The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is a unique comics event, patterned after comics festivals like Angouleme, Harlem, and the Small Press Expo. It is two full days of comics-related events, including readings, presentations, panel discussions, gallery shows, and a large exhibition area featuring publishers and comic authors and artists. Check out the programming , signings […]
We may not be serving up tea, scones and clotted cream, but if you cannot face waking up at 3 am for the festivities across the pond, please feel free to drop by the Toronto Reference Library on Friday April 29th from 1-3 pm for our coverage of the Royal Wedding of England’s Prince William […]
Taking our library online once again, Book Buzz, the online book club, presents Judy Fong Bates in conversation with you! We hope to see you (virtually) there: Judy Fong Bates, author of the 2011 Keep Toronto Reading One Book selection, Midnight at the Dragon Café will be our guest for a live online chat […]
The re:vitalization and renovations continue of the city's largest public library, Toronto Reference Library. A crane blocked off Asquith for a few hours over several days this week, as workers began installing the steel superstructure of what will eventually become the 3 storey Glass Entrance Cube. A few days ago the snow was […]
The re:vitalization and renovations continue on the city's largest public library, Toronto Reference Library. The circular shape of the Browsery is becoming more apparen’t as the steelwork is complete and glazing installation begins this week. Our west wall is pushing out to Yonge Street and the stainless steel trim is nearly complete […]
Who says Zines Are Dead? Indeed, many have thought print Zines would disappear under the abundance of social networking and online publishing. But, no! Print Zines are alive and kicking. Food Zines Zine Trio If you are still interested in printed words and graphics from other […]
An early excerpt from Beauty and Sadness by Andre Alexis (who kicks off our Canadian authors reading series the Eh List at Toronto Reference Library) caused a firestorm of controversy when it was first published in The Walrus. Here’s a brief sample from The Long Decline: These days, Canadian literary reviewers are so woefully incompetent, […]
Toronto Reference Library’s new study pods are coming! The re:vitalization and renovations continue on the city's largest public library, Toronto Reference Library. As you can see from the images below, the first full scale mock-ups of the study pods have been completed by the Welland, Ontario manufacturers. These much-needed quiet study/collaborative study areas will be […]
Come hear ROM Egyptologist Gayle Gibson discuss the development of Nubian burial customs and architecture in the ancient African land of Kush. Pyramids of Kush2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Tue Feb 01, 2011Elizabeth Beeton AuditoriumToronto Reference Library South of Egypt is the land of Nubia, ancient Kush, whose inhabitants had their own unique civilization. Over […]
I was spawned from the glacier,A thousand miles due northBeyond Cape Chidley;And the spawning,When my vast, wallowing bulk went under,Emerged and heaved aloft,Shaking down cataracts from its rocking sides,With mountainous surge and thunderOutraged the silence of the Arctic sea. —Charles G.D. Roberts “The Iceberg” Icy weather has come to stay for at least a few […]