Sunday September 23, 2012 11am - 5pm.
What's On The Street?
On March 8, team Cannon Fodder won the battle for spelling supremacy at The Word On The Street fundraiser at Murphy’s Cable Wharf Restaurant.
Eighteen teams competed for the championship the final round came down to The Chronicle Herald Buzz versus NS Department of Education’s Cannon Fodder.
“Panegyric” (a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something) was the word that toppled the Herald team.
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champion spellers (from left to right) Sarah Hainsworth, Ray Whitely, Ray Fernandes, and Chantelle Dooley of the Nova Scotia Department of Education. Photo: Sandor Fizli
The Word On The Street festival comes to the waterfront on Sept. 23th.
We promote and encourage a passion for reading and a love of words. Supporting this fundraising Bee is the perfect way to have fun and contribute to the literacy of your community. The Spelling Bee is an initiative of The Word On The Street Canada, in co-operation with The Word On The Street Halifax. Participants’ donations will go to support the festival’s mission to celebrate Canadian reading and writing and advocate literacy. Click on the donate now button to send along a donation. A tax receipt will be generated so please put in your address.
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The 2012 Exhibitors packages will be ready at the end of April 2012. Registered exhibitors will be posted in August 2012. Attendees can count on a large selection of book and magazine publishers, booksellers, literacy organizations, independent publishers, and graphic novel producers, and other lovers of literacy.
We are lucky to have 40+ exhibitors.
Literacy
The Word On The Street is committed to improving the reading skills and functional literacy of adult Canadians.
This year we will be hosting a literacy celebration!
A celebration of literacy and reading from cradle to grave will be part of this year's festival. Our session will open with Giller Award Nominee, Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting talking about "My life in books" and what he read as a child that turned him into a committed reader, author and teacher.
Then representatives from 4 diverse literacy and reading organizations in HRM will share their inspiring stories:
1: Read to Me: a non-profit early literacy organization that provides a gift of books, a CD of lullabies, and information about reading programs to each baby born at the IWK.
2: The Halifax Memorial North Branch Library after school and summer reading programs that encourage elementary and high school students to read for pleasure and to explore the worlds that open to us through books.
3: The Dartmouth Literacy Network that promotes literacy, essential skills and lifelong learning and helps those who have low literacy skills to improve and become lifelong readers.
4: Halifax Humanities 101, a unique program that invites adults living on low incomes to read classic works of philosophy and literature under the guidance of professors from local universities who volunteer their time. Halifax Humanities offers its students the opportunity to step away from the stress of life on a low income and engage with some of the greatest books ever written.
You can also find valuable literacy information at Literacy Way in the South Museum Wharf marketplace.
Click here to find out more about the libraries literacy programs, http://www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/services/learning/adult-literacy.html
Click here to find out more about the development of the new library http://www.halifaxcentrallibrary.ca/building-design/
