I’ll be reading from Imagining Toronto at the Doors Open Toronto gala at the ROM tonight. The evening, hosted by CBC Radio One impresario Mary Ito, will also feature readings by Toronto authors Dionne Brand, Paul Quarrington and Barry Callaghan. This event is the official kick-off for Doors Open Toronto 2009 and is the culmination of three months of Lit City: Toronto Stories, Toronto Settings.
Admission to the ROM will be free throughout the evening as well, so if you come for the readings and panel discussion about Toronto literature, be sure to stick around for Paul Quarrington’s band, Porkbelly Futures, and tour the ROM’s exhibits afterward.
The tenth annual Doors Open event coincides with Toronto’s 175th anniversary, and to celebrate, an unprecedented 175 Toronto buildings will be open to the public during the weekend, all free of charge. Dozens of prominent Toronto writers, including Lillian Allen, Pat Capponi, Barry Callaghan, Austin Clark, Anthony De Sa, Katherine Govier, Maggie Helwig, Maureen Jennings, Vincent Lam, Vivian Meyer, Andrew Moodie, Paul Quarrington, Robert Rotenberg, Russell Smith, Veronica Tennant and numerous others, will read from their work at locations across the city.
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