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Please Note:
Events listed on this calendar are not organized by the Punch Up Collective unless otherwise noted in the event details.

Queer Death Salon – Remembering Our Dead

Online

Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space, with the purpose of building connection, skill, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. Tuesday, January 14 at […]

Free

Science Fiction and How We Imagine Climate Futures

Online

This event is online: Register here for the link Often science fiction depicts the climate future as unlivable, or as barely survivable only through an intensification of “capitalist realism” – everything is for sale, only the rich have access to technologies sufficient for minimal comfort, and Earth ecologies are in continual free-fall or already destroyed […]

Tenant Organizing Workshop

The workshop will be hosted on January 18, 2025 @2:30pm in Centretown. The location will be sent to those who register! This event will provide a basic introduction to tenant organizing, including an explanation of what a tenant union is, the concrete steps that tenants can take to form one, and some lessons learned from […]

Meet and Greet and Meet the Author Watch Party – Hot Mess

Social Innovation Atelier 95 Clegg St, Ottawa

Join For our Kids Ottawa/Gatineau parents on Saturday January 18 for a casual meet and greet at 3 pm and stay to watch the online conversation and Q&A with author Sarah Marie Wiebe at 4 pm We will gather in the Desjardins Room at St Paul's University, at 95 Clegg St, starting at 3pm. We'll […]

Ottawa South Community Mending Circle – January

Social Innovation Atelier 95 Clegg St, Ottawa

Come learn from our volunteer Mending Mentors, who will show you how to repair or hem your favorite garments, give advice on simple sewing projects, and help with sewing machines. All skill levels are welcome. What to bring: Item to work on such as a garment, cushion, curtain, blanket - see below for details on […]

Book Launch: Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom (Concordia University Press, 2024), edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe

FSS Building, Room 4004, University of Ottawa 120 University Prvt., Ottawa

Registration Link: https://carleton.ca/fist/cu-events/reading-the-room/ Join us Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 6:30pm, for the official launch of Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom (Concordia University Press, 2024), edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe. This groundbreaking collection brings together first-hand experiences from gender and sexuality studies classrooms, offering profound insights […]

Free

Book launch: Burnt by Democracy

Irene's Pub 885 Bank St, Ottawa, ON

Join us for the launch of Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life, a powerful new book by Carleton University Sociology Professor Jacqueline Kennelly. The evening will feature a panel discussion with the author, leading scholars, and youth activists, alongside performances by young musicians. Wednesday, January 22, 7:00pm - 8:30pm Irene's Pub, 885 […]

Disability Justice and Queer Crip Curation

Dunton Tower, Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa

In partnership with the Department of History, Cultural Mediations, and the School for Studies in Art and Culture, join Kenny Fries for an evening discussing the intersections between queer and disability histories. We will explore depictions of "the perfect body" in queer communities, and how individuals who identify as both queer and disabled have been […]

Yes, it is a genocide

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa 404 McArthur Avenue, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Want to learn talking points from anti-Zionist Jews on how to counteract Zionist gaslighting ? Well, some Palestinian solidarity allies organized an information session on Thursday, January 23rd, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa at 404 McArthur Avenue! The event is free of charge. The presentation will consist of video footage of prominent anti-Zionist […]

Breaking Social – documentary screening

The Mayfair Theatre 1074 Bank St, Ottawa, MT, Canada

Oxfam Canada is organizing a free screening of Breaking Social, a documentary by award-winning Fredrik Gertten, at the Mayfair Theatre in Ottawa. The film explores global patterns of kleptocracy and extractivism, weaving threads between global uprisings, shared anger and courageous action. Admission is free, but seats are limited. Please reserve your spot! https://www.eventbrite.ca/.../breaking-social-mayfair...

Snowscreen 2025

Horticulture Building, Landsdowne Park 1525 Princess Patricia Way, Ottawa

Unikkaatuarniq | Stories of the North | Contes du NordExperience Indigenous films from the circumpolar North,Outdoors in a theatre made of snow! DATE:Fri./Sat./Sun., Feb. 7, 8, & 9, 2025, 6-9pm LOCATION(S):Lansdowne Park (Outside the Horticulture building & Aberdeen Pavilion ) 1000 Exhibition Way, Ottawa, ON K1S 5J3&Beandigen Cafe 106-900 Exhibition Way, Ottawa, ON K1S 5J3 […]

ART AGAINST GENOCIDE: Silent Auction

SAW Gallery 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

A silent auction art show and fundraiser in support of Palestine. Donations will go to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Canadian Palestinian Federation of Quebec (CPFQ) and their support for Palestinian Children. Date: Sunday Feb. 9, 6-9pm - Club Saw, 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa. For more information, or to donate art, please contact Don […]