Ontario Supports Bookfest/Festival du Livre 2022
Funding to support and promote Canadian literary talent
Windsor — The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport provides annual funding to the Ontario Arts Council to promote the creation and production of Canadian art. The Bookfest/Festival du Livre 2022 Windsor event was awarded a Project Grant, valued at $12,000, by the Literary Organizations Projects grant program.
The Ontario Arts Council Literary Organizations Projects program supports the professional presentation, and promotion of written and oral Canadian literature in Ontario, and the development of professional, ongoing arts and literary publishing capacity in the province.
BookFest Windsor began in 2002, and in the inaugural year welcomed 450 attendees during its one-day program. Since that time, BookFest has developed partnerships with the University of Windsor, the Windsor Public Library, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the local elementary and secondary schools, local art and music venues, restaurants, and hospitals. In 2012, the festival was included in Canadian Geographic’s list of top literary festivals in Canada. The festival proper has grown to a three-day event, with multiple lead-up activities, presentations and workshops. Attendance at Bookfest events have numbered in the thousands. They will be hosting Bookfest/Festival du livre Windsor 2022 on Thursday, October 13th to Sunday, October 16th. Opening ceremonies will be at Mackenzie Hall and a different venue will be featured each day. To purchase tickets or find out more information about this event, https://www.literaryartswindsor.ca/event/bookfest-2022/.
“Celebrating the joy of reading in our community is a terrific investment by the Ontario Arts Council, and it’s great to see such a beloved local event in Windsor—Tecumseh be recognized and supported,” says Windsor—Tecumseh MPP Andrew Dowie.
“For the past two decades, the volunteers behind Literary Arts Windsor & BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor have been grateful recipients of funding from the Ontario Arts Council in order to bring the best authors from across the province to Windsor to share the love of reading,” says Sarah Jarvis, President, Literary Arts Windsor
Over the past two years, the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport has funded over $123,800,000 across the province to the Ontario Arts Council grant funding.
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MEDIA CONTACT
Paul Synnott
Executive Assistant Andrew Dowie, MPP
Windsor-Tecumseh
Ph: 519-251-0437 Cell: 226-724-6978
Email: paul.synnott@pc.ola.org
Bookfest Windsor
Irene Moore Davis
519-890-4316
irenemooredavis@gmail.com
Sarah Jarvis
519-987-4834
bookfestwindsor@gmail.com