Hello and thank you for joining us here tonight! Normally an important date in the Massey College calendar, we decided to move our Gala online this year — and here we are! — to allow us all to come together to experience this special event. *** click "SHOW MORE" to view the program ***

We welcome you to The Massey Book Club Gala – An Evening with Massey Senior Fellow Margaret Atwood in conversation with University of Toronto Writer-in-Residence Susan Swan.

The event is being hosted and moderated by Massey Senior Fellow Professor Lily Cho, the Incoming Chair of the Massey Book Club Committee.

The program is outlined below, and note that the full event details can be found here: https://www.masseycollege.ca/event/book-club-gala-2020/

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// Welcome //
.by Massey College Principal Nathalie Des Rosiers

// "Cocktail" // [ BYOB :) ]
.a musical performance by Massey Junior Fellow Jennifer Tran, Master of Music in Performance for Classical Saxophone at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.

.Introductions by Professor Lily Cho, Massey Senior Fellow and incoming Chair of the Book Club Committee, as well as our host for the evening.

// "Main course" //
.Massey Senior Fellow Margaret Atwood will be interviewed by Susan Swan, the University of Toronto's writer-in-residence for spring 2020. They will discuss The Testaments, Atwood's latest novel and her long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale and — if one had to guess — will likely touch on at least a few other topics. TBC ;)

// "Dessert" //
.Q&A with Margaret Atwood and Susan Swan moderated by Lily Cho.
A sincere thank you to everyone who submitted questions in advance. We will do our best to get to as many as possible within our time together!



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*** Susan Swan's U of T’s Jack McClelland Writer in Residence Workshop ***
After their April 8th reading at Massey College had to be cancelled, students put together a video featuring each individual reading 2 1/2 minutes of their favourite story written this year. The video shows each student’s room since we are all in quarantine.

Click here to watch Stories from the Round Room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GCQ0Nun6GQ


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Thank you for joining us this evening!

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#MasseyCollege #MargaretAtwood #TheTestaments


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Technical Production: Matt Glandfield


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