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Join us September 8 at 2pm ET for an afternoon as we celebrate the launch of Loop de Loop: Circular Solutions for a Waste-free World by Andrea Curtis (Groundwood Books). Presented in collaboration with DESIGNwith, enjoy a special reading from the author followed by an expert-led visible mending workshop. Learn creative techniques to give your denim clothes a new life with Charlotte Rose. Bring a piece of denim clothing with a hole no bigger than a toonie!

Books will be for sale courtesy of Type Books.

This event will take place at DESIGNwith in the CF Toronto Eaton Centre find the lab on the second level of CF Toronto Eaton Centre, closest to Canadian Tire and H&M, in the Northwest corridor beside TTC Dundas Station.

Toronto Lit Up is a multi-year initiative, started in 2016 by the Toronto International Festival of Authors and the Toronto Arts Council, to spotlight Toronto writers and empower local artists with career-building opportunities. Between April 2016 and March 2024, Toronto Lit Up has presented over 200 events featuring over 250 Toronto authors and illustrators. Toronto Lit Up book launches take place throughout the year at venues across the city. They are open to the public and free to attend. Click here for more information.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Loop de Loop: Circular Solutions for a Waste Free World

Get loopy with this playful introduction to the hopeful, transformative possibilities of circular systems! Nature works on a cycle, where everything in the loop has value and nothing is wasted. But modern humans have created a different kind of system: it’s less like a circle and more like a line. We ... Read more

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Andrea Curtis

Andrea Curtis’s children’s non-fiction titles include A Forest in the City, City of Water, City Streets are for People and City of Neighbors in the ThinkCities series. She has also written the young adult novel Big Water.

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