The annual Toronto Jazz Festival swings into town June 23 – July 2, 2017. Get in the mood with jazz from Naxos Music Library Jazz (a.k.a. Naxos Jazz). Just sign in with your valid Toronto Public Library card and PIN, and then enjoy the sweet sounds of jazz streamed directly through your computer, or download […]
Have you had a chance to visit our current exhibit, Destination Canada, on display in the Toronto Reference Library's TD Gallery? The exhibit explores personal experiences of migration, arrival and finding a place of belonging from early settlement to present day. We hope that the exhibit encourages visitors to think about their own story and […]
Free programs, free movies, free exhibits. All at the Toronto Reference Library. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The June 2017 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of programs to browse or search, visit our Programs, Classes and Exhibits page.
You are invited to join us on Thursday, June 22 at 7 pm, in Beeton Hall at Toronto Reference Library, for Andrew Pyper: A Real-Life Monster. Andrew Pyper is a critically-acclaimed and best-selling author of nine works of fiction, including eight novels. This event will conclude Toronto Reference Library's participation in the spring 2017 eh List Author […]
Learn about indigenous experiences in Canada by reading the works of those who have lived that experience. Burning in this Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Half Alicia Elliott in Initiations: A Selection of Young Native Writings Meshom and the Little One by Elaine Wagner Night Moves by Richard Van […]
Crowds outside Canadian Immigration Office in London, England, 1956. Photo by Rosemary Gilliat. Canada. Dept. of Manpower and Immigration / Library and Archives Canada / PA-181010 Opening this Saturday, May 20, our new exhibit Destination Canada explores personal stories and individual circumstances that have shaped newcomer experiences over time: the reasons for coming, the journey, […]
In celebration of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival taking place May 13 and 14 at Toronto Reference Library, and as a Mother's Day tribute to moms everywhere (hi mom!), I offer you this list of mothers in graphic novels and memoirs. The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom In this charming graphic memoir, […]
Free programs, free movies and TCAF – the annual Toronto Comic Arts Festival, all on this month. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The May 2017 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of programs to browse or search, visit our Programs, Classes and Exhibits page.
This weekend will be your last chance to visit our free Vice & Virtue exhibit on display at the Toronto Reference Library's TD Gallery. The exhibit runs until April 30, 2017. Vice & Virtue examines a period of moral reform in "Toronto the Good" as it faced rapid growth and industrialization at the turn-of-the-century. The exhibit explores changing […]
You are invited to join us on Monday, May 8 at 7 pm, in Beeton Hall at Toronto Reference Library, for Elise Levine: Blue Field. Elise Levine is the critically acclaimed author of the short story collection Driving Men Mad, published in 1995, as well as the novel Requests and Dedications, published in 2003. She is appearing as […]