When Ray Bradbury passed away in June 2012, he left behind a tremendous legacy. His work sparked our imagination and was a huge influence on pop culture. But what was Bradbury – whose "Fahrenheit 451" is being celebrated as our One Book this April – really like as a person? As Bradbury's authorized biographer, Sam […]
To celebrate this year's Keep Toronto Reading Festival and the One Book community read selection, "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, the Merril Collection is hosting an exhibit of Bradbury memorabilia. The exhibit runs from April to June and is a must see for Bradbury devotees. Featured items include first editions of "Fahrenheit 451" and "The […]
L-R: CBC's Matt Galloway, Toronto Star's Catherine Porter, Author Andrew Pyper As you may have heard, the library is encouraging everyone to read this year's One Book, "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, and to come to events and discussions during Keep Toronto Reading Festival in April. Author Andrew Pyper, whose new novel The Demonologist was […]
To celebrate this year's Keep Toronto Reading One Book selection, "Fahrenheit 451," the library is launching KTR 451, our first alternate reality game (ARG). Players are invited to join the Literary Resistance by completing a series of missions. By helping complete these missions, players will help prevent the dystopian future prophesized in Bradbury's novel. The […]
The inaugural Bluma Lecture takes place tonight at 7 p.m. at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library. Pulitzer prize winners Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof will speak about "our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world," and how it is apparen’t, […]
View Keep Toronto Reading: Bookmobile Map in a larger map From Thursday, March 14 to Saturday, March 16, visit the following seven Bookmobile stops for a chance to win a free copy of this year’s One Book, “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. Copies will be given away to the first 10 visitors at each stop. […]
On Saturday, October 27, the library is hosting two video game writing workshops at North York Central Library, Room 1. The first workshop, from 1 to 2:30 pm, gives participants an overview on writing for video games. Participants in the second workshop, from 3 to 4:30 pm, will learn about video game journalism and the […]
On Saturday, October 20, Toronto Public Library will host our 3rd annual Human Library program at Toronto Reference Library, North York Central Library and Parkdale Branch. Customers will once again be able to borrow a human book for a one-on-one, half hour conversation inside the library. This year's collection of human books include police officers, […]
By signing up to be a borrower of a human book in the Human Library program, you have given yourself the opportunity to walk in someone else’s shoes for a few minutes – 30 minutes to be exact! Someone else may have your “human book” on hold, so please return them on the due time […]
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