Special Event Listings
The Vancouver International Writers Festival and Random House of Canada present
Ian McEwan
The acclaimed author of Atonement and On Chesil Beach will make his eagerly anticipated Vancouver appearance. In conversation with Jerry Wasserman.
His new novel Solar, is a darkly comic, satirical look at climate change—a stylish new work by one of the world’s greatest living writers.
VIWF members: Receive a $2 member discount for Ian McEwan event tickets. (If you have not received an email with your special member discount code, please call 604 681 6330.)
7:30pm April 15, 2010
St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church (Burrard at Nelson)
$20 general / $18 students & seniors (plus service charges)
For tickets, phone Vancouver Tix at 604 629 8849 or purchase online.
The Vancouver International Writers Festival and Random House of Canada present
Peter Carey
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction winner and the author of Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang in conversation with Hal Wake.
Peter Carey’s new novel Parrot and Olivier in America is a dazzlingly inventive reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey, brilliantly evoking the Old World colliding with the New.
7:30pm May 7, 2010
Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC (6354 Crescent Road)
$20 general / $18 students & seniors (plus service charges)
For tickets, phone Vancouver Tix at 604 629 8849 or purchase online.
The Vancouver International Writers Festival presents
Spoken World
Words. Music. Action!
Sold out!
When wordsmiths and musicians hit the stage for Spoken World, get ready for an evening of sensory overload. Sal Ferreras, his chameleonic band Poetic License, and VJ Candelario Andrade make the magic happen with Ivan E. Coyote, Shane Koyczan, Ariana Waynes and Skeena Reece in a literary evening that shifts beyond words and music into a brave new artistic realm.
7:30pm February 18, 2010
Performance Works
1218 Cartwright Street
Granville Island
Tickets on sale September 11, 2009
$20 general / $18 students & seniors
For tickets, phone Vancouver Tix at 604 629 8849 or online.
Download high resolution photos here.
View highlights from Spoken World 2009 on YouTube and Flickr.
Take the streetcar! Avoid traffic jams on Granville Island. Take the Canada Line to the Olympic Village station and transfer to the Olympic Line, a free streetcar service that will run between Granville Island and 2nd Avenue and Cambie Street between January 21 and March 21, 2010.
For more information about getting to Granville Island during the Olympics, click here.
From left to right: Ivan E. Coyote, Shane Koyczan, Skeena Reece, Ariana Waynes.
