Schedule 2010
BookFest Windsor 2010 Schedule
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Board Room
2:00 - 4:50pm: Writers Boot Camp. Writers' workshop led by Stuart Ross. Due to space limitations, the all-event pass does not cover admission to this event. (Note: The printed brochure lists this event as being at the Central library, but it has been moved to the Art Gallery Board Room!)
Wilkinson Room
7:00pm - 9:00pm: It's Not All Spandex. David Finch, Tony Gray. Mike Trudell, moderator.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Wilkinson Room
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm: The Moss Boss and Friends. Terry Ann Carter, Mary Ann Mulhern. Marty Gervais, moderator.
Valiant/Rodzik Gallery
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm: Knives and Clubs. Pat Brode. Sally Blyth. moderator.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Wilkinson Room
2:30 pm - 3:40 pm: The Last Note. Nino Ricci interviews Judith Keenan, producer of Paul Quarrington: Life in Music.
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: A Mile in My Shoes. Ian Williams. Paul Vasey, moderator.
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm. Book signing and sales.
4:45 pm - 5:35 pm: The Next Big Read. Cathy Marie Buchanan, Alexander MacLeod. Kenn Stanton, moderator.
5:35 pm - 5:50 pm Book signing and sales
8:00 pm - 10:00pm: International Festival of Authors Windsor presents readings by: Peter Robinson, Michael Robotham, Robert Rotenberg, and Eric Wright.
Valiant/Rodzik Gallery
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm: All the Best Lines. The winners of the elementary and high school poetry contests (in English and in French) reading their poems. Irene Moore Davis, moderator.
Concourse
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm BUFFET DINNER
7:30 - 7:45pm: An award to honour Dr. Eugene McNamara has been established and the University of Windsor, along with the McNamara family, would like to present the first award at Bookfest. Dr. McNamara will be in attendance.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Wilkinson Room
11:00 am - 11:50 am: Subtitles Not Needed. Yan Li. Susan Pedler, moderator.
With demonstrations of Martial Arts, calligraphy, and music.
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm: The Book Blender: Poetry/Fiction/Multimedia. Karl Jirgens, moderator.
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Gary Barwin, Louis Cabri, Frank Davey, Adam Dickinson, Karl Jirgens, Rosemary Nixon.
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm: Fitz and Starts. Judith Fitzgerald launches a new series.
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Growing Pains. Susan Juby, Richard Scarsbrook, Tim Wynne-Jones. Percy Hatfield, moderator.
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm: Book signing and sales.
8:45 pm - 10:00 pm: Write Here. Lisa Gabriele, Alexander MacLeod, Shawn Micallef, Nino Ricci. Christopher Shulgan, moderator.
10:00 pm - 10:30 pm Book signing and sales
Art Gallery Restaurant
10:00 am - 10:50 am: Writers Wanted. Moderator: Marty Gervais. Approaching a publisher with a manuscript - how to get your book published.
Rodzik Gallery
11:00 am - 12:45 pm: A Word and a Nosh. Beryl Baigent, Heather Cadsby, Jim Johnstone, Eugene McNamara, Mary Ann Mulhern, Shane Neilson, Rhonda Welsh. Stephen Pender, moderator.
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm Book signing and sales
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Mon livre. Genevieve Lefebvre, Jean Lemieux, Michel Thérien. Judith Sinanga-Ohlman, moderator.
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm Book signing and sales
Lecture Room
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm An Illuminating Talk. Stan Bevington with Aspects of the Book. Sara Elliott, moderator.
Concourse
Afternoon Working with Words
Working with Words is a display of book forms resulting from the collaborations between visual arts and writers. Included are inspiring local and international examples.
Working with Words will have a performative component. Susan Gold will create “wearable words” on site from a word selected by Book Fest Windsor participants.