The Business of Culture
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 ~ Toronto
Stay tuned for the broadcast on TLN Television
Award-winning Author
The Business of Culture
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 ~ Toronto
Stay tuned for the broadcast on TLN Television
Amnesty International Writeathon
Saturday, December 5, 2015 ~ 1 PM to 7 PM
Centre for Social Innovation Annex ~ 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto
WRITE A LETTER. CHANGE A LIFE.
JOIN AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FOR WRITE FOR RIGHTS.
Your hand-written letters, combined with millions from around the world, can change a life. Become part of Amnesty International’s Write for Rights by signing up to host or join a letter writing party, or by writing on your own. However you participate, you’ll be adding your voice to the growing movement for justice and human rights.
Come out to the Centre for Social Innovation Annex at 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto on December 5th or check out the dozens of other Amnesty International activities in your area and across the country in celebration of Human Rights Day on December 10th.
Writers’ Trust Gala 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 ~ 6:30 PM
The Ritz-Carlton, Toronto
The annual Writers’ Trust Gala is a true celebration of Canadian authors and Canadian literature and a major fundraising event in support of the Trust’s programs. Join some of this year’s hottest authors for an evening of food, fun and conversation. Hosted by Steve Patterson.
The Canadian Authors Series
Thursday, November 26, 2015 ~ 7 PM
Roselawn Centre for the Living Arts
296 Fielden Ave, Port Colborne, Ontario
Reception at 7 PM ~ Reading at 8 PM
For twenty-two years the renowned Canadian Authors Series has been hosting Canada’s finest writers at Port Colborne’s Roselawn Centre for the Living Arts, a haunted but lovely Victorian Mansion featuring a 265-seat theatre. Over the years the series has placed over 10,000 Canadian books into the hands of readers and has donated more than $30,000 to charities including the Niagara Peninsula Children’s Centre, Port Cares, Easter Seals and the United Way.
Camilla Gibb and Nino Ricci
Monday, November 16 ~ 7:30 PM
Casablanca Winery Inn
4 Windward Drive, Grimsby, Ontario
Doors Open at 7 PM
The renowned Grimsby Author Series presents award-winning author Camilla Gibb talking about her moving memoir This is Happy and Nino Ricci talking about his novel Sleep. At Grimsby’s beautiful Casablanca Winery Inn.
Friday, November 13, 2015 ~ 6:30 PM
Books & Company ~ 289 Main Street ~ Picton, Ontario
Featuring Nobu Adilman, Tony Dekker, Oh Susanna, Corin Raymond, Lucas Silveira and Michael Winter
Born from the imagination of Rheostatic Dave Bidini, Torn from the Pages is “an evening where the worlds of books and music collide, a frisson of prose and melody” inspired by the work of a single artist. This fall’s chosen author is Nino Ricci.
Curated and hosted by DAVE BIDINI and featuring performances by NOBU ADILMAN, OH SUSSANA, LUCAS SILVEIRA, TONY DEKKER (Great Lake Swimmers), CORIN RAYMOND and MICHAEL WINTER, the evening will debut newly-commissioned songs, stories, poems and more inspired by Ricci’s novel Sleep.
Featuring Nobu Adilman, Tony Dekker, Oh Susanna, Corin Raymond, Lucas Silveira and Michael Winter
Friday, November 6, 2015 ~ 7:30 PM
CIGI Campus Auditorium ~ 67 Erb St. W, Waterloo
The 2015 Wild Writers Literary Festival presents Craig Norris in conversation with Don Gillmor and Nino Ricci, along with the winner of the 2015 Edna Staebler Award and of The New Quarterly’s fiction, non-fiction, and poetry contests.
Join Camilla Gibb, Colleen Jones and Nino Ricci at Read for the Cure Calgary, in support of The Cancer Research Society, the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the B.C. Cancer Foundation.
6:30: Nibbles and cash bar
7:30: Introductory remarks
7:45: Author presentations
9:00: Q & A
9:15: Book signings
Your ticket includes books by all three authors and delicious finger food as well as the opportunity to hear the authors talk about their lives and work and to meet them afterwards when they will be available to sign their books. The Emcee for the evening will be Kris Demeanor, Calgary’s first Poet Laureate.
