BBT's Tenant Displacement Fundraiser Art Show!!
2025-09-06 | ON
The Bank Block Tenants are hosting an art show on the block before we are forcefully displaced from our homes. We are looking for local artists to participate in this event by donating original pieces or prints of their work. Proceeds from sales will go towards supporting our moving expenses and short-term needs as we look for new homes. The percentage of profits donated will be left to the discretion of each individual artist.
The Bank Block Art Show will take place the evening of Saturday, September 6th in Centretown. This is short notice, but thanks to the Landlord and Tenant Board, we do not have the luxury of time on our hands.
Bank Block has a rich cultural history of being home to not only Wallack’s Art Supplies for nine decades (before they too were evicted) but of being known as an artist hub, home to studios of several prominent Ottawa-based artists. To learn more about the history of Bank Block please check out Beyond the Facade: Tenant Impact Report. If you are not familiar with our struggle to preserve affordable housing and cultural heritage, you can learn more by visiting our website or checking out our instagram page.
Please fill out the below form if you would like to participate in this event, and we will be in touch! We hope to see you there.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Neighbourhood Organizing Centre, OttawaNOC@gmail.com. They are helping us plan the logistics for this event!

Roots & Resilience: A Gathering of Culture & Community
2025-09-06 13:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Andrew Haydon Park, Carling Avenue at Holly Acres Road., Ottawa, ON
Join us Saturday September 6th at 1 pm at Andrew Hayden Park for our community gathering – Roots & Resilience: A Gathering of Culture & Community.
Bring your own food, propane BBQ, chairs and picnic materials! It will be an afternoon of cultural affirmation with a tatreez circle, screen printing, ice breaker activities and a community discussion on this moment and our role in the diaspora.
Chickpeas will be present with delicious falafel to sell (while supplies last).
Tatreez Circle: Kits will be available for a minimum donation of $5 or bring your own!
Screen-printing: Bring your own shirt to customize for a minimum donation of 5$. Plain shirts will be available for purchase to customize for $10.
All day Tatreez & Screen Printing starting at 2PM while supplies last. Community Discussion at 5PM.
DATE: Saturday Sept 6
TIME 1-7PM
PLACE: Andrew Haydon Park – Picnic Site Area

Laylit 7-Year Anniversary Tour
2025-09-06 21:00 - 2025-09-07 02:00 | Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa, K1N 7B9
Laylit, the acclaimed platform and collective celebrating music and artists from the Arab and SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region and its diaspora, is bringing its seventh anniversary tour to Club SAW in Ottawa on Saturday, September 6, 2025, presented in partnership with Debaser.
The anniversary stop will feature an electrifying lineup: New York City-based Arianna Danae, Ottawa’s own DJ Zraa, and Laylit resident DJs Nadim Maghzal and MNSA. Together, they will deliver a vibrant dance party that pushes musical boundaries while fostering community connection.
19+ / licensed
Club SAW is a wheelchair accessible space. The indoor venue is accessible by a ramp from street level, the doors are automatic, and bathrooms are wheelchair accessible (including adult-sized change tables). Bathrooms are also gender neutral.
Free harm reduction supplies, including masks and earplugs, are available at the box office while supplies last.

Solidarity Social - Palestine Solidarity Ottawa Centre
2025-09-07 14:00 - 17:00 | 100 Brewer Way, Ottawa, ON K1S 5T1, Canada
We would like to invite you to our fall solidarity social, happening Sunday, September 7th at Brewer Park, 100 Brewer Way, (near Carleton University) from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm. We will be at the picnic tables at the Brewer Park playground – please look for the Palestinian flags. This will be a space to get to know people who are actively working towards a Free Palestine.
We encourage you to bring your tatreez and embroidery projects, and art supplies will be available. We recommend that you bring your own blanket and if you can, please feel free to bring a snack or a refreshment to share.
Brewer Park is located just off of Bronson Ave, and is accessible for mobility devices and strollers. There is parking on site, and is on the OC transpo number 7 and 10 routes and O-train Line 2.
Please find the accessibility and COVID-19 information below:

The park is on one level, and there are no steps between the grass and the concrete areas where tables are located.
The bathrooms have automatic doors and stalls designed for those using mobility devices.
The playground includes activities suitable for various bodies and abilities.
There are accessible parking spots.
To reduce the risk of airborne infections (including COVID-19) in crowded outdoor settings, we require masks to be worn around the food tables. Masks are optional in other areas where there is more airflow and individuals are spaced out.
Masks (surgical and respirators) are acceptable for this outdoor setting and will be provided for free on-site.
We ask that attendees avoid wearing scented products to this event.
Food will be labelled with common allergens.

Grief and Political Identity
2025-09-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Hosted by Queer Community Deathcare
Facilitated by Vistoria Rutledge
Drawing from her own intersectional identity and spiritual evolution, Victoria is thrilled to guide us through an exploration of our bodies and minds as we discuss what roles we have to play in our unfolding future.
Prepare to move just a bit, think critically, sow hope, and acknowledge the grief of living in this world while dreaming into the futures we desire!
Victoria Rutledge is a tenured yoga teacher and certified death doula, with experience leading group processing sessions, leading workshops and retreats, and hospice volunteering. Passionate about self inquiry and creating an equitable and just world for all people, she finds purpose in creating spaces to hold the vastness of the human experience.
This is a facilitated drop-in 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.

