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Samra Habib: "We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir"
Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibrarySamra Habib (they/them) is a writer, photographer and activist. As a journalist, they've covered topics ranging from fashion trends and Muslim dating apps to the r...
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Home of Her Heart: A Novel About Finding Family and a Place to Call Home
Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: BrentwoodIn this author reading and talk, Tara Goldstein will share her research process, read from her novel Home of Her Heart, and discuss some of the main stories that appear in the novel: living in an adoptive queer family, surviv...
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Poetry Writing Workshop
Fri Jun 23, 2023 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: SandersonJoin us for a creative afternoon of poetry writing and discussion. Share your words in a supportive atmosphere, respond to the poems of others, receive writing tips, and explore the works of a wide range of contemporary poets...
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Round & Round the Garden
Sat Jun 24, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Location: RichviewOlivia Skelhorne-Gross reads from her book Round & Round the Garden featuring beautiful embroidered illustrations of nursery rhymes and songs from various cultures around the world. The unique embroidered images in the book...
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Max Wallace: After the Miracle
Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: OnlineHistorian and New York Times bestselling author of In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust and...
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Create Your Own Comics with CTON
Wed Jun 28, 2023 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Fort YorkWrite and illustrate your own personal comics with professional illustrator and comic author, Clayton Hanmer. Learn about the basic structure of comic creation and be encouraged to get silly while building a comic together wi...
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Reconciliation for Small Businesses: Indigenous Inclusion LIVE-STREAM
Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: North York Central LibraryThis is a live-streamed Live & Online program where attendees in-branch at North York Central Library can ask questions to the virtual presenter. From colonization through the Indian Act and residential schools, th...
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Reconciliation for Small Businesses: Best Practices for Indigenous Inclusion
Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Online***Date changed to Thursday, June 29.*** From colonization through the Indian Act and residential schools, there is a lot of complicated history in our country. Between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people there is...
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Valley of the Birdtail
Thu Jun 29, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Spadina RoadCo-authors Douglas Sanderson and Andrew Sniderman present their work of narrative non-fiction, Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian reserve, a white town, and the Road to Reconciliation ....
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Rainbow Boys and Wonder Women: Histories & Futures of Queer Superheroes
Tue Jul 04, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: North York Central LibraryJoin Dr. Peppard, the award winning editor of the anthology Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy and the Superhero, as she talks about how homophobic prejudice informed decades of comics censorship, highlighting important touchstones...