August 12-22, 2009
This theatre project memorializes the devastating events surrounding the arrival of 38,000 Irish immigrants to Toronto during the potato famine of 1847. Eireann Quay, Aug 12-22.
August 12-22, 2009
This theatre project memorializes the devastating events surrounding the arrival of 38,000 Irish immigrants to Toronto during the potato famine of 1847. Eireann Quay, Aug 12-22.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Come hear some of Toronto’s best authors as they wield their poisoned pens over different areas of our city. Luminato and Diaspora Dialogues have commissioned six celebrated local authors to paint Toronto a ghoulish hue . . . The Music Gallery hosts national best-seller Ann-Marie MacDonald; Michelle Wan, fresh from her latest novel, 2008’s A Twist of Orchids; heralded First Nations author Cherie Dimaline; Caribbean-born and Toronto-raised Nalo Hopkinson; acclaimed award-winning author Andrew Pyper; and emerging writer Tasleem Thawar. A limited-edition collection of the six tales with an introduction by Margaret Atwood is available for purchase exclusively at the reading. Hosted by Liisa Ladouceur. 7:30 p.m, The Music Gallery in St. George the Martyr Church.
Saturday, May 23 & Sunday, May 24, 2009
We take over Union Station for Doors Open! Join us for two days of readings, performances, and some spontaneous surprises where you least expect them . . . 10:30 am—4:00 pm, Union Station
Fridays, April 17, 24 and May 1, 2009
Diaspora Dialogues returns with its popular Friday night series of free readings and performances. Sample a captivating cross-section of our city’s writers, performers and artistic forms, including fiction, poetry, spoken word, theatre and music. Featuring Anthony De Sa, Michelle Da Cruz, Leah Jane Esau, Lorna Goodison, Cesar Polvorosa Jr, Nino Ricci, Priscila Uppal, Sherri Vanderveen and many, many more. 7:00 p.m, Palmerston Branch.