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Author Talks & Lectures

Icon of the event Metro Talks: The Eglinton Crosstown
Thu Oct 10, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Northern District

Presented by Metroland Media and Toronto Public Library.

Icon of the event Riverdale Community Arts and Letters Club: Wayson Choy
Wed Oct 16, 2013 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Riverdale

Wayson Choy, Member of the Order of Canada, Riverdale resident, will talk to us about "A Writer's Life -- about writing The Jade Peony to almost dying, but Not Yet".

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 Riverdale Community Arts and Letters Club
Wed Jun 19, 2013 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Riverdale

Mystery novelist, Howard Shrier, and his new Riverdale sleuth book, "Miss Montreal", discussion and book signing.