Buy your tickets online at Ticketweb or call them at 1-888-222-6608.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 ~ 7 PM
Grant Park in the Atrium
Grant Park Shopping Centre ~ 1120 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg
Born in Montreal, Neil Besner grew up in Brazil and was educated in Brazil, the U.S., and Canada. He has taught Canadian literature at the University of Winnipeg since 1987, and is currently Provost and Vice-President. He writes mainly on Canadian literature, with books on Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro; among other books are several edited and co-edited collections and an award-winning translation from Portuguese into English of the Brazilian biography of Elizabeth Bishop.
Join Giles Blunt, Nino Ricci and Owen Sheers at the Markham Village Public Library on Friday, October 30 at 6:30pm for a wine and international cuisine reception followed by readings of their latest works.
For tickets, please order online.
In partnership with Markham Arts Council and Markham Public Library
Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay. He spent 20 years in New York City as a writer and a scriptwriter for such shows as Law and Order and Night Heatbefore making his home in Toronto. He is the author of the six novels in the bestselling Cardinal crime series, which he is currently adapting as a television series for CTV. He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and a recipient of the British Crime Writers’ Macallan Silver Dagger. Blunt presents The Hesitation Cut, a psychological suspense novel about jealousy and obsession.
Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was translated into 10 languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean non-fiction narrative, won the Welsh Book of the Year Award. He is also the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hay Festival Medal for Poetry. He has been a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow and is currently Professor in Creativity at Swansea University. He presents his second novel, I Saw a Man, an utterly stunning novel of love, loss, the insidious nature of secrets and the transformative power of words.
Thursday, October 29, 2015 ~ 7:30 PM
Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts
2 Bay Street, Parry Sound
Join authors Marina Endicott, Anne Enright, Nino Ricci and Deanna Young at The Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts on October 29 at 7:30pm for a reading of their latest works, part of the 2015 International Festival of Authors.
For tickets and more information, please visit the The Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts or call the centre at 705-746-4466 or 1-877-746-4466.
In partnership with Parry Sound Books.
Marina Endicott is the author of Good to a Fault, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Canada/Caribbean) and was a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She also received recognition forThe Little Shadows, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, andOpen Arms, which was shortlisted for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Endicott has been an actor, director, playwright and editor, and currently teaches at the University of Edmonton. She presents Close to Hugh, an exuberant and poignant novel about how two generations navigate rites of passage in a seemingly ordinary small town.
Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize and the Irish Fiction Award for her novel The Gathering, which became a longtime national bestseller in Canada. She has published two books of stories, collected as Yesterday’s Weather, and the internationally acclaimed novel The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Enright presents her latest novel, The Green Road, a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them.
Deanna Young’s writing has appeared in journals across Canada and in 2013 she received the grand prize in the PRISM international Poetry Contest. She lives in Ottawa where she co-directs the Tree Reading Series. Young presents her third collection of poetry, House Dreams, which was a finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Ottawa Book Award and the Archibald Lampman Award. House Dreams is a haunting sample of the life we all live underground, and a view beneath the foundations of the various eras and places that make up one woman’s life story.
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☛Sleep makes the Toronto Star's Top 5 for 2015
☛Van Winkle's sleep site on Sleep
☛CBC Manitoba describes Sleep as a "dark but gripping read"
☛London Free Press calls Sleep "a page-turner bound to please"
☛Sleep ends first week at No. 6 on Hardcover Bestseller List and No. 2 on Canadian Bestseller List
☛Sleep heads Chatelaine's "Buzzy Fall Books"
☛Nino talks about Sleep on Canada AM
☛5 Good Reads from Word on the Street
☛How 5 writers survive the festival season
☛Nino Ricci on the origins of Sleep
☛Emily Donaldson reviews Sleep in the Globe
☛Domenico Capilongo talks to Nino on Italocanadese.com
☛The Globe & Mail's Mark Medley on Nino's new thriller novel
☛- Nino Ricci on Kafka and Sleep in the National Post
☛Quill & Quire gives Sleep a gold star
☛Phil Marchand gives Sleep a rare rave
☛A sneak preview of Sleep in the Globe
☛Quill & Quire on "Nino Ricci and The Power of Sleep"
☛Nino on sleep and the coming apocalypse
☛The Globe and Mail picks Sleep for Top 20