Nov 27 - Author talk in Kingston
/Wednesday, November 27, 2013
“Put Them Away” The Way It Used To Be
Author Talk on the Orillia Institution.
As part of “ABLE ARTISTS 2013”
organized by H’Art Centre, Kingston.
November 26-28, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
“Put Them Away” The Way It Used To Be
Author Talk on the Orillia Institution.
As part of “ABLE ARTISTS 2013”
organized by H’Art Centre, Kingston.
November 26-28, 2013
Friday November 8, 2013
7 pm
Author Reading and Talk on the Orillia Institution.
Barrie Public Library, Painswick Branch,
48 Dean Avenue,
Barrie, ON
Tuesday November 12, 2013
2 pm
Author Reading
North York Retirees Club
Blessed Trinity Church,
3220 Bayview Ave.,
North York, Toronto
Thursday October 24, 2013
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
United Nations Celebration, Queen’s Park, Toronto.
Author Signing at book table and short talk on the Huronia Institution, in conjunction with her publisher, Inanna Publications.
Thelma will participate in a panel discussion on “Health Politics/Activism” organised by Brunswick Books.
October 31, 2013
9:30 am
Author talk at Bramalea Knightsbridge Seniors Book Club,
Cyril Clark Library
Loafer’s Lake Road, Brampton.
Wednesday October 23, 2013
7-8pm
Lillian Smith Public Library, College Street, Toronto.
Display of author’s Archival Photographs in foyer.
Sponsored by Canadian Federation of University Women, Oakville Branch
St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church
300 River Oaks Boulevard East
Oakville, ON L6H 7H2
Monday October 21, 2013
6.30pm
"The Orillia Institution: “Ontario Hospital School” and the “Asylum for Idiots and Feeble-Minded” and the role of University Women Early 1900s.”
Tuesday October 8, 2013
Annette St. Public Library. 7pm.
Display of author’s Archival Photographs in foyer for a week.
Thelma Wheatley is an author, advocate, and speaker. Her most recent book, And Neither Have I Wings to Fly; Labelled and Locked up in Canada's Oldest Institution is about life at the Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia, Ontario, and the abuse of its residents. She gives insight into the recent class action lawsuit against the government of Ontario and Huronia and the settlement.
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