Can't stay up until midnight? Join us for games, activities and snacks before we count down to noon! A New Year's event for the whole family. Ring in 2025 early! Drop-in program.

Tu ne peux pas rester debout jusqu'à minuit? Joins-toi à nous pour des jeux, des activités et une collation avant le compte à rebours de midi! Célèbre l’arrivée de la nouvelle année 2025 en avance! Un événement pour toute la famille. Programme portes-ouvertes.

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.

Members of the Blackburn Hamlet Book Club meet to enjoy and discuss a wide variety of books selected by book club members. All welcome!

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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

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. 

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