Events

“A useful corrective to the mountain of lies published in the media.” Tariq Ali

Democracy and Revolution - Latin America and Socialism
Between The Lines Press
304 pages
$29.95 CDN
Available from your local indie bookstore

Is socialism dead since the fall of the Soviet Union? What is the way forward for the Left? Raby argues that Cuba and above all Venezuela provide inspiration for anti-globalisation and anti-capitalist movements across the world. Another World Is Possible, but only through an effective political strategy to win power on a popular and democratic basis.

Join the authors of Stones, Bones and Stitches, Shelley Falconer and Shawna White, for a lecture and tour of the new exhibit at the McMichael Gallery celebrating Inuit Art. The authors will be presenting. This is a ticketed Event (Registration required). See the McMichael Gallery public programs listings for details.

Stones, Bones and Stitches
by Shelley Falconer and Shawna White
Tundra Books, 2007
48 pages
$24.99

When you go down to the Drake today,
you’re in for a big surprise...

Jacob Scheier, author of More To Keep Us Warm, will be participating in the Art Bar Poetry Series.

More To Keep Us Warm
by Jacob Scheier
ECW Press, 2007
120 pages
Price: $16.95

Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheier’s debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young man’s mother instigates and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become inextricably connected, and in the process More To Keep Us Warm maps the limitations, and breaking points, of the human heart. Questioning how and why we fall in and out of love becomes the collection’s haunting refrain.

Playwrights Canada Press will be launching a new collection, titled Gay Monologues and Scenes: An Anthology edited by Sky Gilbert at the Art Bar in the Gladstone Hotel. There will be readings by Salvatore Antonio, Peter Lynch, Edward Roy, Jefferson Guzman, T. Berto, David Bateman, and Sean Reycraft, just some of the playwrights featured in the collection.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

A night of inter/action.
Art, poetry, music and dance will come together in this special edition of Draft featuring four multimedia collaborations.

On the program:

Lynn Harrigan and Scott McGregor Moore of dreamSTATE present a blend of words and sound.

Poet Ronna Bloom (Pedlar Press) and pianist Peter Dick explore musical and poetic landscapes.

Susan L. Helwig reads her poetry in the light of projections by Felix Chakirov.

and Steven McCabe joins with guitarist Paul Sanderson and dancer Preethi Gopinath, accompanied by video projections.

With the $5 admission fee comes a copy of DRAFT, a limited-edition publication with notes and sketches by the evening’s performers.

For further information, please call 416 433-4170 or email bodylanguage [at] sympatico [dot] ca.

Scottish crime-writer Ian Rankin will join Margaret Atwood on stage in conversation. The event will be hosted by CBC personality Jian Ghomeshi.

Tickets priced at $125 provide entry to a pre-event private cocktail reception with the featured authors and special guests. There will be an opportunity to have books signed by the authors after the onstage event.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

Karen Hines, author of The Pochsy Plays and Hello ... Hello reads at York University's Canadian Writers in Person class and reading series. Class is open to the public.

Hello … hello
Coach House Books, 2006
112 pages
$17.95
Hello … hello, nominated for several Dora awards, including Best Play and Best Musical, is a tragic, comedic and curiously erotic attack on western society’s predilection for escapist consumerism and entertainment. If the boy-meets-girl musical is the shiny happy ball, then the content of the play, and its characters, are the poison held within.

The Pochsy Plays
Coach House Books, 2004
220 pages
$18.95

Reading by Elyse Friedman, author of Long Story Short, at the Toronto Reference Library in the Main Atrium.

Long Story Short
A Novella and Stories
House of Anansi Press, 2007
280 pages
$29.95

Daniel Handler, Janette Turner Hospital, Gina B. Nahai and M.G Vassanji read from their most recent novels. The event opens with a poetry reading by Trillium Award-winner Ken Babstock. Nathan Whitlock hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

Located in St. Catharines, Crabtree Publishing is having their annual back-to-school book sale.

Hardcover books $5.00 / Paperback books $2.00
Fill a bag full of books for $25.00

Orders placed at sale for new fall 07 hardcover titles receive a 35% discount off list and free shipping.

