Earl Haig SS Library

On May 11 – 12 the Toronto Comic Arts Festival is coming to the Toronto Reference Library.  Speakers such as Art Spiegelman (Maus), will be featured.  Come to the library and see our collection of Graphic Novels down by the Young Adult and White Pine section.

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Are you an visual artist or writer?  Submit your work and get published in the 2013 issue of the Toronto Public Library’s Young Voices Zine.

Deadline to submit: April 6, 2013    Here’s the submission form OR submit online.

Every February, the TDSB celebrates Black History Month ”an opportunity for TDSB staff and students to reflect on the history, achievements and experiences of people of African descent in Canada and throughout the world. The experiences of African Canadians are evolving, complex and contemporary. They go beyond heroes, heroines and particular historical dates.”

Come to the library and learn more about the contributions Canadians of African descent have made through history.

Be sure to check out one of the many events happening in public libraries throughout Toronto.

Check out this video and UPLOAD YOUR OWN to the CBC Black History video showcase.

Why have a Black History Month? (use agenda p22 or see the Circulation desk for the USER/PASS for this article from History Reference Centre, one of our many valuable databases).

Check out our poet laureate’s first offering, a poem about subways and riding transit in the city.

>> CBC’s audio recording.

>> Full text in NOW paper.

Check out the Veterans Affairs Canada site to see how Canada is remembering those who served for our country.

Click on the image to see the fallen from recent wars.

Click on the map to see the residences of the enlisted Torontonians who died during WWII

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Also, in preparation for our Remembrance Day Assembly on Fri. Nov. 9th, learn more about the people who have given their lives as “we bear witness and explore the true human cost of war” (CBC).

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  Click on the novel to read an excerpt from this year’s winner of the Booker Prize, a British prize for fiction.  Find out more about the author, Hilary Mantel from our Biography in Context database by clicking here and using your password from the agenda.

See the rest of the nominees here.

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Click here to enter.

If you could invite any memoirist, non-fiction writer, or biographer (living or dead) to dinner…
1) Who would it be?
2) What would you serve them?
3) What would you want to ask them?

Everyone who submits an answer will be entered in a random draw for weekly prizes of Loblaws gift cards, courtesy of Loblaws, and a grand prize of an 16GB Wi-Fi Apple iPad. We’ll also be rounding up some of your most thoughtful or creative responses in a weekly post.

You have until 11:59 p.m. ET on November 2, 2012 to enter. The contest rules and regulations are available here.

If you don’t have a Toronto Public Library card yet… visit the EHSS Library today and pick up an application form from the circulation desk! Its simple and easy… just fill out the form and bring it to the closest Toronto Public Library (TPL) branch to apply for a card.

Get one now! Perfect timing to have access to the many resources that TPL has to offer!

Check out Toronto’s rendition of the Parisian free all-night contemporary art event this Saturday from 7:03pm to sunrise.  Click here for more info.

“For one sleepless night, experience the city transformed by artists for Toronto’s seventh annual sunset-to-sunrise celebration of contemporary art. One night only. All night long.  Choose from more than 150 projects” (Nuit Blanche)

Looking for some good deals on books?  Want to hear award-winner authors read from their work?  Well look no further than Toronto’s annual Word on the Street National Book and Magazine Festival, this Sunday September 23, 2012 at Queen’s Park Circle, 11am – 6pm.