Image used with permission. Marjorie Pickthall Fonds, Victoria University Library (Toronto). April is National Poetry Month and it is being celebrated by the League of Canadian Poets and the Academy of American Poets. I've recently discovered a personal connection to Toronto poet and librarian Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (1883-1922). She was once lauded as the best […]
You are invited to join us on Monday, April 24 at 7 pm, in Beeton Hall at Toronto Reference Library, for The Mafia, Triads and Ava Lee with Ian Hamilton. Ian Hamilton, a former journalist, diplomat and entrepreneur, is the best-selling author of ten novels in the Ava Lee mystery series, currently being adapted for […]
Free programs, free movies, free music all on this month. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The March 2017 @ TRL. For a full list of programs to browse or search, visit our Programs, Classes and Exhibits page
You are invited to join us on Wednesday, April 19 at 7 pm, in the Atrium of Toronto Reference Library, for Mothers, Sisters and Barbara Gowdy. Gowdy is a critically-acclaimed, prize-winning and best-selling author of seven novels and one short-story collection (We So Seldom Look on Love). She is appearing as part of the spring […]
You are invited to join us on Thursday, April 13 at 7 pm, in Beeton Hall at Toronto Reference Library, for Kerry Clare's Secrets & Truths. Clare is a National Magazine Award-nominated writer, editor and teacher. Her reviews, essays and short fiction have recently appeared in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Joyland and Canadian Notes & […]
You are invited to join us Monday, April 3 at 7 pm, in Beeton Hall at Toronto Reference Library, for Human Connections: Roo Borson and Phoebe Wang. Wang is a prize-winning poet and ESL teacher, and Borson a critically-acclaimed, prize-winning poet with more than 15 books to her name. They are appearing in celebration of National Poetry […]
I remember seeing Richard Wagamese speak. He spoke about how libraries change lives. About how when he was experiencing homelessness, the local library was his refuge. How the librarian took him to see an opera. Many tears were shed while he spoke – not by him, but by the people in the room. Happy, sad, […]
Hieroglyphics [‘Ancient Worlds and their Stories: Wielders of Wonders’.] created by TPL librarian Steven Shubert Toronto Public Library’s Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books presents a new exhibit Ancient Worlds and their Stories: Wielders of Wonders at the Lillian H. Smith branch. The exhibit showcases how ancient civilizations and their wonders have been represented in children’s […]
“Houses of ill-fame in Toronto? Certainly not. The whole city is an immense house of ill-fame….” ̶ C.S. Clark, Of Toronto the Good: A Social Study: The Queen City of Canada as it is, 1898 Join us at the Toronto Reference Library on Monday, March 6 for a free lecture on the history of one Toronto's […]
Lots of authors, including Mohsin Hamid and Roxane Gay, writer in residence Pasha Malla, and exhibits and lectures on Vice and Virtue in Toronto. Plus plenty of free movies, computer classes and eLearning. Click on each image to enlarge or Download The March 2017 @ TRL as a pdf file. For a full list of […]