For more information please contact
Andrea Crabtree, at 905-682-5221
ext.265 or andrea_c [at] crabtreebooks [dot] com

Readings by Readings by Margaret Christakos (Sooner), Céline Curiol (Voice Over), Halfdan W. Freihow (Dear Gabriel), Marina Lewycka (Strawberry Fields), and Michael Ondaatje (Divisadero). Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

Book launch at the Writers and Editors Network for Twice in a Blue Moon by Marianne Paul.

Marianne Paul, winner of the 2006 Canadian Aid Literary Award for her novel Tending Memory, discusses Winning at Writing. In this informative presentation you'll learn how winning this prestigious award changed her writing life and helped her re-shape an earlier work into a fresh novel.

For more information about this author, please visit mariannepaul.com.

Event cost: $14 for WEN members and $17 for non-WEN members.

At the Lakeside Terrace. Francophone authors Céline Curiol (Voice Over) and Nancy Huston (Fault Lines) are interviewed by Globe and Mail Books Editor Martin Levin. Michel Basilieres hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

In the Brigantine Room. Graphic novelists Rutu Modan and James Sturm present their newest works with readings and PowerPoint. Toronto poet Emily Schultz opens the event with a reading from her new collection, Songs for the Dancing Chicken (ECW 2007). Peter Birkemoe hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

In the Studio Theatre. The Reluctant Muse: Halfdan W. Freihow (Dear Gabriel), Larry Gaudet (Safe Haven: The Possibility of Sanctuary in an Unsafe World), and Janette Turner Hospital (Orpheus Lost: A Novel) talk about their relationship with their craft. The Toronto Star's publishing reporter Vit Wagner moderates. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

Readings by Emma Donoghue (Landing), Nancy Huston (Fault Lines), Nikita Lalwani (Gifted: A Novel), and Gail Tsukiyama (The Street of a Thousand Blossoms: A Novel), and a poetic prologue from Emily Schultz (Songs for the Dancing Chicken). Nathan Whitlock hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

In the Brigantine Room. A.J. Jacobs (The Year of Living Biblically) and Bruce Meyer (Heroes) read from their new books. Stephen Cain (American Standard/Canada Dry) opens with a poetry reading. George Murray hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

Sumach Press, The National Film Board of Canada & The Female Eye Film Festival are pleased to announce the book launch of D is for Daring: The Women Behind the Films of Studio D by Dr. Gail Vanstone (York University) at the NFB, John Spotten Cinema (150 John St.) on Saturday, October 20th from 5-7pm. $5.00 admission.

Readings, audience Q&A and the Canadian premiere screening of the documentary "Women Behind the Lens" by Alexis Krasilosky.

Join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of feminist film makers in Canada and the launch of the book that chronicles the history of Canada's first and only feminist film studio.

In the Brigantine Room. Shalom Auslander (Foreskin’s Lament), Amy Bloom (Away), Anne Enright (The Gathering) and Vendela Vida (Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name) read from their most recent works. Poetry by Souvankham Thammavongsa (Found)opens the event. John van Driel hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

The House of Anansi is celebrating its 40th anniversary at the International Festival of Authors. The celebration will feature readings from several authors including Margaret Atwood, Graeme Gibson, A.L. Kennedy, Kevin Connolly, Elyse Friedman and Shani Mootoo.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

In the Studio Theatre. The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents its second Poetry Projections project as part of IFOA. Poets and filmmakers who have collaborated on the project include Souvankham Thammavongsa, Priscila Uppal, Kelly Egan, Vicky Moufawad-Paul. This is a free event. For more information about LIFT visit www.lift.on.ca.

Construction Paper: The Building of the Book. Diane Ackerman (The Zookeeper's Wife, Jakob Arjouni (Kismet), and Ian Holding (Unfeeling) on plots, settings, and the cement that keeps it all together. Round table moderated by Charles Foran. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

Coach House launch at the Jane Bond featuring Jessica Westhead (Pulpy and Midge), Cara Hedley (Twenty Miles), David McGimpsey (Sitcom) and Sarah Lang (The Work of Days).

