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By Derek Weiler
May 22, 2008
10:34 AM

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Luminato’s lineup

Toronto’s second annual Luminato arts fest kicks off in a couple of weeks (it runs from June 6 to 15), and the schedule of literary events is now set. It includes a tribute to Isaac Bashevis Singer, an event about South Asian writing and one about political graphic novels, and several readings at different venues and times that make up a “Festival of the Short Story.”

Also under the Luminato banner is an event dubbed “The Dark City,” a fundraiser for The Walrus magazine that will feature urban noir-themed readings by Austin Clarke, Heather O’Neill, and Greg Hollingshead, plus the jazz-vocal stylings of Molly Johnson.

  • angel guerra

    Lame in every way.

  • CK

    I second that. Maybe if the Walrus:

    (a) Diversified its editorial staff

    (b) Attempted to target more than just the upper middle-class white man with its editorial content

    (d) Stopped trying so hard (and failing) to be the Canadian New Yorker

    They might get:

    (a) More interest from a multi-cultural audience

    (b) More advertising

    (c) More subscriptions

    And then we wouldn’t have to be put through the torture of seeing Walrus raise funds for itself with Luminato-Walrus ads for an event called “Dark City” with a picture of a black woman (albeit a beautiful woman – Molly Johnson) a the top of its ad. How unintentionally patronizing.

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