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  • poster for Saturday the 14th

    Saturday Oct 14, 2023 at 1:00pm
    210 minutes

    Ottawa Bad Movie Nights and Ottawa Public Library present a screening of Saturday the 14th.

    The film is free to attend, starts at 1:00 PM and will take place in the Main branch auditorium.

  • Photograph of the Parliament Hill skyline taken between the end of the 19th century and 1916.

    Saturday Oct 21, 2023 at 1:00pm
    120 minutes

    Beginning with the ancient Indigenous inhabitants of the Ottawa Valley and Bytown's earliest natural history societies, Randy Boswell explores our evolving relationship with the wildlife with which we share this planet.

    Randy Boswell is a journalist and professor at Carleton University. 

  • posters for both Night of the Living Deads, 1968 and 1990

    Saturday Oct 28, 2023 at 1:00pm
    210 minutes

    Ottawa Bad Movie Nights and Ottawa Public Library present a double-bill screening of Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Night of the Living Dead (1990). The event will also feature trailers and other bits. All zombies, all afternoon!

    The film is free to attend, starts at 1:00 PM and will take place in the Main branch auditorium.

  • poster for Miami Connection

    Wednesday Nov 01, 2023 at 6:30pm
    180 minutes

    Ottawa Bad Movie Nights and Ottawa Public Library present a screening of Miami Connection (1987).

    Please join us from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, at the OPL's Main Branch Auditorium. The event will also feature other bad movie items like trailers and serials.

    The event is free to attend. In English.

    Note: This film is intended for a mature audience. Viewer discretion is advised.

  • Photograph of the Parliament Hill skyline taken between the end of the 19th century and 1916.

    Saturday Nov 04, 2023 at 1:00pm
    120 minutes

    The 1960s, a time when civic leaders were anxious to bulldoze the past to make way for modern thruways and dazzling glass towers of the future.

    Guest speaker Marc Aubin, author of Blight, asks: what chance did families and businesses of a working class neighborhood like Lowertown East have of standing in the way of "progress"?

  • posters for Ninja: The Mission Force, Commando Ninja and Manborg combined.

    Saturday Nov 18, 2023 at 1:00pm
    180 minutes

    Ottawa Bad Movie Nights and Ottawa Public Library present a screening of Ninja: The Mission Force, Commando Ninja and Manborg. That's right, a triple threat!

    The film is free to attend, starts at 1:00 PM and will take place in the Main branch auditorium.

  • drawing of killer shark with red eyes and a Santa hat on its fin

    Wednesday Dec 06, 2023 at 6:30pm
    180 minutes

    Ottawa Bad Movie Nights and Ottawa Public Library present a screening of Santa Jaws (2018).

    Please join us from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, at the OPL's Main Branch Auditorium. The event will also feature other bad movie items like trailers and serials.

    The event is free to attend. In English.

    Note: This film is intended for a mature audience. Viewer discretion is advised.

  • sci-fi poster, man with helmet pointing gun, two characters holding each other, spaceships

    Wednesday Jan 03, 2024 at 6:30pm
    180 minutes

    Ottawa Bad Movie Nights and Ottawa Public Library present a screening of Space Mutiny (1988).

    Please join us from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, at the OPL's Main Branch Auditorium. The event will also feature other bad movie items like trailers and serials.

    The event is free to attend. In English.

    Note: This film is intended for a mature audience. Viewer discretion is advised.

  • stylised poster with Disco Godfather in diamond encrusted clothes and jewelery

    Wednesday Feb 07, 2024 at 6:30pm
    180 minutes

    Ottawa Bad Movie Nights and Ottawa Public Library present a screening of Disco Godfather (1979).

    Please join us from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, at the OPL's Main Branch Auditorium. The event will also feature other bad movie items like trailers and serials.

    The event is free to attend. In English.

    Note: This film is intended for a mature audience. Viewer discretion is advised.

  • cartoon imagery of dandy man holding plant and umbrella, venus flytrap creature behind him about to bite his head

    Wednesday Mar 06, 2024 at 6:30pm
    180 minutes

    Ottawa Bad Movie Nights and Ottawa Public Library present a screening of The Little Shop of Horrors (1960).

    Please join us from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, at the OPL's Main Branch Auditorium. The event will also feature other bad movie items like trailers and serials.

    The event is free to attend. In English.

    Note: This film is intended for a mature audience. Viewer discretion is advised.