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SUMMARY:Ancestral Threads - Shorts
DESCRIPTION:Honor of the Paintbrush\n\n\n\nLouise Thomas (Cree) • 8m • Canada • 2025 • English \n\n\n\nLouise\, an Anicinabe woman\, found the strength to move on after the loss of her husband by devoting herself to the art gallery she opened in his honour. Through this process\, she shows how healing can bring positivity and renewal. \n\n\n\nNivingajuliat\n\n\n\nShelby Lisk (Mohawk)\, Tess Girard • 12m • 2025 • Canada • English \n\n\n\nNivingajuliat (meaning ‘wall hanging’ in Inuktitut) follows artist Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona as she works on her latest wall hanging\, depicting the story of the Inuit sea goddess\, Sedna. Coming from a legacy of renowned artists\, Kabloona responds to her great grandmother (Jessie Oonark) and grandmother’s (Victoria Mamnguqsualuk) artwork by continuing the tradition while making the narratives in a feminized context\, making the heroines in her artwork self-sufficient\, empowered women\, free of patriarchal violence. \n\n\n\nHandwoven\n\n\n\nDasha Levin (Mexican)\, Mason Cazalet\, Mihika Das\, Matthew Wisdom • Key Cast: Nikyle Begay (Diné) • 9m • USA • 2024 • English \n\n\n\nA lyrical portrait of Nikyle Begay\, a non-binary shepherd and weaver; working to preserve their way of life through the traditional art of weaving. \n\n\n\nFrost Scraping\n\n\n\nTheresa iskwêw (Nehiyaw) • 12m • 2025 • Canada • English \n\n\n\nThis short documentary follows Kanina Terry\, a hide tanner from Sioux Lookout\, whose family roots in hunting inspired her to ensure no hide goes to waste. Driven to learn the practice\, Kanina not only mastered tanning but also refined a winter frost-scraping method that has transformed her process and deepened her love for the craft. Beyond creating earrings\, calendars\, and other works with tanned hides\, she is part of a growing community revitalizing this ancestral skill. Kanina’s story reflects both innovation and tradition\, as she carries forward a practice that connects generations. \n\n\n\nInjalak\n\n\n\nJonathan Sequeira\, Wade Jackson • 10.5m • 2026 • Australia • English \n\n\n\nA remote town in Australia has a thriving community of indigenous artists. \n\n\n\nThreads of our Ancestors\n\n\n\nArtless Collective • 25m • 2026 • Canada • English \n\n\n\nThreads of our Ancestors explores the enduring spirit of Tłı̨chọ art through the hands and hearts of five remarkable artists from Canada’s Northwest Territories. Blending ancestral tradition with contemporary innovation\, this journey reveals how culture\, land\, and economic independence are intricately woven into everyday life.
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/ancestral-threads-shorts/
LOCATION:Arts Court\, 2 Daly Ave.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1N 6E2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film,Market or festival,Ottawa
ORGANIZER;CN="Asinabka Festival":MAILTO:asinabkafestival@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T193000
DTSTAMP:20260907T181635Z
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UID:10005710-1789752600-1789759800@maxottawa.ca
SUMMARY:Poetry Readings at the Ottawa Trans Library
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Readings at the Ottawa Trans Library! \n\n\n\nGwen Aube\, Rebecca Lawrence Lynch\, and Mona Gendron\, all in Ottawa to read you poetry! You specifically! \n\n\n\nPay what you can! Register online at the link below!!! \n\n\n\nDoors at 5:30PM \n\n\n\nReadings from 6:00 to 7:00PM \n\n\n\nPanel/Q&A from 7:00 to 7:30PM
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/poetry-readings-at-the-ottawa-trans-library/
LOCATION:Ottawa Trans Library\, 1104 Somerset St. West\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1Y3C8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Literary,Ottawa
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T210000
DTSTAMP:20260914T003013Z
CREATED:20260914T002958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T003013Z
UID:10005766-1789754400-1789765200@maxottawa.ca
SUMMARY:Queer Desi Games Night
DESCRIPTION:ATTN Ottawa pals!! We are hosting a games night in your city on Friday September 18 from 6-9pm @studio.staja 🫶🏽✨ \n\n\n\nWe welcome all Queer South Asian women\, trans\, and nonbinary folks. This includes Indo-Caribbean\, Indo-African\, Fijian\, and Pacific Islander folks💕 \n\n\n\nNo RSVP needed. Just show up & ask for our group 🙂
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queer-desi-games-night/
LOCATION:Studio Staja\, 507 Rideau St.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1N 5Z5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Ottawa,Social
ORGANIZER;CN="Queer South Asian Women's Network":MAILTO:QSAWnetwork@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T233000
DTSTAMP:20260913T190654Z
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UID:10005755-1789754400-1789774200@maxottawa.ca
SUMMARY:Queers & Beers
