Upcoming Dates:
- Fri Jun 21
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
on recurring dates listed below
Location:
Guildwood
Come to the library to discuss current events. Every third Friday each month from 2 to 3 p.m. No meetings in July or August. Please contact the branch to register. Space is limited.
Tue Jun 25, 2024
6:30 pm
- 8:00 pm
Location:
Mount Pleasant
Expand your mind and take part in our monthly book club. Come together to share your thoughts and join members of the community in a fun, friendly atmosphere! Get a copy at the front desk or bring your own. Award winning, Can...
Wed Jul 03, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
Location:
Runnymede
Digging Up the Grave! Join Virginia Van Vliet, native Cabbagetown resident, and learn the eerie history of Toronto?s early cemeteries. Q&A to follow discussion. Drop-In. No Registration Req...
Sat Jun 22, 2024
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
Location:
North York Central Library
Have you heard of the Akshayuk Pass in Baffin Island? Join Aviator Lola Reid Allin and her friends on her personally narrated, photographic chronicle of their challenging 10-day, 98-km Arctic camping adventure. During this tr...
Thu Jun 13, 2024
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Location:
Northern District
Please join Edward Y.C. Lee as he discusses and performs a reading from his novel The Laundryman's Boy. The Laundryman's Boy is and enduring and moving tale about early newcomers to Canada and their struggle to succeed a...
Wed Jun 19, 2024
6:30 pm
- 8:00 pm
Location:
Northern District
N.D. Stevenson's graphic novel Nimona functions as almost an anti-bildungsroman, a story in which the two central characters, Ballister and Nimona, are alienated from a fundamentally broken society because of their own status...
Thu Jun 13, 2024
6:00 pm
- 7:30 pm
Location:
S. Walter Stewart
Join us for this interactive workshop sharing and writing letters to your younger self about coming out as a member of the LGBTQ2SIA+ community. Author Debra Anderson leads this workshop. Debra is a recipient of th...
Thu Jul 04, 2024
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Location:
Brentwood
In this lively presentation, award-winning best-selling author Gary Barwin will share engaging examples from his many books of fiction, poetry, and essays. He will also speak about how he addresses difficult subjects with hum...
Thu Jun 13, 2024
6:30 pm
- 7:30 pm
Location:
Lillian H. Smith
Join the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books for a special lecture celebrating the 165th anniversary of Canada's first picture book, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon's "An Illustrated Comic Alphabet." Art historian Margo...
Wed Jul 24, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
Location:
Mount Pleasant
Munira Premji presents her first book, "Choosing Hope: One Woman. Three Cancers." as a focus for an inspirational talk about living through three advanced cancers within a 5-year period, and learning to thrive in the face of...
Thu Aug 01, 2024
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Location:
Brentwood
Edelson's work delves into parenting and family relationships as well as topics related to lived experience of mental health challenges and loss. She has a hopeful take on difficult subjects, diving deep into an emotional pla...
Thu Jun 20, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
Location:
City Hall
Author Sheila White will discuss and read a passage from her biographical novel, The Letters: Postmark Prejudice in Black and White which...
Thu Jul 04, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
Location:
Victoria Village
Toronto author Terry Fallis will read and discuss his new book ' A New Season.' A Q&A will follow. Join us!
Thu Jun 27, 2024
6:30 pm
- 8:00 pm
Location: Online
This talk discusses the history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and its centuries-long relevance and appeal, as well as the various forms the controversial narrative has assumed. Pre...
Tue Jul 16, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
Location:
Mount Pleasant
Discover how Canadian women broke through the sky blue ceiling as Dr. Elizabeth Muir discusses her book, Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 years of Flight. It took 100 years from the time the first woman flew in a plane unt...
Wed Jun 12, 2024
6:30 pm
- 8:00 pm
Location: Online
Near the beginning of Animal Farm, Major recalls (or, at least, claims to recall) a song that he had heard when he was a piglet. Major's source - his mother and the other sows - "knew only the tune and the first three words."...
Thu Aug 22, 2024
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Location:
Brentwood
Canada is one of the most urbanized countries globally. This talk will cover some of the challenges related to conserving and enhancing urban space and trees. Dr. Danijela Puric-Mladenovic is a researcher and professor...
Sat Jun 15, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
Location:
Lillian H. Smith
Celebrate Pride Month and Cancer Survivor month! Join Dr Charles Hayter as he draws back the curtain on his life as an oncologist and his journey to authenticity as an out gay man. He will read and discuss excerpts...
Tue Jun 25, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
Location:
Runnymede
Ruth Lor Malloy's doctor says she is the healthiest 91 year old she has ever seen. People keep asking what her secret is and now she is going to share it. Ruth will talk about her healthy living habits, her belief in divine i...
Mon Jun 10, 2024
6:30 pm
- 7:30 pm
Location:
S. Walter Stewart
Authors Nora Gold and Gary Barwin present their brilliant new books and discuss a wide range of topics including Jewish identity and experience in the contemporary world, the nature of creativity, the writing process, their l...