Whatever Happened to Old Toronto?
Thursday, March 15, 2007 FREE
Hart House, Debates Room (7 Hart House Circle), 7pm
in partnership
with
presents…
Join us for a panel discussion with Sally Gibson, Michael Redhill, and John Lorinc with moderator Barry Callaghan.
The Reading Series and Grand Design explores how space design, human behaviour and culture interact and foster new relationships between people and their environments, and welcome you to celebrate the current architectural renaissance in Toronto, with our evening of discussion.
Sally Gibson is the author of Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s to 1920s. It is the first book to investigate the complex, interior life of a single city — the ordinary and extraordinary places where Torontonians lived, worked, shopped, and performed the rituals of daily life. Sally is also the author of one previous book, More Than an Island: A History of Toronto Island, which the late Jane Jacobs called “…city history at its best.” After working as a professional archivist with the City of Toronto Archives for about eight years, Sally became a heritage consultant and is now working as Manager of Heritage Services at the Distillery District.
John Lorinc is an award winning Toronto journalist who specializes in urban affairs, politics, education, culture and business. Lorinc has contributed to numerous Canadian publications since the late 1980s, including The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Canadian Business, ROB Magazine, Quill & Quire, CA Magazine, Saturday Night, Spacing, The Walrus and Readers Digest Canada. Between 1995 and 2005, he was Toronto Life’s urban politics columnist. Lorinc is the author of The New City, a compelling vision of how to make Canada’s metropolitan centres sustainable, livable, and competitive in a world dominated by powerful mega-cities, as well as, Opportunity Knocks: The Truth About Canada’s Franchise Industry (Prentice Hall Canada, 1995), a work of investigative business journalism that was shortlisted for the 1995 National Business Book Awards. He is also a contributor to uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto (Coach House, 2005), a collection of essays on what works about Canada’s largest city.
Barry Callaghan was the winner of the inaugural W.O. Mitchell Award for a body of work, and has won the CBC Fiction Prize, the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters Prize for Fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and many others. His memoir Barrelhouse Kings was shortlisted for the Trillium Award, and he won the City of Toronto Award for The
Black Queen Stories. His short stories have been featured in many anthologies such as the Oxford Book of Canadian Short Fiction, edited by Margaret Atwood. Callaghan’s fiction has been translated into Spanish, Croatian, French, Swedish, Serbian and Italian. He lives in Toronto with his partner, the artist Claire Weisman Wilks. Barry Callaghan’s new work of fiction, a volume of short stories entitled Between Trains, will be published in May 2007 by McArthur & Company.
Michael Redhill is the publisher and one of the editors of Brick, a literary magazine, and the author of Consolation, a haunting novel about the traces of history layered in our lives, and how time alters the contours of even the things we hold most certain. Michael is also the author of Martin Sloane, a finalist for the Giller prize, and the short story collection Fidelity. He has written four poetry collections, including Asphodel, published in 1997, and Light-Crossing, published in 2001. His most recent works for the theatre are Goodness and Building Jerusalem, winner of a Dora Award.
