Some in-branch programs require registration with your library card. Please log in with your library account or follow this link to apply for a card online. You can also apply for a card in person at any of our 33 locations.
Thursdays, May 16, 2024 - Jun 20, 2024
7:00pm
90 minutes
2 sessions remaining
Join us to discuss books from the science fiction and fantasy genres each month. All are welcome!
Every 3rd Thursday of the month from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.
Here's what we're reading spring/summer 2024:
Please note: Registrants are responsible for securing a copy of the book to read or listen to.
Tuesday May 28, 2024 at 2:00pm
90 minutes
Join us for an afternoon where we walk you through the craft of making Teacup Succulents. All supplies will be provided, no experience needed!
If you have your own teacup, mug or container you would prefer to home your succulent in, please feel free to bring it along.
Date: Tuesday 28th of May, 2:00pm to 3:30pm.
Please note: registration is required.
Wednesday May 29, 2024 at 11:00am
60 minutes
Join this 1-hour hands-on session to learn how to use viewing resources provided by the Ottawa Public Library.
Discover how to access resources like Kanopy, Hoopla, and National Film Board Campus with your library card!
Register to ensure your spot.
The program will be held in the computer lab on the lower level of the Nepean Centrepointe library.
Thursday May 30, 2024 at 6:30pm
120 minutes
Curious about Dungeons and Dragons? Give it a try with this one-session-long adventure for beginners! D&D is a popular fantasy role-playing game in which your characters explore, solve puzzles, and fight or outwit monsters. Learn the basic rules of this popular game as you undertake an adventure with fellow players! Registration Required
Ages 13-17.
Saturday Jun 01, 2024 at 2:00pm
60 minutes
Photos and narration from a river cruise that included, Prague, various stops in Germany and Austria and ending in Budapest, Hungary. There is a side trip to the Danube Gorge.
Presented by Lynda Buske from the Ottawa PC Users’ Group and the Orleans Photo Club.
Thursdays, Jun 13, 2024 - Feb 13, 2025
1:30pm
90 minutes
9 sessions remaining
Come meet to enjoy and discuss a wide variety of books selected by book club members. All are welcome!
Every second Thursday of the month from 1.30pm to 3.00pm.
Here's what we're reading in 2024/2025:
Thursday Jun 27, 2024 at 7:00pm
minutes
Drawing from over 15 years of queer and trans advocacy, as well as over a decade in practice as a wellness professional, trauma recovery expert, and conflict transformation facilitator, award-winning author and spiritual teacher Kai Cheng Thom offers a revitalizing perspective on the meaning of love in a time of intense social strife and political polarization : How do we understand love not as a fuzzy feeling, not as an intellectual concept, but as a discipline and set of practices that we can apply to strengthen our resilience and deepen relationships for the purpose of pursuing justice? Love as our greatest power in the struggle for social change? This highly engaged, practically focused presentation will leave you with: 1) A simple but powerful psychological framework for understanding love and resilience as a practice, 2) 3 simple tools that you can use to resolve conflict and engage in meaningful conversations with people who may hold bigoted or prejudiced beliefs, 3) A visualization practice for self-care and personal development.
There will be a Q&A and book signing with the author to follow the event.
This is a hybrid event: the program is in-person, but we will also stream live on OPL's YouTube page.
Registration is for the in-person portion of the event.
In-person attendees will get the chance to win a copy of Falling Back in Love with Being Human.
This event is made possible thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Association.
About Kai Cheng Thom:
Kai Cheng Thom, Master of Social Work, MSc Couple & Family Therapy, is a Certified Somatic Sex Educator, Qualified Mediator, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Certified Professional Life Coach based in tkaronto/Toronto. She is the author of six award-winning books in various genres, including the Publishing Triangle Award-winning essay collection on Transformative Justice, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, the New York Times-featured picture book From the Stars In the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, and the recent Canadian bestseller Falling Back In Love With Being Human.
Kai Cheng's work as a noted practitioner and teacher of Somatic Sex Education, Sexological Bodywork, and Somatic Coaching focuses on the intersection of social justice, pleasure activism, and transformative approaches to healing conflict and harm. She maintains a private practice as a hands-on sex and intimacy coach with individuals, couples, and polycules, as well as a consultancy as a master facilitator and leadership coach with organizations across North America. She also teaches as Adjunct Faculty at the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education and Faculty at The Embody Lab, having trained hundreds of practitioners in body-based, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive approaches to individual and social change.