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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 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 Use Your Words: Workshops for Emerging Writers
Sat Jul 27, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Toronto Reference Library

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...

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 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...

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 Use Your Words: Workshops for Emerging Writers
Sat Jul 13, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Toronto Reference Library

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...

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...