Palestinian Family Reunification NOW! Vigil for Canada to Issue Visas for All Gaza Applicants
2025-09-10 11:00 - 13:00 | 300 Slater Street.
Please join our weekly vigil to reunite Palestinian Canadians with their loved ones from Gaza on Wednesday, September 10 from 11 am to 1 pm (we meet every Wednesday at this same time) at 300 Slater (at Kent), the Ottawa offices of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Canada must immediately open an emergency humanitarian corridor to urgently evacuate all program applicants to prevent further death and physical and psychological harm to those who, by all rights, should have been in Canada with their families long ago. One of those applicants is Ahmed, who has been separated from his family (including son Mohammed and daughter Sujoud, shown in the picture above) since April 2024.
As the apartheid regime threatens a complete takeover of Gaza, it is more important than ever that our voices are heard.
Every week, we bring family images and stories to the headquarters of a bureaucracy that fails to respect the life and death consequences of its failures in the Gaza Temporary Visa program.
Since the Gaza Temporary Visa program was implemented in January 2024, Canada has assisted in the evacuation of fewer than 2% of program applicants, an astounding number considering the daily risk of being blown to bits or suffering the slow death of starvation.
During the final weekend in July, Canada reportedly evacuated 11 Canadian citizens from Gaza. This contradicts their stated position that they are powerless to get families across the border.
Right now, Canada is insisting no one can leave without biometrics (fingerprints and photographs). This violates Canada’s own very specific program guidelines: “Given the situation we understand that you won’t be able to give your biometrics or complete a full admissibility check until you’ve left Gaza. If your application passes a preliminary eligibility and admissibility assessment we’ll forward your name to the local authorities to facilitate your exit from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing.”
Canada already has photographs because all applicants sent copies of their passports. In addition, since Israeli apartheid occupation authorities have a registry of all Palestinians in Gaza, they would be the first to say no to the exit of anyone they felt posed some theoretical threat. But Canada is not even willing to take the word of its Israeli allies on this matter.
Instead, it is assuming, based on anti-Palestinian racism, that all Palestinians are a threat until they prove otherwise. That includes starving children, grandmothers, school teachers, health care workers, farmers, gravely injured and ill program applicants.
The Canadian government’s assumption of guilt mirrors (indeed, goes far beyond) the Obama assassination-by-drone policy which, as reported in 2012, “in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants … unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.”
Canada can shed as many tears as it likes over the losses of hundreds of program applicants who would be here safe with their families were it not for wrongfully treating every Palestinian as a supposed threat. But that is no consolation for those traumatized for life by these immeasurable losses. It must take action.
The only Palestinians who have made it to Canada (861 as of July 1, 2025) made it out on their own by exhausting life savings to pay border bribes to escape before the closure and demolition of Rafah. In the same 540-day period under the Ukraine program, over 650,000 visas had been approved and 186,454 arrived in Canada. In the first year of the program, over 8,000 Israelis were granted visas to come to Canada.
Clearly, Canada has the capacity to process applications in the same time period it did for Ukrainians (average 14-day turnaround), and it also has the ability to facilitate evacuations.
The fact that it has not done so is not a matter of organizational ability or staff resources. Rather it is rooted in systemic anti-Palestinian racism, and the ludicrous racial profiling presumption of guilt that every Palestinian in Gaza is a risk until proven otherwise.
In the meantime, far too many loved ones have been killed waiting for Canada, a shameful reflection of another bleak period in our history when Jews fleeing a genocide were turned away under a None is Too Many policy.
Please join us for this peaceful vigil every Wednesday organized by Ottawa Palestinians with loved ones in Gaza and the Canadian Palestinian Family Reunification Project of the Rural Refugee Rights Network. tasc@web.ca

Policing "Hate", the Rhythms of Repression and the threat to Civil Liberties (Myron Rusk Lecture offered by Lesley Wood)
2025-09-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa
The Jean Teron Green Room at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers or online
The policing of the Palestine solidarity movement in Toronto since October 8 2023 reveals how a narrative of “challenging hate” can be used to legitimize a dangerous crackdown on civil liberties. As an engaged scholar, I will argue that to understand how this has happened, one must take history and temporality seriously; with its narratives, institutional dynamics and emotional dimensions.
Lesley Wood is a Professor of Sociology at York University who studies social movements and protest policing. In November 2023, she was arrested as one of the” Indigo 11″ and accused of putting paint and posters on an Indigo bookstore. The posters condemned Indigo’s CEO for her funding of the HESEG Foundation, which provides scholarships to ‘lone soldiers’, non-Israelis who volunteer to serve in Israel’s Defence Forces. Her charges have now been withdrawn.
To register, please see the webpage

Draw The Line O.G. - The "Get Ready" Ride (Critical Mass Bike Ride)
2025-09-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Confederation Park, Elgin and Laurier, Ottawa
The Ottawa-Gatineau DRAW THE LINE mass bike ride/action will be on Friday September 19th in the early evening, in advance of the DRAW THE LINE rally and march on September 20th.
To continue the build up and preparations, we are holding a final ‘Get Ready’ ride one week before: meet 6pm Friday September 12th at Confederation Park.
This will be a Critical Mass style ride; part of preparing is to ensure more people are ‘Critical Mass literate’ – and the best way is by experience. Some of the principles: We don’t have a pre-planned route, it is up to the people at the front where we go, and we rotate who is at the front at different times during the ride. The ‘red light’ intersection approach depends on how many people are riding. And remember: “We aren’t blocking traffic, we are traffic!”
At the August 29 ride, we decided to have everyone wear red for September 12’s ride, to add a dimension to how we appear to drivers etc. So please do that if you can.
Also, please let us know in advance if you’ll be there with panniers on your bike, or with a cargo/passenger bike, or other ways to potentially carry signage: fridaysfutureottawa@gmail.com – we want to work on that aspect of the riding.
We are hoping we can make September 19th a big ride!
Part of it is a distributed approach to promo: see the folder here http://tinyurl.com/s19bikepromo with posters, social media graphics, and email text, to use to help spread the word!
We could have hundreds of us on bikes taking back the streets on September 19th, and thousands marching in the streets September 20th, but it depends on how well we make sure other people other know that’s what we’re doing.
Solidarité!
Full background info and further details on the FridaysForFutureOttawa.org website.
*If it ends up raining right around 6pm, the meeting location for the ride shifts across the street to under the awnings at City Hall’s entrance.

