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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">We're delighted to welcome
</span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Jael Richardson</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> for our November reading.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The opening act will be
</span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Anoja Parameswaran</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Please join us
</span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Friday 16 November at 4:30pm in SJ1 3027</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">.
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The reading is free and all are welcome. Please spread the word!</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Jael Richardson is the author of
</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lesson, a Father’s Life</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, a memoir based on her
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">relationship with her father, CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey. The memoir received a CBC Bookie Award and earned Richardson an Acclaim Award and a My People Award as an Emerging Artist
and was adapted into a children’s book in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">2016. Her essay “Conception” is part of
</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Room</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> Magazine’s first Women of Colour edition, and excerpts from her first play,</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
my upside down black face</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, are published in the anthology
</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">T-Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto’s Black
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Storytellers</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">.
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