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03. Masterclass with Gregor Craigie: How to Fight Misinformation This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our
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07. Jesse Wente: Tough Lies With his national bestseller Unreconciled, Anishinaabe author and broadcaster Jesse Wente cracked wide open the lies that Canada tells itself about reconciliation, offering a new path forward for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. In Tough Lies, he continues to face d
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10. Patrick deWitt in Conversation Famed for his dark wit and eccentric, rollicking storylines, Patrick deWitt is a favourite of the Festival. The bestselling author of The Librarianist and The Sisters Brothers joins us with one of his most raucous novels yet. Dodge City follows a young man on an am
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15. Iain Reid and Ellie Foumbi: Horror in Hollywood Bestselling author Iain Reid is no stranger to the film industry. His uncanny, page-turning thrillers have attracted major film adaptations, with such names attached to them as Charlie Kaufman and Saoirse Ronan. Even so, A New Kind of Clean represe
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19. Earth is Ours This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Earth is ours—to enjoy, to explore,
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23. Standing Up for Ourselves This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Middle school isn’t easy
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27. Ruth Ozeki in Conversation Multi-award-winning author Ruth Ozeki returns with a spellbinding story collection that will delight longtime fans—along with those who have yet to discover her philosophically witty, deeply compassionate work, including novels such as The Book of Form and Emptiness an
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31. Valeria Luiselli in Conversation Your favourite author likely reads Valeria Luiselli. The Chicago Review of Books called her “a bard for our modern times.” The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and International Dublin Literary Award, her awards and accolades are countless. In her latest a
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35. Adventure Awaits! This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Pack your bags, take a deep brea
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39. Meet My Family This is an in-person Youth Event. For full information about school group bookings, including subsidy information, please visit our Information for Teachers page. For the free digital livestream version of this event, please visit our website. Meet different families and culture
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43. Kim Echlin: Storytelling for a World in Turmoil The acts of reading, writing, and sharing our stories are steadfast bastions against repression and despair; literature has been our shepherd throughout time, and—contrary to what some may believe—it is more essential and alive now than ever. In Te
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47. Marlon James in Conversation The year is 1988: eight men in Kingston, Jamaica begin rehearsals for a play. Each has a different reason for being involved, but they all share one inescapable truth: all of them are gay, and must contend with the dangers that such a truth lays bare. In The Disappea
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52. Good Reads Our Artistic Director has the honour of reading piles upon piles of brilliant new releases every year. These three picks are some of the most entertaining, riveting reads she couldn’t put down until the very last page. Taking place in an alternate universe where nobody won WWII, Cathe
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57. Verses of Transformation Multi-award-winning poet Canisia Lubrin introduced this event at last year’s Festival to great accolade; attendees called it “inspiring and beautiful”, “a pure joy”, and remarked that “Vancouver needs more events like this.” We’re thrilled to bring it back for a second y
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63. Eden Robinson in Conversation Internationally acclaimed Haisla and Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson has cemented her place as one of Canada’s literary giants. From her groundbreaking debut, Monkey Beach, to her bestselling Trickster trilogy, she brings readers on page-turning rides through supernat
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70. Echoes of WWII: Resisting Fascism, Then and Now The warnings of WWII ring out piercingly today, as a new wave of fascism threatens countries around the globe. Acclaimed authors Mark Braude and Jane Rogoyska share the breathtaking real stories of ordinary citizens who resisted fascism and helped
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74. Molly Crabapple on the Story of the Jewish Bund Established in 1897, the Jewish Labor Bund was once the most influential Jewish political force in eastern Europe. Secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist, the Bundists fought for dignity and equality, not in an imagined homeland in P
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77. Jason Stanley: Erasing History Bestselling author Jason Stanley started teaching at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy as part of a small exodus of former Yale professors, all experts in authoritarianism, who left the United States in light of the Trump adm
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81. Edwidge Danticat in Conversation The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” grant, Edwidge Danticat’s renowned works of fiction include Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club selection; The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize; and Claire of the Sea L
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85. Emerge Join SFU Creative Writing to hear readings from emerge 26: the annual anthology from the students of The Writer’s Studio program at Simon Fraser University. You’ll receive a tantalizing taste of work from those emerging authors who have participated in the illustrious program this year, a
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89. All Eyes on the North Canada is under siege from the simultaneous threats of climate change ravaging the land, and foreign interference undermining the foundations of our democracy. These intertwining perils are not a coincidence, but the result of capitalist government policies that prioritize