Wordfest
Festival des mots - Wordfest
Eau Claire Market, Unit 117, 200 Barclay Parade SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 4R5
Phone : (403) 237-9068 x 223
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Region
Calgary and area
School year/Age
All ages
Language level
French as a First Language
French immersion
French as a Second Language
School subject (primary)
French
School subject (secondary)
Fine Arts
Teaching materials
Reading teaching material
Links with the curriculum
Any book presented is accompanied by a reading teaching material with links to the Alberta curriculum.
Requirements
Kids under 18 years of age must be accompained by adults.
Availability
The Wordfest is held annually during the week following Thanksgiving in October. Reservations are open from May.
2016 edition: October 7 to 16
Number of participants
25 to 500+ participants
Duration
School sessions : +/- 1 hour - the authors come to the schools.
Public meetings : +/- 75 min - students, teachers, parents and children can attend public meetings that take place in various cultural venues in Calgary and the Bow Valley region.
Cost
Please refer to Wordfest's website to get more information on ticket prices .
Description
Wordfest is a French language literary program that welcomes emergant and renowed writers from Canada and other French-speaking countries to participate in a cultural and literary exchanges with Francophone and Francophile communities of Alberta.
The objective of this program is to enable children to discover or rediscover the literature and the joys of reading in a new and interactive way. It's a chance for them to meet passionate writers who, through their work and their interventions have only one goal: share their love of reading and writing.
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