The 3rd Annual Galiano Literary Festival will be running from February 24-26 2012 and will be held at the Galiano Oceanfront Inn & Spa here on Galiano Island. The Galiano Literary Festival is run by Galiano Island Books, one of the few remaining independent bookstores in B.C. The bookstore has been on the island for over 10 years, and has become a ‘hub’ of the island community.
Last year, we celebrated “The Book” as historical icon, objet d’art, and physical manifestation of ideas.
A full slate of workshops, readings and panels will discuss a wide variety of book and writing-related topics, providing different approaches to the main focus of this event, which this year is “Books: Windows to the Past, Present and Future”. To address this theme, we are inviting authors who use both fiction and nonfiction to tell us of the past, explore the complex issues of the present, and create alternate realities of what the future might hold. How does the lens of our current values and beliefs distort how we see and describe the past and how do we use the past to explain or justify who we are? How do books help us to explore and change our views of current events and the world in which we live? How do speculations about the future shape our thinking and decision making today? These are some of the questions our authors and participants, through readings, panels and informal discussions will consider.
We will also be hosting a “Bruce Springsteen Celebration” – music, frivolity and Robert J Wiersema reading from his new book on Springsteen “Walk Like a Man” an event for the whole community at the South Community Hall on Sunday, February 26th which festival attendees are welcome to attend.
Watch this site for more details as the planning continues!
