Doors open 7:00pm Programming begins in the Auditorium 7:30pm Q+A to follow If the adage is true that necessity is the mother of invention, then curiosity-driven research is the grandmother of the whole shebang. The internet, the cellphone, the PET scanner – or even further back – radio, penicillin, electricity: all these inventions and their […]
What: Talk with Guy Badeau - BADO, cartoonist at Le Droit newspaper since May 1981. Before inaugurating our next temporary exhibition on the career of Bado with Le Droit newspaper , the Museopark offers a chat with the cartoonist. Thematic: Minorities - viewpoint of a caricaturist. When: Wednesday, October 17th at 6PM Where: Vanier Museopark | 300 des Peres Blancs Av. […]
A Symposium at Carleton University in Ottawa. Events start Friday Oct.26 at 7 pm with a public lecture Architecture in the Circular Economy: Reclaiming Building Resources by Dr. Mark Gorgolewski (Ryerson), author of Resource Salvation, The Architecture of Reuse. The symposium on the Saturday Oct.27 will include: a walking tour of recent materials reuse examples in Ottawa that are charged […]
Brian Tackaberry, author of "Forgotten Heroes: Mississippi Mills Valour Award Recipients of the Great War", and Peter Usher, author of "Joey Jacobson's War: a Jewish Canadian Airman in the Second World War" will discuss their works and tell stories of Canadian soldiers' experiences in the two World Wars.
The Counting on Culture Symposium, presented by the University of Ottawa Centre on Governance in conjunction with the Ottawa Culture Research Group (OCRG), will provide an overview of key findings and insights from Ottawa’s most comprehensive development of culture indicators ever published. The OCRG is an innovative partnership that includes researchers from government, community organizations, […]