Welcome to The Word On The Street
Families will find fun on KidStreet, foodies will discover great eats at our Cooks 'n' Books Stage and World Food Market, book lovers can meet authors and buy the latest fall books while magazine junkies can get lost in Magazine Mews.
Watch out for for more details regarding our exciting line up later this year but in the meantime, please check out the highlights from our 20th festival!
Download part 1 of the 2009 Festival Program Guide.
Download part 2 of the 2009 Festival Program Guide.
Download the KidStreet Activity Guide, brought to you by our friends at OWL and chickaDEE.
The Word On The Street is thrilled to be presenting one its most exciting line-ups ever in celebration of its 20th festival!
Canada’s literary maverick, Margaret Atwood, will be headlining our Bestsellers Stage, reading from her highly-anticipated new novel, The Year of the Flood. Not only will she appear in Toronto, but we’ll be using her revolutionary LongPen technology to broadcast her appearance out to our sister events in Vancouver and Halifax. We dare say it may be our country’s first coast-to-coast book event!
With two new programming venues joining our roster (the Money Matters Tent and the Cooks ‘n’ Books Stage) and a bevy of some of country’s top authors also confirmed to grace our stages (Bonnie Burnard, Kenneth Oppel, Elizabeth May, Leon Rooke, John Bemrose, Emma Donoghue, Barbara Reid and Charles Pachter, to name a few) Canada’s largest book and magazine fair is shaping up to be one heck of a literary love-in!
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The Word On The Street's Exhibitor Marketplace offers festival-goers a window into the Canadian lit scene, presenting everything from the largest publishing house to the smallest niche magazine and everything in between. We also feature a World Food Market at various locations throughout the festival. Return to this site often for updated exhibitor lists and find out the special offers they are designing just for you. |
We offer so many things for families to do at The Word On The Street that you'll stay the whole day! KidStreet is a special area of the park anchored by the exciting programming at the TVO Kids Stage. Grab a bite to eat, sit down at a picnic table and enjoy the show. Or attend an interactive reading at one of our children's reading and activity tents. One quarter of the attendees at the festival come as part of a family unit, and we make the event as family-friendly as possible with lots of washrooms, a Tiny Tot Change Tent, lots of food choices and bookstore exhibitors specializing in books that will engage readers of all ages.
To celebrate our 20th festival, we will be launching two Literacy Murals. Authors and performers at The Word On The Street will be signing the murals and we encourage everyone who attends the festival to become part of our history and write or draw your personal comments on literacy or your memory from a past festival. All you have to do is donate a Loonie for our Literacy campaign to join in the fun and leave your lasting mark on The Word On The Street. Watch this site for details on an auction of these priceless murals later in the fall. All proceeds go to support literacy organizations in Toronto.
