Opening his Guest Curator series Rupture / Justice, acclaimed writer and lawyer Philippe Sands draws on his own experiences and life in the law to explore five moments that have shaped his life and when individuals, nations and institutions have sought to right historic wrongs. Interweaving history, stories and personal experience with live music, Sands […]
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To define recent political, social and cultural upheaval as unprecedented is both to emphasize the crisis at hand and to negate its connection to what has gone before. In conversation with Philippe Sands, author of The Last Colony, about the Chagos Archipelago, two formidable chroniclers of the past discuss whether this is truly a historical […]
Recent political ruptures are reflective of a moment in time when we are increasingly losing faith in the institutions, communities and stories that once held a society together. New Yorker investigative journalist and Chief Washington Correspondent, Jane Mayer, is the bestselling author of Dark Money, and has spent decades exposing the hidden networks of money […]
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and Gaël Faye have transformed histories of violence, exile and survival into extraordinary literature. Umubyeyi Mairesse’s All Your Children, Scattered follows three generations of family fractured by the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, while her new memoir, The Convoy, reconstructs her escape, aged fifteen, from the 1994 genocide. A hip-hop star […]
The stories Canada tells about itself have changed over the past decade with diverse perspectives begun to be added and a process of truth and reconciliation with Indigenous, First Nations and Metis peoples. This has been a flawed and imperfect journey and now new dynamics challenge the concept of Canada as a sovereign nation, and […]
2026 has been marked by an increase in climate catastrophes across the globe from extreme heat, forest fires to flash floods. Yet at the same time, the environmental movement is struggling to gain sufficient traction or momentum at a political or economic level. Bestselling author Robert Moor has spent years exploring how humans move through […]
This unforgettable performance comes to Toronto for one night only after sold out stops in New York, Kigali, Lviv, Sydney, London, Berlin, and many more. How do two people at the extremes of good and evil find solace in the same aria? East West Street, based on the award-winning book by human rights lawyer Phillipe […]
