Cambridge Literary Festival is a much-loved and regular highlight drawing large audiences from Cambridge and the rest of the UK. Thousands of wordsmiths, writers and authors have graced their festival stages and have enthralled, entertained, educated and sometimes enraged our audiences. They now welcome over 350 writers and speakers to Cambridge each year and stage events that cover a huge …
April 20, 2022 marks the first in-person Lunch Poems event in over two years! Please join us to enjoy readings by Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam with guests Adrienne Yeung and Britt McGillivray. Fiona Tinwei Lam Vancouver's sixth poet laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam has published three collections of poetry and a children’s book. …
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, over 10,000 students across Canada learned a poem by heart this year. School champions participated in online qualifiers and the 42 students who obtained the highest scores advanced to the semifinals, where their videos were judged by a panel of poets. The semi-finalists all received $250 each …
Get Tickets Through Eventbrite Verses Festival of Words is at it again! We are bringing together a broad intersection of poetic artists, including spoken word and page poets, storytellers, singer-songwriters and improvisers, to celebrate the power of the spoken word. This year’s festival combines poetry with music inspired by a …
Join us on April 21st at 7:30 p.m. for the 2022 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Cherie Dimaline, the bestselling and award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, Hunting By Stars, and Empire of Wild. Dimaline’s lecture is titled An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety. The event will take place at the TIMMS CENTRE for the ARTS (masks strongly recommended). …