Here’s me chatting with the MakerCulture Project, a student group who came out to my launch last night. Smart folks! They also got pix.
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Here’s the actual reading from last night’s MAKERS launch:
Andrew Schwab recorded last night’s MAKERS launch in Toronto, a stellar event that was standing-room only, featuring free Ubuntu disks (thanks, John!), presentation of the Sunburst Award, a reading, and Q&A.
Here’s last night’s TVO Agenda interview on Makers — Steve Paikin and I had a fantastic talk.
Tonight, I’m launching my latest novel Makers in Canada, at the excellent Toronto sf reference library, the Merril Collection, at 239 College St. (3rd floor), east of Spadina. The event starts at 7PM, and I’ll be doing a reading, taking questions, and signing books.
Books are being sold by Bakka Phoenix, and if you can’t make it tonight, they’re happy to take your pre-orders for signed, personalized copies — I’ll sign them tonight and they’ll ship them out right away. They’re at +1 416 963 9993 or inquiries@bakkaphoenixbooks.com.
Hope to see you there!
Today’s Toronto Star has a good piece about my upcoming book-launch for Makers in Toronto on Nov 12, and on the politics that informs my work.
Cory Doctorow will have mixed feelings when the news reaches him that employees of the Toronto Public Library system will not be on strike this week.
The U.K.-based author and blogger will launch his new novel, Makers, with an event Thursday at the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy at the Lillian H. Smith Branch on College St. Had the library been surrounded by pickets, Doctorow planned to stage the event on the sidewalk outside, with the consent of the striking workers and their union. (A tentative agreement between the library and its unionized workers was reached on Wednesday.)
“I grew up in protest politics, so doing it on the street would be really fun,” he says, during a phone interview from his London home last week. “I’ve spent enough time standing on the street with a bullhorn that it would feel very natural to me. It would be great theatre to do it on the sidewalk.”
Here’s a radio interview I did recently with Off the Hook, the 2600 show, on New York’s WBAI, talking about MAKERS, maker politics, and the state of the world.
I’m giving two talks in the UK this week — the first in Cambridge, as part of the Arcadia Seminar, held at Robinson College; the second is at Sheffield, as part of the DocFest premiere of RIP: A Remix Manifesto, a documentary on copyfighting and art that features some interviews with me. Hope to see you at them!
Cambridge: 3 November 2009, 6PM
Arcadia Seminar: 3rd Nov. “Thinking Like a Dandelion: Cory Doctorow on copyright, Creative Commons and creativity”
Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. Please email mh569@cam.ac.uk if you are planning to attend.Sheffield: 5 November 2009, 2:25PM-4:30PM
RiP! A Remix Manifesto
Showroom 1, Sheffield DocFest (tickets)
Update: CORRECTION — I’m at Sheffield Doc/Fest from 1425h-1630h, not 1600-1800h as previously stated!
