One World Film Festival
| October 11, 2012 | to | October 14, 2012 |
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The One World Film Festival brings together filmmakers, activists, students, and members of the public concerned about human rights and environmental sustainability. Now in its 22nd year, the OWFF features 5 programs of documentary film screenings, panel discussions, Q&As with visiting filmmakers, a workshop, kiosks and presentations from NGOs.
Event Highlights:
- Film screenings
- Panel discussions
- Filmmaker Q&As
- Workshops
- Information kiosks
- Cinema café
- Presentations from NGOs
Festival Information:
General information: 613.238.4659
General information email: oneworldfilmfestival@oneworldarts.ca
Volunteer information: www.oneworldarts.ca
Location: Library of Archives
On the Web:
Website: www.oneworldarts.ca
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/5573310226/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/OneWorldFilm
Fut le Moment d’Eventements
- Projections de films
- Discussions
- Séances de questions avec les cinéastes
- Ateliers
- Kiosques
- Cinéma café
- presentations par des ONGs
L’Information de Festivale:
L’information générale: 613.238.4659
Couriel de l’information générale: oneworldfilmfestival@oneworldarts.ca
Sur le Web:
Website: www.oneworldarts.ca
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/5573310226/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/OneWorldFilm
Canadian Tulip Festival
| May 4, 2012 | to | May 21, 2012 |
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The Canadian Tulip Festival, now in its 60th year, has grown to become the largest Tulip Festival in the world. It preserves the local heritage of Canada’s role in freeing the Dutch during World War II, and the symbolic tulip; a gift in perpetuity to the Canadian people for providing a safe harbour to the Dutch Royal Family at that time.
The festival’s mandate is to preserve this heritage and celebrate the tulip as a symbol of international friendship by engaging local organizers, volunteers, artists, performers, tourists and festival-goers in what has become an annual ritual of spring and one of Canada’s best loved and well-known cultural events.
Please continue to check www.tulipfestival.ca for updates!
Festival Information:
General information: 613.567.5757 /1.800.66.TULIP
General information email: info@tulipfestival.ca
Ticket information: www.tulipfestival.ca
Volunteer information: www.tulipfestival.ca/volunteer
Location: Throughout the National Capital area
On the Web:
Website: www.tulipfestival.ca/www.festivaldestulipes.ca
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1209015588&ref=ts
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/canadiantulipfestival
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Présentement dans sa 60e année, le Festival canadien des tulipes est aujourd’hui le plus important festival de tulipes au monde. Il commémore la participation des troupes canadiennes à la libération des Pays-Bas durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La tulipe symbolise un don à perpétuité offert au Canada en remerciement du refuge que la famille royale hollandaise en exil avait pu y trouver à cette époque.
Le mandat du Festival est de préserver cet héritage et de reconnaître la tulipe comme un symbole d’amitié internationale en amenant les organisateurs locaux, les bénévoles, les artistes, les touristes et les festivaliers à participer à ce qui est maintenant devenu un rituel annuel du printemps et l’un des événements culturels les plus populaires et les plus aimés au Canada.
L’information de festivale:
L’information generale: 613.567.5757 /1.800.66.TULIP
L’information generale de couriel: info@tulipfestival.ca
L’information de billets: www.tulipfestival.ca
L’information de benevoler: www.tulipfestival.ca/volunteer
Sur le web:
Website: www.tulipfestival.ca/www.festivaldestulipes.ca
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1209015588&ref=ts
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/canadiantulipfestival
Ottawa International Writers Festival, Spring Edition
| April 26, 2012 | to | May 1, 2012 |
Founded in 1997, the Writers Festival celebrates the world’s best writing from home and abroad with a diverse program that presents interactions with leaders in the worlds of science, history, poetry, politics, spoken word, economics, drama, fiction, biography, music and more. Since 2004 the Festival has consisted of two annual Editions, Spring and Fall.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.562.1243
General information email: info@writersfestival.org
Location: Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar Street(at Elgin)
Ticket: http://writersfestival.org.tickets.html
Volunteers: http://www.writersfestival.org/about/volunteers
On the Web:
Website: http://writersfestival.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ottawa.writersfest
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/oiwf/pool
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWritersFestival
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Writersfest
Others: http://vimeo.com/ottawawritersfest
Map:
3i Summit: Imagine – Interact – Inspire (2012 Dates TBD)
| April 7, 2012 |
The 3i Summit 2011 draws on the life work, dreams and inspiration of dozens of Ottawa’s most dynamic innovators. Just like we did in the inaugural 3i Summit 2009, we will bring together a unique blend of world renowned architects, artists, Olympic athletes, poets, award winning professors, musical prodigies, homeless people, writers, youth activists. Each of them will be sharing, in 15 minute presentations, their passions, struggles and dreams for Ottawa in 2049 and one concrete action that can be taken to achieve that dream.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.601.6997
Contact information email: info@leadershipottawa.org
Location: Great Canadian Theatre Company
1233 Wellington St. W. (at Holland)
On the Web:
Website: 3isummit.ca
Facebook: www.facebook.com/#/3iSummit?ref=ts
Map:
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Ottawa International Writers Festival, Fall Edition
| October 20, 2011 | to | October 25, 2011 |
Canada’s Festival of Ideas since 1997. The Writers Festival celebrates the world’s best writing from home and abroad with a diverse program that presents interactions with leaders in the worlds of science, history, poetry, politics, spoken word, economics, drama, fiction, biography, music and more. Since 2004 the Festival has consisted of two annual Editions: Spring and Fall.
