Lost & Found Discussions | The Stories of Our City

Lost & Found | Discussion No. 2: The Stories of Our City

Thursday, August 16th – 6:30PM-8:30PM

Storytelling brings life to collective beliefs, ideas, knowledge and values; it connects people, inspiring them to recall aspects of their history and to see different perspectives. Our stories provide an intangible link to the past which continues to shape our communities today.

Toronto is a city with many stories – capturing the complete story of this city is an exciting challenge. Moderated by Cheryl Thompson, this panel discussion will explore how the narrative of Toronto’s story changes when different voices add their stories. How can we use different understandings to broaden our interpretation of this city to tell a richer, more complex story? How can we bring multiple stories from communities together in a way that invites everyone to learn? Join us August 16th for this exciting discussion!

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Museum Closed – August 5th and 6th

Please note that Campbell House Museum will be closed Sunday, August 5th and Monday, August 6th for the Civic Holiday. We look forward to welcoming you on the 7th!

Common Readings, the July Edition: Come for the Words and the Wine!

Common Readings is an exciting literary reading series hosted and curated by Toronto poet Daniel Kincade Renton with support from the Common Readings Collective.

Join us on Monday, July 23rd at 7:30 pm and engage with the works of poets Al Moritz, Nyla Matuk, Jeff Latosik who will all be reading from their recent works.

Doors open at 7 pm, the event starts at 7:30 pm and runs until 9 pm. 

Pay-What-You-Can

AL F. MORITZ has written more than twenty books of poetry, and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. His collection The Sentinel won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 of the Year. His most recent collection is Sequence. He lives in Toronto. www.afmortiz.com

NYLA MATUK is the author of two collections: Sumptuary Laws (2012) and Stranger (2016), and a chapbook, Oneiric (2009). Her poems have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., including The New Yorker, Poetry, PN Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Walrus, Canadian Notes and Queries, and The Literary Review of Canada. This winter she was the 2018 Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence at McGill University. Her work has been nominated for the Walrus Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. www.nylamatuk.ca

JEFF LATOSIK’s third full-length collection of poetry, Dreampad, was released in Spring of 2018. He is also the author of Helium Ear, a chapbook from Anstruther Press. He’s the former poetry editor of the Humber Literary Review and is a current Collective Member of InkWell Workshops.

Common Readings aims to create an environment that supports all aspects of diversity within the Toronto literary community and beyond. This literary reading series creates a forum where both emerging and established writers can be exposed to new work from those at differing stages of their career. Every Common Readings is an opportunity for a variety of voices to interact in order to establish artistic and community dialogue.

For more information, check out Common Readings website and Facebook Page.

Common Readings Literary Reading Series runs at Campbell House Museum on every fourth Monday.