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🔦 In the spotlight - The Long Walk: Film Screening and Q&A with Joshua Odjick and Claudia Jurt↗ 

Sunday, May 3, at 3:00 PM, at Bytowne Cinema: Join us for an afternoon film screening of Stephen King's The Long Walk, followed by a Q&A with actor Joshua Odjick and mentor Claudia Jurt, in celebration of National Indigenous History Month!  

📖 Upcoming events / Programmes à venir 

😂 At Ruth E. Dickinson, your weekends are fully booked. 

• Tuesday, May 5 

  • 10:30am STEAM Storytime (Ages 3-4)↗ 

  • 1-3pm Parenting in Ottawa Drop-in↗ 

  • 6pm English Conversation Circle↗ 

• Wednesday, May 6 

  • 10:30am Conte en famille et jouons à la biblio↗ 

  • 6:30pm English Conversation Circle↗  

• Thursday, May 7  

  • 6:30 pm Trash to Treasure: Mother's Day Upcycling Fun↗

• Saturday, May 9 

  • 2pm Draw Like DaVinci: Georges Seurat (Ages 6-12)↗  

📌 Your next read: The Canadian Tulip Festival is this Month↗ 

May 8th to 18th, experience the World's Largest Free Public Tulip Festival with 300,000 Blooms and over 100 Unique Varieties of Tulip. Read alongside the festival with this list of tulip themed books as well as stories set in Ottawa or the Netherlands. 

📌 Familles francophones - Découvrez l'Espace Imagine↗ 

L’Espace Imagine est le premier fablab public d’Ottawa - un carrefour gratuit et public de création qui met à la disposition des clients des outils et des technologies suivantes: 

• impression et modélisation 3D 

• découpeuse laser  

• montage sonore, de photos et de vidéos 

• écran vert et équipement vidéo  

• outils à main et électroniques 

• tableau blanc mur à mur