Ottawa Run for Palestine 2k, 5k, 10k: 10th Annual Charity Walk/Run
2025-09-13 09:00 - 15:30 | Hog’s Back Park, 600 Hog's Back Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1V1H8, Canada
Get ready to lace up your running shoes and make a difference at this year’s electrifying 10 th annual charity 2K Walk, 5K/10K RUN @ Ottawa Run For Palestine 2025!
Whether you’re a seasoned runner or just love a good challenge, it’s time to rally your friends, family, and colleagues to join forces and create a powerhouse team that’s ready to conquer the track and support a worthy cause.
This race isn’t just about crossing the finish line—it’s about coming together as a community to raise vital funds and awareness for a cause close to our hearts. With every step you take, you’ll be making a tangible impact on the lives of those in need. All proceeds will be going through Islamic Relief’s food and health emergency project in Gaza.
You don’t run? No problem! We have something for everyone. You can join our 2km walk, join for the warm-up, or just show-up to take-in all the vibes!
What are you waiting for? Gather your squad, ignite your passion for philanthropy, and let’s hit the ground running at Run For Palestine 2024! Together, we can turn miles into meaningful moments and make a lasting difference. Sign up now and be part of something truly extraordinary!
Get your running shoes ready and bring on your beautiful smiles, we are running rain or shine! 9 am- 11:30 am onsite registration11:30 am- 1:00 pm run1:30 pm- 3:30 pm Medal Awarding and Fundraising and Socializing.
Register @ http://ottawarunforpalestine.com/register
Ottawarunforpalestine.com
https://fundraise.islamicreliefcanada.org/…/ottawa-run… Ottawa Run For Palestine | Crowdfunding

Art Build
2025-09-14 13:00 - 17:00 | St Peter’s Lutheran Church, 400 Sparks Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada
ART AS ACTIVISM!We have a lot of Banners and posters to make for the 2025 Ottawa-Gatineau DRAW THE LINE MarchPlease join us on Sunday, September 14 from 1-5pm at St Peter’s Lutheran Church at 400 Sparks StreetSchedule1-130pm – set up130-4pm – painting banners & posters4-5pm – clean up and drying time for art_______________________________________________________________And just a reminder that the DRAW THE LINE March will be Saturday, September 20!
JOIN US FOR THE 2025 OTTAWA-GATINEAU DRAW THE LINE MARCH Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025 Ottawa Contingent Meeting Point: Corner of Elgin & Wellington Gatineau Contingent Meeting Point: Maison du Citoyen
We’re drawing the line — for People. For Peace. For the Planet.The 2025 Ottawa-Gatineau DRAW THE LINE March is part of a global mobilization and national day of action to stand united for justice in every part of our lives. This movement goes beyond climate — we stand together with Indigenous, migrant, economic, racial, and anti-war movements building a better future by: Building a renewable future Upholding Indigenous sovereignty Fighting for migrant justice Standing up for peace and democracy Investing in people and public services
Join the CoalitionThis March is being organized by a growing coalition of dedicated organizations working in solidarity. We invite your organization to join us as: a Coalition Member-actively involved in strategy, planning, and joint actions as formal core partners; a Supporter-offering strong backing through resources, influence, or platforms but not engaged in day-to-day organizing; or an Endorser-publicly supporting the cause with no ongoing involvement. If If interested, please fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/dpoGTnGPonLxTG5X6

Get Involved – HOW TO PLUG IN to help with Mobilization and/or Organization: https://docs.google.com/…/1JPXxIkGnTwu0Bc7KW2SO…/edit…

