Ottawa International Writers Festival, Spring Edition
| April 26, 2012 | to | May 1, 2012 |
Founded in 1997, the Writers Festival celebrates the world’s best writing from home and abroad with a diverse program that presents interactions with leaders in the worlds of science, history, poetry, politics, spoken word, economics, drama, fiction, biography, music and more. Since 2004 the Festival has consisted of two annual Editions, Spring and Fall.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.562.1243
General information email: info@writersfestival.org
Location: Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar Street(at Elgin)
Ticket: http://writersfestival.org.tickets.html
Volunteers: http://www.writersfestival.org/about/volunteers
On the Web:
Website: http://writersfestival.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ottawa.writersfest
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/oiwf/pool
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWritersFestival
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Writersfest
Others: http://vimeo.com/ottawawritersfest
Map:
Ottawa International Writers Festival, Fall Edition
| October 20, 2011 | to | October 25, 2011 |
Canada’s Festival of Ideas since 1997. The Writers Festival celebrates the world’s best writing from home and abroad with a diverse program that presents interactions with leaders in the worlds of science, history, poetry, politics, spoken word, economics, drama, fiction, biography, music and more. Since 2004 the Festival has consisted of two annual Editions: Spring and Fall.
As reported in the Ottawa Xpress, “Basically, if you’ve thought about it, The Writers Festival has invited someone to discuss it.”
Festival Information:
General information: 613.562.1243
General information email: leslie@writersfestival.org
Location: Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank (at Sunnyside) and Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Ave (at Bank St.) with select events at other locations.
Tickets: http://writersfestival.org/tickets.html
On the Web:
Website: http://writersfestival.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ottawa.writersfest
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ottawawritersfestival
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/oiwf
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWritersFestival
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Writersfest
Discussion Forum: http://oiwf.squarespace.com
Map:
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5 minutes with: Dan Gardner
STEVE COLLINS | METRO OTTAWA
Photo courtesy of Dan Gardner
Ottawa writer Dan Gardner’s new book, Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail — and Why We Believe Them Anyway, launched this month. He appears at the Ottawa International Writers Festival Sunday.
Is there a common thread between Future Babble and your last book, Risk?
There is some overlap because in the last chapter of Risk, I talk about how we are the safest and happiest people who’ve ever lived, but what about all these thunderous predictions of civilizational doom? That’s sort of where I pick up. Future Babble is about big-scale predictions, the sort of thing that you read in the newspaper or hear in television or read about on bestseller lists. It’s about what’s going to happen to the stock market, who’s going to win the election, what the world will look like in 2050.
Read the full interview: 5 minutes with: Dan Gardner
How Ken Dryden’s Canadian dream came true in Calgary
John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail
Ken Dryden wants to make a point, and Naheed Nenshi just proved it.
The former hockey player and current Liberal MP has a new book, Becoming Canada, in which Mr. Dryden argues, with some passion, in defence of what could be called a new nationalism, a new way of seeing this country that leaves behind the tired animosities of the past and embraces the young, modern, incredibly diverse country that Canada has become.
“If we have the wrong story, we get the wrong future,” Mr. Dryden maintained Wednesday at an appearance hosted by the Ottawa International Writers Festival. The old story of Canada is too much rooted in the English-French divide, in a parochial anti-Americanism, in a whining uncertainty about what this country is and what it should be.
All that is being blown away by what Mr. Dryden calls Canada’s new “multiculture.” While in Europe, leaders lament the failure of immigrants to integrate, Canada’s immigrants are reshaping this land in their own image, and they like what they see.
Full article: How Ken Dryden’s Canadian dream came true in Calgary