Jessica Westhead is a Toronto writer who has published stories in litmags such as The Antigonish Review, Matrix, This Magazine, Geist, Taddle Creek, Forget Magazine, Word and Kiss Machine. Her fiction was included in the anthology Desire, Doom & Vice: A Canadian Collection, and her short-story chapbook, Those Girls, was published by Greenboathouse Books in 2006.

CBC Massey Lectures by Alberto Manguel. At Different Drummer Books in Burlington.

The City of Words
by Alberto Manguel
House of Anansi Press, 2007
240 pages
$18.95
In the new CBC Massey Lectures -- the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated nonfiction series of the year -- renowned thinker and author Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at the rise of violent intolerance in our societies, taking us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

Meg Tilly, author of Porcupine and former film actress (The Big Chill, Agnes of God), will be reading at the Brookbanks Branch of the Toronto Public Library.

Porcupine
by Meg Tilly
Tundra Books, 2007
ages 10-14
240 pages

Open Book: Toronto and The Drake Hotel are hosting a Book Swap and Cocktail Party to celebrate the launch of Open Book.

Bring your favourite OBPO*-published book and swap for a new one, over drinks and hors d'oeuvres in "The Underground" of the Drake.

Please RSVP if you plan to join us: rsvp [at] openbooktoronto [dot] com

*Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario. Visit our links page for the publisher list.

Astrid Young, author of Being Young (Insomniac Press), will be appearing as a part of Page's This Is Not A Reading Series at the Gladstone Hotel.

Meg Tilly, author of Porcupine and former film actress (The Big Chill, Agnes of God), will be reading at the Locke Branch of the Toronto Public Library.

Porcupine
by Meg Tilly
Tundra Books, 2007
ages 10-14
240 pages

Coach House event at The Bookshelf, featuring Jessica Westhead (Pulpy and Midge), Cara Hedley (Twenty Miles), Sarah Lang (The Work of Days) and David McGimpsey (Sitcom).

Jessica Westhead is a Toronto writer who has published stories in litmags such as The Antigonish Review, Matrix, This Magazine, Geist, Taddle Creek, Forget Magazine, Word and Kiss Machine. Her fiction was included in the anthology Desire, Doom & Vice: A Canadian Collection, and her short-story chapbook, Those Girls, was published by Greenboathouse Books in 2006.

Authors Barry Callaghan (Between Trains), Robert Hough (The Culprits), D.R. MacDonald (Lauchlin of the Bad Heart), and Michael Winter (The Architects Are Here) read in Hamilton. Adam Dickinson (Kingdom, Phylum) opens the event with a poetry reading. Richard Bachmann and Bryan Prince host. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

Pedlar Press launches their fall books at Supermarket in Kensington Market. With Stan Rogal (As Good As Dead), Michael Blouin (I'm Not Going To Lie To You) & Jacob Wren (Families are Formed Through Copulation).

Readings by novelists Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Turtle Valley), A.L. Kennedy (Day), Helen Oyeyemi (Icarus Girl) and Célestine Hitiura Vaite (Tiare in Bloom: A Novel). The event opens with a reading by poet Souvankham Thammavongsa (Found). Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

In the Brigantine Room. Jasper Fforde (First Among Sequels), Spider Robinson (Robert A. Heinlein's Variable Star ) and Robert J. Sawyer (Rollback) read from their novels. Jay MillAr opens the event reading from his new collection of poetry, The Small Blue.

At the Lakeside Terrace. Booker shortlisted author Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist reads with Ian Holding (Unfeeling), Aryn Kyle (The God of Animals) and David Leavitt (The Indian Clerk). Poetry from Griffin Prize-shortlisted poet Priscila Uppal (Ontological Necessities) opens the event. Ania Szado hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

Readings by novelists Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Turtle Valley), A.L. Kennedy (Day), Helen Oyeyemi (Opposite House) and Célestine Hitiura Vaite (Tiara). The event opens with a reading by poet Souvankham Thammavongsa (Found). Rachel Harry hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

Meg Tilly, author of Porcupine and former film actress (The Big Chill, Agnes of God), will be reading at the Parkdale Branch of the Toronto Public Library.

