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Scream Literary Festival -- The Book is DeadPresented by: The Scream Literary Festival
The Scream, Canada's strangest literary festival, features two weeks of events and performances at various Toronto locations.
The book is dead and we’re inviting all of its friends to help us to bury it. This year the Scream, Canada’s strangest literary festival, will explore the imminent demise of books, book culture and all that readers hold dear. In the face of its decaying vestiges we celebrate its life, its death and the spectre of its future. Join us from July 2nd to 13th in offering our elegies, predictions, ululations and dreams of technological salvation.
Begin your post-mortem with a musical revue, led by horror-lit luminaries Tony Burgess (Pontypool) and Derek McCormack (The Haunted Hillbilly). Descend into our gallery and mausoleum, where decaying books stand resolute against the future. Wander with us through the streets of Toronto as we reveal the graves of beloved bookstores. Celebrate the poetry of Dennis Lee at our book-length dinner, when he revisits his masterwork Civil Elegies alongside his most recent and visionary books Un and yesno. Finally, reaffirm your love for poetry on July 13th with our 17th annual Scream in High Park Mainstage, featuring an ebullient line up of performers.
Starts: Jul 2, 2009 Ends: Jul 13, 2009
At: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
Playing: Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Times:
Cost: varies
Getting there:
The Gladstone Hotel is located at 1214 Queen Street West at the corner of Gladstone Avenue and Queen Street just east of Dufferin Street. The 501 along Queen streetcar stops right outside the hotel for easy TTC access.
For more information contact:
Leigh
Phone:
Email:
eighSPAMFILTER@thescream.ca
