Pick of the Week: Check out Voices of Vaughan: A Canada 150 Anthology

CBC Canada Reads recipient will do Vaughan reading

Yorkregion.com
Nov. 22, 2017
By Simone Joseph

You can be among the first to read an anthology created by local writers about Canada, its land, people, culture and heritage.

Voices of Vaughan: a Canada 150 Anthology will be unveiled Saturday, Nov. 25 at an after-hours wine and cheese event for people 19 and older.

In celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation, Vaughan Public Libraries invited Vaughan writers and those from surrounding areas to create an anthology.

The event, Vaughan Loves Reading, will include Heather O'Neill, reading from her book, The Lonely Hearts Hotel at 8 p.m. Her work, which includes The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and has won CBC Canada Reads.

he event will also include a reception with remarks by Vaughan Public Libraries CEO Margie Singleton and Vaughan Public Library Board chair Devender Sandhu, as well as music performed by Aurora Quartet at 7 p.m.

Just the Facts

What: Vaughan Loves Reading. This event launches Voices of Vaughan: a Canada 150 Anthology. It will include a reading by author Heather O'Neill.

When: Saturday, Nov. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Where: Bathurst Clark Resource Library, 900 Clark Ave. W.

Go to www.vaughanpl.info for more information and library events.