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Toronto’s 175th Anniversary

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Happy birthday, Toronto! Diaspora Dialogues has asked three spoken word poets to reflect on the city’s ongoing transformations from their personal perspectives. Please join us for the unveiling of a brand new cycle of poems by Lillian Allen, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Archer Pechawis commissioned by Diaspora Dialogues and donated to the City as a birthday present. Full reading at City Hall Library (12:00 p.m.); short excerpt at Opening Ceremonies in the City Hall rotunda (5:00 p.m.).

Cross Sections

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Join Diaspora Dialogues and Hart House for the words, images and sounds of some of UofT’s most exciting artists. Selected from a Diaspora Dialogues open call for submissions, emerging writers Annette Gagliano, Fan Li, Catronia Wright and playwright Maureen Gualtieri will present new work they’ve been developing. Also on tap that evening will be Karen Connelly, University College’s Barker Fairley Visiting Fellow in Canadian Culture, and Lee Maracle, writer-in-residence for First Nations House and Visiting Scholar in the Aboriginal Studies and English Department. After the readings, DJ urbansteve takes the stage, so sit back, relax, and enjoy. 7:30 p.m, Arbor Room, Hart House.

Poetry, Prosecco, and Pasta

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Thursday, February 5 & 12, 2009

Spend a chilly winter’s night with Diaspora Dialogues during Toronto’s WinterCity Festival. Over a leisurely multicourse meal of warm pasta, bubbly prosecco and Romance language poetry, a diverse selection of Toronto poets will seduce you with readings of their work in English, French and Italian.

Featuring Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Rishma Dunlop, Jacob Scheier, Desi Di Nardo and Dionne Brand.

7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $35
Grano Restaurant
2035 Yonge Street (at Eglinton)

For more information, contact Diaspora Dialogues at 416-944-1101 x 277.

To reserve tickets, contact Grano at 416-440-1986 or rdm@grano.ca.

Where You Are Right Now at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Join us at Canada’s National Ballet School for this interactive, ever-changing sound installation that captures the diversity and multiplicity of the city as it is being lived, right now. Over the course of the night, audience responses to the question “Where are you right now?” will be recorded and mixed, live, into a multi-channel sound installation that will constantly change as the night progresses.

The Word on the Street

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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Scarborough, Annex, Chinatown East, Brampton, Queen West, Richmond Hill . . . Diaspora Dialogues presents stories, poems and drama all set in Toronto. Compare different literary renderings of your neighbourhood by Toronto’s finest writers, including Shyam Selvadurai, Katherine Govier, Drew Hayden Taylor, Kyo Maclear, Rishma Dunlop, Anthony De Sa, Ken Babstock, and many more.

Three Years of Writing the New Toronto!

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

We’re celebrating three years of Diaspora Dialogues’ anthology TOK: Writing the New Toronto! Catch readings by Alissa York, Joseph Kertes, Devyani Saltzman, and Samantha Bernstein. Pick up any editions you’ve missed, then join us for drinks and nibbles afterward. World’s Biggest Bookstore, 20 Edward Street, 7:00 p.m.

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