Book Launch
Giselle Vriesen
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada“Why We Play With Fire”. This debut Young Adult Fantasy novel, is a thrilling journey of self-discovery and magical intrigue. Thea finds herself transported to a house for the children of gods, where she must retrieve lost keys while navigating secrets, rival schools, and her own doubts, all before the shadow creatures catch up to […]
An Evening of Poetry and Music
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaRaven Chapbooks presents: Diana Hayes, Celia Meade, & Karl Meade Three Salt Spring poets reading interspersed with live music by Screech Owl, featuring acclaimed musician and filmmaker Ando Leuchter. Diana Hayes, publisher for Raven Chapbooks, will read from her recent book, Sapphire and the Hollow Bone, with poems that celebrate nature’s resilience and the inherent […]
Andrea Fritz
Children's AreaAndrea Fritz is a Coast Salish Author, Artist & Educator, from the Lyackson First Nation of the Hul’qumi’num speaking Peoples. She will read from her newest children’s book Crow Helps a Friend. In this original story set in Coast Salish Traditional Territory, Fritz uses Indigenous storytelling techniques and art to share the culture and language […]
Tamar Griggs
Book Launch with Salt Spring author Tamar Griggs, Tamar at Sea. Signed, special edition books will be available for purchase.
Chidakash Jordan
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaDance On! Love Beyond Grief by Chidakash Jordan An empowering evening that can transform loss with a long-needed conversation of life, death and what happens next.
Maria Coffey – Postponed
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaPostponed Maria Coffey reads from her new book Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life - A Memoir. The Salt Spring Trail & Nature Club presents Coffey with her compelling memoir about opting for adventure instead of motherhood, and the lifelong outcomes of that choice. Winner of the 2023 […]
Book Launch and Journaling for Self-Love Workshop
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaJoin Lynda Monk to celebrate the launch of Affirmations for Self-Love: A Motivational Journal with Prompts for Self-Worth, Self-Acceptance, & Positive Self-Talk. Be inspired to go to the page to Journal for Self-Love in this one hour mini-workshop. Bring your journal and favourite pen to this nourishing and creative time together. Take time to go […]
William Deverell
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaJoin us for an evening with bestselling author William Deverell. His new book The Log-Shot Trial will soon be in bookstores. Arthur Beauchamp is mortified. A revised biography of his early career as a lawyer paints him as a dissolute womanizer. So he decides to write a memoir to set the record straight as he […]
Maggie Squires
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaMaggie Squires launches her book A Wild Life and a Dog Called Brown with a spectacular slide show of the Yukon Mountains where the story unfolds. A heartfelt tribute to a puppy, adopted with hesitation, who became a faithful, loving, supportive companion to a group of strong, independent ‘sisters’ bonded by a love of mountains, […]
Margaret Sullivan
Book Launch of "Jacinta's Orderly World" by Margaret Sullivan. Margaret Sullivan is a much published author and poet who lives on Salt Spring Island, where she edits The Journal of Undiscovered Poets. There will be copies available for purchase. A wonderful event for families, great for kids aged 5-9.