Author Talks & Lectures
Audience
Library Branch
Bloor/Gladstone
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...
Where do crime and mystery stories come from? Sharon A. Crawford, Writer in Residence at the Toronto branch of the Canadian Authors' Association, will discuss the origins of her plots and characters as she reads from Beyond t...
Come and hear Eva read from, and talk about, her book "The Winter Palace" which is on the shortlist for the Ontario Library Association's Evergreen Book of the Year.
Historian Richard Gerrard, Fort York Historic Site, re-interprets the War of 1812 using newly discovered documentary and archaelogical evidence. Illustrated Presentation. Guided tour of the TD Gallery exhibition following the...
Find inspiration and hone your craft with some of the hottest writers in Toronto. For young writers 16-30. Sheila Heti's book How Should a Person Be? was chosen by The New York Times as one of the 100 Best Books of 2012. Cont...
Journalist Jan Wong's Out of the Blue: A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness - self-published memoir that details her depression, following a controversy over an article she wrote, and her...
C'est une épopée des plus extraordinaires que raconte Kim Thuy dans son roman "Ru". D'un palais somptueux à Saigon au camp de réfugiés en Malaisie, d'une immigration difficile à sa nouvelle vie au Québec, cette histoire vous ...
Join Chris Beall, a freelance photographer, writer, lecturer and Himalayan mountain guide with more than 20 years of experience, for a slide presentation about the landscapes, mountains, people, cultures, festivals, monasteri...
Professor Gillian McCann (Nipissing University, PhD from UofT) discusses her research revealing a completely different picture of Toronto in the Victorian/Edwardian period than the one most people have in their minds. Drawing...