1. Kerri Sakamoto Reading Wednesday, October 29 at 7pm
2. Not too late to buy tickets for TWB's 30th Anniversay Party!
3. Book Giveaway: Nancy Richler's "Your Mouth is Lovely"
4. Sisters In Cinema film screening Oct 24 and Oct 25
5. Leftwords Festival Sun Nov 2

1.The Toronto Women’s Bookstore and Random House of Canada Present:
One Hundred Million Hearts: An Evening with Kerri Sakamoto
Where: Toronto Women’s Bookstore 73 Harbord St. (at Spadina)
When: Thursday October 29, 2003 at 7:00pm
Free Admission
Refreshments will be provided
Wheelchair accessible

Join us for a book reading from the latest novel by Kerri Sakamoto, the award-winning author of ‘The Electrical Field’. Kerri will read from her new book ‘One Hundred Million Hearts’. This moving story of a woman’s search for the truth about her father’s wartime history leads her from her life in Canada to the untold history of kamikaze pilots in Japan in World War II.

2. There are still tickets available for our 30th Anniversary Party!
$15 to $45 sliding scale
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
doors 7pm, show at 8pm Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas St W (west of Dufferin)
Call to reserve pre-paid tickets over the phone: 416-922-8744

Thanks to our sponsors Metro Credit Union and Sumach Press

3. On Thursday, October 23, join us for: Portraits of Diaspora: An Evening of Literary Fiction With RAMABAI ESPINET & NANCY RICHLER

Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord St. (at Spadina)
Thursday October 23rd, 2003 at 7:00pm
Free Admission
Refreshments will be provided
Wheelchair accessible

We have 2 copies of Nancy Richler's book "Your Mouth is Lovely" to give away to the 15th and 20th correct response: Name one of the artists who will be performing at the 30th Anniversary Party on Tuesday Oct 21. Contest closes on Wednesday Oct 22 at noon. Please reply to this email to enter the contest. Only one entry per customer/email address.

4. Sisters in Cinema: A History of African American Women Feature Film Directors…a film by Yvonne Welbon
Friday Oct 24 at Metro-Central YMCA
20 Grosvenor St
screenings at 7pm and 9pm

Saturday Oct 25 at NFB Cinema
150 John St
screening at 8pm

Tickets: $10 adv, $12 door
Advanced tickets available at Toronto Women's Bookstore.

5. LeftWords Festival Sun Nov 2, 2003, 11am to 5pm
New College Residence (Spadina & Willcocks)

Judy Rebick Gives a Sneak Preview of her upcoming not-yet-published book about the history of feminism in Canada at LeftWords Festival

Judy Rebick’s sneak preview of her fall 2004 book Ten Thousand Roses: A Collective Memoir of Feminism in Canada kicks off this year’s LeftWords FestivalSunday, November 2nd 11-5, New College Residence (Spadina & Willcocks). Starting at 11:15 she will read from her chapter on the Abortion Caravan - the first cross country action of the Women's Movement in 1970. Rebick interviewed the women who traveled from Vancouver to Ottawa and chained themselves to galleries of parliament.

LeftWords features author readings, exhibits by bookstores, publishers and magazines, book discounts, fair trade coffee, organic food, beer and live music by the Z-RAYS (all women surfer band).

Other speakers include: Amita Handa Of Silk Saris and Mini-Skirts: South Asian Girls Walk The Tightrope of Culture ;Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence (Ed) and others Strong Women’s Culture Jam Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival ; Tammy Findlay, Political Science York University & Keith Stewart, Toronto Environmental Alliance Panel: The Movements Against Neoliberalism; Yvonne Bobb-SmithI know Who I am: A Caribbean Woman’s Identity in Canada ; Gary Genosko The Party without Bosses: Lessons on Anti-Capitalism from Felix Guarttari and Louis Inacio Da Silva; Alan Sears Retooling The Mind Factor Boyce Richardson; Memoirs of a Media Maverick; Libra Information Services and Toronto Social Forum Organizers Another World is Possible; Mazin Jaffer, Vice-President, Canadian Arab Federation Anti-Imperialism: a guide to the movement (ed by Farah Reza) Barrie ZwickerThe Great Deception (film) David Livingstone & Peter Sawchuk Hidden Knowledge: Organized Labour in t! he Information Age