Complete Schedule
Click here to "flip through" the 2010 Festival Program!
Tickets can be purchased at www.tickets.moncton.ca until 24 hours before each event.
All events are open to the public and are free or “pay what you can” (PWYC), unless a ticket price is included. The cost of food at mealtime events is not included in admission, unless otherwise noted.
The Frye Festival’s official bookseller, Tidewater Books, will have a bookstore in the Delta Beauséjour lobby and satellite locations throughout the Festival.
All authors participate in the language in which they write, ensuring most events are bilingual.
When events are not bilingual, the following symbols appear:
(E) English | (F) French | (ST) Simultaneous translation provided
SATURDAY, APRIL 17
10:00 am
Imagination at Work Exhibit Opening
Featuring the work of K-4 students from
Districts 1, 2, and 11
Jennifer McGrath Kent and Nicole Daigle
The Bay, Highfield Square
SUNDAY, APRIL 18
2:00 pm
Atlantic Book Awards Ceremony (E)
Chapters
MONDAY, APRIL 19
8:30 am to 3:30 pm
TD Canada Trust Authors in Schools
11:00 am
Official Launch of Festival
Moncton City Hall
8:00 pm
Prelude: Emerging New Brunswick Writers
Pauline Dugas
Carla Gunn
Dominic Langlois
Vanessa Moeller
Jean-Mari Pitre
Ryan Turner
City Grill, 2nd floor - PWYC
TUESDAY, APRIL 20
8:30 am to 3:30 pm
TD Canada Trust Authors in Schools
12:00 noon
Opening of the Exhibit
Life in the Lawn: A PoemGarden
Moncton Public Library
5:00 pm
Éditions Perce-Neige Spring Book Launch (F)
Navigator’s Pub
6:00 pm
Conversation with Guy Gavriel Kay (E) (See more)
Moncton Public Library - $10
7:00 pm
Evening of Storytellers
André Lemelin
Nelson Michaud
Robert Richard
Anita Savoie
Gilbert Sewell
Kay Stone
Host: Ronald Labelle
City Grill, 2nd floor - PWYC
10:00 pm
Éditions Perce-Neige Night Howl (F)
Jean-Paul Daoust
Dominic Langlois
Georgette LeBlanc
Ron Léger
City Grill, 2nd floor - PWYC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21
8:30 am to 3:30 pm
TD Canada Trust Authors in Schools
12:00 noon
YMCA Literacy Luncheon (E)
Guy Gavriel Kay
The Right Choice Catering - $25
(Call YMCA at 506.857.0606 to reserve)
12:00 noon
Frye Symposium Roundtable: Voyaging into
the Unknown in Folk Tales and in Dreams (ST)
Craig Stephenson
Kay Stone
André Lemelin
Ronald Labelle
Moncton City Hall - PWYC
12:00 noon
Dialogue with Gracia Couturier
and Christiane Duchesne (F)
Café Aberdeen
4:00 pm
Dialogue with Beth Powning
and Robert Moore (E)
Moncton Public Library - PWYC
6:00 pm
Book Club with Martin Winckler (F)
Restaurant L’Idylle - $12 includes hors d’oeuvres
7:00 pm
Achmy Halley discusses a filmed
conversation between Bernard Pivot
and Marguerite Yourcenar (F)
Alliance française
7:00 pm
Café Underground
Performances by high school students of their
own poetry and prose
Special guest: John Jerome and the Great 88
The Empress
7:00 pm
Réveille: Open-mic readings by adults
of their childhood writings
Moncton Press Club
8:00 pm
Frye Symposium: Reading Frye Reading Jung
(ST)
Craig Stephenson
Moncton City Hall - PWYC
THURSDAY, APRIL 22
8:30 am to 3:30 pm
TD Canada Trust Authors in Schools
10:00 am to 1:00pm
Discovering Haïku: Workshop with
France Cayouette (F)
Moncton Public Library - $10
10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Fiction Writing Workshop with
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (E)
Moncton Public Library - $10
12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
Roundtable: Stories, and What They Do (ST)
Annabel Lyon
Biz
Linden MacIntyre
Martin Winckler
Moncton City Hall - $10
2:00 pm
Book Club with Steven Galloway (E)
Moncton Public Library - $10
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Université de Moncton presents:
Words through Time and Space
Jean Fugère interviews Noah Richler followed
by the book launch of Lire Antonine Maillet à
travers le temps et l’espace
The Empress
8:00 pm
Soirée Frye
Christian Bök
Gracia Couturier
Christiane Duchesne
Nino Ricci
Great West Life / London Life Contest Winners
Musical Guests: Julie Doiron and Guillaume Arsenault
Followed by a community reception to meet
the authors
Capitol Theatre - PWYC
