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The author for the Milton Public Library (MPL) annual One Book, One Milton event has been announced!
Joining the MPL will be Academy Award-winning screenwriter and acclaimed actor and director, Sarah Polley. She will take the stage to discuss her #1 National Bestseller ‘Run Towards the Danger’ at the FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton. The book is a collection of six essays capturing pieces of Polley’s life as she remembers it, explores memory and the dialogue between her past and present. The book is the winner of the 2022 Toronto Book Awards, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and was named a most-anticipated book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, Lit Hub and AV Club.
“We are excited to host Oscar Winner Sarah Polley and engage in meaningful discussions about her work,” shares Kanta Kapoor, Interim CEO. “I can’t thank her enough for bringing Milton together and working with us to promote literacy, education and a sense of community among our readers.”
Polley is the Academy Award–winning screenwriter of ‘Women Talking’ (2022), an Academy Award-nominated director, and actor. After years of acting and creating short films, Polley made her feature-length directorial debut with the drama film ‘Away from Her’ in 2006. Polley received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay, which she adapted from the Alice Munro story ‘The Bear Came Over the Mountain’. Her other projects include the documentary film Stories ‘We Tell’ (2012), which won the New York Film Critics Circle prize and the National Board of Review award for best documentary; the miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel ‘Alias Grace’ (2017); and the romantic comedy ‘Take This Waltz’ (2011). Polley’s film adaptation of Women Talking by Miriam Toews received her first Oscar® for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2023.
The 2023 One Book, One Milton event will be on Thursday, October 26th at 7:00 p.m. at the FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton. Tickets will be available first for library patrons starting Monday, June 5th and to the general public on Thursday, June 15th. Members of the community who live, work or study in Milton can get a free library card in-person at any branch or online.
Tickets will be $20 per person or $35 for a ticket + book combo. Books will be for sale for $20 each or for free to borrow digitally or in physical copy at all branches. Click here for more information on the exclusive evening and our much anticipated guest of honour. Discounted copies of the book will be available for sale at all Milton Public Library branches (Main Library, Beaty branch and Sherwood branch), as well as at the main event.
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