Victoria Festival of Authors

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  • Date 28-09-2022 - 02-10-2022
Victoria Festival of Authors, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Cultural Title
Victoria Festival of Authors
Event Type
Cultural
Cultural Date
28-09-2022 to 02-10-2022
Location
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Organization Name / Organize By
Victoria Festival of Authors
Organizing/Related Departments
Victoria Festival of Authors
Organization Type
Event Organizing Company
CulturalCategory
Both (Technical & Non Technical)
CulturalLevel
All (State/Province/Region, National & International)
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Location
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

The largest and liveliest celebration of books and booklovers, Victoria Festival of Authors (VFA) is celebrating seven years this fall. From September 28 to October 2nd, VFA will host 30 authors, taking part in 11 offerings including panels, readings and conversations with authors at indoor and outdoor venues around Victoria.

With land and environmental concerns being forefront in the minds of many in Victoria, VFA has focused half of our programming on ecology, climate emergency, the Land Back movement, and connections with the protected forests just outside our city. This includes the panel Climate Acts, Land Sings which examines how we cultivate respectful relationships with the land, its original peoples, and its lifeforms. Keeping with the theme, an evening curated by Planet Earth Poetry (PEP), A Corrective Lens, features poets “gaz[ing] on a glorious world…that we humans have irrevocably changed.”
 
VFA2022 Indigenous Curator, author Monique Gray Smith, will host an event with Shelagh Rogers on National Truth and Reconciliation Day and Forest to Poet/Tree Walk is back, featuring four poets reading from their new work as audience members stroll the trails of Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary.
 
Monique's event with Shelagh is one of four solo author events this year. Bob McDonald of the popular radio program, Quirks and Quarks, is discussing climate solutions and his new book The Future is Now with Elin Kelsey. Jane Billinghurst is leading a forest walk at Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary, and Jennifer Egan is chatting about her new novel, The Candy House, with Zsuzsi Gartner.
 
Our festival opens with New Works, showcasing four local writers who are gifting us a sneak peak at their manuscripts in-progress. And Saturday evening, as usual, is a night to listen to new fiction with a musical accompaniment—this year provided by Jen Severtson/Peach Pyramid.
 
Because VFA is committed to accessibility, all events feature closed captioning, and most in-person events will be livestreamed. There are also four free/ by donation virtual events. Visit victoriafestivalofauthors.ca for more!
 

Others Details

Category: Arts | Books & Literature Artists / Speakers: shelagh rogers, bob mcdonald, yasuko thanh, jan zwicky, steven price, danielle geller, and more!

Registration Fees
Available
Registration Fees Details
General Admission: CAD 18.0, Low-Income/ Unwaged: CAD 10.0, Free livestream: CAD 0.0
Registration Ways
Website
Address/Venue
Metro Studio Theatre  1411 Quadra Street  Pin/Zip Code : V8W 2L2
Contact
Laura Trunkey

[email protected]