|
Winter/Spring Event Calendar 2012
Thursday, January 19th: 7:00pm
We are delighted to kick-off the New Year with a book launch for two local writers.
Join us for an evening with
poet, Linda Frank (Insomnie Blues) and novelist, Hugh Cook (Heron River)
Carnegie Gallery (10 King Street, Dundas)
Free Admission, Everyone Welcome. Please RSVP as seating is limited
Saturday, January 21st: 4:00pm
Please join us to meet Hamilton writer, Ray Beauchemin and hear him read from his novel (Everything I Own). Please click here to watch a cool youtube video for the book.
Bryan Prince Bookseller (1060 King Street West, Hamilton)
Free Admission, Everyone Welcome
Thursday, January 26th: 7:30pm
The Hamilton Poetry Centre continues their 2011-2012 season by welcoming guest poet
Terry Ann Carter (Man Thinks He's Ernest in Paris).
Bryan Prince Bookseller (1060 King Street West, Hamilton)
Free Admission, Everyone Welcome.
Wednesday, February 15th: 6:30 pm
We are happy to celebrate the launch of Here I Am, the latest children's book by local author Ardyth Brott and illustrator Dragana Miladinovic-Eic.
Please join us for this exciting reception.
Bryan Prince Bookseller (1060 King Street West, Hamilton)
Free Admission. Please RSVP as space is limited
Friday, February 24th: 6:30pm
We are pleased to participate in "Feminism Forward"
a fundraiser for the Stephen Lewis Foundation
The evening will feature a lecture, Q&A session and book signing by Canadian journalist and social activist Michele Landsberg (Writing the Revolution)
Pre-lecture Marketplace at 6:30, followed by lecture at 7:30
Tickets $40
McMaster University, Room 1305 (1280 Main Street West, Hamilton)
Free parking Lot I, Venue is accessible
Bryan Prince Bookseller will be donating a portion of the evening's book sales to
The Stephen Lewis Foundation
This event is presented by Grandmothers of Steel and McMaster University Faculty of Humanities & Program in Gender Studies and Feminist Research
Sunday, February 26th: 2:00pm
We are delighted to be on hand at What is the Commons & How Can it Improve Our Lives, a free public lecture presented by Clean Air Hamilton and featuring guest speaker
Jay Walljasper (The Great Neighbourhood Book).
Mr Walljasper will be on hand to explore how new ideas in urban planning, tourism, community development, sustainability, politics and culture can improve our lives.
Art Gallery of Hamilton (123 King Street West, Hamilton)
Free Admission, but please RSVP
Tuesday, February 28th: 7:00pm
It give us great pleasure to celebrate the release of Freedom Bound by local author and store friend, Jean Rae Baxter
Please join us to congratulate Ms Baxter on the publication of the final book in her young adult trilogy about the United Empire Loyalist experience.
Bryan Prince Bookseller (1060 King Street West, Hamilton)
Free Admission. Please RSVP as space is limited
Tuesday, March 6th: 7:00pm
We have joined forces with the Hamilton Public Library and the Royal Botanical Gardens for a new author series. Please welcome us as we kick-off the series with special guest,
Adrian Humphreys (The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob)
Royal Botanical Gardens (680 Plains Road West, Hamilton)
Tickets $10 (includes refreshements)
Wednesday, March 28th to Sunday, April 1st
We are delighted to participate, for the ninth year, in GritLIT: Hamilton's Literary Festival.
Details are hush-hush but join the fun on Thursday, February 16th at 7:30pm for the official festival line-up announcement as well as some spooky revelry with an Edgar Allen Poe-themed evening.
Please see the GritLIT website for details.
Thursday, April 26th: 7:00pm
We are proud to join forces with the Hamilton Public Library to present a very special evening with best-selling Canadian author, Robert Sawyer (Trigger)
Hamilton Public Library, Central Branch (55 York Blvd., Hamilton)
Free Admission, Everyone Welcome
For more information about any of our events please contact us at events@princebooks.net
|
