Events
« August 24, 2008 - September 23, 2008 »
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08 / 24
Start: 11:00 am
End: 7:00 pm
Xtra's Writing Outside The Margins festival of queer literary arts is on Sunday, August 24 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Church Street between Alexander and Gloucester.
The festival is hosted by Ryan G. Hinds and Kristyn Dunnion and features Open Mic, Poetry Slam and Panel Discussions. Readings by:
- RM Vaughan
- Zoe Whittall
- Derek McCormack
- John Cameron Mitchell
- Michelle Tea
- Nina Arsenault
- Todd Klink
- Daniel MacIvor
- Trish Salah
- Anand Mahadevan
- Jeffrey Round
- Hadassah Hill
- Peter Dube
- Geneva St. James
- Ryan Kamstra
- Stewart Lewis
- Tamai Kobayashi
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08 / 25
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08 / 26
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08 / 27
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08 / 28
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08 / 29
Start: 8:00 pm
Fraser Sutherland (Manual for Emigrants, Tightrope Books), Carey Toane and James Arthur (Tyrrhenian Sea) are reading at the IV Lounge Reading Series at 326 Dundas Street West, Toronto. Friday, August 29 at 8:00 p.m. Admission is free.
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08 / 30
Start: 4:19 pm
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
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08 / 31
(all day)
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
Start: 5:30 pm
Rhea Tregebov, editor of Arguing with the Storm (Sumach Press), will be at Harbourfront Centre for the Ashkenaz Festival 2008 on Sunday, August 31 at 5:30 p.m. for a reading, talk and interview.
Rhea Tregebov is the author of six collections of poetry; she has also written five children's picture books and edited numerous anthologies of fiction, poetry and essays. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
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09 / 1
(all day)
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
Start: 2:30 pm
Kathy Kacer will be reading from her latest book, The Diary of Laura’s Twin, as part of the Ashkenaz Festival, a celebration of Yiddish and Jewish life and culture, at Harbourfront Centre in the Brigintine Room. Monday, September 1 at 2:30 p.m.
Start: 5:00 pm
Start: 09/01/2008 - 17:00
End: 09/05/2008 - 17:00
Get ready for v2.0! Here we go. It's going to be a hoot!
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09 / 2
(all day)
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
(all day)
Start: 09/01/2008 - 17:00
End: 09/05/2008 - 17:00
Get ready for v2.0! Here we go. It's going to be a hoot!
Start: 8:00 pm
This Is Not A Reading Series turns five! It is the thirtieth year of Pages Books & Magazines! What better way to celebrate these twin milestones than with a tribute to the driving force behind both indie institutions: Marc Glassman? A posse of familiar faces from Toronto's literary, film, and art scenes will raise their glasses to the literary and film curator, editor, arts journalist, and proprietor of Pages Books. Billy Bryans will perform a live DJ set. -- A This Is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines and EYE WEEKLY.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Tuesday, September 2 at 8:00 p.m. (doors 7:30 p.m.) free.
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09 / 3
(all day)
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
(all day)
Start: 09/01/2008 - 17:00
End: 09/05/2008 - 17:00
Get ready for v2.0! Here we go. It's going to be a hoot!
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:30 pm
Pedlar Press releases Roo Borson's book Personal History, a suite of eight essays in the belles lettres tradition at Supermarket in Kensington Market on Wednesday, September 3 from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
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09 / 4
(all day)
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
(all day)
Start: 09/01/2008 - 17:00
End: 09/05/2008 - 17:00
Get ready for v2.0! Here we go. It's going to be a hoot!
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09 / 5
(all day)
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 09/01/2008 - 17:00
End: 09/05/2008 - 17:00
Get ready for v2.0! Here we go. It's going to be a hoot!
Start: 10:00 am
Start: 09/05/2008 - 10:00
End: 09/07/2008 - 18:00
The Eden Mills Writers' Festival is celebrating its 20th year this summer. The Festival runs from Friday, September 5 to Sunday, September 7. Workshops and seminars run on September 5 and 6. Festival day is on September 7. The authors at this year's festival include David McGimpsey, Shari Lapeña, Michael Ondaatje, Alistair MacLeod, Robert J. Sawyer, Jane Urquhart and others.
For more details, visit the festival website.
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09 / 6
(all day)
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
(all day)
Start: 09/05/2008 - 10:00
End: 09/07/2008 - 18:00
The Eden Mills Writers' Festival is celebrating its 20th year this summer. The Festival runs from Friday, September 5 to Sunday, September 7. Workshops and seminars run on September 5 and 6. Festival day is on September 7. The authors at this year's festival include David McGimpsey, Shari Lapeña, Michael Ondaatje, Alistair MacLeod, Robert J. Sawyer, Jane Urquhart and others.