Bring your community March with us to demand bold action

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Stalinism and Maoism versus Socialism from Below – a four-part study group based on Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left, by David Camfield, Fernwood Books 2025
2025-09-14 19:00 - 20:30 | ON
Stalinism and Maoism versus Socialism from Below – a four-part study group based on Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left, by David Camfield, Fernwood Books 2025
PLEASE NOTE THE NEW DATES: Now starts Sunday September 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Free
Increasingly, people are responding to the contemporary crises of capitalism by exploring the politics of communism. Some have taken a sympathetic, even nostalgic, view of “actually existing socialist” (AES) societies past and present, including the USSR, China, and Cuba, and the Marxist-Leninist political tradition associated with them. They see these states as a powerful alternative to capitalism, governed by parties genuinely committed to socialism and staunchly resisting Western imperialism. But were these societies really in transition towards a classless, stateless society of freedom — the original communist goal? Is Marxism-Leninism the political approach that should orient people on the left now? Are there alternative traditions of communism?
Red Flags traces the path from the 1917 Russian Revolution to the construction of the world’s first AES society: the USSR. It also looks at the post-revolution societies created along the same lines in China and Cuba. Using the intellectual tools of historical materialism, Red Flags argues that they were not in fact moving towards communism because the social relations remained fixed in class exploitation. The workers were never liberated.
At a time of burgeoning anti-communism from both conservatives and liberals, this book is an accessible, vibrant synthesis of the history of communism that draws on the latest research to develop a rigorous analysis of the contradictions and uneasy truths the left needs to confront if it is to build a genuinely liberatory alternative to capitalism.
First session: The Russian revolution and the Stalinist Counter-revolution (Sunday, Sept. 14)
• Chapters 1-3
Second session: Stalinism adapted: China and Cuba (Sunday, Sept. 28)
• Chapters 4-6
Third session: Marxism-Leninism today versus Socialism from Below (Sunday, Oct. 12)
• Chapters 7 -9
Fourth session: Questions and answers with the author, David Camfield (Sunday, Oct. 26)
• Zoom session, no additional reading required
Details: This in-person study group will meet in downtown Ottawa every second Sunday at 7 pm, starting on September 14th. The final session (October 26th) will be a zoom discussion with the author. Each session is expected to last about 90 minutes. The venue for the in-person sessions is still to be determined.
Book: Red Flags is currently available in Ottawa at Octopus Books and Perfect Books. It is also available for purchase online.
For more information or to sign-up: Send an email to brianmcdougall25@gmail.com
Organizers: This study group is being organized by Ottawa supporters of the Tempest Collective, an American-Canadian revolutionary socialist group. For more information about the Tempest Collective see: https://tempestmag.org

Ontario Day of Action - Double ODSP/OW!
2025-09-16 11:00 - 15:00 | OW Office, 2020 Walkley Rd, Ottawa, ON, Canada
End Legislated Poverty: Raise ODSP & OW!
Join ACORN members for the Ontario Day of Action on Tuesday, September 16th to demand that the Ford government raise social assistance rates and end legislated poverty.
People on Ontario Works (OW) receive just $733/month. A single person on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) can receive a max of $1,368/month.
That’s up to 60% below the poverty line – SHAME!
This is unacceptable. ACORN is fighting for:
Doubling ODSP/OW rates Indexing rates to inflation permanently Matching housing allowance to market rent by city Ending spousal income and benefits clawbacks Stopping the Province’s harmful “New Vision” for social assistance
Come stand with tenants, people with disabilities, and low-income Ontarians to demand dignity, housing, and justice. Together we can win!
Contact your local ACORN office for more info or send an email to ontario@acorncanada.org.

End Unpaid Work
2025-09-16 12:00 - 14:00 | Parliament Hill, Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A9, Canada
Flight attendants keep passengers safe every time they fly, but airlines don’t pay them for critical duties like helping passengers board, completing pre-flight safety checks, deplaning, or waiting out delays.
That means flight attendants are working nearly a full week for free every month. Enough is enough.
Join flight attendants and allies heading to Parliament Hill in Ottawa to demand an end to unpaid work.
More information and take action here!

Families Cannot Wait, Evacuate! Ottawa Vigil Demands: Bring Palestinian Families from Gaza to Canada
2025-09-17 11:00 - 13:00 | 300 Slater Street.
Please join our weekly vigil to reunite Palestinian Canadians with their loved ones from Gaza on Wednesday, September 17 from 11 am to 1 pm (we meet every Wednesday at this same time) at 300 Slater (at Kent), the Ottawa offices of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Canada must immediately open an emergency humanitarian corridor to urgently evacuate all program applicants to prevent further death and physical and psychological harm to those who, by all rights, should have been in Canada with their families long ago. One of those families is Noor, a brilliant engineering teacher, her husband Abdullah, and their baby Sarah, who suffers from a painful skin diseases that keeps her up crying all night in agony. All or their family is in Ottawa. Why won’t Canada evacuate Noor, her husband, and baby girl?
As the apartheid regime seeks to obliterate Gaza City with yet another illegal forced removal, and no place in safe in Gaza with daily slaughters and deaths from an imposed starvation, it is more important than ever that our voices are heard.
Every week, we bring family images and stories to the headquarters of a bureaucracy that fails to respect the life and death consequences of its failures in the Gaza Temporary Visa program.
Since the Gaza Temporary Visa program was implemented in January 2024, Canada has assisted in the evacuation of fewer than 2% of program applicants, an astounding number considering the daily risk of being blown to bits or suffering the slow death of starvation.
During the final weekend in July, Canada reportedly evacuated 11 Canadian citizens from Gaza. This contradicts their stated position that they are powerless to get families across the border.
Right now, Canada is insisting no one can leave without biometrics (fingerprints and photographs). This violates Canada’s own very specific program guidelines: “Given the situation we understand that you won’t be able to give your biometrics or complete a full admissibility check until you’ve left Gaza. If your application passes a preliminary eligibility and admissibility assessment we’ll forward your name to the local authorities to facilitate your exit from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing.”
Canada already has photographs because all applicants sent copies of their passports. In addition, since Israeli apartheid occupation authorities have a registry of all Palestinians in Gaza, they would be the first to say no to the exit of anyone they felt posed some theoretical threat. But Canada is not even willing to take the word of its Israeli allies on this matter.
Instead, it is assuming, based on anti-Palestinian racism, that all Palestinians are a threat until they prove otherwise. That includes starving children, grandmothers, school teachers, health care workers, farmers, gravely injured and ill program applicants.
The Canadian government’s assumption of guilt mirrors (indeed, goes far beyond) the Obama assassination-by-drone policy which, as reported in 2012, “in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants … unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.”
Canada can shed as many tears as it likes over the losses of hundreds of program applicants who would be here safe with their families were it not for wrongfully treating every Palestinian as a supposed threat. But that is no consolation for those traumatized for life by these immeasurable losses. It must take action.
The only Palestinians who have made it to Canada (861 as of July 1, 2025) made it out on their own by exhausting life savings to pay border bribes to escape before the closure and demolition of Rafah. In the same 540-day period under the Ukraine program, over 650,000 visas had been approved and 186,454 arrived in Canada. In the first year of the program, over 8,000 Israelis were granted visas to come to Canada.
Clearly, Canada has the capacity to process applications in the same time period it did for Ukrainians (average 14-day turnaround), and it also has the ability to facilitate evacuations.
The fact that it has not done so is not a matter of organizational ability or staff resources. Rather it is rooted in systemic anti-Palestinian racism, and the ludicrous racial profiling presumption of guilt that every Palestinian in Gaza is a risk until proven otherwise.
In the meantime, far too many loved ones have been killed waiting for Canada, a shameful reflection of another bleak period in our history when Jews fleeing a genocide were turned away under a None is Too Many policy.
Please join us for this peaceful vigil every Wednesday organized by Ottawa Palestinians with loved ones in Gaza and the Canadian Palestinian Family Reunification Project of the Rural Refugee Rights Network. tasc@web.ca

