Get Lit

Get Lit 2009

Sincere thanks to everyone who attended and supported this year's Get Lit event.

Please stay tuned for event photos and the book list.

Special thanks to this year’s readers:

Christopher Alexander
Former Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan, federal Conservative Party nominee in the Toronto riding of Ajax-Pickering

Don Tapscott
Business strategist, consultant, and author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything and Grown Up Digital

Noel Edison
Conductor and Artistic Director, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Elora Festival Singers, Member of the Order of Ontario

Sarah Fulford
Editor-in-chief, Toronto Life magazine

Sarah Hampson
Journalist, Globe & Mail columnist

Terry O'Reilly
Advertising guru, co-founder of Pirate Radio & Television, and host of The Age of Persuasion on CBC Radio

Thank you kindly to everyone who attended the 2008 event and to all of our generous patrons, donors, sponsors and volunteers. We are pleased to announce that we raised over $7,500 for The Running and Reading Clubs.

Get Lit would not have been possible without our amazing celebrity readers. We encourage you to review the list of books and poems they read from and peruse our photo gallery (3 pages), short video and press coverage.

Book List and Poems

David Miller
Loyalty Management
by Glen Downie

Carol Huynh
The Hobbit
by J R R Tolkien

Ken Setterington
Tales of a Gambling Grandma
by Dayal Kaur Khalsa

Vincent Lam
The Man in the Moon-Fixer's Mask
by Jon Arno Lawson

Amy Verner
The Perfect Scent
by Chandler Burr

George Stroumboulopoulos
Myself
by Edward Guest

Elvira Kurt
Füstbement Terv (Plan up in Smoke)
by Petőfi Sándor

Media

Photo Gallery
photography by Andrew Sainsbury
ARM Images
andrew@armimages.com

Video
video by Ian Daffern
courtesy of Open Book Toronto
iandaffern@gmail.com

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