Award-winning Author
Colorado College hosts a reading and talk by Nino Ricci on his recent novel The Origin of Species. Sponsored by Colorado College’s Department of North American Studies.
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
7:00 PM
Gates Common Room on the 3rd floor of Palmer Hall
1025 N. Cascade Ave. (east of Tutt Library)
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
719-389-6000
This event is open to the general public. Admission is free.
Nino Ricci visits Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey to talk about his biography of Pierre Trudeau and about Trudeau’s role in his most recent novel, The Origin of Species. Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 4:30 – 6 PM. Reception to follow.
Sponsored by the Canadian Studies Program of Princeton University.
The Toronto Writers’ Co-operative hosts Nino Ricci for an afternoon of critique and conversation. Sunday, April 17th, 2011 at 2 PM at the Toronto Reference Library. The Toronto Writers’ Co-operative is a program of the Toronto Public Library.
Barrie North Collegiate’s iDeology Program presents the 4th Annual L3 Writers’ Conference, once again bringing some of Canada’s finest poets, novelists, journalists and activists to Barrie, Ontario.
This year’s evening program, open to the general public, features Romeo Dallaire, Nino Ricci, Charlotte Gray, George Elliott Clarke, and Dr. Bruce Meyer. 7 PM on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at Barrie North Collegiate Institute.
Tickets available @ Page & Turners’ Book Store, Dunlop St., Barrie, or at the door. $20 for adults, $10 for students.
For more information contact Brian Adduono at badduono@mail.scdsb.on.ca or 705-726-6541.
Join Judy Fong Bates, Antanas Sileika and Nino Ricci for “Between Two Worlds,” a discussion of identity and culture held in conjunction with the Toronto Public Library’s selection of Judy Fong Bates’s Midnight at the Dragon Cafe as Toronto’s 2011 One Book.
Monday, April 4th, 2011 at 7 PM at the Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston Avenue, Toronto, just north of Bloor Street and just west of Bathurst Station. Tel. (416) 393-7680. Hosted by RoseMarie Spearpoint, Branch Head of Palmerston Library, and moderated by Anne Marie Mediwake.
The education exemption in Bill C-32 needs to be rethought. Not only does it unilaterally claw back rights that have been recognized for centuries, it will likely end up doing more damage to education in this country than good, by disrupting the delicate ecosystem that has allowed publishers, creators, and educators to develop curricula relevant to the Canadian context.
Nino Ricci delivers the keynote address at Access Copyright’s 2011 AGM, speaking on Canada’s proposed new copyright legislation, Bill C-32. Friday, March 25th, 2011 at 1 PM in the Regatta Room of the Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto.
Join Matthew Byrne, Ron Hynes, Randall Maggs, David Michael, Lisa Moore, Nino Ricci, Nico Rogers, Agnes Walsh, and Baxter Wareham for the second installment of March Hare West, the Toronto leg of the 2011 March Hare. Saturday, March 5th at 2 PM at Brass Taps, 934 College St., Toronto, between Ossington and Dovercourt.
The March Hare, Atlantic Canada’s largest poetry festival, originated probably in 1988 as an innovative but inauspicious winter entertainment at the Blomidon Golf and Country Club in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.1 That an important literary event should owe its birth to three golfers attempting to generate business for their local club during the bleak days of March might seem unlikely, but given that the begetters were poet Al Pittman, organizer Rex Brown and club manager George Daniels, it perhaps should have been expected. The March Hare was one of a series of events they concocted to enable the club to stay open during the long winter months – the Swish, Swallow and Swill Gournament, the Blomidon International Night, and the Great Tack’s Beach Growl Tournament – its original purpose not substantially more noble than theirs. Unlike the other events, however, the March Hare survived – survived the deaths of George Daniels and Al Pittman and a change of venue downtown to the Columbus Club – to become a unique trans-island celebration of words and music, involving seven events in three towns over five days, attracting writers from all over Canada and indeed the world, and featuring the best traditional musicians in Newfoundland and Labrador. . . .
Adrian Fowler, The March Hare Anthology
Join Matthew Byrne, Ron Hynes, Randall Maggs, David Michael, Lisa Moore, Nino Ricci, Nico Rogers, Agnes Walsh, and Baxter Wareham for March Hare West, the Toronto leg of the 2011 March Hare. Friday, March 4th at 8 PM and Saturday, March 5th at 2 PM at Brass Taps, 934 College St., Toronto, between Ossington and Dovercourt.
The Friends of the East Gwillimbury Library present an Author Night with Nino Ricci. Thursday, February 17th, 2011 at 7:30 PM in the Town Council Chambers in Sharon, located a few minutes from the north end of Highway 404 near Newmarket (about an hour from downtown Toronto). Organized in co-operation with the East Gwillimbury Public Library and the Town of East Gwillimbury. Proceeds go to the library.
Past author events have featured Helen Humphreys, Wayson Choy, Peter Robinson, John Bemrose, Judy Fong Bates, Andrew Pyper, Paul Quarrington, Catherine Bush, George Elliott Clarke, Giles Blunt, Wayne Johnston, Alissa York, Joseph Boyden, David Bergen, Maureen Jennings, Catherine Gildiner, M. G. Vassanji, and Anne Michaels.
The program will include a reading and talk by Nino Ricci followed by a question and answer session and a reception and book signing.
For more information contact Marie Coulter, Chair Events Committee, Friends of the East Gwillimbury Library, at 905-478-2407 or k.coulter@sympatico.ca.
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
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