The roadshow continues as Sense of Place comes to the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, organized and circulated by the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum. The exhibition runs from January 13 – February 26, 2012. On Friday, January 27, come on out of the cold for readings at 7:30 PM from Nino Ricci and Alistair MacLeod. 7:30 PM [...] More »

7 PM ~ THURSDAY 26 JANUARY 2012 MAGPIE TAVERN 831 DUNDAS WEST ~ TORONTO Speakeasy is the University of Guelph MFA in Creative Writing’s monthly reading series. Readings take place on the last Thursday of the month at the Magpie Tavern, 831 Dundas Street West, Toronto. Nino Ricci reads on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at [...] More »

Join a stellar cast of literati and glitterati at the First Annual Pongapalooza Event, a ping pong tournament in support of First Book Canada, helping to raise awareness of Canada’s low literacy rates and to provide children in need access to books. Tuesday May 8, 2012 6 PM Spin Toronto 461 King St. West (west [...] More »

Nino Ricci joins fellow faculty Tim Bowling, M.A.C. Farrant, Larissa Lai, Tim Lilburn, Shyam Selvadurai, and Colin Bernhardt at the Banff Centre’s 2012 Writing Studio. In residence from May 13th to June 3rd. More »

WRITERS ARE WARMING TO STEPHEN HARPER AS THE EVIDENCE GROWS HE MAY BE ONE OF THEM Long derided as an enemy of the book, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is now poised to publish one. Bucking a tradition established by fellow neoconservative Mike Harris, who named the picture book Mr. Silly as his favourite work of [...] More »

Catch the documentary based on Nino Ricci’s biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau in PMA Productions’ Extraordinary Canadians series. City TV – Sunday, January 15 2012: 8 PM. Biography – Saturday January 21, 2011: 7:30 PM. Omni - Coming in Spring 2012 in Mandarin, Hindi and Italian. Directed by the award-winning documentarian Helene Klodawsky and produced by [...] More »

Consilience: How the digital revolution is bridging the divide between the arts and sciences Nino Ricci addresses the crossroads between the arts and sciences, and between the pre-digital and digital ages as part of the 2012 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 11:00 to 12:00 noon Saturday, 27 May 2012 Waterloo University, Waterloo, Ontario Sponsored by [...] More »

Nino Ricci reads from his work and answers intimate questions about his personal life at the Cyril Clark Branch of the Brampton Library. Thursday, 14 June 2012 7 PM Cyril Clark Branch, Brampton Library 20 Loafer’s Lake Lane,Brampton, 905-793-INFO(4636) More »

Nino joins Franca Iacovetta, Ferdinando Dell’Omo, Lillia Topouzova and others to talk about culture and personal history at the 2nd National Conference of the Italian-Canadian Archive Project. Friday, 3 February 2012 7:30 PM Michelangelo’s Restaurant, Atkinson College York University   See the entire conference program: Towards a National Italian-Canadian Archive More »