MEDIA ROOM ARCHIVES - PFB 2008
BC YOUTH TO BE PUBLISHED IN ANTHOLOGY
The Victoria Arts Connection, the host of the 2nd Annual Pacific Festival of the Book has finalized
the youth writers who will be published by PFB Press in a new anthology of fifty six works entitled "Come Home Before Dark". The title of the anthology originates from work submitted by 17-year-old Jesse Gray, a student at Reynold's Secondary School in Victoria, BC. More
Labour dispute at Greater Victoria Public Library affects book festival
Victoria Arts Connection’s 2nd Annual Pacific Festival of the Book may not be going forward with plans to hold events at the Greater Victoria Public Library due to the ongoing labour dispute. Staff at the GVPL have had to make tough decisions around how to proceed in light of the ongoing labour dispute and sadly have had to pull their on site programing from the festival. Plans were under way to have author readings every day leading up to the major events on March 15th at Victoria Arts Connection. The readings were part of the ‘appetizers’ for the festival aimed at getting people excited about the upcoming weekend events and a way to bring the festival out to the community and create a city-wide event.
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2nd Pacific Festival of the Book Announces Participants
The 2nd Pacific Festival of the Book taking place March 10-20, 2008 in Victoria, BC, Canada is getting a great lift from local and internationally renowned and prize winning participants. This community event has blossomed into a city-wide ten day festival and features an expanded program of author talks, readings, hands on workshops, exhibitions and performances. More than 35 writers and authors will be participating in this year's festival along with 40 publishers and writers at the Exhibitors Trade Show on Saturday March 15th and over 70 visual artists through the exhibition programs. Leading the way are a host of well known authors such as PK Page, Victoria Poet Laureate Carla Funk, John Barton the editor of the Malahat Review and Naomi Beth Wakan who returns to the festival with a second installment of her popular "Late Bloomers - Writing in Later Life" workshop and talk.
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2nd Pacific Festival of the Book Announced
The Victoria Arts Connection is pleased to announce the 2nd Pacific Festival of the Book will take place March 10-20, 2008 in Victoria, BC, Canada. After last year’s overwhelming success the VAC book festival organizers and supporters decided to turned this into a city wide ten day festival. The Pacific Festival of the Book theme for 2008 is “A Climate of Change” exploring issues from personal to global changes which affect everyone in writing, publishing and the arts.
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