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Monarchs and Milkweed
Wed Jun 07, 2023 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Mimico CentennialToronto Master Gardeners discuss the importance of milkweed to monarch butterflies. Discover the best milkweed varieties for your garden, how to start milkweed plants from seed, how best to plan your garden to attract monarc...
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Out from the Shadows: Women and their work in 19th c. Toronto
Wed Jun 07, 2023 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Don MillsAuthor Elizabeth Gillian Muir discusses her newest book, An Unrecognized Contribution: Women and their work in 19th century Toronto, which details the work that women did in the city --which could have been any...
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Susan Goldenberg: A Deadly Triangle Author Talk
Wed Jun 14, 2023 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Don MillsJoin local author Susan Goldenberg as she talks about her newest book "Deadly Triangle: The Famous Architect, His Wife, Their Chauffeur, and Murder Most Foul" The 1935 murder of architect Francis Rattenbury,...
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Luis Alberto Urrea: Good Night, Irene
Wed Jun 14, 2023 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference LibraryLuis Alberto Urrea, author of the landmark, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Devil's Highway, joins us to discuss his new novel, Good Night, Irene. In conversation with writer Janet Somerville. In the tradition of The N...
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On Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism
Thu Jun 15, 2023 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: YorkvilleLecturer in contemporary literature and culture and author of Deadly and Slick , Dr. Sita Balani joins senior editor of...
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James Cameron, Avatar, the Na'vi, and the Ol' Empire Erasure Blues
Thu Jun 15, 2023 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: St. LawrenceMany have condemned James Cameron's blockbuster Avatar franchise as the latest in a long line of white settler/saviour narratives (from The Last of the Mohicans to...
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From Vita to Tilda: Orlando's cinematic transformations
Tue Jun 20, 2023 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: RunnymedeThis talk explores the Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando (1928) as the literary adaptation of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West and her ancestral home at Knoles. In contrast,...
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How to Play a Book: Adaptations of Literary Classics as Computer Games
Wed Jun 21, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: Barbara FrumThis talk explores interactive digital adaptations of four well-known works of nineteenth-century literature (Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia" from The Adventures of Sherlock Hol...
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Laura Pratt: Heartbroken: Field Notes on a Constant Condition
Thu Jun 22, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Victoria VillageToronto-based author Laura Pratt will read from this work of creative non-fiction, which delves extensively beyond the memoir genre in contemplation of heartbreak via a range of contemplations?historical, physiological, liter...
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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...