From Palestine to the Philippines - Free All Political Prisoners (Education and Letter Writing)
2025-09-17 17:30 - 20:00 | 4040 Nicol Building, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, K1S5B6
Please join Students for Justice in Palestine – Carleton, the Ontario Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, the Carleton University Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, and CUPE4600 for their second educational and letter writing event to demonstrate solidarity with these heroic political prisoners in their time of need.
Writing supplies, snacks, and refreshments will be offered!

Stim Toy Creation with Be Gay Do Art, featuring Wheelie Productions & ANLFO
2025-09-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Kind Space, 400 Cooper St., suite 9001, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Are you 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️+?
Are you creative?
Then join us to Be Gay & Do Art!
This month, in honor of International Day of the Stim, Be Gay & Do Art, is excited to collaborate with the Autistic and Neurodivergent Liberation Front of Ottawa to make DIY Stim Toys!
BGDA is an all ages drop-in program, so feel free to come and go as needed!
🎨🎨🎨
📅 Wednesday, September 17th
⏰️ 6:00 – 9:00 PM
📍Kind Space (400 Cooper St.)
🎉🎉🎉
Alongside the materials for the DIY Stim Toys, we will have other donated art supplies for folks to use, including collage supplies, jewelry making, painting, and more!
We also encourage folks to bring extra supplies they’d be willing to share (or donate) for those who might want to learn a new art form or try out a new medium!
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Wheelie Productions is committed to accessibility & disability justice. If you require any extra support to attend this event, please reach out.
As part of this commitment, we will be requiring masks for those attending. We ask that all attendees wear a high-quality mask/respirator (KN95 or better) to increase the safety of our space. We will have extra KN95 & N95 masks available for anyone who needs one!
To maintain a masked space, we will have a separate room with extra air purifiers for those who are eating/drinking (thus having to remove their masks!).
More Access Notes:
☆ Kind Space has extra air purification throughout the space.
☆ Kind Space is wheelchair accessible, with an elevator to access the space and automatic doors!
☆ There are both gendered, stalled washrooms and accessible non-gendered washrooms.
☆ Accessible by public transit (#11, #6 & #7) with paid on street parking (subject to availability!)
☆ Low/no-scent space
☆ Quiet space available

Challenging Power: Corporate Control, Policing, and the Price of Inequality
2025-09-17 20:00 - 21:00 | Spark Beer, 702 Somerset St W, Ottawa
Join authors and activists Sandy Hudson and Nora Loreto for a vital conversation on the forces shaping inequality and injustice in Canada today.
Drawing from their latest books, Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All and Corporate Control: Canada in Decline, Sandy and Nora will unpack the structural roots of economic disparity and state violence. From the outsized influence of corporate power over Canadian democracy to the urgent demand to reimagine public safety beyond policing, this event will explore the deep interconnections between capitalism, governance, race, and social control.
Defund is a fiercely argued, deeply informed examination of why defunding the police is the only way to support a model of security and protection that increases public safety overall Time and again we see police respond to minor calls with escalation, wrongful arrests, even murder. Reform programs are often poorly implemented and their impacts short-lived. Calls to “defund” the police have rung out across the nation, yet the actual meaning of the phrase remains unclear. In Defund, longtime activist and the founder of Black Lives Matter Canada, Sandy Hudson, elucidates what defunding the police actually means and why it matters, by exploring today’s criminal landscape and the patterns and structures that result in safer, well-resourced communities.
In Corporate Control, Nora Loreto dives into the corporate web spun around Canada’s economy, society, and politics. Corporate profits are at a record high, and the divide between the rich and the poor has never been wider. Canadians are struggling with affordability, the housing crisis, and wages that don’t cover basic needs. The combination of these forces is a pressure cooker that politicians have promised to tackle, except they can’t: they are too restricted by corporate power to confront the roots of the problems Canadians face.
Sandy and Nora Talk Politics is one of Canada’s premier news analysis podcasts. With more than 8000 listeners per weekly episode, Sandy and Nora have helped to influence how Canadians look at politics, society, the economy and social movements.
This event is free to attend. Books will be available to purchase from Octopus Books. Thank you to Spark Beer for hosting! Come early to grab a table and enjoy a delicious pizza & pint.

