About Book Club Toronto

Book Club Toronto is an open education platform and cultural hub founded by Adrian Layne, grounded in a long career across art, education, and community development. What started as a music book club and radio show on ISO Radio between two friends has grown into a public learning platform that uses books, music, art, and conversation to create shared spaces for thinking and exchange.

Book Club Toronto operates as a living classroom and third space, offering accessible, community-led learning beyond traditional institutions. Programming includes book clubs, radio shows, art exhibitions, music events, interviews, workshops, and public conversations, with an emphasis on participation, curiosity, and collective reflection.

The platform has collaborated with Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), SHEEEP Studio, DesignTO, Pepper’s Food and Drink, Run The Flex Dance Studio, and ISO Radio, among others. These partnerships support an approach to culture as an active, communal practice rather than a finished product.

Interested in structures beyond buildings, Book Club Toronto builds temporary and ongoing forms of community infrastructure through culture, supporting experimentation, shared learning, and cross-disciplinary exchange.

At its core, Book Club Toronto is about making education open, social, and rooted in lived experience.