TORONTO REMEMBERS GRENADA

Toronto, October 10, 2008 -- The Caribbean Studies Program of the University of Toronto, the Community Arts Program, the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University and the English Department, Ryerson University present a series of events reflecting on the 25th anniversary of the US invasion of Grenada.

Pan-Caribbean Futures 25 years after Grenada
DATE: October 30, 12-2 p.m.
PLACE: History Seminar room, Room 2098, Sidney Smith Building, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street Brian Meeks (University of the West Indies, Mona) Silvio Torres-Saillant (Syracuse)

Operation Urgent Memory:  The Grenada Revolution and the US Invasion Twenty Five Years Later.
DATE: Thursday, October 30, 6pm
PLACE: Eaton Theatre, RCC204, in the Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson University, 80 Gould Street (at Church Street)
Speaker: Shalini Puri (Pittsburgh University)

Memory and Renewal. The Grenada Story.
DATE: October 31, 7 p.m.
PLACE: William Doo, New College, 45 Willcocks Street (1 block south of Harbord, off Spadina) with Merle Collins, Dionne Brand, Shalini Puri, Jacob Ross, Roger Gibbs

Against Forgetting: Caribbean Futures 25 years after the Invasion of Grenada
DATE: November 1, 2008, 6pm
PLACE: Jamaican Canadian Association, 995 Arrow Road, Toronto, with Merle Collins, Jacob Ross, Brian Meeks, Mbala and surprise performers.

With the support of the many Grenadian Community Organizations, Groups and Individuals in Toronto a memorial church service will take place in remembrance of the many lives lost in Grenada on October 19, 1983.

The service will take place at St. Hilda's Anglican Church, 2353 Dufferin St. @ Eglinton on Sunday October 19, 2008 at 2:30 p.m.

By taking on this initiative, we believe it would help heal the wounds with-in our society, 25 years after that devastating day in our Grenadian history.