Asinabka Festival 14th Edition
2025-09-18 - 2025-09-21 | Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa, K1N 7B9
Celebrating Indigenous Arts in Algonquin TerritoryOttawa, Canada • Sept. 18-21, 2025@ Club SAW & Gallery 101
Highlights:•.40+ Indigenous Films• Opening Night Outdoor Film Screenings• Art Gallery Crawl @ Gallery 101 & The Asinabka Office• Indigenous Music Showcase• Indigenous Craft Vendor Market• Filmmaker Q&A’s, Artist Talks, Industry Events, and Free Events
The 14th annual Asinabka Festival is excited to present the best contemporary Indigenous film, music, and arts from Canada and around the world. The Festival takes place in person over 4 days and with 10 separate film programs, including films in every genre, as well as short films and feature films.
The FULL SCHEDULE & Tickets will be available on our website Soon!:asinabkafestival.org
See the following sites for accessibility and visitor information:https://artscourt.ca/visitor-info-enhttps://g101.ca/gallery101
Chi-Miigwech / Thank You to The Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Ontario, The City of Ottawa, and The Shushkitew Collectivea for their funding and support. We’d also like to thank all of our festival partners including the Arts Court, SAW, DARC, Gallery 101, and Ottawa Festivals

Demonstration to Abolish Anti-Black Racism
2025-09-18 13:00 - 15:00 | ON
Black People United for Change, in partnership with organizations across Canada, has come together to form a national coalition demanding urgent legislative change to combat anti-Black racism.
On Thursday, September 18, 2025, at 1:00 PM on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, we will unite our voices to call for justice, accountability, and systemic reform.
Our coalition is focused on addressing the areas of legislation where anti-Black racism remains deeply entrenched and legally permissible:
Employment Equity – Current frameworks have failed to eliminate workplace discrimination, dismantle systemic barriers to advancement, or ensure equitable representation of Black workers in leadership positions.
Mental Health – Black Canadians face disproportionate barriers to culturally responsive care, compounded by stigma and systemic neglect in healthcare and policy.
Education – From racial streaming to disproportionate discipline, inequitable policies in Canadian schools continue to disadvantage Black students.
The Justice System – Over-policing, racial profiling, and disproportionate incarceration of Black Canadians persist due to gaps and inequities in current laws.
To advance this work, Federal MP Gord Johns has sponsored our national petition, which will be tabled in the House of Commons on September 15, 2025. This petition reflects the voices of Black Canadians nationwide, demanding that systemic anti-Black racism be addressed through meaningful legislative reform.
We are calling on community members, allies, and supporters to stand with us in unity on September 18th as we demonstrate our collective demand for change. Together, we can ensure that Canada’s laws reflect justice, equity, and dignity for all.
If you would like to support this historic action, please consider contributing to our campaign here:
GoFundMe: Stand With Us – Help Bring Our Voices to Parliament Hill – https://gofund.me/9402adb72

Take Back The Night 2025: Reclaim our power, reclaim the night
2025-09-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Minto Park, 315 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
SAVE THE DATE✨🌘
Take Back the Night is back on Thursday, September 18, 2025, at 6 PM!
Take Back the Night (TBTN) is an annual rally and march against sexual and gender-based violence. The community comes together to support survivors, raise awareness, and advocate for safer, healthier communities.
Event Details:
– Rally: Minto Park (102 Lewis St) at 6 PM
– March: Begins at 6:45 PM through Downtown Ottawa
– Accessibility: Accessible bus & ASL/LSQ interpreters provided
Everyone is welcome to join us!
#TBTN #TBTN2025 #Ottawa #OTTEevents #MintoPark #BelieveSurvivors #EndGBV
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RÉSERVEZ LA DATE✨🌘
La Rue la Nuit Les Femmes Sans Peur revient le jeudi 18 septembre 2025 à 18 h!
La Rue la Nuit Les Femmes Sans Peur (TBTN) est un rassemblement et une marche annuels contre la violence sexuelle et basée sur le genre. La communauté se réunit pour soutenir les survivantes, sensibiliser et promouvoir des communautés plus sûres et en meilleure santé.
Détails de l’événement :
– Rassemblement : Parc Minto (102, rue Lewis) à 18 h
– Marche : Début à 18 h 45 à travers le centre-ville d’Ottawa
– Accessibilité : Autobus accessible et interprètes ASL/LSQ disponibles
Tout le monde est lela bienvenue!
#TBTN #TBTN2025 #Ottawa #OTTEevents #ParcMinto #CroireAuxSurvivant·e·s #MettreFinALaVBG

Book Launch: Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes by Laura Hall
2025-09-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave, Ottawa, Canada
Join us for the Ottawa launch of Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes with local author Laura Hall, in conversation with fellow Carleton University prof Alexis Shotwell!

Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes traces connections between Indigenous representations, gender, and sexuality within iconic horror classics like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th. The savage killer, the romantic and doomed Indian, the feral “mad woman”—no trope or archetype escapes the shadowy influence of settler colonialism. In the end, horror both disrupts and uncovers colonial violence—only to bury its victims once more.

This event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30PM, programming begins at 7PM. Books will be available for signing and purchase.

