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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.
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| 0 events, | 2 events, -  The Department of Law and Legal Studies’ Towards Anti-Oppression Committee at Carleton University is pleased to present a conversation with Havin Guneser and Prof. Harriet Friedmann. Our guests will introduce the Academy of Social Science, its communes, and the journal Democratic Modernity as a collective platform for anti-oppressive, decolonial, bottom-up learning, research, and political education. […] Free - What does it mean to dance a relationship to one stolen land, Palestine, from another stolen land, Haudenosaunee territory on Turtle Island? This article examines methodological considerations for researching what it means to belong to settler states as exiled and racialized people, while committed to Arab youth thriving and ethical lateral racial relations. Drawing from […] | 1 event, -  Join the Ottawa Queer Zine Collective and the Carleton History Undergraduate Society later this month for HUGging and FISTing: A History Lecture on BDSM and Leather! Ottawa Trans Library, February 25th, 2026 7:00-9:00pm Guest Speaker: Dr. Patrizia Gentile Free | 0 events, | 1 event, - Soup night is back and soupier than ever! Join us at the end of the month for a potluck-style community gathering. Feel free to bring soups, bread, bowls, utensils, to-go containers, etc., or just your wonderful self! Februrary 27th from 5:30pm to 8:30pm at the Ottawa Trans Library (1104 Somerset Street W). Please bring ingredient […] | 0 events, | 0 events, |
2 events, The uOttawa student elections this year March 2-6 are a last chance to save campus/community radio station CHUO 89.1 FM. You can help in the campaign to convince students to "Restore CHUO". This past December, the CHUO board of directors made the decision to close the station due to lack of funds. Pre-recorded broadcasting is […]  Re-establishing student funding for OPIRG-GRIPO is on the ballot during this year's UOSU undergraduate student elections March 2-6. OPIRG-GRIPO, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group at uOttawa, lost student funding in a 2023-2024 referendum, and is in a very precarious financial situation without the student support. Help us ensure students know the importance and history […] | 3 events, -  This Wednesday, hundreds of lead Canadian ministers, military generals, and US NATO representatives will descend on Ottawa for a war conference. They need to hear loud and clear that we reject their plans to ramp up militarism, war profiteering, and arming war crimes and genocide. Show up to protest Wednesday at noon at Chateau Fairmont […] | 3 events, -  Co-sponsored by Kateri Native Ministry KNM and St. Joseph’s Parish, the first annual Fr. Jim Bleackley OMI Memorial Lecture on Indigenous Justice is an opportunity for learning, respectful dialogue, and relationship-building in support of Call to Action 61 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). On Thursday March 5 at 7 pm, Anishinaabe author, professor, […] | 3 events, - Hassan Husseini is a member of the National Steering Committee of Labour for Palestine – Canada. He is a national negotiator for the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) where he represents PSAC members during contract negotiations under federal, provincial and territorial jurisdictions. Husseini has occupied several elected and staff positions within a number of unions including […] | 4 events, SHIFT Film Festival is a queer, BIPOC, and feminist-focused film festival in Ottawa that celebrates bold stories by women and gender non-conforming creators. Over two days at Arts Court, the festival showcases short films, documentaries, and features, alongside engaging panels, live performances, a mini market with local queer artists. - Come work on zines with us as we work on the next issue of The Dragon Flyer, the Ottawa Trans Library’s community zine. Write, draw, scan, cut, and paste with us on our community zine or your own project, or just come hang out with us. We are collecting stories, jokes, poems, art, and more […] -  RISE returns! Building on last year’s concert of protest songs, this year’s program continues the call to action by challenging the expectations that hold us back while embracing the change needed to move forward. Urgent, hopeful, and powerful, RISE blurs the line between stage and seats as we raise our voices together. The concert will […] - Come out on Saturday, March 7 for a night of music, food, and solidarity at Parkdale United Church in Ottawa. Sounds of Solidarity is an upcoming fundraiser show and dinner to support the important work of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP). ICHRP is a grassroots coalition of over 80 organizations […] | 2 events, -  Join us in making a Community Blanket on International Working Women’s Day. Bring your own square (crochet, sew, or knit a 5x 5 inch square) / or make one at the event! We will sew them together as a symbol of our connectedness and strength as a community. Migrante Ottawa, the International Migrants Alliance (IMA), […] Free | |
3 events, - The Feminist Institute of Social Transformation warmly invites you to attend the 2026 Florence Bird Annual Lecture, titled Gender Studies Under Siege: Past Struggles, Present Crises, and Possible Futures in Higher Education. This year's lecture will take the form of a panel discussion featuring Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (Queen's University), Gulzar R. Charania (University of Ottawa), and […]  Combining political education and interactive work, we will reflect on the parallels between the South African and Palestinian struggle, ground ourselves in the ongoing fight for divestment, and strategize ways to organize collectively on campus today. Featuring Kevin Skerrett, who was part of the student group that successfully pushed the university to divest from companies […] -  This film documents a process of redress undertaken by Dr. Dylan Robinson (Stó:lō/Skwah) and members of the Nisga'a Nation (Keane Tait, Michael Dangeli) with the Canadian Opera Company for their 2017 production of Louis Riel, which contains the unauthorized use of a Nisga'a Limx ooy song belonging to the House of Sgat'iin. This documentary explores […] | 5 events, -  This event explores how carceral bureaucracies and corporate telecommunications