For more details, visit the festival website.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Reva Stern, author of The Water Buffalo That Shed Her Girdle (BookLand Press), will be at Chapters Bayview Village, 2901 Bayview Avenue, Toronto on September 6 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. for book signing and media interviews.
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09 / 7
(all day)
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 09/05/2008 - 10:00
End: 09/07/2008 - 18:00
The Eden Mills Writers' Festival is celebrating its 20th year this summer. The Festival runs from Friday, September 5 to Sunday, September 7. Workshops and seminars run on September 5 and 6. Festival day is on September 7. The authors at this year's festival include David McGimpsey, Shari Lapeña, Michael Ondaatje, Alistair MacLeod, Robert J. Sawyer, Jane Urquhart and others.
For more details, visit the festival website.
Start: 11:13 am
John Donlan (Spirit Engine, Brick Books), Matt Rader (Living Things, Nightwood Editions) and Frank Giorno (Arrivederci, Plastic Covered Couch, Lyricalmyrical Press) are reading at the Art Bar Poetry series at Clinton's, 693 Bloor Street West, Toronto. On October 21 at 8:00 p.m.
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09 / 8
(all day)
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
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09 / 9
(all day)
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
Start: 8:00 pm
Liz Zetlin (The Thing With Feathers, BuschekBooks), Sheri Benning (Thin Moon Psalm, Brick Books) and Jon Paul Fiorentino (The Theory of the Loser Class, Coach House Books) are reading at the Art Bar Poetry Series at Clinton's, 693 Bloor Street West, Toronto. Tuesday, September 9 at 8:00 p.m. Free.
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09 / 10
End: 4:19 pm
Start: 08/30/2008 - 16:19
End: 09/10/2008 - 16:19
Join us to discuss all these things. It will be splendid!
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09 / 11
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09 / 12
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09 / 13
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09 / 14
Start: 10:00 am
Award-winning author David Bergen (The Retreat, McClelland & Stewart) will be at Ben McNally/Globe & Mail Books & Brunch at the King Edward Hotel, 37 King Street East, Toronto, on Sunday, September 14 at 10:00 a.m. www.benmcnallybooks.com.
Start: 1:00 pm
The launch for Drawing on Type (The Porcupine's Quill), an autobiography by Frank Newfeld is on Sunday, September 14 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Different Drummer Books, 513 Locust Street, Burlington. Refreshments will be served.
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09 / 15
Start: 7:30 pm
This Is Not A Reading Series and Biblioasis present the prestigious Metcalfe-Rooke Award to Rebecca Rosenblum. To launch her short-story collection, featuring the award-winning Once (Biblioasis), Rosenblum will share the stage John Metcalfe and Leon Rooke. A This is Not A Reading Series event.
At the Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor Gallery, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
Monday, September 15 at 7:30 p.m. (doors 7:00 p.m.) free.
Start: 8:00 pm
Come and Enjoy the CHA CHA! Thursday, September 25th at the Cervejeria Lounge, 842 College Street at 8:00 p.m. ~ $8 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
A night of readings and performances that celebrate and challenge notions of female sexuality.
emcees: Jill Andrew & Athena Karkanis
FEATURING:
Ann Cummings
Aisha Sasha John
janet romero leiva
monica rosas
Dianah Smith
Andrea Theony
Yaya Yao
SPECIAL GUEST: Stacey May Fowles - Author and Publisher of Shameless Magazine
for more info contact: chachachicas [at] gmail [dot] com
ALL WELCOME
Cha Cha is a queer and trans positive space.
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09 / 16
Start: 4:00 pm
Daniel J. Levitin, author of The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature (Viking Canada) is at the U of T Bookstore Reading Series on Tuesday, September 16 at 4:00 p.m. In the Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park, Walter Hall (basement), Toronto.
This is a free event and all are welcome.
Daniel Levitin's new book showcases his daring theory of "six songs," illuminating how the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms — for knowledge, friendship, ceremony, joy, comfort, and love. Levitin shows how music and dance enabled the social bonding and friendship necessary for human culture and society to evolve.
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09 / 17
Start: 7:30 pm
Free-Hand Books is launching four new titles on Wednesday, September 17th at 7:30 p.m. Head to Clinton's to celebrate the launch of Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott, It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems by Jeanette Lynes, Mother Superior by Saleema Nawaz and Pathologies, by Susan Olding. Music by PorkBelly Futures.
Start: 7:30 pm
The Decadent Rare Series will be broadcast live, online, via web streaming by The Supermarket in partnership with http://www.synclive.com. Tune in at 7.30pm on Wednesday, September 17th!
This is the first event in the Decadent Rare series. The series will occur every three months, and it offers musicians and writers an opportunity to work together. This event is co-curated by performer Ciara Adams and poet a. rawlings. The event features Natalie Zina Walschots, Sule (SouLay) Heitner, Sean Dixon and Ciara Adams.
