The Globe and Mail Open House Festival - May 8-10, 2009

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May 9-10
SATURDAY-SUNDAY

Hart House Great Hall

Tickets

Available online at www.uofttix.ca or over the phone through the U of T Tix Box Office line (416) 978-8849.

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Join us for an extraordinary weekend of words and ideas in support of PEN Canada and Frontier College.

The Globe and Mail Open House Festival will bring together the very best writers and thinkers from Canada and around the world for a unique program of readings and discussions that will provoke, entertain, and enlighten.

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May 9
SATURDAY

Hart House Great Hall (all SAT events)

Noon
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Stuart McLean
Christian Lander
(Regretfully, Rick Mercer has had to cancel his appearance at the Festival.)
$15 general admission

2pm
“Notes from the Field”
A Conversation with James Orbinski, James Maskalyk, and Prabhat Jha.
$15 general admission

4pm
Zoe Heller
Nino Ricci
Elizabeth Hay
Wayson Choy
$15 general admission

8pm
Calvin Trillin
Miriam Toews
David Rakoff
Jay McInerney
$15 general admission

May 10
SUNDAY

Hart House Great Hall (all SUN events)

1:30pm
“A Crisis in Leadership”
A conversation with John Ralston Saul, Margaret MacMillan, Naomi Klein, and Adam Gopnik.
SOLD OUT

4pm
“The Planet in the Balance”
A conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon, Gwynne Dyer, and Jeff Rubin.
$15 general admission

8pm
Anne Michaels
Ha Jin
David Wroblewski
Joseph O’Neill (moved from May9)
TBC
$15 general admission

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Open House festival website

Hart House website

Map to Hart House

 
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