MSO: Meet the Orchestra – Bill Beecroft, Principal Trombone

June 1 | 7:30pm | On Tuesday, June 1, meet Bill Beecroft, Principal Trombone of the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, in the next installment of our Meet the Orchestra Zoom series featuring Maestro Denis Mastromonaco and guests! These casual, interactive, free Zoom sessions are perfect opportunities to learn about featured instruments, listen to short performances, and take part in Q&A sessions with members of Canada's leading […]

Stories of Resilience

Inspiring stories that transform lives.   Canadian authors Barry Gilbert, Barbara Dickson, Dr.Robyn Bourgeois, share stories of RESILIENCE linked to Residential Schools, World War II and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The speakers will honour the RESILIENCE of these very different peoples who have often been overlooked and/or discounted. Speakers include: Barry Gilbert, Founder of […]

Mississauga Library Author Talks: Danielle Daniel

Danielle Daniel is an award-winning author and illustrator. Like many Francophones with origins in Quebec, she shares an ancestral link to the people who inspired Daughters of the Deer, a first novel that springs from the story of what happened to the daughter of an Algonquin woman and a soldier/settler from France. She holds an MFA in […]

PAMA Talks: Spotlight on WWII

Join Jim Leonard, Regional Archivist, for a show and tell of war-related archival materials. Jim will spotlight the Melhuish war poster collection, show film footage from the AV Roe war plane production, rationing cards and more.

Mississauga Library Author Talks: Jennifer Hillier

Jennifer Hillier is an award-winning author of seven psychological thrillers. A Filipino-Canadian born and raised in Toronto, she spent several years in Seattle before returning home to Canada. Jennifer is the author of Wonderland, Creep, Freak, The Butcher, Jar of Hearts, and Little Secrets. Her brilliant new thriller is Things We Do in the Dark. Register for this event.

PAMA Talk + Skate with Mikyla Grant-Mentis

Join Brampton’s own Mikyla Grant-Mentis in conversation with Jacintha Braithwaite. Mikyla is a top professional hockey player currently playing with the Buffalo Beauts of the Premier Hockey Federation. Jacintha is an actress from Brampton and experienced in ice dancing. Mikyla will discuss her career, her goals, diversity in hockey, and more! After our discussion, grab […]

Mississauga Library Author Talks: Zalika Reid-Benta

A Toronto-based writer, Zalika Reid-Benta’s story collection Frying Plantain won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. Frying Plantain was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award, and the Trillium Book Award. She received an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia and her first novel River Mumma […]