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Supper gathering Tues Mar 19, 6pm, Colonnade downtown – Postponed

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UPDATED Mar 19/13: As the weather is being utterly unco-operative , we are postponing the OSFS supper scheduled for tonight at the Collonade on Metcalfe until next month. While driving might be possible, parking downtown could be iffy with this much snow. Will let everyone know when we have a new date.

Updated Mar 17, 2013:  The weather office warns we could be in for major snow Tuesday. If that’s the case and in fairness to our members who come from different parts of the city, the meeting will be postponed until April unless there are enough hardy souls willing to wade through hell and high snow banks. Watch for further details. 

We’re gathering again for dinner and discussion on Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 at the Colonnade Pizza on Metcalfe at Gilmour. Please join us at 6pm for food and fun. 🙂

Details will also be on our Meetup site. You can RSVP there, or by email to events@ottawasfs.ca

Supper gathering Wed Feb 13/13, 6:30pm, Perkins St Laurent

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Perkins Restaurant 1130 St. Laurent Blvd, Ottawa, ON (map), 6:30-9:30pm, Wed Feb 13

We will be meeting in the back room at Perkins Restaurant at the corner of St. Laurent and Coventry Rd. There’s a table reserved in the name Alex Binkley for the Ottawa Science Fiction Society. There is free parking at the restaurant, the transitway stops across the street at the St. Laurent Centre and there are buses along St. Laurent Blvd. We have a lot of new members in OSFS and hopefully some of you will be able to attend so we can meet you.

There will be a gathering in Orleans the following week, a supper get together downtown in March and a possible gathering in Kanata in March or April. If you have suggestions for other activities, let us know.

You can RSVP on our OSFS Meetup site or to events@ottawasfs.ca

Supper meeting Thu Nov 22nd, Nate’s Deli Merivale Rd, 6pm

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We’ll be gathering again for a supper meeting on Thursday, November 22nd, 2012, at Nate’s Deli Family Kitchen, 1545 Merivale Road, 613-226-5050, two and a bit blocks south of Baseline & Clyde, on east side of Merivale (former Cora’s building). This is the new location for the original Nate’s from Rideau Street, complete with Dave Smith. 🙂

There is a large separated section at the back of the restaurant, so we can converse better, and have a large number of people at a huge table layout. Official start time is 6pm, reservation is for 5:30, so they’re ready for early-birds.

Please join us for a fun evening, and a brief AGM with discussion on where we’re going from here!

Supper meeting Thu Oct 25, 2012, 6pm

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We’ll be gathering once again on Thursday, October 25th, 6pm, at Colonnade Pizza, 1463 Merivale Road (Food Basic Mall) 613-727-8686. This is a small mall located across Merivale from the Loblaws on Baseline / Merivale. Buses on Baseline are just a short walk across the parking lot, then across Merivale.

Please join us for a fun evening.

Supper meeting held August 16, 2012

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Watch for an announcement of our next dinner/evening gathering.

The August dinner gathering saw seven members and guests enjoying pizza or pasta,  and chatting. We met for the first time at the Colonnade West location, 1463 Merivale Road (Food Basic Mall). It is on good bus routes, and just across Merivale from the Loblaws at Baseline.

Supper meeting June 14, Colonnade Pizza

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We’ll be at Colonnade Pizza, 280 Metcalfe, corner of Gilmour 6pmish June 14th, 2012. (There’s on street parking in the area and bus service along Elgin one block away). The back corner of the restaurant is reserved in Alex Binkley’s name for any early arrivals.

We had a good turnout for our May supper meeting so we are trying that format again. We had a great time talking among ourselves about all things SFF.

We’ve had an executive meeting and can see a way forward for our group to get plugged in with all the other SFFH etc groups in Ottawa.

We want feedback at the Thursday get together on moving away from Sunday afternoon sessions to gatherings in restaurants about the city. We decided not to switch locations for now mainly because everyone on the executive is already too busy with work etc to organize it. But we would like suggestions on that as well on how to make supper gatherings most interesting and get people to mingle and move around.

Also we would like to hear any ideas you have on making our group more relevant, interesting and fun. Also any movie recommendations. Finally saw the Averngers–what a hoot.

If you’re coming on Thursday, would you let Alex know so we have some idea of what to expect. And bring along anyone who might be interested. Email:  events@ottawasfs.ca

Meeting Sunday, April 29, 2012

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2:00 pm – 5:00 p.m.: Our topic will be on consciousness and the brain presented by Inge Loy-English who has attended some OSFS functions. Peter Hargraves will discuss some of the philosophical aspects of consciousness. One member is hoping to learn more about bicameral mind theories. Bring friends, tell others.

NOTE: The meetings start promptly at 2pm!