This year, May the 4th is both Free Comic Book Day AND Star Wars Day! Stupendous!!

While comic books are always free at the library (as long as you return them on their due date, of course), we also want to celebrate this occasion. So join us this morning at the library for some geeky (and family friendly) arts and crafts:

• Superhero themed face painting (10:30 am to noon)
• Star Wars themed colouring and crafts (10:30 to 1PM)
• Make your own button with comic book art (10:30 to 1PM)
• Draw your own comic - and make copies to exchange with friends!

Bonus points for anyone who shows up in costume or cosplay!!

The Ottawa Municipal Liaisons of NaNoWriMo would like to invite you to join them for a monthly recurring write-in to help you keep up your writing habits during the months that are not November.

Bring your pen, paper, laptop, ideas, write besides other writers and participate in challenges! 

Join our free English conversation group to practice speaking in English in a relaxed and friendly environment.

All levels are welcome to this drop-in program.

Rejoignez notre groupe de conversation en anglais gratuit pour pratiquer l'anglais dans une atmosphère détendue.

Tous les niveaux sont les bienvenus à ce programme , inscription non requise.

Join us in the auditorium every Wednesday for a free Wes Anderson film at 6 pm. 

May 8 - Bottle Rocket (1996)

Three friends plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run. | R, 91min

May 15 - Rushmore (1998)

A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta. | R, 93min

May 22 - The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons. | R, 110min

May 29 - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, Oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son. | R, 119min

June 12 - The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other. | R, 91min

June 19 - Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. | PG, 87min

June 26 - Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Two 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention. | PG-13, 94min

July 10 - The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge. | R, 99min

July 17 - Isle of Dogs (2018)

Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog. | PG-13, 101min

July 24 - The French Dispatch (2021)

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine". | R, 107min

July 31 - Asteroid City (2023)

Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever. | PG-13, 105min