Get the Word at the Lethbridge Public Library as the thirteenth annual Word On The Street returns to the Lethbridge Public Library, Saturday Sept. 23 from 11 a.m.- 5 p.m.
There will be live music, workshops face painting, family fun and lots of authors on seven different stages including an Indigenous stage inside the library.
Word on the Street is the keystone event for Arts Days, so with that in mind, The Allied Arts Council will be collaborating with Word on the Street for a variety of activities this year.
“We‘re excited to have Word on the Street as a live event. It’s going to be a wonderful experience,” said Elisabeth Hegarat Word on the Street organizer and Lethbridge Public Library manager of Community Advancement.
“We were online in 2020 and 2021 and were live last year. And we‘ve got another milestone coming up,” Hegarat continued.
She said there is a usual mix of non fiction, fiction, First Nations , local authors and children and teen authors scheduled to speak and read from their works.
Some of Hegerat’s festival’s highlights include prairie poet Syd Marty, who has a new book about the Oldman River, Ann Marie MacDonald, who has a new historical fiction book about a family living on the border of England and Scotland in the nineteenth century called ‘Fayne: A Novel.”
“ I can’t wait to read that,’ Hegerat said, adding she is also excited to see artist and author Hali Heavy Shield’s new picture book and John Vaillant’s new book on the Fort McMurray wildfires “ Making of the Beast.”
Hegerat is excited about a new collaboration with the Allied Arts Council who will be adding demonstrations of a variety of artistic endeavours including woodturning and a one pound clay challenge which means the Allied Arts Council will be bringing the clay turning wheel d from casa and the first 200 people will get to make something and have it fired in casa‘s kiln.