BookFestWindsor 2009 Schedule
This is it, the heart and soul of BookFestWindsor-- the schedule of events! Follow the links above for a graphical schedule of each of the 4 days of this year's festival, or look below for an overview of what's going on.
Wednesday, November 4
- Wilkinson Room (Main Floor)
- 7:30 - 9:00 PM: Do It Yourself. Cranberry Tree Press, Palimpsest Press, Walkerville Publishing. Authors: Dawn Kresan, Melissa McCormick, Margaret J. McMaster, Elaine Weeks. Promotional Ideas: Brian Sweet. Moderator: Karen Hall.
- Valiant (3rd Floor)
- 7:30 - 9:00 PM: The Reading Gang Christina Simmons. Moderator: Lois Smedick
Thursday, November 5
- Wilkinson Room (Main Floor)
- 7:30 - 9:00 PM: A Rolling Book Gathers Moss. Roger Bell, John B. Lee, Carlinda D'Alimonte, Dorothy Mahoney, Eugene McNamara, Susan McMaster, Bruce Meyer, Karen Mulhallen, Mary Ann Mulhern, Marilyn Gear Pilling, Rosemary Sullivan, John Wing. Moderator: Marty Gervais
- Windsor Public Library (Offsite, 850 Ouellette Ave.)
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10:00 AM: School Visits. David Homel.
1:00 PM: School Visits. David Homel.
Friday, November 6
- Concourse
- 6:30 - 7:30 PM: Reception. Open reception with buffet.
- Wilkinson Room (Main Floor)
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4:30 - 5:15 PM: On The Road With Mom. Rosemary Sullivan. Moderator: Marty Gervais.
5:30 - 6:15 PM: Gaudy Gothics. George Elliott Clarke, Bruce Meyer. Moderator: Percy Hatfield.
7:30 - 8:15 PM: The Awful Things People Do. Giles Blunt, Melanie Little. Moderator: Percy Hatfield.
8:30 - 10:00 PM Freedom Train. Afua Cooper, Ray Robertson, Bryan Prince. Moderator: Kenn Stanton. - Valiant/Rodzik Room (3rd Floor)
- 8:00 - 10:00 PM: Poetry Twist. Brian Henderson, Susan Holbrook, Nicole Markotić, Sheri-D Wilson. Moderator: Karl Jirgens. Music afterward, all welcome.
- Windsor Public Library (Offsite, 850 Ouellette Ave.)
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10:00 AM: School Visits. David Steinberg.
1:00 PM: School Visits. David Steinberg. - Phog Lounge (Offsite, 157 University Ave. W.)
- 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Moody Food - A Band Book Ray Robertson. Reading and music.
Saturday, November 7
- Restaurant (coffee and muffins)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Publish or Perish. Kitty Lewis, Melanie Little, Stuart Ross, Richard Truhlar. Moderator: Bruce Meyer. Complimentary coffee and muffins will be served.
2:00 - 2:45 PM: Poetry Cafe. Jan Conn, Afua Cooper, John B. Lee, AF Moritz, Robert Earl Stewart, Serge Patrice Thibodeau. Moderator: Stephen Pender. - Wilkinson Room (Main Floor)
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10:00 - 10;45 AM: Saving Mother Nature. Lois B. Robbins. Moderator: Jay Terryberry.
1:00 - 1:45 PM: The Russian Connection. Christopher Shulgan. Moderator: Amanda Burgess
2:00 - 2:45 PM: Deity Unlimited. David Adams Richards. Moderator: Susan Pedler.
3:00 - 4:00 PM: Media Melange - Multimedia Poetry. Stan Rogal, Stuart Ross, Jacob Scheier, Richard Truhlar. Moderator: Karl Jirgens.
8:00 - 9:00 PM: Curl Up with a Good Author. Nancy Belgue, Terry Griggs, Helen Humphreys. Moderator: Sally Bennett-Politidis
9:00 - 9:30 PM: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the BookFest. John T. Wing - Lecture Room (3rd Floor)
- 2:00 - 2:45 PM: Le beau livre. Marcel Beneteau, Jean-Denis Cote, David Homel, Michel Thérien, Lelia Young. Moderator: Judith Sinanga-Ohlmann.
- Studio Room (2nd Floor)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Council of All Beings. Elaine Carr and presentations by grade school students (art and poems).
2:00 - 2:45 PM: Drawing the Crowd. David Finch, Tony Gray. Moderator: George Rizok. - Valiant/Rodzik Room (3rd Floor)
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3:00 - 4:00 PM: Aspects of the Book: behind the scenes in publishing history. Janet Friskney (Remember those CanLit books with the ugly covers?), Leslie Howsam (Commissioning history books for grocers and cheesemongers).
7:00 - 8:00 PM: The Poem Generation. Moderator: Irene Moore Davis with Arnot McCallum. - Concourse
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12:30 - 12:45 PM: Happenings. Marcel Beneteau.
7:30 - 7:45 PM: Happenings. Sheri-D Wilson.