This year, the BookFest/ Festival du Livre Windsor theme is Bridging Communities! This is in honor of the nearly finished Gordie Howe International Bridge, which, like BookFest, brings people together. A bridge also represents overcoming obstacles and removing barriers to access. This year, our festival focuses on intersectionality, which recognizes how individuals hold multiple identities and face unique challenges at the intersections of those identities. BookFest/ Festival du Livre Windsor will be held virtually on October 18th and 19th, 2024.

This year to increase accessibility efforts, we are keeping it simple by offering an all-in-one ticket. A festival pass worth every event and every penny. This ticket will send you one link, for simplicity, that will grant you access to all events via Zoom.

Events, dates, and times include:
October 18th 7:00 PM – Signal Lost: Stories of Identity, Crime, and Dystopia. Featuring Jade Wallace – Anomia, Michael Melgaard – Not That Kind of Place, and Saad. T. Farooqi – White World.

October 19th 11:00 AM – Borders of Belonging. Featuring Jules Delorme – i heard a crow before i was born, Daniel Maluka – Unwashed, and Linzey Corridon – West of West Indian.

October 19th 12:30 PM – Home Grown Talent. Featuring Peter Hrastovec – Limbo Moon, Claudio D’Andrea –  Stories in the Key of Song and Marty Gervais – The Sky Above.

October 19th 2:00 PM – Corner of Church and Elsewhere. Featuring Leslie Shimotakahara – Sisters of the Spruce, Renée Bondy – [non]disclosure, and Daniel Allen Cox – I Felt the End Before it Came.

We have a separate ticket for the 100% French Speaking event

October 19th 3:30 PM – Festival du Livre. Featuring Fanny Britt – Faire les Sucres and Éric Chacour – Ce que je sais de toi.

https://www.literaryartswindsor.ca/zoom-meetings/festival-du-livre-windsor-des-communautes-relais/

Hope to see you there!