Porcupine
by Meg Tilly
Tundra Books, 2007
ages 10-14
240 pages

In the Brigantine Room. Hugh Brewster presents his books about John Singer Sargent's painting: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. James Grainger hosts. Young IFOA events are free. please call Harbourfront Centre's School Visits Department for details: 416.973.4091.

Meg Tilly, author of Porcupine and former film actress (The Big Chill, Agnes of God), will be reading at the North York Central Library.

Porcupine
by Meg Tilly
Tundra Books, 2007
ages 10-14
240 pages

Meg Tilly, author of Porcupine and former film actress (The Big Chill, Agnes of God), will be reading at Type Books.

Porcupine
by Meg Tilly
Tundra Books, 2007
ages 10-14
240 pages

Gil Adamson, author of The Outlander will be reading at the International Festival of Authors in the Brigantine Room at Harbourfront Centre. $8, free for students.

The Outlander
House of Anansi Press, 2007
312 pages

In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand.

Coach House Books is launching its 2007 Fall Titles at Stones Place in Toronto.

In the Brigantine Room. Novelists Gil Adamson (The Outlander), Jokob Arjouni (Kismet), David Thewlis (Late Hector Kipling) and Michael Winter (The Architects Are Here) read. Jay MillAr (Small Blue) reads from his new poetry collection. John van Driel hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

Five beloved, critically acclaimed and prize-winning authors share the stage to read from fiction and poetry. The authors reading are: Isabel Allende (Inés of My Soul), Ken Babstock (Airstream Land Yacht), Will Ferguson (Spanish Fly), Elizabeth Hay (Late Nights on Air), and Richard B. Wright (October). Will Ferguson's reading will be accompanied by guitar from Tom Phillips. Rachel Harry hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

Barry Dempster reads his poetry from The Burning Alphabet (Brick Books, 2005) and Letters from a Long Illness with the World: the D.H. Lawrence Poems (Brick Books, 1993) in Sylvester's Room, Room 201, Stong College, York University, as part of the Stong College Speaker Series.

Sumach press launch for Launch for Swahili for Beginners By Lisa Joyal and Wings of a Bee by Julie Roorda. Refreshments, readings & specially priced books for sale

Swahili for Beginners
by Lisa Joyal
Sumach Press, 2007
176 pages
$10.95

Join the Between the Lines staff, writers and volunteers at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom to celebrate BTL's 30th anniversary.

Started in 1977, BTL strives "to embrace critical perspectives on culture, economics, and society." Visit the BTL website to read more about their publishing history and philosophy.

Gil Adamson, author of The Outlander will be reading at St. Luke's Parish Hall in Burlington.

The Outlander
House of Anansi Press, 2007
312 pages

In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand.

Authors Gil Adamson (The Outlander), Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Turtle Valley), and Elizabeth Hay (Late Nights on Air)read from their new novels. Kevin Connolly (Drift) provides a poetic prologue. Richard Bachmann and Bryan Prince host. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

In the Brigantine Room. Barry Callaghan (Between Trains), Justin Cartwright (The Song Before It Is Sung) and Anna Porter (Kasztner's Train), reading from a short-story collection, a new novel, and a powerful work of non-fiction respectively. Priscila Uppal (Ontological Necessities) provides a poetic prologue. John van Driel hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

A reading by authors Beatrice MacNeil (Where White Horses Gallop), Bernice Morgan (Cloud of Bone, Alessandro Piperno (The Worst Intentions), and Peter Robinson (Friend of the Devil) opens with Janice Kulyk Keefer (Midnight Stroll) reading from her most recent poetry collection. Catherine Belyea hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

Black Hearts Hockey Club and Balzac's Coffee present Hockey Book Night in Canada featuring Lorna Jackson (Cold-Cocked: On Hockey) and Cara Hedley (Twenty Miles) with special musical guest Jen Cutts.

Two new books by authors Lorna Jackson and Cara Hedley represent the vanguard of new Canadian hockey writing, forging a genre almost exclusively their own: Canadian women's hockey writing.

