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Icon of the event Great Books: Jane Austen  Pride and Prejudice
Mon Oct 07, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Eatonville

Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, signaling the first appearance on the literary of this "Shakespeare of the novel". This lecture embraces the Dashwood sisters and their lovers as sustaining modern...

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...