I want to connect authors with their readers. If you love books, and would love to meet your favourite authors, here's your chance! I'll plan bookclub-style events at cafes in the GTA, where you can come to meet and chat with real authors. Email me if you have any suggestions. Join if you love reading and want to hear about the latest books, and meet other booklovers.

We are going to meet about once a week or once every couple of weeks. At each meeting, one of us will make a "presentation" of an idea they came up with. The ideas can be from any field whatsoever (music, science, art, inventions, literature, entrepreneurship, society, film, psychology, or just about anything else), and they may range from the somewhat serious and sensible ... all the way to totally outrageous, bizarre and zany. Everyone else will listen and ask questions. They'll take the idea …

“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song." Jorge Luis Borges   This is a meetup group for people who like to read, and be read to. Everyone is welcome!  Bring a passage or two that you like and recite it with the group, then we can ta …

Welcome to the Toronto Poetry Club .com! To participate, as a guest or poet, click "JOIN US!" in the top right corner, at: www.torontopoetryclub.com The Toronto Poetry Club meets once a month at ING DIRECT CAFE at 221 Yonge St E., across from the Eaton's Centre Shopping mall in downtown Toronto! (click here for map). Afterward, we walk to the FIRKIN ON YONGE to socialize! Our events are via RSVP. Go to www.torontopoetryclub.com and RSVP to read a poem aloud, then socialize! (Optional: post …

The LGBTQA Meet Up (aka Hangin' OUT) is a safe place for Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans/Queer and Allies to hang out and make new friends. Whether you're coming out, already out or just want to get out, we know its hard to meet people outside of our everyday grind so this group is for like- minded people to socialize and expand their social circles. If you're tired of your usual routine, bored with the same old scene in the 'gaybourhood' and are interested in trying something new then we're the group for …

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Calling all book-loving cinephiles and film-loving bookworms!  Roncesvalles' historic Revue Cinema is running a new monthly screening series that is certain to get cinematic and literary discussions flowing. Toronto Star critic Geoff Pevere will guide the audience through film selections and post-screening discussions to explore what makes a film adaptation successful. Please note that the events for this group are now organized as part of the "We Don't Do Mainstream" (WDDM) Film Group, so …

This group is a book club with a twist. It is a book club for writers. Why are some books popular? What makes them bestsellers? What can we as writers learn from these books? I started this book club because traditional book clubs are too vanilla for me. If you are a committed writer, then this meetup is for you. Each month, we will chose a work of fiction and examine it from the perspective of a writer (and not from the perspective of an English literature professor). The idea is to find inspir …

Becoming an engaged reader requires commitment and intellectual curiosity, but the rewards are great. The IAM Readers Guild is designed to allow readers to interact with others in their own community as well as the wider IAM global community, and to learn a “deeper empathy” through experiencing great writing that wrestles with big ideas in many cultural contexts. Each month, groups around the world will meet to discuss the book of the month, beginning with a list of questions that will be sent t …