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Wednesday Jan 08, 2025 at 6:30pm
150 minutes
Ottawa Bad Movie Nights and Ottawa Public Library present a screening of Barbarella (1968).
Please join us from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, 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.
Monday Jan 13, 2025 at 1:30pm
90 minutes
Join us as we discuss :Miss Benson's Beetle" by Rachel Joyce. Copies of the book are available at the Osgoode Library service hub. All are welcome, drop in.
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025 at 6:00pm
60 minutes
Attend the third workshop of our "Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library (OWSL) Presents..." series.
During this workshop, you will learn how to sow your native seeds on your own.
Date: Tuesday, January 14 from 6 pm to 7 pm
*Clients are encouraged to register for this event as space is limited.
Monday Jan 20, 2025 at 2:00pm
60 minutes
Members of the Blackburn Hamlet Book Club meet to enjoy and discuss a wide variety of books selected by book club members. All welcome!
Drop in.
Jan 20, 2025 Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
Feb 10, 2025* The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neil
Mar 17 2025 Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Apr 14, 2025* Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
May 12,2025* All the light we Cannot see by Anthony Doerr
Friday Jan 24, 2025 at 2:00pm
90 minutes
When the kids are not in school on PA days, don't let their creativity dwindle! Let them show off your architectural creativity with Lego®! Drop-in program.
Lorsque les enfants sont en congés lors des journées pédagogiques, ne les laissez pas perdre leur créativité ! Laissez les devenir des architectes en herbes avec nos Lego®! Inscription non requise.
Saturday Jan 25, 2025 at 2:30pm
90 minutes
In A Quiet Girl, adopted Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills commits, on camera and in real time, to unravelling the mystery of his complex beginnings in Newfoundland. Spurred on by a meager clue in his adoption documents, Wills spends two years travelling from the spare beauty of Canada’s most eastern coastline to the red heat of Arizona in search of answers. What Wills finally uncovers pierces into the meaning of family, revealing disquieting parallels between his own life and that of the birth mother he never knew. This moving feature documentary combines 16mm footage and contemporary images with deeply personal conversations, transforming an urgent search for identity into a quest to give a quiet girl her voice. Ultimately, Wills honours his birth mother’s resilience and, in doing so, reveals his own.
2023. 86 minutes. English.
Courtesy of the National Film Board.
Drop-in
Friday Jan 31, 2025 at 2:00pm
90 minutes
When the kids are not in school on PA days, don't let their creativity dwindle! Let them show off your architectural creativity with Lego®! Drop-in program.
Lorsque les enfants sont en congés lors des journées pédagogiques, ne les laissez pas perdre leur créativité ! Laissez les devenir des architectes en herbes avec nos Lego®! Inscription non requise.
Wednesday Feb 05, 2025 at 6:30pm
150 minutes
Ottawa Bad Movie Nights and Ottawa Public Library present a screening of New York Ninja (2021).
Please join us from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, 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.
Monday Feb 10, 2025 at 1:30pm
60 minutes
Join us as we discuss "The Maid" by Nita Prose. Copies of the book are available at the Osgoode Library service hub. All are welcome, drop in.
Monday Feb 10, 2025 at 2:00pm
60 minutes
Members of the Blackburn Hamlet Book Club meet to enjoy and discuss a wide variety of books selected by book club members. All welcome!
Drop in.
Feb 10, 2025* The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neil
Mar 17 2025 Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Apr 14, 2025* Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
May 12,2025* All the light we Cannot see by Anthony Doerr