Who says spooky season has to end in October? Kick off the holidays with a twist—an evening of conversation, horror, and blockbuster cinema!
Join author Laura Hall, author of Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes for a conversation about gender, race, and representation in horror. The event kicks-off with a screening of Obsession, this summer’s smash horror debut from director Curry Barker.
Presented in partnership with the University of Regina Press, the Ottawa Horror Club, and Ottawa Public Library, this is a one-of-a-kind night for horror fans, cinephiles, and anyone who prefers their holiday season to be a little…freaky.
Location: Ottawa Public Library Main Branch Auditorium (120 Metcalfe, Ottawa)
Date: December 9, 2026 Start Time: 6:00 p.m. Free to attend! Registration encouraged.
Signed copies of Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes will be available for purchase from Octopus Books.
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Dr. Laura Hall is a graduate of York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. Her work is about “learning to learn” from within an Indigenous worldview, focused on sustainability, the rights of Indigenous women and Two-Spirit/LGBTQ communities, and land back. Laura was raised by her Mohawk mother and English-Canadian father on Anishinaabe territory in N’Swakamok (Sudbury). Her current interests are settler colonial theory and intersectionality, pop culture analysis, and bridge-building between social work and sociology, as well as Indigenous environmental theory and sociology.
Événement offert en anglais seulement.