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Michelle Good: Truth Telling (North York Central Library)

Mon Jun 05, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: North York Central Library

Advocate, activist, and award-winning novelist Michelle Good discusses her bold and provocative new essay collection examining the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. In conversation with writer...

Toronto Games Week: Comic Book Launch & Panel Discussion

Mon Jun 05, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Location: Palmerston

Join us for a lively conversation about games and work! At the launch of a comic exploring alternative labour modes like co-ops and unions, attendees will read the comic and then participate in a panel discussion with co...

Christene Browne: Philomena (Unloved)

Tue Jun 06, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Maria A. Shchuka

Christene Browne reads from her second novel, Philomena (Unloved) , a poignant story about Philomena Jones who, born in the Caribbean...

Daniel Allen Cox: I Felt the End Before it Came

Tue Jun 06, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Yorkville

Daniel Allen Cox joins us to discuss his new memoir, I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Qu...

Monarchs and Milkweed

Wed Jun 07, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Mimico Centennial

Toronto 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 m...

Out from the Shadows: Women and their work in 19th c. Toronto

Wed Jun 07, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Don Mills

Author 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...

Luis Alberto Urrea: Good Night, Irene

Wed Jun 14, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Luis 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...

Susan Goldenberg: A Deadly Triangle Author Talk

Wed Jun 14, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Don Mills

Join 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 Ratten...

On Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism

Thu Jun 15, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Yorkville

Lecturer in contemporary literature and culture and author of Deadly and Slick , Dr. Sita Balani joins senior edit...

James Cameron, Avatar, the Na'vi, and the Ol' Empire Erasure Blues

Thu Jun 15, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: St. Lawrence

Many 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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