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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.

  • English Conversation Group

    Tuesdays, Nov 05, 2024 - Jun 24, 2025
    6:00pm
    90 minutes

    32 sessions remaining

    Practice your English conversation skills in a low-pressure, friendly environment. All levels are welcome. 

  • Meet a lawyer of the  Ontario Legal Information Centre in person

    Wednesday Nov 06, 2024 at 1:00pm
    180 minutes

    Are you dealing with a legal situation? 

    The lawyer of the Ontario Legal Information Centre is available on-site to provide legal information and answer your questions.

    First come, first served.

    Vous faites face à une situation juridique?

    Profitez sur place de l'appui d'une avocate du Centre d'information juridique de l'Ontario pour obtenir de l'information juridique et des réponses à vos questions.

    1 arrivé, 1 servi

  • English Conversation Group

    Wednesdays, Nov 06, 2024 - Jun 25, 2025
    6:30pm
    120 minutes

    64 sessions remaining

    Practice your English conversation skills in a low-pressure, friendly environment. All levels are welcome. Program will start upstairs in the second floor program room. 

  • Thursday Nov 07, 2024 at 10:00am
    75 minutes

    Lest we forget – N'oublions jamais​

    Join us for a lecture by retired Major Denis Hotte of the Canadian Armed Forces. Learn about his military experience and the importance of Remembrance Day.​

    ​Registration required. 

    Thursday November 7th, 10:00 – 11:00 am ​​

  • Couch piled high with crocheted squares

    Tuesdays, Nov 12, 2024 - Jun 10, 2025
    3:00pm
    120 minutes

    8 sessions remaining

    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 and shawls to people in need in the Ottawa area.  ​

    Crocheters and Knitters - please join us to make granny squares for blankets, as well as to join squares, and to crochet or knit blankets and shawls. Everyone is welcome!

  • Text "Dickinson Reads Book Club" next to several books

    Wednesdays, Nov 13, 2024 - Jun 11, 2025
    10:00am
    60 minutes

    8 sessions remaining

    We meet to enjoy lively good-natured discussions of a wide variety of books selected by our members. All assessments, interpretations, and opinions are valued and respected. Everyone is welcome!​

     

  • Tuesday Nov 19, 2024 at 2:00pm
    120 minutes

    This lecture is a demonstration of how to bring old photos back to life! The lecture will discuss different ways to digitize your photos and then provide a demonstration of how to touch them up using the free photo editing software Photoscape X (available for Windows and MacOS). Presented by Lynda Buske from the Ottawa PC Users' Group and the Orleans Photo Club. 

  • Thursdays, Nov 21, 2024 - Dec 19, 2024
    10:30am
    60 minutes

    2 sessions remaining

    Do you mind?!

    Join us for for a FREE brain workout!​

    - Wordle​

    - Memory Training Games​

    - Mind Bending Word Puzzles​

    Thursdays at 10:30-11:30am  ​

    September 19​

    October 24​

    November 21​

    December 19​

  • Blank piece of paper and a pen

    Thursdays, Nov 21, 2024 - Jun 19, 2025
    3:00pm
    60 minutes

    8 sessions remaining

    Are you a hobby writer? Or perhaps you wish you could be. You welcome a time of solitude and your pen begins to move on a blank page. Sometimes you find yourself in a wonderful space, where your imagination blossoms in surprising ways; new insights or moments of beauty, or whole stories emerge, as though out of nothing. Weaving words is your happy place!

    Do you ever have Writer’s Block? If so, you are definitely a writer! Your writing matters to you and you want to be back at it again. Writing is a solitary activity. Yet at the heart of it, writing is about communication and creating community.

    Welcome to the writing circle. Whether your writing is flowing freely or you are in a dry spell, you are in good company here. This is not a course, nor a place where anyone will tell you what you should do or try to fix your writing. It’s a space for exploring your own unique ways of expressing yourself in a safe and supportive environment.

    Writing is a gift we can give ourselves, and a powerful avenue for reflecting on your life experiences. Through times of joy and sorrow, and through times of stress, writing nourishes you, like a medicine or sometimes like a magical potion. Stories, reflections, poetry, memoirs or whatever you want to write, you are welcome here.

    Drop in program.

  • A book, with coffee and glasses beside it

    Saturday Nov 23, 2024 at 2:00pm
    60 minutes

    Join us for a lecture on one of Jane Austen’s lesser-known novels, Persuasion, presented by Carleton Professor, Andrew Wallace.

    Registration required.