Reading and Speaking

What's hot with words in Toronto

The coming weeks are busy weeks in the world of literature in Toronto with a lot to see and hear.
You may have just missed a reading by Pier Di Cicco's new book The Dark Time of Angels. This was held on the second floor of Bar Italia on December 3, 582 College Street.
That same evening at the Gladstone Hotel, on Queen Street West at Dufferin, was The Tree Museum Collective's 2002/2003 catalogue launch. The list of artists and writers included in the catalogue are: T. S. Anand, Anne-Marie Bénéteau, Wilson Chik Wai Chi, Ellen Dijkstra, Marguerite Larmand, Janice Pomer, Barry Prophet, Lyla Rye, Christy Thompson, Francesca Vivenza with essays by Dot Tuer, Betty Yee-Wan Cheung and Gil McElroy
An interesting event night that occasionally happens at the Rivoli is This is not a Reading Series. Just sweeping through on December 3 was an evening with Lewis DeSoto, South African-born author of the novel A Blade of Grass, combined with Dominic Mokgakala, also from South Africa. The view also witnessed interventions by Swedish video artist Gunilla Josephson. These three characters used the novel A Blade of Grass as their leap board and interrogated the creative process and the truth and lies in art while looking at history. Guests also had the sound pleasures of the sister trio MadLove, who are always a delight to see.
However here is some timely news to attend a launching-reading celebration of Guernica Editions' latest publications of 2003.
Present will be Malca Litovitz with her poetry At the Moobean Café; Poetry by Merle Nudelman Borrowed Light; Mask by Eleana Wolff; Song for My Father, a novel by Miriam Packer.
This takes place on Sunday, December 14, between 2 and 5 p.m. at Bar Italia, 582 College Street.
For more information call 416.658.9888.

Publication Date: 2003-12-07
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