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Icon of the event Storytelling with Molly Sutkaitis
Tue Sep 24, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Barbara Frum

Molly Sutkaitis is a storyteller, and can help you with your own stories. She has worked with adults and teens, helping them to develop their storytelling skills. Come and join us as she regales us with her tales, then enco...

Icon of the event Tea and Books
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm on recurring dates listed below
Agincourt

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...


Upcoming Dates:
Tue Sep 17
Icon of the event At the Table
Tue Oct 08, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Barbara Frum

Author Terence Keenleyside will discuss his new book "At the table: nourishing conversation and food". This is a collection of entertaining stories drawn from dinnertime exchanges at tables in many locales, and includes recip...

Icon of the event A Festival of Guyanese Jokes & Tales
Thu Jul 11, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Bloor/Gladstone

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)....

Icon of the event Shyam Selvadurai: The Hungry Ghosts
Thu Sep 19, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bloor/Gladstone

In Sri Lankan Buddhist mythology, if a person desires too much in life, they will be reborn as a peréthaya--an insatiable hungry ghost. "The peréthayas that appear to us are always our ancestors, and it is our duty to free th...

Icon of the event Boneshaker Reading Series
Tue Jun 25, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
St. Clair/Silverthorn

Sandra Kasturi and Helen Marshall read from their work.

Icon of the event Great Books:  George Eliot  Middlemarch
Wed Oct 16, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Barbara Frum

George Eliot?s great multi-plotted novel of middle-class life in early 19th century England interweaves stories of people facing crucial romantic and vocational choices. As the two principal protagonists, struggling with the...

Icon of the event Tea & Books
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm on recurring dates listed below
Agincourt

Join us for an entertaining afternoon to discuss old favourites, recent publications, upcoming titles, your favourite authors, and recommend some good titles which you have already read. Light refreshments provided.


Upcoming Dates:
Mon Jul 29
Mon Aug 26