Join us at the Hirut Jazz Cafe (2050 Danforth Avenue, Toronto) for an inspiring literary afternoon, at this month's Voices of Freedom reading series. Following [...]

As schools face demands to remove books from their libraries and curriculum resources, few consider students’ views. Join a panel of students who look at recent bans -- what it means for them, why it’s happening, and what schools, students, and the community should do.

Perhaps the most controversial and poorly understood technological development in recent times, artificial intelligence (AI) is claimed to offer prospects of limitless benefits and unprecedented harms. Join Bianca Wylie, partner at Digital Public and a co-founder of Tech Reset Canada, in conversation with Andrew Clement of the University of Toronto, in exploring how Canada might best govern AI.

When: Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 3:30 pm Where: HotDocs Ted Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1Y3 Pay what you can Ageless [...]

Join a panel of leading experts who examine how Islamophobia is enabled, perpetuated, and even rendered respectable in Canada. What can be done to help Canada fulfill its promise of being an inclusive democratic society?

Artificial intelligence technologies are powerful curators of information and arbiters of online content. But they can be used to supercharge deception and misinformation, undercutting trust in all sources of content and threatening popular commitment to public discourse and expressive freedom. Join a panel of experts who explore these monumental challenges and discuss what options we have.

We are pleased to invite you to the free screening of "Letter to a Shadow" followed by a Q&A session with Hector Abad Faciolince. In 2006, Héctor Abad Faciolince published Oblivion: A Memoir (in Spanish as El olvido que seremos ), a harrowing account of the life and death of his father Héctor Abad Gómez, a Colombian pioneer in the field of public health and a vehement defender of human rights, who was assassinated in cold blood by a hitman on the streets of Medellín in 1987. The documentary reconstructs the story of the book by delving into the most intimate spaces of the Abad family and relying on a valuable family archive. Between personal memory and historical memory, in "a battle against forgetfulness, against oblivion", Letter to a Shadow presents a chilling portrait of the political violence that plagued Colombia and produces an x-ray of Colombian society from the privacy of the mourning of the Abad family.

  Ticket Info: Notes On An Invasion Sunday, September 24 at 4:00 - 5:30 pm EST Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto Tickets [...]

On September 24 at 2:30 p.m. at the Hirut Jazz Club, the PEN Canada Writers in Exile group proudly presents an afternoon of inspired readings from emancipated voices. This event is the fourth ‘chapter’ of their “Voices of Freedom” reading series, this time featuring writers from Tunisia, Kurdistan-Sorani, Turkey, and Syria.

  Ticket Info: Raising Our Voices: 2023 PEN Canada Awards & Readings in Solidarity with Persecuted Writers Saturday, September 23 at 4:30 - 5:30 pm [...]