saskatoon

Sunday, September 22, 2013, in Civic Square and around City Hall

 

11am - 5pm

Stay tuned for our festival lineup for 2013!

 

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Alice Kuipers’ debut novel, Life on the Refrigerator Door, sold in twenty-nine countries and was the winner of the Saskatchewan First Book Award, the Sheffield Libraries Choice Award and the Grand Prix de Viarmes. It was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal and named a New York Times Book for the Teen Age. Her second novel, The...

Alice Kuipers is at the Great Expectations Stage at 11:30 am
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Yann Martel is the prize-winning author of the internationally acclaimed novel Life of Pi, which won the 2002 Booker Prize, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, a collection of short stories, the novels Self and Beatrice & Virgil, and a collection of letters to the Prime Minister of...

Yann Martel is at the The Odyssey Stage at 2 pm

Interested in hearing from Saskatoon’s next generation of authors? Local teens will share their original writing, which is moving, funny, dark, whimsical…Come out and hear from this very talented group of up-and-comers! Brought to you by Young Adult Services - Saskatoon Public Library.

 

Saskatoon's 2013 slam team guarantees an eclectic and arousing spoken word performance. They touch on social, political, romantic, vengeful, and all sorts of colourful human experiences through wthym, wyme, and a cadence akin to a tiger's purr. Just come out because somehow they can’t do themselves justice through plain text.

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Kenneth T. Williams is a Cree playwright from the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan. His plays Café Daughter, Gordon Winter, Thunderstick, Bannock Republic, Suicide Notes and Three Little Birds have been produced across Canada. Thunderstick is fighting its way through the hell that is Canadian feature film development. Scirocco Drama...