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Write in the Neighbourhood: Audio Walking Tour

Jillian Tamaki, Sidura Ludwig, Brian Bradley, Natasha Ramoutar, Adom Acheampong, Sheilah Madonna Salvador and Cindy Arlette Orellana

Write in the Neighbourhood: Audio Walking Tour

Jillian Tamaki, Sidura Ludwig, Brian Bradley, Natasha Ramoutar, Adom Acheampong, Sheilah Madonna Salvador and Cindy Arlette Orellana

11:00am

Saturday, October 24

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Take a literary walk through the neighbourhoods that inspired your favourite Toronto stories. In each episode, local authors bring their neighbourhoods to life through readings, interviews and ambient recordings. Featuring Natasha Ramoutar, Sidura Ludwig and more.

 

Episode 1.1: Parkdale with Jillian Tamaki

Travel to Parkdale with Jillian Tamaki, author and illustrator of Our Little Kitchen. Though the picture book was originally inspired by Jillian’s time volunteering at a soup kitchen in Brooklyn, New York City, we spoke to Jillian about how her current relationship to Parkdale both mirrors and stands in opposition to her former home, including five local waypoints that she draws inspiration from today.

 

Episode 1.2: Thornhill with Sidura Ludwig

Travel to Thornhill with Sidura Ludwig, author of You Are Not What We Expected. The book, a collection of short stories all set in the same Thornhill community, explores the capacity for great change and great heartache behind the veneer of suburban homogeneity. Similarly, we spoke to Sidura about five waypoints that suggest Thornhill is not at all what we expected.

 

Episode 1.3: Downtown Yonge with Brian Bradley

Travel to Downtown Yonge with Brian Bradley—but not as it exists today. In his debut book, Outrageous Misfits, Brian traces the lives and careers of female impersonator Craig Russell and his wife Lorie Eadie, largely tied to the neighbourhood’s history of queer spaces and establishments. We spoke to Brian about five waypoints from that era and the enormous transformation that’s taken place since.

 

Episode 1.4: Scarborough with Feel Ways

Travel to Scarborough for a special tour that’s been collaboratively mapped by several guests representing the upcoming Feel Ways: A Scarborough Anthology. The anthology brings together emerging and established writers to shed light on a borough often mischaracterized and misunderstood.

Listen on Libsyn
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Listen on Google Podcasts
Listen on Spotify

Take a literary walk through the neighbourhoods that inspired your favourite Toronto stories. In each episode, local authors bring their neighbourhoods to life through readings, interviews and ambient recordings. Featuring Natasha Ramoutar, Sidura Ludwig and more.

 

Episode 1.1: Parkdale with Jillian Tamaki

Travel to Parkdale with Jillian Tamaki, author and illustrator of Our Little Kitchen. Though the picture book was originally inspired by Jillian’s time volunteering at a soup kitchen in Brooklyn, New York City, we spoke to Jillian about how her current relationship to Parkdale both mirrors and stands in opposition to her former home, including five local waypoints that she draws inspiration from today.

 

Episode 1.2: Thornhill with Sidura Ludwig

Travel to Thornhill with Sidura Ludwig, author of You Are Not What We Expected. The book, a collection of short stories all set in the same Thornhill community, explores the capacity for great change and great heartache behind the veneer of suburban homogeneity. Similarly, we spoke to Sidura about five waypoints that suggest Thornhill is not at all what we expected.

 

Episode 1.3: Downtown Yonge with Brian Bradley

Travel to Downtown Yonge with Brian Bradley—but not as it exists today. In his debut book, Outrageous Misfits, Brian traces the lives and careers of female impersonator Craig Russell and his wife Lorie Eadie, largely tied to the neighbourhood’s history of queer spaces and establishments. We spoke to Brian about five waypoints from that era and the enormous transformation that’s taken place since.

 

Episode 1.4: Scarborough with Feel Ways

Travel to Scarborough for a special tour that’s been collaboratively mapped by several guests representing the upcoming Feel Ways: A Scarborough Anthology. The anthology brings together emerging and established writers to shed light on a borough often mischaracterized and misunderstood.

Featured Authors

Jillian Tamaki
Jillian Tamaki is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator raised in Calgary, Alberta. She is the author of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novels SuperMutant Magic Academy and Boundless, and the author-illustrator of two picture books, including most recently Our Little Kitchen. With her cousin Mariko Tamaki, she is the co-creator of the young adult graphic novels SKIM and This One Summer, which won a Governor General’s Award and Caldecott Honor. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.     

Read more about Jillian Tamaki

Sidura Ludwig
Sidura Ludwig is the author of the widely successful novel Holding My Breath. Her short fiction has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. She works as a communications specialist and creative writing teacher, and her creative nonfiction has appeared in several newspapers and on CBC Radio. She is currently working on her M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults through the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now lives in Thornhill, Ontario, with her husband and three children.

Read more about Sidura Ludwig

Brian Bradley
Brian Bradley is a Hamilton-based biographer and author of Outrageous Misfits: Female Impersonator Craig Russell and His Wife, Lori Russell Eadie. He is currently at work on two follow-up books, including a biography of a prominent Canadian activist. Brian is also a journalist at the Toronto Star where he works for the Public Editor, is a podcast producer and dabbles in feature writing.

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Natasha Ramoutar
Natasha Ramoutar is an Indo-Guyanese writer by way of Scarborough (Ganatsekwyagon) at the east side of Toronto. She is the Social Media Assistant at the Festival of Literary Diversity. Her poetry collection, Bittersweet, was published by Mawenzi House in 2020. 

Read more about Natasha Ramoutar

Adom Acheampong
Adom Acheampong is an emerging writer who works in short fiction and prose, and is inspired by the poetic potential of words. She has performed at a number of venues across Toronto, including the Draft Reading Series and the Tartan Turban. One of four 2019 Writers-in-Residence with Firefly Creative Writing, Adom’s short story Ehonam has been published online through Broken Pencil Magazine, and most recently, her short story Champions, is set to publish within Feel Ways: A Scarborough Anthology this Spring 2021. 

Read more about Adom Acheampong

Sheilah Madonna Salvador
Sheilah Madonna Salvador moved to Canada with her family when she was 16 and lived in Scarborough until her 20’s. She is an ongoing contributor to the Puritan’s Town Crier blog and was shortlisted for the Eden Mills Writer’s Festival Poetry contest in 2018. She has been published in David F. Shultz’s Hamthology and is one of the writers and performers for Encounters at the Edge of the Woods, the first ever Indigenous play to be produced and performed at University of Toronto’s Hart House Theatre. When not writing, you can find Sheilah taking pictures all over Toronto as she plots and plans her next tale. 

Read more about Sheilah Madonna Salvador

Cindy Arlette Orellana
Cindy Arlette Orellana is a Montreal-born, Ottawa-raised and Toronto-based poet and writer. As a first-generation Canadian born to Haitian parents, Cindy uses her experiences as a visible minority, and the dichotomy and realities of colourism and spirituality within her community, to inspire her storytelling and shed light on the experiences of Caribbean diaspora.  Her poetry has appeared in the Toronto Writers Collective, The Temz Review and is forthcoming in Feel Ways (2021), an anthology featuring the work of Scarborough writers and poets about the east-end borough they call home. She is also working on her debut poetry chapbook, Unchained Sisters. 

Read more about Cindy Arlette Orellana

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11:00am

Saturday, October 24

What to read

Our Little Kitchen by , You Are Not What We Expected by , Outrageous Misfits by , FEEL WAYS: A Scarborough Anthology by ,
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