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Join us for an evening celebrating Toronto and its arts scene with stories, food and music!

Len Senater, author of The Depanneur Cookbook will explore Toronto’s astonishing cultural diversity and the unique ways to foster community through food while the audience gets to snack on food from Rahaf Alakbani of Rahaf’s Kitchen. Senater will be in conversation with Pay Chen.

Shawn Micallef will discuss the latest edition of his book Stroll, a guide to walking tours all around Toronto with an analysis of Toronto and how it has changed over the years. Micallef will be in conversation with Ansley Newland.

Catherine Hernandez will discuss her new novel Behind You, a thrilling read inspired by true events in Canadian history but is all fiction. Alma is a film editor of a true crime series currently working on an episode about the Scarborough Stalker. Switching between past an present, readers see young Alma and a city consumed with a search for the Stalker, and adult Alma dealing with her son’s dangerous behaviour.

The evening will end with readings from authors in our Toronto Lit Up 2023 season who were invited to write pieces for Write the Neighbourhood, a commissioned anthology featuring 10 authors from Toronto.

Host: Martin Gomes

Generously supported by the Toronto Arts Council and Toronto Lit Up.

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Len Senater

Len Senater is the founder/owner of The Depanneur. He originally studied photography in Montreal in the nineties before turning to digital design in the early days of desktop publishing.

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Photo credit: James Hunter.

Shawn Micallef

Shawn Micallef is the author of Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness, Full Frontal TO: Exploring Toronto’s Vernacular Architecture and The Trouble With Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure. He’s a Toronto Star columnist, instructor at University of Toronto, a Senior Fellow at Massey College and a co-founder of Spacing magazine.

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Photo credit: Dewey Chang.

Catherine Hernandez

Catherine Hernandez (she/her) is a queer woman of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian descent who married into the Navajo Nation. Her first novel, Scarborough, was a finalist for Canada Reads 2022, and the film adaptation, for which she wrote the screenplay, won eight Canadian Screen Awards.

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Photo credit: Noor Khan.