Upcoming TINARS

Peter Steven
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel 2nd Floor Gallery, 1214 Queen St. W.

Do daily news broadcasts contain less actual information than they did even five years ago? Who owns the channels that you watch? Is the internet the most reliable way to find out what’s going on?

Nicole La Porte, Richard Crouse
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.

What really happened when three of the most powerful men in Hollywood -- director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg -- decided to build their own empire? Are the horror stories about Dreamworks’ business practices true?

Joey Comeau, Ryan North, Tony Burgess
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.

What do you find scarier: the prospect of spending an afternoon catching up with your extended family or that giant pool of blood slowly spreading across the living room carpet? Isn’t it high time that a so-called horror novel addressed this subtle yet significant distinction?

Keith Oatley, Maja Djikic
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel 2nd floor gallery, 1214 Queen St. W.

Can recent developments in the field of psychology enable us to improve our reading and writing skills?

Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
Monday, May 3, 2010 - 7:30pm
Tattoo Rock Parlour, 567 Queen St. W.

Is ghostwriting suicide notes really the best way to pay off your debt to a drug dealer? And can someone who’s barely winning the battle with his own demons really afford to take on those of complete strangers? Such questions haunt Mason, the protagonist of acclaimed author Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s highly anticipated novel, Ghosted (Random House).

Jeff Goodell
Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 7:30pm
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.

Given that we can’t even predict tomorrow’s weather with any accuracy, why should anyone believe that we’re able to redress the effects of global warming by manually lowering the earth’s temperature?

Geoffrey Reaume, Ruth Ruth
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.

To celebrate the re-issue of his groundbreaking study, Remembrance Of Patients Past (University of Toronto Press), scholar and activist Geoffrey Reaume will conduct a walking tour of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) grounds.

Zsuzsi Gartner
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.

What do you get when you ask an all star lineup of Canadian writers who do not usually write speculative, fantasy, dystopian, or futuristic work for an unpublished short piece in this vein? A collection that concentrates as much on love as it does on science, without a single talking animal in the mix.

Jeff Miller
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel 2nd Floor Gallery, 1214 Queen St. W.

How can you chronicle constant change? Over the past dozen or so years, the Canadian Zine scene has generated more waves than the Atlantic ocean. The Montreal-based writer, publisher and editor Jeff Miller has served as a force behind many of these tides. His commentaries on Canadian youth culture have been compared to the best parts of Al Burian and Jonathan Goldstein.

Andrew Potter, Nora Young
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 7:30pm
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W.

What is ‘the real thing’? Why does our culture spend so much time, money and energy pursuing such an elusive ideal? And does anyone really know what to do when they finally catch it?