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Icon of the event Celebrating Italian Heritage Month - Family Time in Italian!
Sat Jun 08, 2013 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Downsview

Join Happie Testa, co-owner of the multilingual children's bookstore Rainbow Caterpillar, as she reads delightful books to young children in both Italian and English. Happie will also be sharing some insights on how to get ki...

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 Kamal Al-Solaylee: Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
Thu Jun 13, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Parliament Street

Author and journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee talks about his family's movements from Yemen to Egypt and back amid the tumultuous political events of the 1960s and his own struggle to find a way to live as a gay man. Prid...

Icon of the event Jan Wong Out Of the Blue
Wed May 29, 2013 | 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Northern District

Journalist Jan Wong's Out of the Blue: A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness - self-published memoir that details her depression, following a controversy over an article she wrote, and her...