Toronto Public Library has launched The Cutting Edge – a combination of health-related programs and curated collections funded by Krembil Foundation. Read more about the inaugural Cutting Edge signature lecture that took place.
Yorkville Branch, Toronto Public Library’s oldest operating library (1907), will host acclaimed singer-songwriter Jennifer Castle for an intimate, all ages, free performance. Read more here.
David Arquette, the star of Starvox Entertainment productions' Sherlock Holmes, joins Toronto Star ’s film critic and movie writer Linda Barnard for an on-stage interview at Toronto Reference Library on Friday, October 30 at 3pm. Read more here.
Toronto Public Library is pleased to announce, John J. Audubon’s Birds of America,a spectacular new exhibit at the TD Gallery featuring life-sized images of birds. In the 1820s, American naturalist John James Audubon set out to paint all of the birds in North America, creating one of the most important, and beautiful, books on natural […]
In honour of the 50th anniversary of City Hall, on Wednesday, September 23 at 7 pm, Toronto Reference Library hostsBattle of the Architects: Revisiting City Hall’s Architectural Design. The original designs of the finalists from the 1958 international architectural competition will be revisited, reviewed and defended, Dragon's Den-style, by a panel of architects and designers. […]
Toronto Public Library celebrated Black Music Month with special performances by Junia-T and Ania Soul, live in the stacks of Maria A. Shchuka Branch on Friday, June 5, for a free, all ages show. Read more here.
On June 21, National Aboriginal Day, Toronto Public Library hosted a day of programming in the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library focusing on First Nations history and culture, culminating in a panel discussion on Canada’s missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Read more.
Internationally renowned geneticist and environmental activist Dr. David Suzuki will deliver the 9th annual June Callwood Lecture at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library on Wednesday, May 27. The event starts at 7pm (doors open at 6:00). Read more here.
Toronto Public Library is pleased to announce a new exhibition, Exposed, featuring highlights from the Toronto Star Photograph Archive: people, places and events that defined the 20th century. A snapshot of the Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Exposed presents some of the memorable images that graced the pages of Canada’s largest daily newspaper. Powerful and provocative, these photographs were the lens through whichToronto Star readers witnessed the […]
Toronto Public Library is pleased to announce a new exhibition, Freedom City: Uncovering Toronto’s Black History that celebrates the early black citizens of Toronto. Through original paintings, drawings, photographs, manuscripts and broadsides,Freedom City covers the history of black Toronto – from the days of early settlement to the end of the 19th century. The exhibit has been enhanced by […]