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

  • May Day Art Build

    McNabb Community Centre 180 Percy Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Come together to prepare for the May Day March by helping create banners, signs, and noisemakers. Art supplies provided. Kids welcome! When: 1:00pm – 4:00pm – Sunday, April 19th Where: McNabb Community Centre, Preschool Room If you have questions or would like to get involved, contact us at info@maydayottawa.org.

  • Book Launch | The Long Sixties with Joan Kuyek and Lib Spry`

    Great Canadian Theatre Company 1233 Wellington St. W, Ottawa

    Tuesday Apr 21st, 2026 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM  GCTC, 1233 Wellington St. W Octopus Books welcomes Joan Kuyek and Lib Spry to celebrate the Ottawa launch of The Long Sixties: Stories from the New Left, edited by Jim Harding. Sharing their stories as lifelong activists, Joan and Lib will reflect on their victories and defeats, […]

  • digestion, maturation, and death – Queer Death Salon

    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. Come try on a […]

    Free – $30
  • Opening event for “Art is a Weapon” Poster Exhibition

    Gongfu Bao 365 Bank St, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    In 1930s Spain, artists, organizers, unions, and leftist political parties produced thousands of stunning posters promoting revolutionary social change and opposing fascism. In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began when fascists organized a coup to overthrow Spain’s democratically-elected leftist Popular Front government, composed of a coalition of socialists, anarchists, communists, workers’ organizations and social movements. […]

  • Book Launch | Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us

    Abbotsford House 950 Bank St, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Join us to celebrate the lauch of Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us with co-authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks, a jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today’s billionaires. As the ultra-wealthy siphon off an ever-larger share of the world’s wealth, […]

    Free
  • Book Launch | Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer presents wîhtamawik / Tell Them

    Great Canadian Theatre Company 1233 Wellington St. W, Ottawa

    Join Cree poet and kêhtê-aya (Elder) Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer to celebrate the launch of wîhtamawik / Tell Them: On a Life of Inspiration, a new collection of memoirs, essays, and poems. Louise will be joined in conversation by Omeasoo Wahpasiw. The event will be held at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in […]

    Free
  • Atelier – Travail du sexe et organisation collective (French)

    135 Eddy street, Gatineau 135 Eddy street, Gatineau

    Le travail du s*xe subit une marginalisation constante, les travailleuses et travailleurs en paient le prix. Ielles n'ont pas à l'accepter pour autant. Plusieurs d'entre elleux se sont regroupé-es pour organiser leur travail collectivement, et contrer les violences faites envers les travailleuses et travailleurs du sexe, particulièrement les personnes 2SLGBTQIA+. Est ainsi formé le Collectif […]

    Free
  • Hungry for Food Justice?

    Be a part of reviving Food Not Bombs in Ottawa! Are you the kind of person who wants to make sure no one gets left behind? Do you want to build food security in your community? Is it clearer now more than ever that the world needs cooperation and mutual aid, not greed and wanton […]

  • Social Production of Science Reading Group

    Online

    How is science knowledge communicated and circulated? How does these norms effect what is considered Science? In this month's module of the Social Production of Science reading group, we bring you "The Circulation of Science". Here we will discuss the scientific journal, the scientific conference, and the peer review and granting process as methods of […]

    Free
  • Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair – call for tables/workshops

    Online

    Table and workshop applications now open until May 8th! Table applications: https://my.liberaforms.org/ottawa-anarchist-book-fair-2026-vendor-application Workshop applications: https://my.liberaforms.org/oabf-2026-workshop-application The Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair is run by a group of local anarchists and anarchic-organizers who are interested in cultivating a culture of autonomous and decentralized organizing in so-called ottawa. Our fair will have a mixture of literature (books, zines, etc.) […]

    Free
  • Pack the Court & Rally in Support of the Polat 4

    Ottawa Courthouse 161 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Canpolat Sahin, owner of Polat Construction, will be standing trial for sexual assault. We plan on letting him know how we feel about his actions against women, and his former employees who are owed almost $150k. Join us on May 1, 2026 at the Ottawa Courthouse to stand with migrant construction workers!

  • Marche du 1er mai 2026 en Outaouais

    Place De La Cite 500, boulevard de la cite, Gatineaue, Quebec, Canada

    En fin de mandat et à un niveau de popularité très bas, le gouvernement de la Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) continue sur sa lancée de l’austérité, des coupures et adopte des projets de lois nuisibles pour les travailleuses et travailleurs. Il coupe dans les services publics, les programmes sociaux et attaque les droits des travailleuses […]