“This is the book I’ve waited my whole movie-geek life for.” – Jesse Wente

“A must read for anyone consuming horror media. Laura Hall masterfully dissects the ways in which settler-colonialism is at the core of sexism, racism, sanism, and white supremacy, and how we see those systems of oppression at work in historical and contemporary horror.” – Jessica Johns

Draw The Line Mass Bike Ride
2025-09-19 18:00 | Confederation Park, Elgin at Laurier, across from City Hall, Ottawa, ON, K1P 5J2, Canada
Ottawa–Gatineau DRAW THE LINE Mass Bike Ride
As we build momentum toward the Ottawa–Gatineau DRAW THE LINE March on Saturday, September 20, 2025, join us for a special Critical Mass bike ride!
Friday, September 19 — 6:00 PM “Draw The Line Mass Bike Ride” – the ride is in support of the Draw The line Mobilization.
Starting Point: Fountain at Confederation Park (if it’s raining right at 6:00 PM, meet across the street under the awnings at Ottawa City Hall).
What to Expect – This is a Critical Mass style ride — meaning we don’t follow a pre-planned route. Instead: The people at the front decide where to go Riders rotate leading during the ride At intersections, we adapt depending on our numbers Remember: “We aren’t blocking traffic, we ARE traffic!”
The September 19 ride is where we go BIG — hundreds of us on bikes, taking back the streets the night before thousands march through Ottawa and Gatineau.
Get Involved Got panniers, a cargo bike, or another way to help carry signs? Email us at fridaysfutureottawa@gmail.com Help spread the word! Use our posters, graphics, and email text here: http://tinyurl.com/s19bikepromo Full background info: FridaysForFutureOttawa.org Let’s ride together for Climate Justice, Indigenous Sovereignty, Migrant Justice, Peace, and Strong Public Services.
Solidarité!

2025 Ottawa/Gatineau DRAW THE LINE March
2025-09-20 11:00 - 18:00 | ON
JOIN US FOR THE 2025 OTTAWA-GATINEAU DRAW THE LINE MARCH Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025 Ottawa Contingent Meeting Point: Corner of Elgin & Wellington Gatineau Contingent Meeting Point: Maison du Citoyen
We’re drawing the line — for People. For Peace. For the Planet.The 2025 Ottawa-Gatineau DRAW THE LINE March is part of a global mobilization and national day of action to stand united for justice in every part of our lives. This movement goes beyond climate — we stand together with Indigenous, migrant, economic, racial, and anti-war movements building a better future by: Building a renewable future Upholding Indigenous sovereignty Fighting for migrant justice Standing up for peace and democracy Investing in people and public services
Join the CoalitionThis March is being organized by a growing coalition of dedicated organizations working in solidarity. We invite your organization to join us as: a Coalition Member-actively involved in strategy, planning, and joint actions as formal core partners; a Supporter-offering strong backing through resources, influence, or platforms but not engaged in day-to-day organizing; or an Endorser-publicly supporting the cause with no ongoing involvement. If If interested, please fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/dpoGTnGPonLxTG5X6

Get Involved – HOW TO PLUG IN to help with Mobilization and/or Organization: https://docs.google.com/…/1JPXxIkGnTwu0Bc7KW2SO…/edit…

Bring your community March with us to demand bold action

Follow us & stay updated on our socials: https://linktr.ee/fffottawa
Sign up for email updates: https://www.fridaysforfutureottawa.org/get-involved/
Visit this event page and our webpage for updates coming very soon! https://www.fridaysforfutureottawa.org/
Reach out: fridaysfutureottawa@gmail.com

#PuebloXinkaDijoNo: Canada Must Respect Indigenous Self-Determination in Guatemala
2025-09-23 17:30 | University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier Ave East, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N6N5, Canada
Faculty of Social Sciences, uOttawa, Room 5028

Two Xinka women leaders, Marisol Guerra and Marta Muñoz, will visit Ottawa to raise awareness about their struggle for self-determination and the health of their communities.

The Xinka Indigenous People of Guatemala have denied consent for the restart of Canadian Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine in southern Guatemala. They are now calling for its permanent closure. The company and Canadian authorities must respect their decision.

Speakers:
-Marisol Guerra (Xinka delegate)-Marta Muñoz (Xinka delegate)-Karine Vanthuyne (FSS, uOttawa)-Marie-Christine Doran (FSS, uOttawa)

Join us in person to learn more and to support the efforts of Indigenous Xinka women to take their struggle for self-determination to Canada.

Event hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Observatory on Violence, Criminalization and Democracy at the University of Ottawa.
In partnership with:
Americas Policy Group coalition (APG)
Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability (CNCA)
Comité pour les droits humains en Amérique latine (CDHAL)
MiningWatch Canada
Inter Pares
Kairos
Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University
Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Carleton University

People are Dying 'Cause You're Not Deciding: Issue Palestinians Visas to Evacuate from Gaza NOW
2025-09-24 11:00 - 13:00 | 300 Slater Street.
Join us at our weekly Wednesday vigil top protest Canada’s shameful None is Too Many Palestinian visa policy. To date, fewer than 2% of applicants have been directly evacuated from Gaza in over 20 months. Meet at Immigration HQ, 300 Slater, at Kent, every Wednesday from 11 am to 1 pm).
20 months into the Canadian Ukraine visa policy, 209,938 had been welcomed to Canada. 20 months into the Gaza program, the number stands at 886. Ukrainian processing times averaged two weeks (not 20 months), and on average 1400 visas were processed daily, versus 1.5 daily for Palestinians from Gaza. (Notably, Afghans living in Ukraine had a much harder time evacuating and getting to Canada).
Yes, it was fantastic that we welcomed Ukrainians, and it showed that when there is political will, the immigration system can work expeditiously. But for those fleeing the unimaginable in Gaza, every single file is being wrongfully treated as suspect, guilty until proven otherwise, which has had lethal results in hundreds of cases.
That’s why we need to continue with public pressure to evacuate on an urgent basis all remaining 3700 applicants from Gaza and approved over 2500 visas for those stranded in Egypt.