Start: 7:30 pm
Acclaimed writer Lisa Foad hosts "C is for Cox & Coyote", an evening with two of Canada's finest queer storytellers, Daniel Allen Cox and Ivan Coyote. Cox will perform "Unzip 101: The Fine Art of Shucking Your Pants" to launch his novel about a street hustler, Shuck (Arsenal Pulp Press). Why did Coyote return to her short story roots in the collection, The Slow Fix (Arsenal Pulp)? It's a long story but she will relay it with aplomb during a conversation with Foad.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W, Toronto
Wed, Sept 17 at 7:30 (doors 7:00 p.m.) free
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09 / 18
Start: 7:30 pm
The official launch of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food (Between the Lines) by Wayne Roberts is on Thursday, September 18 at Toronto Sprouts, 720 Bathurst Street (just south of Bloor and Honest Ed's), Toronto. Doors open at 7:00 p.m., with short and sparkling presentations by local food enthusiasts around 7:30 p.m.
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09 / 19
Start: 6:00 pm
Sheree-Lee Olson will sign copies of her book, Sailor Girl, on Friday, September 19 and Saturday, September 20. Signings at 6:00 p.m. both days. The signings will take place at the Canadian Corps Association by the Welland Canal.
Sheree-Lee Olson was born in Picton, Ontario, a town on the shores of Lake Ontario. She has three university degrees, in fine arts, philosophy and journalism, financed largely by working on Great Lakes freighters. In 1985, she joined The Globe and Mail as an editor, and in 2007--08 she was a Canadian Journalism Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.
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09 / 20
Start: 9:00 am
Award-winning playwright and novelist Claudia Dey hosts "Kids Can Day".
To launch Sir Reginald's Logbook, a tale of an armchair adventurer's quest for a "lost tablet of illusion", Matt Hammill will deliver a powerpoint show. Irene Luxbacher will guide the group through a few of the projects in her celebrated quartet of Starting Art books. Partner: Kids Can Press.
At the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Saturday, September 20 at 9:00 a.m. (doors 8:30 am) free
Start: 6:00 pm
The Hart House Literary and Library Committee, in conjunction with the Ethics and Narrative symposium hosted by the Jackman Centre for the Humanities and the Centre for Ethics, welcome authors Mark Kingwell and Jan Zwicky, reading from recent works.
Saturday, September 20, at 7:00 p.m. The event is free, open to all, and takes place in the Hart House Library, second floor of Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto.
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09 / 21
Start: 10:30 am
The Words Alive Literary Festival features workshops, contests and readings. The festival is on September 21 from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Visit the festival website for details.
Speakers and Performers at the Festival Include:
- Allan Briesmaster – poet and publisher
- Allyson Latta – literary editor conducting a memoir workshop
- Anthony De Sa – “…an astonishing talent,” says Wayson Choy
- Barry Dempster – award-winning poet and author
- Beverley Stone – reading from her acclaimed debut novel
- bill bissette – unconventional, perhaps anti-conventional, poet
Start: 2:00 pm
Is there a recurring frustration or a block that keeps throwing itself at you? This three-hour intensive workshop is for people who have come up against a block, either personally, professionally or as writers. It includes a talk about blocks, frustrations, and the tactics we use to avoid/deal with situations. Let some air into those stuck places through a variety of in-class writing exercises, and open the door to new directions.
Sunday September 21st, 2-5pm
Before Sept 14: $75; After $85
Snacks will be provided.
Danforth and Greenwood area
To register contact ronnabloom [at] gmail [dot] com
Start: 3:05 pm
Maureen Jennings will be reading and signing copies of The K Handshape at the Words Alive Literary Festival in Sharon on September 31 at 1:00 p.m.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Book launch and art show for Time Is When (Tundra Books), written by Beth Gleick and illustrated by Marthe Jocelyn, is at Type Books on Sunday, September 21 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Beth Gleick published this book in 1960 to explain the concepts of time to her three-year-old son, James. Not only did Time Is When explain the concept of time to James, it cultivated his own fascination with the subject. James Gleick went on to write best-selling adult books on time, including Chaos and Faster.
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09 / 22
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09 / 23
Start: 7:30 pm
To what extent does our past determine our future? Internationally acclaimed author Edeet Ravel will discuss how such existential concerns inform the relationships at the centre of her new novel, Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth (Penguin Group Canada), with Cynthia Good, Director, Creative Book Publishing Program, Humber College. Special co-presenter: The Koffler Centre of the Arts.
At the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W, Toronto
Tuesday, September 23, 7:30 p.m. (doors 7:00 p.m.) free
Start: 8:00 pm
Jason Camlot (The Debaucher, Insomniac Press), Sharon Thesen (The Good Bacteria, Anansi) and Iggy McGovern (King of Suburbia, Dedalus Press) are reading at the Art Bar Poetry Series at Clinton's, 693 Bloor Street West, Toronto. Tuesday, September 23 at 8:00 p.m.
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