Have Fun Today: Events 2008-11-18
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Here are the literary happenings in and around Toronto day. If you go, let me know!
Toronto Public Library Reading: Edo van Belkom
Fairview Branch | 10:30am | Free
35 Fairview Mall Drive
Edo van Belkhom will read from Wolf Man (Tundra Books).
Seeley Hall, Trinity College | 5pm | Free
6 Hoskin Avenue
ECW will be celebrating the launch of Young Hunting by Martin Hunter.
Mitzi’s Sister | 7pm | free
1554 Queen Street West
Insomniac Press will be celebrating the launch of Into the Drowned World by Ryan Kamstra.
TINARS: Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada
Gladstone Hotel | 7:30pm | free
1214 Queen Street West
A panel discussion about the integration and identity of Muslims in Canada, lead by the editor of Belonging and Banishment, Natasha Bakht. Should be an interesting night, especially in light of the recent Toronto Life cover and controversy.
York’s Canadian Writers in Person presents Djanet Sears
York University | 7pm | free
Accolade West Building, Room 109
Djanet Sears, author of Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Playwrights Canada Press) is giving a lecture.
Book Thug Launch Party
Supermarket | 7:30pm | free
268 Augusta Ave
Come celebrate the launch of a whole bunch of new books, including In Stereo by Paul Hegedus, The SubWay by Philip Quinn, MAL ARME by Victor Coleman, After Rilke by Mark Goldstein, Welcome to Earth by Amanda Earl and This &That Lenin by Steven Zultanski.
Art Bar Poetry Series: David Clink, Maurice Mierau and Margaret Christakos
Clinton’s | 8pm |free
693 Bloor Street West
David Clink, Maurice Mierau and Margaret Christakos will all be reading their work.
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