Award-winning Author
Nino Ricci speaksabout the adaptation of his Lives of the Saints trilogy into a television miniseries in his talk “From the Page to the Screen: How I Sold My Soul to Sophia Loren.” Presented by the Frank Iacobucci Centre of the University of Toronto.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
6.00 PM
Alumni Hall, Room 100
121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto
(near Wellesley & Bay)
Everyone is welcome and admission is free. A reception will follow.
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.