We transformed #TheWritersCentre into a zine studio for #BocasAcademy’s Crafting Zines 101. Guided by Kriston Chen, participants learned multiple folding options, were introduced to the Risograph, and created their very own zines! More photos at: facebook.com/bocaslitfest...
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BYOBB is quickly shaping up to be a community favourite! Readers & writers came together at #TheWritersCentre to share what they’ve been reading & celebrate Calypso History Month with producer Judith Laird & soca artist, songwriter & bandleaderNadia Batson. facebook.com/share/p/14Lk...
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Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre!
📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club, Sat 21, 3-5 pm
🗣 Lillian Allen, Toronto Poet Laureate, Sat 21, 5.30 - 7.00 pm
👪 First Words Young Writers Showcase, Sat 28, 3-4 pm
📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
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Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre!
👪 Family Reading Circle
☕ Books & Brews: Stuart W. Ramon-Fortuné
📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club
📚 The return of BYOBB
🛍 10% off on selected titles every week at Paper Based Bookshop
📍14 Alcazar St., St. Clair
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August at #TheWritersCentre!
👪 @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social Read Caribbean Kids Challenge
🛍‘Saturday Sale’ at the Sleepy Cat Cafe
🗣 Books & Brews, Faraaz Abdool
📚Shelf to Shelf: a fundraising book sale
📖 Sleepy Cat Book Club
✍️‘Voices on the Verandah’ community board
📍14 Alcazar St
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In July at #TheWritersCentre!
🛍‘Saturday Sale’ at Sleepy Cat Cafe, Sat 11
👪 @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social Read Caribbean Kids Challenge, 11 Jul - 27 Aug
🗣 Books & Brews, Aarti Gosine, Sat 11
📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club, Sat 25
✍️‘Voices on the Verandah’ community board
📍14 Alcazar St
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Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre!
👪Family Reading Circle
🗣David Lambert
🗣Books & Brews: Lawrence Scott
🍽Spice Pals Cookbook Club
📚Sleepy Cat Book Club
🛍‘Read and Return’ = 15% off, and
🙏’Support the Prison Library’ initiative at @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social
📍14 Alcazar St.
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4/4 See you at📍The Writers Centre, located at 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair, and home of the @bocaslitfest.bsky.social @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social, and the Sleepy Cat Cafe.

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Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre!
🗣 Arthur Lok Jack, Beyond Borders
👪Family Reading Circle
🍽Spice Pals Cookbook Club
☕Books & Brews, Sarah Beckett, @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social
📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club
📚BYOBB Social: Che Lovelace
📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
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Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre!
🎵Xmas Couch Jam with John Hussain, 07 Dec 11 am
📷Trini Christmas Tales Open Mic, 13 Dec 4.30 pm
📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club, 14 Dec 4-6 pm
☕Books & Brews with Jeannine A. Cook, 20 Dec 3-4pm
📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
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Happening in November at #TheWritersCentre!
🗣Celebrating Peepal Tree Press for their 40th anniversary
🎁Not Another Christmas Market
📖Books & Brews: Sarah Beckett
🍽Spice Pals Cookbook Club
📚Sleepy Cat Book Club
☕Art of Coffee & Ink tattoo pop-up by Kim Kong
📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
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October at #TheWritersCentre!
🎵John Hussain
🖼Vision Board Workshop
🍽Spice Pals Cookbook Club
👪Family Reading Circle
☕Scarlett Ibis James
🗣Big Ideas: Int'l Creole Month
📚Sleepy Cat Book Club
🗣Lauren Francis-Sharma
📚BYOBB Social: National Calypso Month
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Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre!
🗣 Writing For Our Lives
🍽 Spice Pals Cooking Club
👪 Family Reading Circle
🎤 First Words Young Writers Showcase
☕ Books & Brews: Race, Class and Nationalism in the 21st Century
📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club
📍14 Alcazar St., St. Clair
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Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre!

🍽 Spice Pals Cook Book Club
👪 Family Reading Circle
📝 #BocasAcademy: Crafting Zines 101 with Kriston Chen
📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club
🗣 Amanda Smyth, reading & discussion
🛍 Paper Based Bookshop's sale on business books

📍14 Alcazar St., St. Clair

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