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Ottawa Public Library celebrates youth writing at the Awesome Authors awards ceremony

_ (press release) _ The winners of this year’s Ottawa Public Library (OPL) Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest were announced yesterday, Tuesday, March 29, at Centrepointe Theatre. Prizes were handed out to honour Ottawa-area youth between the ages of 9 and 17 who submitted poems and/or short stories in French and/or English, between December 2015 and February 2016. ...

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Call for Submissions from Performers & Storytellers: Staging Our Histories

Staging Our Histories is a new event in Ottawa, ON which explores the convergence of history, memory and performance. Bringing together performing artists of diverse traditions with members of academia and the general public, Staging Our Histories will provide a space for engagement and dialogue about the ways we express our histories beyond the page. ...

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