Skip To Navigation

Skip To Content

Festival week calendar

Monday
Sep 17

Tuesday
Sep 18

Wednesday
Sep 19

Thursday
Sep 20

Friday
Sep 21
(International Peace Day)

Saturday
Sep 22

Sunday
Sep 23

Festival information booth/Poetry Central - opens daily. in the Stanley A. Milner Library

 

 

 

 

Word! Symposium:
talk, poetry & performance

10 am -5 pm

MacEwan, Alberta College - Muttart Hall

Word! Symposium:
talk, poetry & performance

10 am - 5 pm

MacEwan, Alberta College - Muttart Hall

 

Launch

Noon

City Hall
Official declaration of Edmonton Poetry Week

 

Poetry World at CBC Centre Stage

12-1 pm

CBC Downtown Featuring the Honour Songs project

Poetry World at CBC Centre Stage

12-1 pm

CBC Downtown Featuring Poets Across Borders

Poetry World at CBC Centre Stage

12-1 pm

CBC Downtown Featuring Poets Across Borders

Poetry World at CBC Centre Stage

12-1 pm

CBC Downtown Featuring Poets Across Borders

 

Verse vibes
(for kids)

1-2 pm

Stanley A. Milner Library

     

Video poem day

Workshop with guest artist Heather Haley

 

Small Words, Big Moments - Daily
Haiku Journal Launch and Workshop

2-4 pm

Café Select South

Coffee Line(s) Stroll

2-4 pm

Venues downtown
Short readings by approx 40 local readers

Stroll of Poets:
Return of the Killer Blinks

7 pm

City Arts Centre - 10943 - 84th Avenue

Vintage - An Evening of Works from Well Aged Poets


6:30 pm

South East Edmonton Seniors Association

 

CORTEXPoems, music, dance

7-9 pm.

Latitude 53

Hip-hop evening

7-10 pm

Grant MacEwan College

Teen Poetry Slam

4 p.m.

Stanley A. Milner Library

MERZ

6:30 – 8:30 pm

Art Gallery of Alberta

Open Your Eyes to the Word

7-9:30 pm

Video Poems Screening
Metro Cinema

Raven Tango Poems

7 p.m.

Latitude 53

Collaborations

7:30 p.m.

Hulbert’s Café

The Roar LitCrawl

7-11 pm (Approx)

Approx 7  venues downtown

Should’ve
Play by Roald Hoffmann.

8 pm

Timms Centre, U of A

Word! Gala

Muttart Hall