Anne Michaels: Celebrating Toronto’s Literary History

Anne Michaels and david sereda

Anne Michaels: Celebrating Toronto’s Literary History

Anne Michaels and david sereda

8:00pm

Saturday, September 24, 2022

A musical exploration of art and storytelling inspired by the city awaits with award-winning novelist and Toronto’s former Poet Laureate Anne Michaels. Relive Toronto’s literary history through the iconic poets and songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s. This special musical event is hosted by Toronto’s fifth Poet Laureate, the internationally acclaimed novelist and poet Anne Michaels, and features singer/songwriter david sereda, with David Gray, Ken Whiteley, Rebecca Campbell and Tyler Wagler. Join us under the stars for a transformational performance on Harbourfront Centre’s outdoor Concert Stage.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 24 at 8pm ET
Where: Concert Stage
Duration: 120 minutes
This event is free to attend with registration.

This concert stage is an open air, outdoor venue, so it is recommend to wear warm clothes.

A musical exploration of art and storytelling inspired by the city awaits with award-winning novelist and Toronto’s former Poet Laureate Anne Michaels. Relive Toronto’s literary history through the iconic poets and songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s. This special musical event is hosted by Toronto’s fifth Poet Laureate, the internationally acclaimed novelist and poet Anne Michaels, and features singer/songwriter david sereda, with David Gray, Ken Whiteley, Rebecca Campbell and Tyler Wagler. Join us under the stars for a transformational performance on Harbourfront Centre’s outdoor Concert Stage.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 24 at 8pm ET
Where: Concert Stage
Duration: 120 minutes
This event is free to attend with registration.

This concert stage is an open air, outdoor venue, so it is recommend to wear warm clothes.

Featured Authors

Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels is a novelist and poet. Her books are translated into more than fifty languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. Among many other honours she is a Guggenheim Fellow, has received honorary degrees, and has served as Toronto’s Poet Laureate. Her novel Fugitive Pieces was adapted as a feature film. Her most recent books include All We Saw, Infinite Gradation and Railtracks (co-written with John Berger). In 2020, her novel Fugitive Pieces was chosen for the BBC’s 100 Novels that Shaped the World.

Read more about Anne Michaels

david sereda
david sereda is a singer, songwriter, pianist and composer. His is a distinctive, passionate voice, heard in concerts and festivals across Canada and the USA and through albums of his original songs. He’s written for music theatre and produced over 40 Stray Dog Salons in Toronto and Owen Sound, exuberant thematic cabarets that bring together musicians, writers, playwrights and dancers. His long artistic history with novelist and poet Anne Michaels continues in a new collaborative Dialogue, an intimate performance of spoken word and song, now in development. david lives in Grey County, Ontario – close to Georgian Bay.

Read more about david sereda

8:00pm

Saturday, September 24

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