Jian Ghomeshi

Canada Reads Week

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:00:24 +0000

Please join us for a live taping of Canada’s favourite literary battle – Canada Reads: True Stories (hosted by Jian!). For the first time ever, Canada Reads is all about non-fiction.

This year’s panel includes:

Actor Alan Thicke defending The Game by Ken Dryden

Dragons’ Den costar Arlene Dickinson defending Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat

Juno award-winning musician Shad defending Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre

Supermodel Stacey McKenzie defending On a Cold Road by Dave Bidini

Quebec’s Judge Judy, Anne-France Goldwater defending The Tiger by John Vaillant

There will be four live and lively shows for which you can be an audience member, February 6 – 9.

The live shows will be held at CBC’s 10th floor studios located at the Toronto Broadcast Centre (250 Front Street West) from 9 – 11 a.m. For ticket information, please click here. Hope to see you next week!

Q Live in London!

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:05:21 +0000

Q promised they’d be coming to London, ON and now the details on the upcoming show have emerged!

Thursday March 8th, Q will broadcast live from the historic, The Grand Theatre.
Guests will include Great Lake Swimmers, with brand new material from their upcoming release, New Wild Everywhere. Plus, Lara St John, the renowned classical violinist (and London native!). The show will also feature an amazing cast of local artists and heroes.

Tickets will go on-sale this Friday, Feb 3rd @ 9 AM ET. Please click here to purchase.

Canada Reads is here!

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:14:34 +0000

Please join us for a live taping of Canada’s favourite literary battle – Canada Reads: True Stories (hosted by Jian!). For the first time ever, Canada Reads is all about non-fiction.

This year’s panel includes:

Actor Alan Thicke defending The Game by Ken Dryden

Dragons’ Den costar Arlene Dickinson defending Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat

Juno award-winning musician Shad defending Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre

Supermodel Stacey McKenzie defending On a Cold Road by Dave Bidini

Quebec’s Judge Judy, Anne-France Goldwater defending The Tiger by John Vaillant

There will be four live and lively shows for which you can be an audience member, February 6 – 9.

Q – Live in Toronto

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:00:02 +0000

Q has announced an intimate live audience show in Toronto, featuring Brooklyn based band, The National.

This show, which will be Q‘s last live audience show of the year, will take place on December 8th @ CBC Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio @ 9 AM – 11 AM.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here. Ticket holders are asked to arrive by 8:15 AM. Can’t wait!

*this show is now sold out*

Canada Reads 2012 reveal!

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:00:41 +0000

The Canada Reads: True Stories books and celebrity panelists will be revealed by Jian on Wednesday’s episode of Q.

Following the announcement, the 2012 panelists will meet the authors they’re championing at a public live event in CBC Toronto’s Atrium. This event will begin Wednesday @ 12 PM and can be watched in person or online. More information located here!

Q Live in Toronto

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:07:13 +0000

Today Q announced an intimate live audience show in Toronto, featuring Brooklyn based band, The National.

This show, which will be Q‘s last live audience show of the year, will take place on December 8th @ CBC Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio @ 9 AM – 11 AM.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here. Ticket holders are asked to arrive by 8:15 AM. Can’t wait!

*this show is now sold out*

Canada Reads 2012 reveal!

admin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:11:31 +0000

The Canada Reads: True Stories books and celebrity panelists will be revealed by Jian on Wednesday’s episode of Q.

Q – Live in Calgary

admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:02:18 +0000

Dearest Calgarians,
Q is packing up and traveling to your city for a very special live show on Thursday November 17th.
This 2-hour, live audience show will tape at 7:00 PM @ The MacEwan Centre (in the Ballroom) on the University of Calgary Campus.
Guests will include hometown singer-songwriter Jann Arden, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and many more to be announced in the coming days.

Tickets are on-sale here. See you in Calgary.

Oh, Kermie. How can you not love him?

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:17:30 +0000

A handful of new images of Jian w/ recent Q guests have been added to the Q album. Please peruse!

2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:00:38 +0000

Jian will host The 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize gala, November 8th, at The Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Toronto.

The Scotiabank Giller Prize is Canada’s most distinguished literary prize, awarding $50,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English.

The gala will air live on CBC’s Bold TV at 9:00 p.m. EST and will be rebroadcast at 11:00 p.m. on CBC Television. It will also be live-streamed on CBC Books with a concurrent live chat, so that many more Canadians can be part of the Giller experience.

To view the 2011 shortlist, click here.