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Keep Toronto Reading: Friday Nights with Diaspora Dialogues

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February 2, 9, 16, 2007
7pm Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston Avenue (just north of Bloor Street)

Diaspora Dialogues is thrilled to partner once again with Toronto Public Library, the busiest public library system in North America, on Keep Toronto Reading, a month long celebration of the joy of reading. Last year we packed the Palmerston Theatre Library with our signature interdisciplinary, intercultural mix of literary readings, spoken word performance and theatre and we aim to do the same again this year.

Toronto Writers Talk the TOK

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Friday, November 10, 2006

Please join us Friday, November 10th, 7:00 p.m, at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore to hear Shyam Selvadurai, teenah edan, Marina Nemat, and Guillermo Verdecchia read from TOK, a new book series of short fiction and poetry that brings to life the constantly face of Toronto, through the eyes of its culturally diverse writers.

Poets in Dundas Square

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Sunday, September 3, 2006

It takes a world to fill Dundas Square with poets! Diaspora Dialogues brings writers from around the world to a 12-hour poetry reading. Dundas Square will be full of poets from around the world on Sunday, September 3rd when World Jam launches.This 12-hour marathon of poetry readings will draw together 50 writers from the many backgrounds and cultures present in Toronto. It takes place from noon to midnight at the corner of Yonge Street and Dundas Street.

Molly Peacock, George Elliot Clarke, Afua Cooper, Stuart Ross, Teenah Edan, Laila Haidarali, Sheng Xue, Sean Isaac, Amatoritsero Ede, Sonnet L’Abbé, Daniel David Moses and others will each read and perform their works throughout the day and into the evening.

TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 2 Launch

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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Please come celebrate with us as we launch Diaspora Dialogues’ new book series, TOK, presenting fiction and poetry by emerging Toronto writers as well as commissioned work by David Bezmozgis, Shyam Selvadurai, Olive Senior, Joseph Kertes, Pier Giorgio DiCicco, Guillermo Verdecchia and Saghi Ghahraman.

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