Events

Deborah Ellis's acclaimed young adult novel, The Heaven Shop, a story about the human impact of the AIDS pandemic in Africa, is being adapted into a play entitled Binti's Journey. It is the story of Binti Phiri, a 13-year-old African girl, who loses her home and family to AIDS. It is about her journey to her grandmother's village and her discovery of a deeper understanding of family and community.

Binti's Journey, directed by acclaimed poet ahdri zhina mandiela and adapted by Marcia Johnson, was commissioned and developed by Theatre Direct.

To celebrate the release of Mistress Of The Sun (HarperCollins Canada), which tells the tale of Louise de la Vallière, consort to Louis XIV, France’s charismatic Sun King, novelist Sandra Gulland will model an elaborate seventeenth century-style gown designed by Susan Dicks and then peel it off, layer by layer, as she engages in a revealing on-stage conversation with Nathalie Atkinson of The National Post. A This
Is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, HarperCollins Canada, and EYE WEEKLY. At the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto on Tuesday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m. (doors 7:00 p.m.). Free admission.