DESCRIPTION:🍻✨ QUEERS & BEERS is heading to Queen St. Fare! ✨🍻 \n\n\n\nThis time around we’re going old school Queers & Beers style – chill vibes\, great convos\, and space to actually talk! \n\n\n\n🌈 What’s Queers & Beers all about? \n\n\n\nDo you love craft beer? 🍺Wanna meet cuties & cool folks in the queer community? 🥰Interested in meaningful convos and trying new things? 🧠💡Yes\, yes\, and YES! Let’s gather and explore the local brew scene in Ottcity together while creating a safer\, inclusive space for queer & trans pub lovers! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 \n\n\n\n🎉 Come solo\, bring your besties\, show up with a date\, or maybe meet one there! 💕Make new friends\, catch up with old ones\, or enjoy your own company – it’s all welcome & all good ✨ \n\n\n\n📣 This is an open event – so bring your pals! \n\n\n\n💖 All genders & sexualities welcome🍻 Fun\, safer vibes for sipping & socializing♿ We’re working to prioritize accessible spaces🗨️ Feedback always welcome – hit us up at queering613@gmail.com \n\n\n\n🪪 Physical Accessibility Note:Queen St. Fare has automated doors and accessible washrooms. 💯 \n\n\n\n🧡 We want to acknowledge and honour that this event takes place on unceded Algonquin Territory\, land that was never given up or surrendered. \n\n\n\nLet’s raise a glass & connect\, community-style! 🥂See you there! 💃🏽🍻🌈💬
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/queers-beers-13/
LOCATION:Queen Street Fare\, 170 Queen St\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1P 5E1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Nightlife,Ottawa,Parties,Social
ORGANIZER;CN="Queering 613":MAILTO:queering613@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T210000
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SUMMARY:Kinky Bingo
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lively evening of socializing\, K!nky Bingo\, and fabulous prizes! \n\n\n\nEach participant will receive a K!nky Bingo card and a small gift just for playing—plus the chance to win prizes generously donated by Wicked Wanda’s. \n\n\n\nMeet your host\, Juno!Juno is a Queer\, neurodivergent community builder with a strong interest in exploring the relationships between Queerness\, neurodivergence\, and kink\, based in Ottawa\, ON. As a recent University and College graduate\, Juno is currently working towards integrating their education in psychology and social work into their passion and desire to support Queer\, neurodivergent individuals to better understand themselves\, their desires\, and the somatic relationship between the body and brain. Through her work\, Juno aims to uplift and strengthen Queer\, kinky communities within Ottawa. \n\n\n\n@juno_theexplorer \n\n\n\nWheelchair ramp but washrooms not accessible \n\n\n\n18+
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/kinky-bingo/
LOCATION:Wicked Wanda’s\, 327 Bank St.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2P 1X9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Nightlife,Ottawa,Sex positive
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T230000
DTSTAMP:20260907T185941Z
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UID:10005717-1789758000-1789772400@maxottawa.ca
SUMMARY:Bi Vis 2.0
DESCRIPTION:This is our 2nd annual dance party & social to celebrate Bi+ Visibility Day\, held every year in September (chosen to honour bicon Freddie Mercury’s bday) 🩷💜💙 \n\n\n\nThis is the last Capital Bi’s event so don’t wait on getting that ticket !  \n\n\n\n😷 masked event with outdoor space to sip your delicious alcoholic or non-alc drinks🎟 PWYC ticket pricing🕺🏻Tunes provided by the incomparable @djdelpilar✅️ More accessibility info available on the Eventbrite page🫂 Event is open to all bi+ folks (bi\, pan\, omni\, queer\, etc.) and anyone who is in community with bi+ folks
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/bi-vis-2-0/
LOCATION:Ottawa Bike Cafe\, 79 Sparks St.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1P5A5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Nightlife,Ottawa,Parties
ORGANIZER;CN="Homo Phono":MAILTO:613living@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T223000
DTSTAMP:20260907T185017Z
CREATED:20260907T185015Z
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UID:10005715-1789763400-1789770600@maxottawa.ca
SUMMARY:F3RAL: SORORITY
DESCRIPTION:ATTENTION PLEDGES! Your initiation begins on September 18th! \n\n\n\nWelcome to F3RAL: SORORITY\, the wildest party in Ottawa. This Sisterhood has a few rules…1 – Attendance is mandatory!2 – Have a drink on you at all times!3 – If you don’t throw ass\, you’re probably failing class!4 – Flash photography is MANDATORY!5 – Always be prepared for a game or challenge!If you pledge allegiance to F3RAL\, then we better see you at rush week on Sept 18 at Ottawa’s Home for Drag!DRESS CODE: Top of The Class 😉
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/f3ral-sorority/
LOCATION:The Lookout Bar\, 41 York Street\, 2nd Floor\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1N 5S7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Drag & Burlesque,Nightlife,Ottawa
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T211500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T224500
DTSTAMP:20260907T225425Z
CREATED:20260901T133021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260907T225425Z
UID:10005686-1789766100-1789771500@maxottawa.ca
SUMMARY:Our Body Is An Expanding Star (Film Screening)
DESCRIPTION:Film ScreeningOur Body Is An Expanding StarDirectors: Semillites Hernández Velasco\, Tania Hernández Velasco (Mexican/Mixtec/Popoloca) • 1h 24m • 2025 • Mexico • Spanish\, English-Presented by Asinabka Festival- \n\n\n\nSynopsis:Semillites and Tania\, two queer siblings bound by a powerful friendship\, journey through the brown terrain of their own bodies – lands they once rejected. They traverse landscapes of skin\, dreams and viscera\, crossing into places that pulse with their ancestors’ memory and\, along the way\, encounter a constellation of flowers\, grasshoppers and fossils. Through collage\, animation\, manifesto\, dance and intimacy\, the film moves across scales of body and territory\, reimagining identity beyond Mexico’s colonial narratives.
