Tickets available Monday, October 29th at 9 am. Register here
Did you miss our first Giller Gala in
2017? Don’t make the same mistake this year.
It was so much fun, we’re making it an
annual party.
We asked some of our favourite,
thought-provoking Tweeters to join us, and they said yes! Arrive on the red
carpet, have a drink, vote for your favourite book, and take part in an evening
of discussion about this year’s Giller shortlist. Each guest will defend one
title, then we’ll watch the Giller Gala live on the big screen and announce the
people’s choice winner.
Hosted
by:
@idontlikemunday
Evan Munday is the illustrator of the novels Stripmalling and DOOM: Love Poems
for Supervillains, as well as the self-published comic book, Quarter-Life
Crisis. He also wrote a Silver Birch-nominated series of novels for young
adults, The Dead Kid Detective Agency. He worked for eight years as a book
publicist for Coach House Books, and now does a variety of work including e-book
conversion, illustration, and bookselling.
Last year's winning defender:
@annetdonahue
Anne T. Donahue is a writer and originally from Cambridge, Ontario. Her work has appeared
on The Guardian, Globe & Mail, Esquire, Playboy, and Flare. Her first
book, Nobody Cares, comes out September 2018 with ECW Press. She
writes a weekly letter called That's What She Said that you should
absolutely subscribe to.
Thrilled to welcome to this year's Gala:
@geekylonglegs
Sarah
Hagi is a former Vice journalist and a
freelance writer who is regularly published on sites such as GQ, The Cut,
Cosmopolitan, Hazlitt, and the Verge, contributing her sharp insights on
politics, race, arts and culture, and more.
@manishakrishnan
Manisha
Krishnan is a senior writer and host at
Vice, and your current essential guide to cannabis news. She also writes about
politics, crime, guns, and the power of courts and police.
@shawnmicallef
Shawn
Micallef is a weekly columnist for the
Toronto Star who focuses on cities and culture. He’s also the editor and
co-owner of Spacing magazine and the author of four books, including The
Trouble with Brunch and Frontier City. He teaches civic citizenship and design
at the University of Toronto.
@ishaninath
Ishani
Nath is a senior editor at Flare
magazine, where she dissects culture and fashion through the lens of the TV,
movies, and celebrities we’re most obsessed with.
Door prizes.
Drinks available for purchase from
Descendants.
***Limit two tickets per valid email
address. As events are free, it is our policy to overbook. In case of a
full program, your reservation may not guarantee admission. Unclaimed
reservations will be released to standby customers ten minutes prior to the
start of the program. We recommend that you arrive early.***
ImagineIt
In partnership with the City of
Kitchener, we’re hosting a new series of events that will feature fun and
interesting ways to celebrate reading, writing, and literacy. Just ImagineIt –
an entire community that connects through words, stories, and songs.