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
Nov 8 - Reading at the Barrie Public Library
/Friday November 8, 2013
7 pm
Author Reading and Talk on the Orillia Institution.
Barrie Public Library, Painswick Branch,
48 Dean Avenue,
Barrie, ON
Nov 12 - Author Reading in North York
/Tuesday November 12, 2013
2 pm
Author Reading
North York Retirees Club
Blessed Trinity Church,
3220 Bayview Ave.,
North York, Toronto
Oct 24 - Author Signing at United Nations Celebration, Queen’s Park, 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.
Oct 31 - Author talk at Bramalea Knightsbridge Seniors Book Club
/October 31, 2013
9:30 am
Author talk at Bramalea Knightsbridge Seniors Book Club,
Cyril Clark Library
Loafer’s Lake Road, Brampton.
Oct 23 - Author Reading in Toronto
/Wednesday October 23, 2013
7-8pm
Lillian Smith Public Library, College Street, Toronto.
Display of author’s Archival Photographs in foyer.
Oct 21 - Author Talk in Oakville
/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.”
Author Reading and Talk: The Orillia Institution for the “mentally retarded”
/Tuesday October 8, 2013
Annette St. Public Library. 7pm.
Display of author’s Archival Photographs in foyer for a week.
Author Talks, July 2013
/Author talk at Lakehead University Orillia
July 3, 2013, 1-3pm.
'The Role of Social Workers and the Institutionalization of the 'Mentally Retarded' and 'Feeble-Minded' in the Orillia institution.'
Arranged by Dr Susan Scott, Professor of Social Work, Lakehead University Orillia, 4-5pm.
Related event: Author Book Signing: Manticore Books, Orillia.
July 3, 2013, 4-5pm
Author Reading and Talk
The Secret Handshake, Toronto.
Sunday July 28, 7:30pm
Institutionalization of the 'feeble-minded' at the Orillia institution. Display of author’s Archival Photographs of the Orillia institution.
Author Reading at Moonshine Café, June 23, 2013
/Author Reading and Talk on the Orillia institution.
Literary Café at Moonshine Café, Kerr Street, Oakville.
Sunday June 23, 12 noon.
Archival photographs of the institution also on display.
"Breaking Out of Huronia" Exhibition, June 2013
/Breaking Out of Huronia Exhibition
Judy Richardson Collection of Art by residents at the provincial institution, Huronia Regional Centre, Orillia.
Keynote Speaker: Thelma Wheatley
Opening Reception June 1, 2013, 2-4 pm.,
Creative Spirit Art Centre
999 Dovercourt Road, Toronto
416-588-8801
Exhibition Times: June-July; September-October, 2013
Related Articles in the Toronto Star:
BREAKING OUT OF HURONIA: 'Incredible hero' inspired love of art'
Amy Dempsey, Toronto Star, Thursday June 6, 2013.
'Huronia institution art brings back family memories of woman who inspired it'
Amy Dempsey, Toronto Star, Saturday June 15, 2013.
Article on Huronia Regional Centre:
'Ugly history of Ontario psychiatric hospitals festers'
Carol Goar, Toronto Star, June 7, 2013.
Events May 2013
/Author Reading at Port Credit Library.
May 2, 2013
Televised by Rogers TV Cable 10, for programme: “Access Peel”. Author Interview including interviews with two developmentally challenged former patients of the institution in Orillia, Ontario Hospital School. Michael Callahan and Mike Dalzell.
Inkwell, Poetry Group. Author Reading.
Timothy’s Coffee House, Lakeshore/Trafalgar Road, Oakville.
May 9, 2013
7pm.
Author Reading and Talk on the Orillia institution.
Cyril Clark Library, Loafer’s Lake Road, Brampton.
May 30, 2013
7pm
Book Launch: And Neither Have I Wings to Fly
/Women’s Art Association of Canada
23 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto
Presented by Iananna Publications
April 18, 2013, 6pm.