Passport packages! [SOLD OUT]
For the ultimate book drunkard, we have bundled together 8 of our 18 great events as a passport package!
Passports are available for $175 +HST (a $200 value) and are transferrable for family and friends. If that isn’t enticing enough, be one of the first 100 to purchase your passport and you will receive a number of intoxicating perks!
Visit the Tickets Page for more information on which events are bundled and to see what we’re giving away with our first 100 sold.
Featured Event
An Evening with John Irving [SOLD OUT]
Uxbridge Music Hall - October 17 | 2019 - 7:30 pm
Celebrate an evening with one of the greats. John Irving takes the stage to share passages from his work-in-progress and talk about his many other celebrated books. To salute this auspicious occasion, Uxbridge’s brand-new craft cider house, Slabtown Cider Co., has created a unique offering (called The Cider House Rules!) to launch The Book Drunkard Festival and toast our headliner, John Irving.
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Trail Capital of Canada to Host The Book Drunkard Festival
Hundreds of kilometres of trails linking its communities with a great expanse of rural forested lands ensures Uxbridge is the trail the capital of Canada. Major trail systems, including the Trans Canada and the Oak Ridges Trails traverse the township. In cooperation with various volunteer organizations and Conservation Authorities the trails stretch across approximately 8000 acres of conservation lands. A love of nature often nurtures a love of the arts and Uxbridge is no exception. It is home to the Celebration of the Arts Festival, the Uxbridge Studio Tour, Springtide Music Festival, five community theatre companies, Uxbridge Chamber Choir and Blue Heron Books, the twice named Canadian independent bookseller of the year. Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote 11 of her 22 novels in Uxbridge and once claimed she was “simply a book drunkard”. So, as a nod to Maud, and the literary community at large, The Book Drunkard Literary Festival is born.
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Featuring “The Book Drunkard Beer” by The Second Wedge
The Second Wedge Brewing Co. is excited to be brewing up The Book Drunkard Festival beer — a rich, malty but elegantly restrained märzen (the traditional beer of Oktoberfest). The beer will be available on tap and in cans at The Second Wedge beginning in early October, and at select festival locations!
The Second Wedge is also brewing a small batch of raspberry beer exclusively for the ‘Nod to Maud’ Cocktail Party, in honour of Lucy Maud Montgomery and inspired by Anne’s raspberry cordial!
About the BrewerySlabtown Cider Co to create “The CiderHouse Rules”
As part of their start-up series, Uxbridge’s brand-new craft cider house, Slabtown Cider Co., is proud to present Cider House Rules — a handcrafted hard cider created using 100 % Ontario apples. This variety of cider will be the perfect fit with Slabtown’s original flight of hard cider tastings and will be on offer to launch The Book Drunkard Festival and toast our headliner, John Irving. Available at Slabtown Cider Co. and various festival locations.
About the CideryMore Events
Massey Lecture ‘Lite’ with Sally Armstrong and Robyn Doolittle
Up Close and Personal with Tom Wilson
A Skinnamarink Good Time with Sharon & Bram, ft. Whitney Barris
Workshop: Mastering the Typewriter & Short Story Competition with Kerry Clare
Celebrating 30 Years – Blue Heron Books
In bookselling, 30 years is something worth celebrating. Small business is tough and bookselling even tougher. But Blue Heron Books succeeded! And the future is looking very bright indeed.
To mark this auspicious occasion, Blue Heron Books is inaugurating The Book Drunkard Literary Festival. A longtime dream of owner, Shelley Macbeth, the festival embraces all things dear to booklovers – great books and authors, great theatre, great food and drink and great music. You will be impressed by the depth and breadth of the festival. There truly is something for everyone!
In addition, 30 Random Acts of Book Kindness is Blue Heron’s way of acknowledging this milestone by giving back to the community that has supported the store through thirty years of ups and downs. Blue Heron commits to undertake 30 acts of book kindness – big and small –that will initiate or enhance the reading life of many. One of these projects, well underway, is establishing a read-aloud program at local nursing homes.
As well, a Facebook campaign to nurture indie bookseller love across the country will be ushered in to encourage Canadian readers to continue supporting the indie bookstore in their neighbourhood.
And finally, what’s a milestone without a party? Blue Heron Books will open its doors to former staff and all customers this fall so watch for details. An anniversary scrapbook will be on display with LOTS of memorabilia. We’ll be sharing stories – a common occurrence at Blue Heron Books – so come armed with yours!
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Have you seen our Facebook and Instagram posts about the contest to win a SIGNED copy of The Testaments, the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood?
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The Book Drunkard Literary Festival taking place in Uxbridge, Ontario this fall is “an international festival done local.”
The festival embraces all things dear to booklovers — great books and authors, great theatre, great food and drink and great music.
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During our festival, award-winning author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong will be in discussion about her new book, Had It Coming, with investigative journalist Robyn Doolittle.
Don’t miss out on what is sure to be a fascinating conversation!
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