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World Literacy Canada Kama Benefit Reading Series

World Literacy Canada — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:02:48 -0400

Start: Jan 25 2012 - 6:30am

End: May 30 2012 - 6:30am

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, WLC’s five-part Kama Benefit Reading Series has attracted over 200 of Canada’s leading authors and public intellectuals, such as Margaret Atwood, David Suzuki, and Michael Ondaatje. With the support of these and many other authors, Kama has grown to be one of Toronto’s most exciting and sought-after literary events.

Vertigo Reading Series

the regina mom — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:20:06 -0500

Start: Feb 13 2012 - 7:30pm

End: Feb 13 2012 - 9:30pm

Vertigo Reading Series
Presented by Brown Communications Group

Mon. Feb. 13th, 2012, 7:30pm

Hosted by:
Crave Kitchen + Wine Bar
1925 Victoria Ave
Suggested Donation - $5

Readers:

Ken Fox

Fionncara MacEoin

Caitlin Ward

Bernadette Wagner

Music:

Ryan Anderson

Play Chthonics reading series

sdinniss — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:31:31 -0500

Start: Feb 15 2012 - 5:00pm

End: Feb 15 2012 - 6:30pm

Feminist media studies circle

Su — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:26:32 -0500

Start: Feb 16 2012 - 1:00pm

End: Feb 16 2012 - 2:30pm

The Centre for Women's Studies in Education at OISE announces our new Feminist Media Studies Circle. This group wil be dedicated to an ongoing discussion of films, articles and short pieces of literature on feminist themes.

This is a free group, open to both students and members of the wider community, and to all genders. We will provide the materials needed free of charge. Please register by e-mailing cwse.oise@gmail.com to receive materials, and so we know how many to expect.

Tea and snacks served. CWSE strives to provide an anti-oppressive space, and will work together with participants to create this space together. OISE is wheel-chair accessible. Hope to see you there!

Feeling Canadian: Book Launch & Reading by Marusya Bociurkiw

Kaitlin McNabb — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:23:09 -0500

Start: Feb 16 2012 - 7:30pm

"My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!" How did a beer ad become a
national anthem? When did Olympic opening ceremonies become an
advertisement for national superiority? What do toques and canoes have
to do with nationalism? Canadian couch potatoes need wonder no longer.
This book by award-winning Toronto-based author, media theorist,
filmmaker and professor Marusya Bociurkiw examines how affect
(passionate sites of feeling) and consumerism work together to produce
shows like Canada A Peoples' History, North of 60, and television
coverage of the 2010 Olympics. As Canadian TV expert Michelle Byers
writes, "Providing anecdotes that most readers will be very familiar
with, Bociurkiw's analysis situates us firmly within the context of

Montreal Night: Montreal transplants and Calgary writers discuss the city and their experiences

Kaitlin McNabb — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:41:15 -0500

Start: Feb 23 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 23 2012 - 9:00pm

Who doesn't love Montreal -- the city, the ideas? How does spending early years in Montreal affects a writer's work?

Join Rona Altrows, Susan Calder, Barbara Schleifer and Julie Sedivy, four Calgary writers, all Montreal transplants, who have never lost their passion for the old sod, with brief readings, open discussion, book sales and mingling.

Palestine and the Great Games: At the Periphery and in the Centre

lena-t — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:43:59 -0500

Start: Feb 24 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 24 2012 - 9:00pm

In this wide ranging and far reaching examination of the role of Palestine in the Great Games, the metaphor for grand geopolitical strategy involving nations and peoples first introduced by Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his 1998 book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and It's Geostrategic Imperatives, author and journalist Eric Walberg paints a broad canvas putting Palestine both at the centre and the periphery of 100 years of modern and postmodern colonialism. Drawn from extensive travels and research outlined in his most recent book, Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Game, Walberg shows how Palestine, despite its helplessness, is in a sense the most powerful player in the Great Games and its fate holds the key to the endgame.

Babble Book Club Final Discussion with author Lynn Coady on The Antagonist

Kaitlin McNabb — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:45:38 -0500

Start: Mar 4 2012 - 12:00pm

The Babble Book Club hosts author Lynn Coady on Sunday March 4 12:00 p.m. PST/3:00 p.m. EST for our final discussion of her novel The Antagonist.

We will be gathering questions and comments from you the readers (!) on our babble forum page and sending them to Lynn Coady on February 26 to ready for our discussion on March 4. Keep the conversation going and prepare all those critically minded questions you may have about the Antagonist!

When Cowgirls Get the Blues: Author Reading for International Woman's Day

Kaitlin McNabb — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:09:32 -0500

Start: Mar 15 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Mar 15 2012 - 9:00pm

To celebrate International Women's Day, join Alberta authors Betty Jane Hegerate, Barb Howard, Lori Hahnel and Lee Kvern with guest author Nerys Parry for an evening dedicated to the 'wilder' side of human nature and Western history.

These five women authors will share tales of murder, mayhem and madness and talk about writing through the darkness to bring stories to life.

Join us to hear some of the best new writing on the 'new' west.

Door prizes to be won and refreshments to be served.

Creative writing workshop

Roxanne Snider — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:13:34 -0500

Start: Apr 3 2012 - 7:00pm

End: May 29 2012 - 9:00pm

A great way to start writing, jump start your stalled writing, or push your writing to a new level ...

Join a new session of an ongoing creative writing workshop, which evolved out of a University of Toronto Creative Writing course.

Through a series of writing prompts, we'll explore various components of narrative prose - exposition, dialogue, point-of-view, style, etc. Each week participants write a short, assigned piece which we'll read and discuss in class. These exercises are designed to spark the imagination and hone the craft of writing, and are suitable to writers of fiction and memoir, beginning writers or those further along.