What:
Open Doors at Hart House Library and "Stories About Storytellers: An Afternoon with Doug Gibson and Many Famous Canadian Authors"

With:
Library Tours Conducted by the Library Curator, Katya Pereyaslavska, and the Dedicated Team of Library Science Student Volunteers

Performance by Doug Gibson of McClelland and Stewart

When:
May 16, from 10am to 4pm.

Hart House Open Doors
Where:
Hart House - Second Floor
7 Hart House Circle
Toronto, ON
416 978 2445

Stories About Storytellers:
When:
May 16, from 4pm to 5pm.

Where:
Hart House - Debates Room
Hart House, University of Toronto
7 Hart House Circle
Toronto, ON, Canada
M5S 3H3

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About the Hart House:

The Hart House Library is an organic space, a living institution which grows and adapts to the ever-changing needs of our dedicated multi-demographic patrons. Under the stewardship of the Literary and Library Committee, the library seeks to be all-inclusive by offering a variety of opportunities to student groups and volunteers to participate in building a stronger literary community at Hart House and maintaining a relevant and special collection of literature to reflect the library's evolving interests.

Hart House library is a reading and browsing library, whose unique contribution to the university experience and to Canada's literacy culture has been attested by generations of students, including many of Canada's promising writers and leaders. The library's physical character is consistent with its cultural and historical character. This requires that, first, the library be maintained as readers space, not a study space, and second, that a conservation-oriented approach be taken to physical change.

Currently, there are five ongoing projects which include the maintenance of our blog, organizing the display cabinet, evaluating our rare book collection, an Eco book drive and weeding. Project contributions are voluntary and volunteers are welcome to contact each other to develop new and exciting initiatives for future projects! We would like to take this opportunity to share with visitors details about our past and current initiatives and address challenges and successes with regard to running this unique special library!

About Stories About Storytellers:

Look for stories about Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan, Robertson Davies, James Houston, Pierre Trudeau, Mavis Gallant, and Others.

This show, now in Preview, will be traveling the country before Doug's book, "Stories About Storytellers" hits shelves in October of this year.

Doug performs author caricatures of those authors he has published over a long and fascinating career as a Canadian publisher with McClelland and Stewart.

If interested in learning more about this tour, please contact our promotional team: Eric Chor, Stephanie Quail and Stacey Redick at [log in to unmask]