AgincourtUpcoming Dates:
Tue Sep 17
Author Talks & Lectures
Audience
Library Branch
Barbara Frum (3)
Brentwood (3)
Danforth/Coxwell (1)
Deer Park (7)
Don Mills (1)
Eatonville (1)
Kennedy/Eglinton (2)
Leaside (1)
Runnymede (1)
Spadina Road (3)
Taylor Memorial (1)
Thorncliffe (1)
Yorkville (1)
3 monthly speakers x 3 monthly topics = 1, 000 ideas! Discover new ideas, ways of thinking and styles of presentation. While our speakers appear to have nothing in common, Treehouse knows that where three ideas collide, count...
3 monthly speakers x 3 monthly topics = 1, 000 ideas! Discover new ideas, ways of thinking and styles of presentation. While our speakers appear to have nothing in common, Treehouse knows that where three ideas collide, count...
Professor Gillian McCann (Nipissing University) discusses her research revealing a surprising picture of Toronto in the Victorian/Edwardian period. Drawing from her book, Vanguard of the New Age: The Toronto Theosophical Soci...
Frederick Sweet, of the University of Toronto, presents Sophocles' brilliant play, where we are confronted by the critical issue of a prenatal curse which precipitates the breaking of two profound taboos. Is there any room in...
Find inspiration and hone your craft with some of the hottest writers in Toronto. For young writers 16-30. Dalton Higgins (Vibe, The Source). Dalton inhabits the worlds of digital culture, hip hop and popular culture - and co...
Dr John Greenwood of University of Toronto presents Plato's Symposium, a rousing philosophical discussion on the nature of love. In his characteristically challenging fashion, Socrates alerts the group to their own inadequate...
Calling all book lovers! Join us for an entertaining afternoon to discuss old favourites, recent publications, upcoming titles, favourite authors, and recommend some good reads. Light refreshments provided. For more informati...
Between 5,000 and 15,000 gay men--identified by the pink triangle--were sent to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, many to die there. After the war, this bitter history was for decades ignored. Author Ken Setterington t...
Wayson Choy, Member of the Order of Canada, Riverdale resident, will talk to us about "A Writer's Life -- about writing The Jade Peony to almost dying, but Not Yet".
Author Wayne Jones, will read from his 2011 publication, Great Guyanese Humour: Guyana's History through Jokes and launch his recently released flip-book, The Guyaspora in Canada (Guyanese Life in Canada)....