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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 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 Dr. Donald Smith's Mississauga Portraits
Thu Jun 27, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Spadina Road

Meet Dr. Donald Smith, Professor Emeritus at University of Calgary. Smith's newest book brings to life some of the Mississauga's most important and interesting community leaders from the mid-nineteenth century. Each portrait...

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 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 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 James Bartleman Book Launch
Wed Jun 19, 2013 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Spadina Road

Bestselling author and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, James Bartleman, will be at the Spadina Road Branch to launch his latest novel "The Redemption of Oscar Wolf."