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Make Some Noise announces Fall 2013 season

TORONTO (Wednesday, October 16, 2013) – Toronto band Light Fires featuring Regina the Gentlelady will headline the Fall
2013 season of Toronto
Public Library's award-winning Make Some
Noise free concert and workshop series. Events start this Friday, October 18, 2013.

What:              Light Fires live in the Stacks
Where:           Sanderson Branch,
327 Bathurst Street (at Dundas Street West)
When:             Friday November
15, 2013, 8 pm

The Make Some Noise…Take Some Noise program brings the library's local music
collection of more than 1,000 CDs to life in the stacks of library
branches around the city. The initiative provides people of all ages an opportunity to
see Toronto’s hottest indie bands live for free at their local library
branches.

Other Fall Make Some Noise
Events:

Alias Screening and Panel Discussion
Hip Hop MCs
from the Screwface Capital discuss the struggles of rising above the street in
this gritty and powerful documentary directed by Michelle Latimer. The
screening will be proceeded by a special showing of the
short film Trespassing directed by Toronto
MC Rich Kidd, as a part of the 2011 City
Life Program. The Alias screening will be followed by
a panel discussion led by Toronto Hip Hop scholar Dalton Higgins.
Toronto
Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street
Friday
October 18, 2013, 7 pm

Mars Project screening and Director Q&A
A
decade ago rapper Khari "Conspiracy" Stewart was diagnosed with
schizophrenia, a label he has chosen to reject. Jonathan Balazs, director of the documentary Mars Project documents recording artist Khari's history and daily
life and the deep complexities of mental health and inadequacies of the current
Canadian health system.
Danforth/Coxwell Branch, 1675 Danforth Avenue
Wednesday
November 20, 2013, 6:30 pm

Parkdale
Branch, 1303 Queen Street West
Friday
November 29, 2013, 6:00 pm

Maria A.
Shchuka Branch, 1745 Eglinton Avenue West
Monday
December 9, 2013, 6:30 pm

Sarah Liss on Will Munro Sarah Liss, author of Army of
Lovers, discusses the legendary Toronto artist, DJ, activist
and impresario, Will Munro and his importance
to Toronto's artistic and queer culture.
Yorkville
Branch, 22 Yorkville Avenue
Thursday
November 28, 2013, 7 pm

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people visit our branches in neighbourhoods across the city and borrow 32
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Media Contact:
Edward Karek, Communications
Officer
416-397-5925
media@torontopubliclibrary.ca