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

October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification: Issue Visas and Arrange Evacuations NOW

From October 1 to October 21, please pick a day to fast (according to your own tradition of fasting) to demand the immediate evacuation from Gaza of all remaining 3,700 Palestinian applicants for Canadian visas and the finalization of all 2,500+ applications for Palestinian genocide survivors still stranded in Egypt. During your fast day, we […]

Free

Intifada Community Bail Fund Benefit

LIVE! on Elgin 220 Elgin St #2, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L7, Canada, Ottawa, NY, United States

Join us on October 2 at Live! on Elgin for a night of music, art, and community. We’re bringing folks together with live music from Jackrabbits and the Jackki Harrt band, live readings from local writers and artists, as well as stories from our activists on the front lines. This is not just a concert, […]

Workshop: Getting It Together – Organizing Collectives for the Real World

Jack Purcell Community Centre 320 Jack Purcell Lane, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The Punch Up Collective will be facilitating a “Getting It Together: Organizing Collectives for the Real World” workshop on the afternoon of Saturday, October 4th, 2025. This workshop is for anyone interested in starting a collective, or those keen to discuss how to make a collective they’re already a part of more effective and sustainable. […]

Rise Up For Gaza: International Day of Action

Parliament Hill Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

OTTAWA TWO YEARS OF GENOCIDE: RISE UP FOR GAZA. On October 4th, we will take the streets and shut it down. We are making it clear: the people of the world stand with Gaza, and demand a total arms embargo and sanctions against Israel. As we mark two years of genocide, we recall our responsibility […]

Collaborative zine making night at the Ottawa Trans Library

Ottawa Trans Library 1104 Somerset St. West, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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 […]

Rallies of Allies for Court Support – Solidarity with Kebaowek

Federal Court of Canada 90 Sparks Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada

The Federal Court of Appeal will hear our case on October 8– the first major test of Canada’s UNDRIP Act, following the decision of Justice Blackhawk. The Kebaowek First Nation has recently achieved two major victories in Federal Court: in February, Justice Julie Blackhawk ruled that the CNSC had failed its constitutional duty to consult […]

Film Screening: Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019)

Bring friends & watch award-winning film "Gaza Fights for Freedom" with rare archival footage of the historic Great March of Return in 2018. Come join us for a powerful evening in DMS Room 1160 at 55 Laurier Ave E to watch this eye-opening documentary. Witness the resilience and struggles of the people of Gaza as […]

Sexual Bereavement – Queer Death Salon

Online

Let’s gather and engage with our questions and feelings about: -sex after the death of a loved one. -the disenfranchised grief of polyamorous and kinky relational loss. -how pleasure and erotic energy can support our mourning. -changes in desire as death approaches for ourselves or a loved one. -cultural expectations of how a widow should […]

Free – $30

Street medics workshop – Fight to win series

135 Eddy street, Gatineau 135 Eddy street, Gatineau

The system is failing us. Poverty is spreading, and the overdoses crisis is here to stay. The best way out is to help each other. The workshop will teach : - The basics of first aid; - How to help people who have overdosed; - How to help people who have been injured during protests […]

Policing Black Lives (2nd ed) – Book launch with Robyn Maynard

SAW Gallery 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

WHO AND WHAT? Join us for an evening with award-winning and best-selling author and scholar Robyn Maynard (@policingblack) as she launches the revised and expanded edition of her book “Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present” (published @fernpub) on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinaabe Territory | in Ottawa. Following her […]