Living With Drones
2025-09-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Kailash Mital Theatre, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S5B6, Canada
Living with Drones is an interactive live journalism show about the devastating and traumatic impacts of Israel’s use of drones in the besieged Gaza strip. By tying together personal narratives and documentation about the on-the-ground reality of this genocide, this show weaves a compelling narrative that asks audiences to engage with violations of humanitarian and international law in Gaza since October 2023.
Employing the war diary narrative, the show takes audiences into the day-to-day experiences of life in Gaza while drawing parallels between previous wars and the continued assault on Gaza today. Living with Drones asks audiences to consider their role as citizens of the world, offering opportunities for collaboration and engagement through a curated series of calls to action.
All profits from ticket sales for this performance will be donated to PSSAR (Palestinian Students and Scholars at Risk) to support more students from Gaza in securing fully-funded opportunities for graduate studies in Canada. To date, PSSAR has assisted 102 Palestinian students and is striving to support even more in 2025. Their support covers application and visa fees, and they collaborate with partners to fund flight tickets, settlement costs, and additional expenses. To learn more, please visit https://pssar.ca.
➤ If you would like to make a donation to PSSAR in addition to purchasing your ticket, please select the “Donation to PSSAR” option when checking out.
➤ If price or mobility is a barrier, please email stitchedlive@gmail.com. If purchasing a Student Ticket, please be prepared to present student identification upon arrival.

National rally to end corporate abuse
2025-09-26 12:00 - 14:00 | Parliament Hill, Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A9, Canada
For many years, Canadian companies have been linked to widespread violations of human rights, workers’ rights, and serious environmental destruction throughout their global operations and supply chains.
Workers and communities around the world have called on the Canadian government to hold our companies accountable. But Canada is dragging its feet.
In this “hinge” moment, Canada can chart a new course: rebalancing unchecked corporate power with new rules that require companies to listen to workers and communities, prevent harms before they occur, and provide long-awaited justice to people who have been harmed. A growing number of countries around the world have adopted, or are considering, legislation that does just this.
On Friday, September 26, at 12pm, please join us on Parliament Hill in Ottawa as we rally in solidarity with impacted communities around the world to change the systems that enable corporate impunity.
We will deliver to the government over 40,000 signed action cards calling for Canada to introduce comprehensive legislation that ensures Canadian companies respect human rights and the environment globally. An interactive art installation will highlight the urgent need for action in Canada while celebrating bonds of global solidarity and years of grassroots mobilization by Canadians from coast to coast to coast.

Steps Toward Reconciliation: A7G Walking Tour of Ottawa
2025-09-26 16:00 - 18:00 | 350 Sparks Street, 350 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R0A4, Canada
This guided walk, led by Assembly of Seven Generations (A7G), follows a route through downtown Ottawa that highlights how non-Indigenous people and the federal government have shaped residential school policy and colonial legacies. At each stop, we connect historical truths with the work of addressing ongoing injustices faced by Indigenous peoples today.
Everyone is welcome, those who are Gathering attendees as well as the wider community.
Why this during Resource Movement’s National Gathering?
We want the Gathering to begin by grounding ourselves in history and responsibility on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory.
Route & pace
Approximately 2km on city sidewalks at a relaxed group pace, with several short stops for stories and discussion. Begins near First Nations Child & Family Caring Society on Sparks St. and concludes at Adaawewigamig (ByWard Market).

Information for the people
2025-09-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada
When institutions like government departments, municipalities, and universities make decisions, the public in whose name those decisions are made are often left in the dark about *why* and *how* they were made. Researchers, journalists, and activists who want to shed light on the operations of public institutions have to rely on federal and provincial legislation allowing them to request access to documents.
In this workshop, hosted by Science for the People Ottawa and Carleton PIRG, participants will learn how the access to information / freedom of information systems in different Canadian jurisdictions work (or don’t!) and will be guided through the process of submitting their own requests for documents.
Bring a laptop, ideas for documents you’re interested in requesting from public institutions, and a credit card (for application fees, usually $5 per request) if you’d like to put what you learn right into practice!
🗓️ Friday, 26 September, 5:00 pm
📍Loeb A220, Carleton University

Pique
2025-09-27 14:00 - 2025-09-28 02:00 | Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave, Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2, Canada
Usher in the fall season with another bold and forward-thinking edition of Pique, coming up on September 27, 2025 at Arts Court. Showcasing experimental and underground music, art, and performance, the quarterly festival features global innovators, local creators, and underground legends converging in downtown Ottawa’s Arts Court complex for a single-day blowout.
Taking place indoors and outdoors across 10 stages and spaces, Pique’s programming has something for everyone: from thought-provoking dialogues to ethereal electronic performances to multi-arts convergences, and even puppet dance parties. Joining forces with the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) to co-produce multidisciplinary and interactive programming, Pique brings together diverse artistic communities to explore, experiment and connect. Animating a club, a cinema, theatre and dance studios with bold, boundary-pushing presentations, Pique offers an immersive multidisciplinary experience that transforms the Arts Court into a playground for the avant-garde.
Plus, Topique, the forum for the exchange of forward-thinking ideas at Pique, returns this fall with a series of artist talks and group sessions focused on building an equitable future music industry.
With 20+ artists and 10 stages and exhibition spaces, indoors and outdoors, there is so much to experience at Pique!
