Friday, March 31, 2006

St. Barnabas Anglican Church (361 Danforth Ave. across from the Chester subway station), 7:30pm

Karen Armstrong, one of the world’s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling History of God, Battle for God, and The Spiral Staircase, brings us a major new work, The Great Transformation.

The book is a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history tracing the rise and development of the brilliant contributions made by such figures as the Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Ezekiel. This is certain to be an incredible evening.

Tuesday, March 21st
Robert Gill Theatre (214 College St., 3rd floor), 7:30pm

Edward Rutherfurd’s stirring account of Irish history, the Dublin Saga, concludes in this magisterial work of historical fiction. Beginning where the first volume, The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga left off. The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga takes us inside the process of history by tracing the lives of several Dublin families from all strata of scoiety - Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic.

Monday, April 10, 2006
Hart House Library (7 Hart House Circle), 7:30pm

Rudy Wiebe, an international lecturer, college and university teacher, writer of numerous film and television scripts, author of Peace Shall Destroy Many, First and Vital Candle, Governor General’s Award winner The Temptations of Big Bear, brings us Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest. It is a beautiful, moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, in the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community – and Rudy’s first home.

Jonathan Vance, historian and storyteller, author of High Flight, brings us Building Canada, an imaginative look at the architecture, transportation, and icons that made Canada what it is today. It brings to life overlooked episodes in this country’s growth and shows how twelve far-reaching building projects shaped the nation’s life, culture, and identity.