10:30 pm
Night Howl
Guy Marchamps & Robert Moore
Musical Guest: Julie Doiron
Host: Jesse Robichaud
City Grill, 2nd floor - PWYC
FRIDAY, APRIL 23
8:30 am to 3:30 pm
TD Canada Trust Authors in Schools
9:00 am to 12:15 pm
Workshop with Brian Henry:
How to Get Published (ST)
City Grill. 2nd floor - $55 ($50 for PWAC Members)
10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Fiction Workshop with Steven Galloway (E)
Moncton Public Library - $10
10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Creative Writing Workshop with
Christiane Duchesne (F)
Moncton Public Library - $10
12:00 noon
Roundtable: Writing Lives and Afterlives (ST)
Daniel Poliquin
Nino Ricci
Noah Richler
Maryse Rouy
Moncton City Hall - $10
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Poetry Workshop with Robert Moore (E)
Moncton Public Library - $10
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Peter Lanyon: Branding with Integrity (ST)
City Grill, 2nd floor - $10
3:00 pm
Book Club with Linden MacIntyre (E)
Moncton Public Library - $10
3:30 pm
Story Time
Moncton Boys and Girls Club
3:30 pm
Author’s Residences at the Villa Marguerite
Yourcenar (F)
Presentation by Achmy Halley, Director of the Villa
City Grill, 2nd floor
5:00 pm
Beer and Books
Gracia Couturier
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Biz
Fred Stenson
City Grill, 2nd floor - PWYC
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Vous m’en lirez tant: Taping of the national
Radio-Canada show (F)
TRIIIO Restaurant, Delta Beauséjour
6:00 pm
Book Club with Christine Eddie (F)
Timothy’s World Coffee, Main St. - PWYC
7:00 pm
Éditions David Book Launch (F)
Gracia Couturier
City Grill, 2nd floor
8:00 pm
An Evening of Canadian Lit with Annabel Lyon,
Linden MacIntyre and Nino Ricci (E)
Host: Noah Richler
Jeanne-de-Valois, Université de Moncton - $25
10:30 pm
Night Howl
Christian Bök
Ron Léger
Musical Guest: DJ Martine B
Host: Jesse Robichaud
City Grill, 2nd floor - PWYC
SATURDAY, APRIL 24
9:30 am
Poetry Workshop with Christian Bök (E)
City Hall, 1st floor boardroom - $10
9:30 am
Saturday Brunch & Books
François Barcelo
Christine Eddie
Annabel Lyon
Beth Powning
City Grill, 2nd floor - Cost of meal
9:45 am to 12:00 noon
KidsFest
Jacob Berkowitz
Nicole Daigle
Christiane Duchesne
Cary Fagan
Moncton Public Library
10:30 am to 11:30 am
Writing workshop for kids 8-10 with
Guy Marchamps (F)
Moncton Public Library
10:30 am to 11:30 am
Publish your own book workshop for kids 8-12
with Nancy Wilcox Richards (E)
Moncton Public Library
11:30 am
The Association France-Canada Moncton Hosts
Maryse Rouy (F)
Notre-Dame de Grâce Golden Age Club - $15
(Call Ronald Cormier at 506.383.8563 to reserve)
12:00 noon
Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture (ST)
What We Talk About When We Talk About War
Noah Richler
Followed by the launch of the 2009 lecture
publication by Monique LaRue
Moncton City Hall - $10
1:00 pm
Readings for Kids (F)
François Barcelo
Nicole Daigle
Dieppe Public Library
2:00 pm
Budding Writers
Grade 5 to 8 students read their own work
Capitol Theatre Lobby
3:00 pm
Literary Lounge
The Delta hosts an afternoon word party where
everyone is encouraged to come and meet authors,
get books signed and chat!
Delta Beauséjour Lobby
6:00 pm
Dialogue with Christian Bök and
Fred Stenson (E)
Navigator’s Pub - PWYC
8:00 pm
Community Read with Daniel Poliquin
Jeanne-de-Valois, Université de Moncton - $10
10:00 pm
Frye Jam
France Cayouette
Steven Galloway
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Biz
Ron Léger
Annabel Lyon
Guy Marchamps
Fred Stenson
Hosts: Les Païens
Musical Guests: Fayo, Marie-Philippe Bergeron,
Jonah Hache and Colonial Quarrels
City Grill, 2nd floor - $10
SUNDAY, APRIL 25
10:00 am
Atlantic Lottery Corporation
Brunch and Books
Beth Powning and Maryse Rouy
The Greater Moncton Literacy Advisory Board’s
Adult New Writers Contest Awards
Delta Beauséjour Mezzanine - $25
(Tickets must be purchased by April 23)
1:00 pm
Poet flyé Says Bye-Bye!
Jesse Robichaud
Musical Guests: Les Païens
Awarding of the first Frye Academy Award and
draw for trip for two
Greater Moncton International Airport
