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Three Major Cultural Events Staged On Just One (Very Cold) Day In Toronto (Culled From Popular Weir Social Media Posts) MORNING, JANUARY 21st. Carlton Theatres, downtown Toronto Fabienne Colas Colas' advice to Toronto? Buy tickets early (like today) Award winning-actress, director, producer and film festival founder Fabienne Colas advises film lovers to buy tickets to her Toronto Black Film Festival as soon as possible.  " Like today! Don't be disappointed, these are great films and will sell out fast" Colas hosted a morning press briefing at the Carlton Cinema to introduce the line up to this year's festival.  33 films from around the world will be shown at the Festival between February 11th and 16th at the downtown Toronto Carlton Cinemas, the TIFF Bell Lightbox theatre and the Al Green Theatre. Keynote films include From Above (starring Danny Glover), Grigris (Chad's choice for the Oscar's Best Foreign Film category) and director Chris Eska

  (The hard way to get a best seller) The Unusual Way One Man is Getting His Story Out - First Novel Sells Very Well  Yahaya Baruwa talks about his book on William Doyle Marshall's CHRY show My Data Bag. Linda at the second mike. By Stephen Weir Posted: 09/20/2012 5:37 pm Huffington Post Canada http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/../../stephen-weir/struggles-of-a-dreamer_b_1897972.html   Meet Yahaya Baruwa (pronounced: YaHaYa BaRuWa). He is a recent York University Graduate. On Tuesday he and I shared a microphone at CHRY-fm. It was the My Data Bag show with William Doyle Marshall. I was talking about art, films and books in a big picture fashion, Yahaya was much more practical -- very down to earth. He was there to talk about the difficult journey he took to get his new novel Struggles of a Dreamer published. Just like the title, it was a struggle for the Nigerian Canadian to just get the book printed. When he c