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/our-body-is-an-expanding-star-film-screening/
LOCATION:Arts Court\, 2 Daly Ave.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1N 6E2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film,Market or festival,Ottawa
ORGANIZER;CN="Asinabka Festival":MAILTO:asinabkafestival@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T233000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260919T003000
DTSTAMP:20260907T225136Z
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UID:10005728-1789774200-1789777800@maxottawa.ca
SUMMARY:Savage Smudge - Late Night Shorts
DESCRIPTION:G.O.A.T\n\n\n\nKimberley Benjamin (Yawuru\, Bardi and Kija) • 11m • Australia • 2026 • English \n\n\n\nHilarious small-town hijinks ensue as a young queer Aboriginal woman\, Lilah\, falls head over heels for an apparently indifferent new colleague and puts her desire to the test\, sparking a chaotic\, heartfelt race to ask her to the NAIDOC Ball. \n\n\n\nTHE FIRST INDIGENOUS FEMALE PORNOGRAPHER\n\n\n\nJamie Whitecrow (Seine River First Nation) • Key Cast: Monique Mojica (Guna & Rappahannock) • 13m • 2025 • Canada • English \n\n\n\nTHE FIRST INDIGENOUS FEMALE PORNOGRAPHER is Audrey Little-breast\, a native woman whose life and work defies categorization. During a candid interview\, she unravels the mysterious settler desire and sexual appetite for “imaginary Indians” that guided her pornographic work in the 1970s and contemplates its impact on Indigenous sexuality. This film blends and bends archival footage\, pornography\, and re-enactments\, and invites us to ponder how deeply historical and contemporary settler-indigenous relations impact our sexuality. \n\n\n\nConvenience Store NDN Zombie\n\n\n\nCole Forrest (Anishinaabe) • 6.5m • USA • 2025 • English \n\n\n\nZoe and Benny are in love. Benny dies the night before Halloween and is reanimated as a zombie. Claire\, Zoe’s best friend has nefarious intentions. \n\n\n\nBeneath Our Skin\n\n\n\nNgaire Lyden-Elleray (Pasifika/Mi’kmaq/Tongan/Irish/English) • 15m 2025 • Canada • English \n\n\n\nMisi\, a young Indigenous woman\, is plagued by vivid dreams that draw her deeper into her family’s past and their connection to the land. While the city around her is closing in\, Misi must escape to find the cause behind her visions.  \n\n\n\nKakxop pahok: as crianças cegas\n\n\n\nCharles Bicalho (Brazilian) • Cassiano Maxakali (Maxakali) • 17.5m • 2025 • Brazil • Portuguese w/ Eng. Subtitles \n\n\n\nOne day all the men in the village went hunting. And days\, and weeks and months passed… And they didn’t come back. The women of the village then exchanged their children among themselves\, so as not to be left without husbands\, and began to live a new life. However\, one day the men returned from hunting. And they found themselves in a state of affairs very different from the one they had left.  \n\n\n\nSpoken in the Maxakali language and illustraded by the residents of Forest School Village (Aldeia Escola Floresta) in the mucicipality of Teófilo Otoni\, in Minas Gerais state\, in southeastern Brazil\, Kakxop pahok is based on a traditional story of the Maxakali (Tikmû’ûn) people. And forms the Hãmnõgnõy Trilogy of indigenous animations with Konãgxeka: the Maxakali Flood (2016) and Mãtãnãg\, the Enchanted (2019).
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/savage-smudge-late-night-shorts/
LOCATION:Arts Court\, 2 Daly Ave.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1N 6E2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film,Market or festival,Ottawa
ORGANIZER;CN="Asinabka Festival":MAILTO:asinabkafestival@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260918T233000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260919T020000
DTSTAMP:20260907T185227Z
CREATED:20260907T185224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260907T185227Z
UID:10005716-1789774200-1789783200@maxottawa.ca
SUMMARY:F3RAL: SORORITY
DESCRIPTION:ATTENTION PLEDGES! Your initiation begins on September 18th! \n\n\n\nWelcome to F3RAL: SORORITY\, the wildest party in Ottawa. This Sisterhood has a few rules…1 – Attendance is mandatory!2 – Have a drink on you at all times!3 – If you don’t throw ass\, you’re probably failing class!4 – Flash photography is MANDATORY!5 – Always be prepared for a game or challenge!If you pledge allegiance to F3RAL\, then we better see you at rush week on Sept 18 at Ottawa’s Home for Drag!DRESS CODE: Top of The Class 😉
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/f3ral-sorority-2/
LOCATION:The Lookout Bar\, 41 York Street\, 2nd Floor\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1N 5S7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Drag & Burlesque,Nightlife,Ottawa,Parties
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