Nino Ricci joins Wayson Choy, Lawrence Hill, Jian Gomeshi, and many others at Reading for the love of it 2011, the 35th Annual Language Arts Conference.
Thursday & Friday, February 10th & 11th, 2011, at Toronto’s Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto
Don’t Be Afraid
Look for Steven Hayward’s new novel Don’t Be Afraid, published this month by Knopf Canada to rave reviews.
Born and raised in Toronto, Hayward currently teaches creative writing at Colorado College in Colorado Springs and is s frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. His first novel, The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke, won Italy’s prestigious Premio Grinzane Cavour prize.
- Read the Globe and Mail review of Don’t Be Afraid.
- Read the National Post review of Don’t Be Afraid.
My Life as an Entrepreneur
Catch the audiocast of Nino Ricci’s true life tale of intrigue, illicit narcotics, and capitalist tendencies, “My Life as an Entrepreneur,” part of CBC Books’ stranger than fiction series.
Just don’t tell Nino’s parents.
First heard on CBC’s The Sunday Edition.
University of Western Ontario
Alistair MacLeod and Nino Ricci read from their work at 2 PM on Sunday, January 30th, 2011 at Conron Hall, University College at the University of Western Ontario.
Sense of Place: Alistair Macleod and Nino Ricci
Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 2:00 P.M.
Conron Hall, University College
The University of Western Ontario
The McIntosh Gallery invites you to a reading by Alistair Macleod and Nino Ricci in memory of Dr. Suzanne Kaufmann.
Canadian author Alistair MacLeod was the 2001 winner of the prestigious IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel No Great Mischief (1999). He has also published The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976), As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986) and Island: The Collected Stories (2000). In 2008 he became an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Nino Ricci won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction twice: in 1990 for Lives of the Saints (also a Books in Canada First Novel Award winner), and in 2008 for The Origin of Species, which also appeared on the long list for the Giller Prize. In 1997, Ricci’s novel Where She Has Gone was short-listed for the Giller Prize.
MacLeod and Ricci were guest writers for the publication Sense of Place: A Cross-Border Print Exhibition, organized by Windsor Printmaker’s Forum. The exhibition is on view at the McIntosh Gallery from January 6th to February 19th 2011.
A great friend of the McIntosh Gallery, Dr. Suzanne Kaufmann (1920-2010) graduated in medicine from the University of Cape Town, where she met and married Dr. John Kaufmann. They moved to Johannesburg in 1955 where she worked in health clinics in the black townships of Soweto and Alexandria. In 1972, the family moved to London, Ontario, where she completed a B.A. Honours degree in Visual Art and French at Western. This event is held of honour Suzanne Kaufmann, to celebrate her passion for the arts, and to acknowledge the tremendous contribution she and John have made to the McIntosh Gallery over the years.
McIntosh Members: Join us at the Gallery after the reading for a private reception to meet Alistair and Nino and to tour the Sense of Place exhibition with Patricia Coates, President of Windsor Printmaker’s Forum. (Memberships will be available at the door.)
For more information, contact James Patten (519) 661-2111 ext. 84602, jpatten2@uwo.ca.
Photo: Patricia Coates
Stranger Than Fiction
Catch Nino Ricci’s true life tale of intrigue, illicit narcotics, and capitalist tendencies in “My Life as an Entrepreneur.” Sunday, January 16th, 2011 on CBC’s The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright, airing sometime between 9 AM and noon.
Just don’t tell Nino’s parents.
Part of CBC Books’ stranger than fiction series.
IP Osgoode on C-32
Giuseppina D’Agostino, the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, recently appeared as a witness before the Parliamentary Committee Hearings on Bill C-32. D’Agostino is the author of Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules, which looks at the precarious position of freelance journalists under current copyright regimes, and has been a strong voice for greater recognition of the rights of creators in the drafting of copyright legislation.
D’Agostino’s opening comments to the committee focused on the dangerously ambiguous nature of the new “education” exemption under the bill’s fair dealing provision, and on the potentially negative impact of this provision and others on creators. You can read her opening comments in full at IP Osgoode or watch the video at the Parliamentary Committee site (go to Meeting 5).
Urquhart and Ricci on Lives
Launch of the 20th Anniversary Edition
of Lives of the Saints
Join Tony Urquhart and Nino Ricci as they talk about their collaboration on Urquhart’s beautifully illustrated 20th anniversary edition of Ricci’s Lives of the Saints with writer and art critic Gary Michael Dault.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 8:00 pm
The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
Presented by This Is Not A Reading Series.
Q&Q on C-32
See Zoe Whittall’s blog at quillandquire.com for more response on Ricci’s C-32 Op-ed.
Tony Clement Disses Ricci
Industry Minister Tony Clement has publicly denounced Nino Ricci’s Globe editorial on C-32 in a tweet to his 6027 followers, calling Ricci’s views “fiction” and asserting “Fair dealing is never an unfettered rt to copy!”
The tweet does not indicate what portion of Ricci’s article Mr. Clement found fictitious, or indeed that he actually read the editorial.
Bookfest Windsor – Write Here
Essex-County-bred authors Lisa Gabriele and Nino Ricci and Toronto-watcher Shawn Micallef talk about the importance of place in fiction and in life. Moderated by Christopher Shulgan. Saturday, November 6th, 2010 from 8:45 pm to 10:00 pm in the Wilkinson Room of the Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Dr. W. (519-977-0013). Part of Bookfest Windsor 2010.
The backlash continues
The backlash continues against Ricci’s comments on C-32. To see more thrilling attacks on Ricci’s intelligence and character, visit theglobeandmail.com’s Commentary hub.
The response from Ricci (now in hiding somewhere along the American border): “I am heartened by the vigour of the response to my article. My favourite response, both for its succinctness and its wit, is from Mike Boos. ‘Nino Ricci is a two-time winner of the Governor-General’s Award for fiction. Looks like he’s trying to win a third award for fiction with this piece.’ I hope Mr. Boos is meaning to imply that whatever the shortcomings of my piece in terms of its understanding of the issues, it is at least well-written.”
Bookfest Windsor – The Last Note
Nino Ricci interviews Judith Keenan, the producer of Paul Quarrington: Life in Music, a documentary that charts the final year of Quarrington’s life. Friday, November 5th, 2010, from 2:30 pm – 3:40 pm, in the Wilkinson Room of the Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Dr. W. (519-977-0013). Part of Bookfest Windsor 2010.
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