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CANCELLED - Author Visit: Sharing Life Stories
Tue May 28, 2024 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: Spadina RoadAuthor Carol WilliamsWong shares her life story through readings of her memoir/books, "Letters to My Grandchildren: memoirs of a dragon lady", and "Conversation with a Hakka Dragon Lady". From Jamaica to...
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Atelier Comment écrire une autofiction ? 4ème partie
Tue May 28, 2024 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryLa littérature d'aujourd'hui est obsédée par la vérité. Alors, quelles sont les règles pour écrire vrai ? Et qu'entendent les romanciers.ères par vérité ? C?est surtout l'affirmation de Boris Vian, que « l'histoire est entièr...
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Rob Harvilla: 60 Songs that Explain the '90s
Wed May 29, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryWriter and podcaster Rob Harvilla visits the Appel Salon to regale music lovers with tales from his new book 60 Songs That Explain the '90s, a companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify. The 1990s were a chaotic...
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"Something Infinitely Precious": Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Thu May 30, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: Victoria VillageMrs. Dalloway was first published in 1925 by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's own publishing house, the Hogarth Press. The Woolfs started their own press as a space for experimental literature and radical ideas: being publishers...
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Kaya Genç: A Journey Through Modern Turkey
Mon Jun 03, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryConsidered a physical and cultural bridge between the East and the West, Turkey is a nation of contradictions. From its rich cultural history as one of the world's oldest civilizations to its challenging socio-political prese...
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Tommy Orange: Wandering Stars
Tue Jun 04, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryTommy Orange, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist and American Book Award-winning novel There There, discusses Wandering Stars, his follow-up novel tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indust...
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Meet author Toula Drimonis
Tue Jun 04, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Victoria VillageToula Drimonis is a Montreal-based opinion columnist, writer and news producer. Toula will talk about her book ' We the Others: Allophones, Immigrants and Belonging in Canada.' She will also introduce us to her new...
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Meet author Brian Francis
Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Victoria VillageToronto author Brian Francis will read and discuss his book ' Missed Connections: a memoir in letters never sent.' A Q&A will follow. Join us!
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Keiron Pim: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth
Mon Jun 10, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryWriter Keiron Pim visits the Appel Salon to discuss his new book Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth with host Eleanor Wachtel. The mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Rot...
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Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human
Tue Jun 11, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryKai Cheng Thom (she/her), MSW, MSc, QMed, is a writer, performer, somatic coach, and professional dialogue facilitator. An award-winning author and thought leader on revolutionary love, trauma healing, and transformative appr...