interests have transformed family contact into a profit center, from Adams County's groundbreaking "Right to Hug" class action to jail policies across the United States that replace in-person visits with costly, glitchy, and surveilled video calls. The following questions frame the core issues to be addressed […] -  Members' gathering in front of MP Marie-France Lalonde's office With other SCAN Ottawa members, you can let MPs know that climate action must be a priority. There will be signs to share or bring your own. Join us and be sure to stay afterwards for some social time at a nearby cafe. Bring a friend! - In this lecture, Professor Dylan Robinson will argue that public art plays a significant role in the formation of settler subjectivity and indigenous resurgence by focusing on non-human forms of vocal address and in particular, the sensory appeals of public art. Location: College of the Humanities (Patterson Hall 303) @ Carleton University | 1 event, -  Join us for a teach-in on Divestment for a Just Transition. Student groups will explore how divestment can support climate justice, Palestinian solidarity, and affordable education. March 11 | 7-9 pm | UCU 215📍 /// Joignez-vous à nous pour un teach-in sur le désinvestissement pour une transition juste. Des groupes étudiants discuteront de la façon […] | 3 events, -  Ian Angus is a socialist and ecosocialist activist in Canada. He is the editor of the ecosocialist journal Climate and Capitalism. He will present his latest book, The War Against the Commons. "Mass opposition to dispossession has never ceased. This dramatic account provides new insights into an opposition that ranged from stubborn non-compliance to open […] -  Please join us for an evening celebration of International Women’s Day 2026, jointly hosted by the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW) and the Archives and Special Collections (ARCS) at the University of Ottawa. Registration is required. Inspired by the 1981 “Community Festival Against the Klan” organized by the Riverdale Action Committee Against […]  We’re hosting a fundraiser filled with food, music, art, speeches and more to raise funds for essential food, medicine and supplies to Cubans in need during their current crisis through our friends at the Student Christian Movement. | 0 events, | 1 event, “Pat, the evasive, androgynous SNL character played by Julia Sweeney, was a ubiquitous presence in the pop culture ether of the 1990s. As a kid, filmmaker Ro Haber grappled with a strange obsession with Pat — a character whose popularity hinged on them making others wildly uncomfortable with their refusal to adhere to strict gender […] | 2 events, - Join us for a day of action and solidarity for the Day Against Police Brutality. The event will include art performance, poetry, and drag king performance. Free -  Yuk Yuk’s hits the Bronson Centre starring Chris Quigley, Sarah Boston, and host Dan Allaire. Proceeds go directly to Sudan humanitarian aid $36.27 |
1 event, "This is unequivocally the biggest threat to our single-payer, universal Medicare system we've ever seen. Not just for Albertans, but for all Canadians." - Friends of Medicare. The Danielle Smith government has passed a new law to bring down single-tier Public Medicare and bring in U.S. private health care and insurance. In Ontario, Doug Ford […] | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, -  Please join us for a rare Ottawa screening of The Sun Quartet (2017) by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Tehuacán), a Mexican collective of anonymous filmmakers founded in 2012. The Sun Quartet engages with the horrifying disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in 2014 and the protests that followed. Across its four parts, The Quartet remains true to the collective's […] | 0 events, | 1 event, Join Climate Justice Ottawa for an evening of warm soup and burning solidarity to raise funds in support of Nehirowisiw Aski land defenders blocking logging companies from their traditional territories. The event will feature a cozy community dinner featuring a wide variety of soups, art making, and screening of two documentaries about the struggle by […] | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 2 events, WALKOUT FOR OSAP! The All Out For OSAP Ottawa Coalition are joining colleges, universities, high schools across the province to protest to reverse the changes. Protest at Ottawa Provincial Courthouse, March 24th at 1:30PM to fight back against the cuts to OSAP. Education is a right, we will not give up the fight. /// GRÈVE […] -  M. E. O’Brien will lecture on the relationship between gender freedom and capitalism. She will begin by identifying the current fascist assault on trans rights across multiple national contexts. After briefly tracing varying current strategies of trans survival, organizing and flourishing, she will turn to the role of trans futures and utopian longings in movement […] | 0 events, | 2 events, -  Join us for a conversation with Shane Gunster on Petro‑Capitalism and Climate Denial. We will consider how narratives of denial are produced and circulated in Canada’s petro‑public sphere. This session offers a clear look at how industry influence shapes public debate, and what it means for climate justice movements working to shift the story. -  Please join legal observer collective 613 Pink Vests for this workshop on policing Palestine solidarity in Ottawa, featuring presentations and reports from researchers, lawyers, and activists with expertise and on-the-ground experience in the Palestine liberation movement. We'll learn about the criminalization of Palestine solidarity in Ottawa and across Canada, as well as how the movement […] Free | 0 events, | 1 event, -  Be part of a worldwide protest against Tru*p and the current US administration. We have the power and are claiming it together. No Tyrants. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings in the US. What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained international resistance to tyranny, spreading from small towns […] | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, - Come work on zines with us as we work on the next issue of The Dragon Flyer, the Ottawa Trans Library’s community zine. Write, draw, scan, cut, and paste with us on our community zine or your own project, or just come hang out with us. We are collecting stories, jokes, poems, art, and more […] | 0 events, |
