Who did the Flames play in the 2004 Stanley Cup final? Which player is nicknamed "The Rocket"? Which hockey team called the Olympia arena home? If you want to learn more about former and present NHLers, general hockey history or team traditions, check out several of Mike Leonetti's books at your local public library. Mike Leonetti is a lifelong Toronto Maple Leafs fan and […]
Ages 7-12 Do you love superheroes? Come dressed up as your favourite superhero and win prizes. Join us for a fun filled event celebrating our favourite superheroes with crafts, games and trivia. Register in person or by calling 416-395-5440. Saturday, October 11, 2-3:30p.m. Check out these amazing superhero books at the Barbara Frum public […]
Ages 10 & Up Who will win the 2014 Brazil World Cup? Get your kicks with the playful pool and win plenty of prizes like a t-shirt and soccer ball! Design a soccer display! Create the official musical instrument of the games, a caxirola! Show your team spirit and wear your soccer jersey! Register in person […]
On April 15, as part of the Keep Toronto Reading Festival, four renowned writers discussed the issues, complexities and blurred lines of incorporating factual events and people into their fiction. Hosted by Toronto Reference Library’s current writer-in-residence, Marina Endicott (The Little Shadows), the panel included Greg Hollingshead (Bedlam); Helen Humphreys (Nocturn) and Nino Ricci (The […]
On April 7, a fascinating discussion among leading war experts and historians took place in the Appel Salon to a sold-out crowd as part of the Keep Toronto Reading Festival. The panelists included historian Margaret MacMillan (The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914); Janice Stein, head of the Munk School of Global Affairs; […]
AGES 6 & UNDER Sleepy stories, silly songs, rollicking rhymes and great games for children with paren’ts or caregivers. Wear your playful pajamas. Register in person or by calling the library at: (416) 395-5440. TUESDAYS, MAY 13, 20 & 27, JUNE 3, 10 & 17, 6:30-7:30P.M. THIRD FLOOR, ROOM B RECOMMENDED BEDTIME PICTURE […]
Stepping off from a real event—the brave action of a cellist playing Albinoni’s Adagio for twenty-two days on a heap of rubble where twenty-two civilians had been killed in a mortar attack—Steven Galloway’s book The Cellist of Sarajevo examines the people around the event. The story follows a man hurrying through dangerous streets to get […]
Last night, the Keep Toronto Reading Festival kicked off with an exciting music and poetry event—“The Music of Hope”—featuring poetry readings by poet and filmmaker Ann Shin, music by Toronto Symphony Orchestra Principal Cello Joseph Johnson, hosted by CBC’s Robert Harris. As Robert Harris so aptly stated: “ … art sustains us in a world […]
The significance of art for the human spirit has always been that it is not an abstract, theoretical activity. Art is real. It is the physicality of paint slapped on a canvas by a human hand, it is the muscle of the dancer, it is the vibration in the air of strings brought to life […]
You read, alone. Caught up in a magical world created word by word by an author, peopled by characters so compelling, you carry on, head down, until, blinking, you reach the words “The End.” What then, though? All those thoughts stirred up by a great book, all the associations formed by what’s happened between the […]