2025 Festival Schedule (July 18-20)

 

Friday - 18th

8:30
Registration

9:15
Opening

9:45-10:45
Solo: Adam Shoalts

11:00-12:00
Solo: Fiona Tinwei Lam

12:15-1:15

Lunch

1:30-2:30

Solo: Caroline Adderson

2:45-3:45
Solo: John Vaillant

4:00-5:00
Solo: Sarah Leavitt

5:00-5:30
Happy Hour
Music by Randy Duncan

5:30-7:30
Dinner

7:30-9:00
Main Stage: Lenore Newman, Janika Oza and Timothy Taylor in
conversation with Evelyn Gillespie. Exile to invention: narratives of
displacement and becoming.

 

Saturday - 19th

9:00
Registration

9:15-10:15 
Solo: Drew Hayden Taylor

10:30-11:30
Solo: Janika Oza

11:45-12:45
Lunch

1:00-2:00
Solo: Timothy Taylor

2:15-3:15
Solo: Lenore Newman

3:30-5:00
Denman Writers

5:00-5:30
Happy Hour
Music by Randy Duncan 

5:30-7:30
Dinner 

7:30-9:00
Main Stage: Caroline Adderson, Sarah Leavitt, Fiona Tinwei Lam in conversation with Stephanie Slater. Diving into Darkness to find our
humanity/joy/compassion. 

Sunday - 20th

9:30-10:30 
Main Stage: Adam Shoalts in conversation with Ken Madsen: Surviving Wilderness While Keeping an Eye on the Birds

10:40-11:40 
Main Stage: John Vaillant talks with local author, Des Kennedy: Creating gripping Narratives as in his best-selling Fire Weather

11:50-12:50 
Main Stage: Drew Hayden Taylor: Looking for my Place in the Story.