Rob at Book Festival in Calgary this Saturday, December 9
by Rob - December 4th, 2006.Filed under: Uncategorized.
IFWA Christmas Book Festival!
(in conjunction with the Calgary 2008 World Fantasy Convention)
Come one, come all to the first ever IFWA-sponsored Christmas Book Festival. Food! Fun! … and Books!
(IFWA is the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association, Calgary’s venerable SF&F writing workshop.)
View the poster (with map) here.
From high noon through 4:00 p.m. we’ll have an assortment of All-You-Can-Eat food and drink! Bring along your orphaned books for trade with other avid readers at Honest Ivan’s Book Exchange! (Our own Ivan Dorin.)
Special Events:
- At 1:00 p.m. Special Guest Hugo Award winning author Robert J. Sawyer will be on hand to lead a discussion on how near-future technology will save Mankind.
- At 2:00 p.m. Cliff Samuels will moderate a Book Discussion on new and old books worth reading.
- At 3:00 p.m. we’ll hold our Enormous Book Raffle! We have a mountain of SF&f hard covers, trades, and paperbacks. And even a few non-book items.
Raffle Tickets available throughout the afternoon: $1 each; 6 for $5; 15 for $10.
We’ve also been warned that Satan Claus, that devilish old saint, will put in an appearance and reward all the bad little boys and girls. He knows who’s been naughty … and approves!
When: Saturday, December 9, 2006, from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m.
Where: Danita Maslankowski‘s Recreation Centre / Party Room*
Cost: $10
*Party Room is the center building of Richmond Meadows Co-op, 4940 – 39 Ave. SW in Calgary. Please park on 39th Ave. or in the Co-op Shopping Center parking lot.