Author Talks & Lectures
Audience
Library Branch
Andrew Borkowski, writer, actor and musician, will discuss and read from his collection of short stories "The Copernicus Avenue: stories". Set in a neighbourhood of fictional Copernicus Avenue the stories are a daring, moder...
First Nations poet and author Lee Maracle will read from her most recent work of fiction "First Wive's Club - Coast Salish Style."...
Join us for talks on historical subjects. Meetings are free and include refreshments. At this meeting Ken McGoogan presents his book "How the Scots Invented Canada".
ANDREW J. BORKOWSKI's 2011 collection of short stories, Copernicus Avenue, inspired by his youth in Toronto's Roncesvalles Village, is set in a fictional neighbourhood of war heroes, witches, and sidewalk prophets, and follo...
With storyteller Robert Seven Crows as he tells stories of the Kluscap, a mythical figure in the Mi'kmag oral tradition. Robert creatively accompanies M'shoum's stories with traditional Mi'kmag songs on his tawegan (drum) and...
Come join the Downsview Book Discussion group for a lively discussion of new and old classics....
Wed Mar 07
Wed Mar 21
Wed Apr 04
Wed Apr 18
Wed May 02
Please join us for an exciting evening of poetry featuring Beatriz Hausner author of the The Wardrobe Mistress and 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize winner A.F. Moritz (The Sentinel.
David Newland of Roots Music Canada and the Corktown Ukulele Jam will show you how to play. Bring your Ukulele if you have one. Some demonstration Ukuleles will be available for use during the program. Space is limited. Ple...
Originally from South Africa, Lisa de Nikolits...
2012 marks 50 years of Jamaican independence. Toronto Public Library and Jamaica 50's Art and Literature Committee celebrate with an exciting series of literary and cultural events. Wherever Jamaican writers make their home...


