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Book Scene: Books on Stage


This week, in books.

This Wednesday (3rd) at the Gladstone, you can check out an evening of 'theatrical demonstrations' from Karen Hines Hello...Hello and Darren O'Donnell's Social Acupuncture. From 7-10pm, free.

As part of the Mayworks Festival Thursday (the 4th) at Buddies (8pm) , Toronto Women's Bookstore is presenting Full Spectrum wherein a diverse crowd of women wordsmiths will be unleashed. Urpi Edite Pine introduces readers/performers Michele Chai, d'bi young, Shani Mootoo, and Gein Wong.

Admission: $7-$15 sliding scale, at the door

Also, congrats for the winners of the Trillium Book Awards.

Book (English) - Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

Book (French) - L'Agonie des dieux - by Jean Mohsen Fahmy

Poetry (English) - drift by Kevin Connolly

Poetry (French) - Centrifuge by Éric Charlebois

Well done. Don't spend all that cash in one place.


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