BOOK LAUNCH
Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s-70s
by Gilberto Fernandes
Wednesday, October 7, 6:00pm-8:00pm
@ Museum of Toronto, 401 Richmond St. West.
Guests can purchase a copy of the book from the Spacing Store and explore more of Toronto’s unexpected histories in The T.O. You Don’t Know exhibition. Light refreshments will be available.
Thursday, October 15, 6:30-pm-8:30pm
@ Alberto de Castro Gallery (2nd floor), Casa Do Alentejo Community Centre
Join us at the Casa do Alentejo Community Centre – formerly LIUNA Local 183's office and training centre – for a book reading, followed by a conversation with labour organizer, civilian journalist, and author Humberto da Silva, and a Q&A session with the author.
Wednesday, October 21, 6:30pm-8:30pm
@ A Different Booklist, Blackhurst Cultural Centre, 777-779 Bathurst Street.
Join us for a book reading by the author, followed by a conversation with A Different Booklist’s Miguel San Vicente; a roundtable with Rosemarie Powell (Toronto Community Benefits Network), Mamadou Bah (LIUNA Local 506), and John Cartwright (Toronto & York Region Labour Council); and a Q&A session.
Tuesday, October 27, 7:30pm-9:00pm
@ Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery, Columbus Centre,
901 Lawrence Ave. West, North York
Join us at the Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery for a book reading, followed by a conversation with the Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies and York University’s Assistant Professor Dr. Abril Liberatori, and a Q&A session with the author.