Bookmark’s Annual Soirée and 2025 Readerity Talk
Schedule
Thu, 23 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-03:00Location
Confederation Centre of the Arts | Charlottetown, PE
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Join Bookmark October 23rd at 7 pm in Studio One, Confederation Centre of the Arts for the annual Bookmark Soirée and enjoy an evening of stimulating conversation with other book people. The highlight of the evening will be the 2025 Bookmark Readerity Talk Conversations with Books by Charlottetown award-winning author Bren Simmers who will be in conversation with Deirdre Kessler and John Flood. Refreshments will be served. If you would like to attend, please rsvp to [email protected].The Readerity Series, now in its 7th year, is a Bookmark initiative to promote books and reading. The idea is to give voice to Atlantic Canadian authors and their thoughts on the value of books and reading. Each author’s contribution is preserved in a limited-edition chapbook, which is given away free at the event.
Bookmark’s passion for books and reading, and its motivation for this project, is well articulated in a quote from Mark Hansen, a professor of political science, who said, “The bookseller’s passion – for books, for the experience of reading, for the culture of the written word – is a source of inspiration for readers. Even more important, it is a crucial support for readers as they convey their enthusiasm to their children, their students, their friends, and their associates…We must cultivate readers as farmers tend their fields.”
The inspiration for Readerity evolved over several years through Bookmark’s interaction with James Roy, David Denby, Merilyn Simonds, Sheree Fitch, Andrew Steeves, Gary Dunfield and John Flood, who coined the word, Readerity and allowed us to use it.
BREN SIMMERS is the author of four poetry books including The Work, If, When, Night Gears, and Hastings-Sunrise. Her first book of non-fiction, Pivot Point, is a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe journey. Her work has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, CBC Poetry Prize, The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, Arc Poem of the Year Award, and was a finalist for, Governor General’s Award in Poetry, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Prize, the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award, and the City of Vancouver Book Award. When she isn’t writing, she is shepherding other people’s projects as the Managing Editor of Island Studies Press at UPEI
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Where is it happening?
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Confederation Centre (South), 120 Grafton St, Charlottetown, PE C1A, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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