“To have a healthy culture you have to have
stable health care financing
and stable arts financing
and stable sports financing,
and if you don’t have that,
your culture becomes a parking lot.”
Douglas Coupland, New York Times
The Whistler Readers & Writers Festival returns October 14-17 2010 with an all-star line-up of authors, and 14 killer seminars.
Here is your opportunity to keep our cultural paradise unpaved!
Presenting sponsor slots are now available for each for ten of the seminars.
For the support of $500, your patronage supports the hosting of a 2 hour workshop or seminar with world-renowned and/or locally-grown writers.
For this Douglas Coupland level of sponsorship, you will also receive:
• “Presenting sponsor” billing on the festival program
• Your logo on the Festival poster
• 2 tickets to the event you are presenting
• 2 tickets to the Saturday night Gala (which you could give to staff as an incentive, use yourself, or give away in a contest…)
The Joni Mitchell level of sponsorship, at $1000, will also provide:
• an ad in the local papers highlighting your specific seminar, with prominent logo placement and presenting sponsor acknowledgement
• a dedicated blogpost on the Whistler Writers blog about your business
This year, the Whistler Readers & Writers Festival has partnered with the Vancouver International Readers & Writers Festival, and is set to enjoy an unprecedented level of attendance and exposure. We invite you to be part of the 9th Festival, as we move towards our decade anniversary in 2011!
Whistler Readers & Writers Festival.
October 14-17, 2010
Fresh air means fresh ideas.
Write deliberately.
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http://whistlerwriters.wordpress.com
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For more information, email stella25@telus.net for a detailed sponsorship kit and presenter’s bios.
Or you can pick your preferred session to present, and send a cheque post-haste to The Whistler Writers Group.
Seminar options:
Presented by Pasta Lupino and Burnt Stew Computer Solutions Thursday Oct 14: Book Launch with Leslie Anthony, debuting his new book White Planet: A Mad Dash through Modern Global Ski Culture, Whistler Public Library, 7pm
Friday Oct 15: Opening Night: Pecha Kucha Night 3, and Spoken Word Artist performance from C.R. Avery, Maxx Fish, 7pm
Saturday, Oct 16: Where Traditional and Digital Media Collide, Aava Hotel: 9 – 10:15am Procrastination or Poetry Nation: is twitter the death or resurrection of good writing? Mike Berard and Allie Jenkinson.
10:30 – 11:45 - How to podcast to make your website more interesting. Paula Shackleton.
Presented by Street to Peak 12:30 – 1:45 Me, me, me! How to build your new media savvy for wanton self-promotion, with Lisa Richardson
Presented by Performance Painting 2:00 – 3:15 The New Paradigm: the book is dead and who is in the nursery? New ways of telling stories. Merilyn Simonds, Russell Wangersky, Wayne Grady and Kate Pullinger, about life on the literary edge of the digital divide.
3:30 – 4:40 The State of Book Publishing Today with Kathy Page, Jenn Farrell, Kate Pullinger, Merilyn Simonds and Russell Wangersky
Saturday, Oct 16: How to Craft a Good Story, Aava Hotel: 9-10:15 – The Power of a Good Story with Michel Beaudry
Presented by The Whistler Grocery Store 10:30-11:45 – Writing Your Life with Brian Brett
12:30-1:45 – Characters and Conflict – Keeping your story moving with Sara Leach
2:00 – 3:15 – The prickly art of self-editing with Rebecca Wood Barrett
3:30-4:40 – Where do we go from here? What to do with all this beta, with Michel Beaudry, Brian Brett, Sara Leach and Rebecca Wood Barrett
5:00 pm – 6:15pm Write. Fight. Love. Four writers dish the dirt on what happens when someone else’s characters are part of your domestic landscape… or when characters bearing an uncanny resemblance to you appear in your loved one’s work. Husband and wife writers Merilyn Simonds and Wayne Grady, Patricia Young and Terence Young
7:30-10:30 GALA readings and music with guest authors Kathy Page, Merilyn Simonds, Wayne Grady, Russell Wangersky, Brian Brett, Kate Pullinger, Jenn Farrell, Terence Young, Patricia Young, Caroline Adderson
Huge thanks also to Don Wensley, Routley Consulting, Le Scandinave Spa and Guestfolio for their support.
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