Hi everyone! I’m thrilled today to be promoting the Giller Light Bash happening in Toronto! I’ve been volunteering with Frontier College, an organization where volunteers help teach literacy among students and adult learners, for the past few years so I’m very excited to have the opportunity to help promote this event in support of their wonderful work!
The Giller Light Bash is an event held every year to raise money for Frontier College and to come together with fellow book lovers to celebrate the winners of the Giller Prize Awards. This year’s theme is a literary masquerade and all book lovers are invited to attend!
The Giller Light Bash happens all across Canada every year on the same night but the Toronto one will be at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in the Toronto Reference Library.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit the Giller Light Bash site! I’ll include the official description down below for more information because it sounds much fancier than what I could every write.
Begun as a house party by a group of friends 17 years ago, the Giller Light Bash has grown to be a full-scale event, thanks to a dedicated committee of volunteers from the publishing industry. Each year, over 1,800 people support literacy and celebrate Canadian literature at this party taking place the same night as the Giller Prize Gala.
We are proud to celebrate this year’s Giller Light Bash at the Bram and Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library, in the heart of downtown Toronto. The 17th annual Giller Light Bash promises to be the best party of the year! Rub shoulders with publishers and authors, watch the live broadcast of the Giller Prize Awards, catch-up with colleagues and friends, and bid on some amazing raffle prizes!
This event is not to be missed! Not only does it support a great cause, but often guests from the formal awards ceremony drop by for a post-Gala cocktail, including authors Margaret Atwood, Joseph Boyden and Wayson Choy; CBC host Shelagh Rogers; and singer Chantal Kreviazuk.
