News - Part 17

SpringSong

The tenth annual Springsong Celebration on Pelee Island features Margaret Atwood and guest authors Nino Ricci and Erika de Vasconcelos, with celebrity birder Trevor Herriot. Readings take place at The Great Banquet, which begins at 6:00 pm on Saturday, May 7th at the Wine Pavillion. Tickets at $65 each can be reserved beginning January 15th, by contacting curator@peleeislandmuseum.ca.

I Sold My Soul to Sophia Loren

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.

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Spring in Colorado Springs

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.

Trudeau @ Princeton

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.

Toronto Writers’ Co-operative

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.

L3 Writers’ Conference

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.