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Author Talks & Lectures

Icon of the event The Treehouse Talks
Fri Sep 13, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Toronto Reference Library

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...

Icon of the event Author Talk: Joy Fielding
Tue May 21, 2013 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Parliament Street

Joy Fielding is the author of the New York Times bestsellers...

Icon of the event The Secret City: An Occult History of Toronto
Tue Jun 25, 2013 | 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Toronto Reference Library

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...

Icon of the event Eva Stachniak - Evergreen Author
Tue Aug 27, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Runnymede

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.

Icon of the event Use Your Words: Workshops for emerging writers
Sat Jul 13, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Toronto Reference Library

Dalton Higgins (Vibe, The Source. Dalton inhabits the worlds of digital culture, hip hop and popular culture - and combines them into one potent mix. One of Canada's foremost experts on hip hop. For writers 16-30....

Icon of the event Author Talk: Marguerite Pigeon
Mon May 27, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Parliament Street

Marguerite Pigeon is a writer of poetry and fiction....

Icon of the event It's Not All CSI And Serial Killers
Fri May 24, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Don Mills

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...

Icon of the event Nepal's Wild West: The Dolpo and Mustang Regions
Fri Jun 28, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Don Mills

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...

Icon of the event The Treehouse Talks
Fri Jun 14, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Toronto Reference Library

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...

Icon of the event York during the War of 1812: A Re-examination
Fri May 24, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Toronto Reference Library

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...