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  • Woman clutching her hair in frustration, looking at her laptop

    Saturday Jun 22, 2024 at 2:00pm
    120 minutes

    The average time it takes for an unprotected computer to be compromised after connecting to the Internet is under 15 minutes. Don't let it be yours!

    Chris Taylor, President of the Ottawa PC Users' Group, will show you the simple steps you need to take to keep your PC from being hacked.

    And best of all, it can be done for free!

    **Please note that you are not required to bring your laptop for the session.

  • Fridays, May 10, 2024 - May 12, 2024
    10:00am
    480 minutes

    3 sessions remaining

    Drop in during opening hours from  May 1 to May 12 to complete a self-directed scavenger hunt. Ages 3-8.

    Passez nous voir entre le1 mai et le 12 mai  pendant les heures d’ouverture pour participer à une chasse au trésor. Pour les enfants de 3 à 8 ans.

  • Fridays, May 10, 2024 - May 31, 2024
    10:30am
    90 minutes

    4 sessions remaining

    Join us in our children's area to play and chat! Drop-in program.

    Joignez-vous à nous au département des enfants pour jouer et socialiser. Portes ouvertes.

  • 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.

  • Pile of books with children reading, yellow background

    Fridays, May 10, 2024 - Jun 21, 2024
    11:00am
    45 minutes

    4 sessions remaining

    This Spring, the Ottawa Public Library is offering free drop-in Storytime programs at the Hunt Club-Riverside Community Centre on the second Friday of every month. Come and join us for some fun stories, songs, rhymes and dancing! The Friday Storytimes will begin at 11am, and will run for 45 minutes. 

    Ce printemps, un vendredi sur deux, la Bibliothèque publique d’Ottawa offrira l’Heure du conte en famille bilingue au Centre communautaire Hunt Club Riverside. Ces programmes commençeront à 11h, et dureront 45 minutes. Joignez-vous à nous pour des histoires, chansons, comptines et danses amusantes pour toute la famille!

  • 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 is full

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

  • Web banner for travel

    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.