In the Brigantine Room. Spotlight on the Charles Taylor Prize: Larry Gaudet (Safe Haven: the Possibility of Sanctuary in An Unsafe World, David Gilmour (The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and a Son), and Rudy Wiebe (Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest), the 2007 Prize-winner read from their literary non-fiction. Margaret Christakos reads from her newest poetry collection, Sooner. Charlotte Gray hosts. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

Carol Bruneau (Glass Voices), Tracy Chevalier (Burning Bright ) and David Davidar (The Solitude of Emperors) read from their new novels. Will Self reads from The Book of Dave and from Psychogeography. For the hot-off-the-presses Psychogeography this event offers a rare sneak peek: IFOA is Self's only Canadian stop to promote the book. Stephen Cain opens with a reading from his most recent poetry collection. Catherine Belyea hosts.

CBC Massey Lectures By Alberto Manguel. At Convocation Hall, University of Toronto. Tickets $18/$13.

The City of Words
by Alberto Manguel
House of Anansi Press, 2007
240 pages
$18.95
In the new CBC Massey Lectures -- the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated nonfiction series of the year -- renowned thinker and author Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at the rise of violent intolerance in our societies, taking us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time.

Start your Halloween weekend with a spooky visit to Spadina House. The historic manor (built in 1866) is open for tours during the day, but what lurks in the attic after nightfall? Join Open Book and Seventh Stage Productions for an eerie sneak peak (and reading) of the fall’s new thrillers by John Robert Colombo (Ghost Stories: Canada, Strange But True, Terrors of The Night), Maureen Jennings (Journeyman to Grief), Edo Van Belkom (Cry Wolf), Curtis Parkinson (Death in Kingsport), and Shane Peacock (Eye of The Crow). Costumes welcome, light refreshments will be served.

***Some scary content, kids 8 years and older recommended***

At the Lakeside Terrace. Creative Catalysts: Writers discuss what they're reading. Round Table moderated by Randy Boyagoda. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

The International Festival of Authors (IFOA) was inaugurated in 1980 with a mandate to bring together the best writers of contemporary world literature. Like the weekly reading series, the IFOA includes readings, interviews, lectures and round table discussions as well as public book signings and a festival bookstore. The IFOA also presents a number of special events including readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists, as well as and the highly anticipated awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. The Festival runs until October 27.

At the Lakeside Terrace. War, Terror, Trauma and the New Novel. A round table moderated by Susan G. Cole.
Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

In the Brigantine Room. Helen Humphreys in conversation with Tracy Chevalier. Chevalier's new novel, Burning Bright, is set in 18th century London, where a number of the vignettes in Humphreys' new book, The Frozen Thames, also take place. Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

In the Brigantine Room. The Future of East Coast Writing: New Adventures in Metaphor. A round table moderated by Larry Gaudet. And Sandy MacIntyre and Friends play Cape Breton Fiddle! Visit the IFOA site for ticket info.

Giant Zine Fair! $5 admission comes with a free copy of the Horror issue of Broken Pencil Magazine. Over 150 zines from across Canada on display and for sale!

The heart of the event, indie publishers both in print and online come from across the country and the continent to show their wares! Be amazed at the creativity, ingenuity, and sheer weirdness! (Those interested in booking tables can register online at www.brokenpencil.com.)

Launch of the New Issue of Broken Pencil "INDIE HORROR" featuring Ghost Stories at the Canzine Camp Fire, all day Indie Horror Videos, and our Cheap Thrills Special Effects exhibit

A new biography of Conrad Black, Robber Baron: Lord Black of Crossharbour (ECW Press), by award-winning journalist George Tombs, will be launched at Ben McNally Books.

David Suzuki: Solutions are in Our Nature

David T. Suzuki PhD, Co-Founder of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge - the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.

Doors open at 6:30pm, Lecture begins at 7pm
Tickets are $25 (General Admission)
Book signing to follow lecture - Books available for sale on site by Ben
McNally Books

Featuring Semi Chellas, Sean Dixon (The Girls Who Saw Everything), Steve Kado, Sharron McLeod, Moheb Soliman, Jessica Rose, Jessica Runge, Troy Emery Twigg, and Jacob Wren (Families Are Formed Through Copulation).