As reported in the Ottawa Xpress, “Basically, if you’ve thought about it, The Writers Festival has invited someone to discuss it.”
Festival Information:
General information: 613.562.1243
General information email: leslie@writersfestival.org
Location: Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank (at Sunnyside) and Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Ave (at Bank St.) with select events at other locations.
Tickets: http://writersfestival.org/tickets.html
On the Web:
Website: http://writersfestival.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ottawa.writersfest
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ottawawritersfestival
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/oiwf
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWritersFestival
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Writersfest
Discussion Forum: http://oiwf.squarespace.com
Map:
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Writers Festival: October Events
Here is a reminder about five more great preview events leading up to the Fall Edition of the Ottawa International Writers Festival taking place October 21 to 27, 2009.
Tickets for the October 14 events (as well as Festival Passes and Tickets) are available by phone at 613.562.1243, on the Ottawa International Writers Festival’s website (www.writersfestival.org) or in person from Nicholas Hoare, Collected Works and Octopus Books.
1. Saturday, October 3 @ 6:00 PM
A Life A Legend A Filmmaker
A free event at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street.
The late Ottawa filmmaker Frank Cole is the only human being to cross the Sahara Desert alone. On another crossing he was mysteriously murdered. But he left us his extraordinary films about life and death.
Come celebrate the book launch of Life Without Death: The Cinema of Frank Cole. An evening of words, images, music and surfboards. The event will be hosted by Tom McSorley and Rick Taylor. Also the Canadian Film Institute will screen the Ottawa premiere of Korbett Matthew’s documentary on Frank Cole The Man Who Crossed The Sahara, with Matthews in attendance.
2. Wednesday, October 14 @ 6:30 PM
THE CASE FOR GOD with KAREN ARMSTRONG
Hosted by Jim Creskey
Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts and Humanities, 314 Saint Patrick Street
From the bestselling author of A History of God and The Great Transformation comes a balanced, nuanced understanding of the role religion plays in human life and the trajectory of faith in modern times.
3. Wednesday, October 14 @ 8:30 PM
NOW OR NEVER with TIM FLANNERY
Hosted by Jay Ingram
Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts and Humanities, 314 Saint Patrick Street
“What is our purpose as a species? How does the Earth work?”
Tim Flannery is one of Australia’s leading thinkers and writers. An internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, Tim’s books include the definitive ecological histories of Australia (The Future Eaters) and North America (The Eternal Frontier). He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. As a field zoologist he has discovered and named more than thirty new species of mammals (including two tree-kangaroos) and at 34 he was awarded the Edgeworth David Medal for Outstanding Research. His pioneering work in New Guinea prompted Sir David Attenborough to put him in the league of the world’s great explorers and the writer Redmond O’Hanlon to remark, “He’s discovered more new species than Charles Darwin.”
4. Tuesday, October 20 @ 8:00 PM
AWARD PRESENTATIONS:
OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS AND LAMPMAN-SCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRY
A free event at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St.
The City of Ottawa and ARC Poetry Society are pleased to invite you to attend a celebration of Ottawa’s vibrant literary scene, in conjunction with the Ottawa Writers Festival Fall Edition. Award presentations will be made to the winners of the Ottawa Book Awards and the Lampman-Scott Prize for best book of poetry, with short readings by the winning authors. Join us for a reception following the award presentations and meet the outstanding authors who have been nominated for these prestigious prizes. RSVP: infoculture@ottawa.ca
And last but not least, on Thursday, October 15 at 6:30 PM, Writers Festival’s friends at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are presenting The Occupied Garden with Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski at the Canadian War Museum. For free tickets please call Rosemieke van de Meerendonk at 613.237.5031 x225.
