The AfterWords Literary Festival presents It Pains Me To Say: A Panel Discussion with Gabrielle Drolet, Claire Cameron and Stephanie Domet at The Carleton on Friday, November 7th at 2:00 PM (doors at 1:30 PM).  Please register through the Festival for this FREE event HERE. Life is pain, according to philosophers from the Buddha to Schoepenhauer to (more…)

The AfterWords Literary Festival presents Writing Resistance: How and why do we continue to make art in what feels like a time of total ungrounded chaos? Join  francesca ekwuyasi and Cooper Lee Bombardier in a conversation that explores how it is vital to keep making art as resistance and response, as a way of understanding (more…)

On Sunday, November 2nd, join AfterWords at The Carleton for readings with David A. Robertson in conversation with Jesse Wente, about Robertson’s powerful new book All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety. Wente (Unreconciled) and Robertson are two leading Indigenous writers/thinkers, and this conversation is sure to be rich and rewarding. (more…)

Online sales have ended, but tickets will be available at the DOOR!  Hope you can join us! ==== Songwriter/author/motivational speaker Dave Carroll  performs for the benefit of the Society of Atlantic Heroes at The Carleton on Monday, November 10th. Show time is 7 PM and tickets for this very worthy cause are only $25 + (more…)

Eliza Rhinelander, joined by family and friends including banjo-wielding singer-songwriter Lia Ashkenas, will return to The Carleton on Thursday, November 13th. Show time is 7:30 pm. Their sets will include Eliza’s original music from her album The Precipice, as well as unreleased original songs, and a healthy dose of her own takes on traditional Celtic (more…)

Online sales have ended.  Tickets available at the DOOR! ==== Young newcomer Sylvie Aulenback, along with support from Chloe Eden, celebrates the release of her album Bittersweet at The Carleton on Wednesday, October 29th. Show time is 7 PM and tickets are only $15 + HST. Indulge in the performance of Sylvie Aulenback’s debut album, (more…)

Thanks to selling out his evening show, French-Algerian acoustic guitar virtuoso, vocalist and composer Pierre Bensusan has added a matinée at The Carleton on Sunday, October 19th. Doors will open at noon for a 1:30 PM performance. Tickets are $35 + HST. “It’s like the guitar has been given free reign to play itself!” French-Algerian (more…)

After surfing HRM’s house concert circuit, and one opening slot with Joe H Henry in April last year with us, Ottawa’s James Leclaire, is now ready to play his own show at The Carleton on Wednesday, October 8th at 7 PM. Because he is new to most of us, we’ve decided to make this a FREE (more…)