussing books ranging from the classics to the contemporary, but mostly fiction, in a relaxed atmosphere

(If the first Monday of a month falls on a Civic Holiday, the book club will be postponed to the following week)

September 9 - Metamorphosis by F. Kafka

October 7 - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

November 4 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

December 2 - A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Adult Crafternoon: Festive Paper Pumpkins

North Gower

Tuesday Oct 08, 2024 at 2:00pm
60 minutes

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Join us for an afternoon of crafting! Participants will create unique 3D paper pumpkins for home décor or gift giving. Supplies will be provided.
Granny Squares for Warmth 2024-2025

Ruth E. Dickinson

Tuesdays, Oct 08, 2024 - Jun 10, 2025
3:00pm
120 minutes
9 sessions remaining

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The Granny Squares for Warmth (GSFW) group was created in November 2020 as a Barrhaven-based group with a mission to create and donate hand-made blankets in the Ottawa area.

In addition to blankets, members have also made and donated shawls, hats, and baby wear.

Join us to crochet and join granny squares, to share and learn crochet stitches and techniques and to build a sense of community by making blankets for those in need.
Everyone is welcome!