+ door treats from AGYU, Angkor Restaurant, Aporia Records, Coach House Books, DC Books, Descant, Eat Your Friends, Geist, Good for Her, idea&s, Jessica Rose, KissMachine, on spec, Peter Mansbridge and the CBC’s, One Little Goat, Mercer Union, Pages, Pedlar Press, Public, The Salivation Army, Semiotext(e), Shameless Magazine, Prefix Photo, Sheeba Music, This Magazine, Troy Emery Twigg and others.

Join architects Michael McClelland and Graeme Stewart as they launch Concrete Toronto: A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies (Coach House Books). Enjoy a lunchtime reception at the Members Lounge at City Hall, and then celebrate into the night at the evening launch party at Empire Lounge (50 Cumberland Street, Toronto) from 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.

Presentation from Other Goose: Recycled Rhymes for Our Fragile Times by Barbara Wyn Klunder at Abbozzo Gallery.

Book launch of Long Story Short (Anansi) by Elyse Friedman at Type Books.

Elyse Friedman's fiction, described as "part Kafka, part South Park" (Toronto Star), is as funny as it is fierce, as witty as it is empathetic. Here, in her best, most mature, and most nuanced work, she offers a dark, comically off-beat, and surprisingly heartbreaking novella about a young man who copes with the passage into adulthood by cultivating an almost fanatically ironic view of the world, but who is ultimately forced to deliver a death blow to irony -- which visits him in the form of a washed-up '80s sitcom star.

Poetry soiree and closing reception for Elaine Whittaker’s art installation show "Spontaneous Generation."

Poetry readings by: Maureen Scott Harris (Pedlar Press), Joanne Page (Pedlar Press), Maureen Hynes, Kelley Aitken, Ruth Roach Pierson, Patria Rivera, and Julie Roorda.

Sponsored by the Toronto Environmental Alliance

Cary Fagan and Gary Clement, Ten Men and an Old Mouse, will be at the Leah Posluns Theatre at as part of the Toronto Jewish Book Fair

Ten Men and an Old Mouse
Tundra Books
ages 4-7
32 Pages
The synagogue was once a busy, bustling place, but now only ten old men come to tend it and pray each day. Then one day, a little scritch-scratch betrays the first new member in years: a tiny mouse who has taken up residence among the holy books. Of course, a trap must be set, but who will do it? Al volunteers, but in the morning the mouse is still there, and is just a little more appealing than he was before.

Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (Sumach Press) edited by Rhea Tregebov at the Toronto Jewish Book Fair at the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre (Leah Posluns Theatre). Readings, musical entertainment.

Olive Senior launches her new poetry collection Shell. Insomniac poets Roseanne Carrara (A Newer Wilderness) and Catherine Graham (Pupa) will also read from their latest works.

Launch for On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions (BookLand Press) by Matthew Bin at the John Foote Armouries.

On Guard For Thee is a collection of soldiers’ stories from Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day.

The annual launch for Playwrights Canada Press is at the NOW Lounge.

Meet the playwrights, and hear them read from their work.

Readings by Salvatore Antonio, Leon B. Aureus, Robert Fothergill, Colleen Murphy, Yvette Nolan, Keith Roulston and Judith Thompson.

Enjoy delectable finger food, an inexpensive cash bar, conversation and general frivolity!

Hosted by NOW personalities Susan G. Cole and Jon Kaplan.

Books on sale by Theatrebooks

The Canadian Theatre Critics Association will also be present to hand out the 2007 Herbert Whittaker Award for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Drama

Page's This Is Not A Reading Series presents the Reel Asian cabaret. Editor of Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen (Coach House Books), Elaine Chang, hosts. See some of the brightest stars of contemporary Asian Canadian cinema perform in a showcase of many talents, segmented by short films and clips.

Launch for On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions (BookLand Press) by Matthew Bin at the Guelph Armoury.

On Guard For Thee is a collection of soldiers’ stories from Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day.

Matthew Bin, author of On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions, will be interviewed on Rogers TV Daytime Show for their Remembrance Day Special.

On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions (BookLand Press, 2007) is a collection of soldiers’ stories from Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day.

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