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Free programs, concerts & plays at branches
across the city

TORONTO (Thursday, January
31, 2013) – Toronto Public
Library invites all Torontonians to celebrate Black History Month at branches
across the city during February. A slate
of free author visits, plays, poetry events, drumming and dancing programs,
storytellers and historians will help Toronto celebrate the heritages,
traditions and cultures of African-Canadians.

This year’s Black
History Month programming will kick off with an Up Close and Intimate visit
with Juno and Grammy award winner Dan Hill, interviewed by jazz great Joe
Sealy. (February 6, 7 pm, North York Central Library).

Program highlights
continue with AfriCan Theatre Ensemble staging two plays, The Meeting and Lost, at
various branches, while author Bryan Prince will present his new title One More River to Cross as a musical
program and dramatic reading.

Jazz pianist Mboya
Nicholson will explore the roots of jazz in a pair of concerts at North York
Central Library, while Soul Influence, the award-winning a cappella ensemble,
sings in the stacks at Deer Park Branch.

Check
out even more free Black History Month events at Toronto Public Library:

• Defining
  Canadian Urban Fiction with a special panel discussion on Canadian Urban
  Fiction led by urban Canadian writers, educators and cultural advocates
• Capoeira:
  An Afro-Brazilian Art with Master Marcio Mendes from Muiraquitã Capoeira
• Storytelling
  with Gail Nyoka and Sandra Whiting
• Drumming
  with Njacko Backo, Muhtadi and Mystic Drumz
• Visits
  by authors Rosemary Sadlier, Dalton Higgins, Elizabeth Abbott and Dirk McLean

And discover
the richness of Toronto Public Library’s Rita Cox Black & Caribbean
Heritage Collections, located in four branches across the city.  

For more information
and a complete list of all Black History Month events, pick up a Black History
Month program guide and reading list at any Toronto Public Library branch, call
Answerline at 416-393-7131, visit torontopubliclibrary.ca/blackhistory or
drop by your local branch.

Black History Month
at Toronto Public Library is supported by TD Bank Group.

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visit our branches in neighbourhoods across the city and borrow over 33 million
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Media Contact:
Melanie Boatswain-Watson, Communications Officer
416-397-5936
media@torontopubliclibrary.ca