News - Part 18

Between Two Worlds

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.

Access Copyright AGM

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.

St. Jerome’s University

Nino Ricci speaks at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario on the Italian-Canadian experience. Thursday, 24 March 2011, 2:30 – 4 PM. Contact Professor Vanessa Rukholm, 519-884-8110, ext. 28200.

March Hare Redux

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.

March Hare West

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.

Friends of the East Gwillimbury Library

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.