Tag: literary festival

Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, 23 -26 April 2026: Online. 13 April 2026: In person, Montreal, Canada.

The 28th edition of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival will revolve around the theme: “Words for Understanding One Another”. As in past years, the Festival will be full of interviews, discussions, lectures, debates, masterclasses and more to delight our audiences. Discover all the festival has to offer below.

The Blue Metropolis Literary Festival is also a Youth Festival which takes place in April until early May. Across many libraries, schools and institutions in Montreal, there will be meet and greets, animated workshops and many more events with various children’s authors. The new Draw Me A Sun exposition will also be on display in 4 libraries across Montreal.

Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, 28 April-4 May, 2022: Online. 5-8 May, 2022: In person, Montreal, Canada.

The 24th Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival offers numerous thought-provoking, unbridled, multilingual authors and multicultural events in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew, Welsh, Ukrainian and Arabic. The Festival is thrilled to be back with live events from May 5-8 and FREE online from Apr. 28-May 4. Explore contemporary literary conversations, performances and launches, with science and ecology’s relationships to literature, and ‘age, time and literature’ as some of this year’s themes, centering around the question: What age are we? Planet, society, people. In addition, this year there will be a special focus on Ukraine during the in-person sessions. Ukraine is in the throes of a tragedy. What can literature do against war? Plenty—war is inhuman; literature is one of the best outlets humanity has to offer.

Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, Montreal, Canada (Online, and later outdoors), April 24-May 2, 2021.

Starting April 24 and running until May 2, the spring programming of the 23rd Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival will be in full swing, along with the TD-Blue Metropolis Children’s Festival. Online and later outdoors, more than 50 eclectic events with 200 artists will delight eyes and minds around the theme, The Challenges of Our Times. Free multilingual events in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic take the form of captivating panels, debates and interviews. Events are added daily and will remain online.

This would be a good place for those who wish to find books that start conversations about cultural identity, cultural difference, intercultural communication, and intercultural.