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  2007 November 1 - 4: GGK will be Toastmaster for the World Fantasy Convention in 2007, to be held in Saratoga Springs, New York, from November 1st to 4th. The official website is: http://www.lastsfa.org/wfc2007/ May 1: Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge (about 30 minutes north of Toronto) will host a 'May Day Books and Authors Event', interviewing Canadian authors Barbara Gowdy and Guy Gavriel Kay, Tuesday, May 1, at Wooden Sticks Golf Club, at 7:30 p.m. Ms. Gowdy, author of the bestselling The White Bone, will speak about her newest book Helpless and Mr. Kay will discuss his book Ysabel. The audience will sit at tables, with refreshments of cheese and wine provided, and will have the opportunity to ask questions. Tickets are $20 at Blue Heron Books. Phone: (905) 852-4282 April 11th, Yale: 7 pm, Barnes & Noble at Yale: 77 Broadway, New Haven February 19, San Francisco, 7.30 p.m, Kepler's Bookstore (1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park) February 17, San Francisco, 4 pm (Saturday), Borderlands Bookstore February 16, Seattle, 7pm, University of Washington Book Store February 15, Vancouver, The Vancouver International Writers Festival, The Georgia Straight, Simon Fraser University and Penguin Group Canada are pleased to present Guy Gavriel Kay reading from his new novel, Ysabel. 7:30 pm at the Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre, in conversation with John Burns, Books Editor from the Georgia Straight. Room 1900, Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street. Tickets are $12 and will be available January 17 by phone at 604.681.6330 or in person at White Dwarf Books, 3715 West Tenth Avenue, Vancouver. February 13, Victoria, 7pm, Bolen Books, 111-1644 Hillside Ave. In store event February 12, Winnipeg, McNally Robinson - in the bookstore cafe, 1120 Grant Avenue 7:30-9:00 pm February 9: Calgary, McNally Robinson hosting, at Knox United Church, 6.30pm, 506 4th Street SW February 7: Edmonton, Greenwoods Bookshop, 7:30 pm, 7925 104th st, Event in store January 27: Boston 3:15 PM (Saturday), Signing at Harvard Book Store (US launch of Ysabel) January 26-28: GGK will be guest of honour at Vericon, the annual convention of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association, to be held at Harvard on the weekend of January 26-28, 2007. This will also be, by a nice accident of timing, the launch of Ysabel in the United States - the first reading and signings for it. The Vericon website is at http://www.vericon.org/main.html for further details. January 23: Toronto - Hart House Theatre, 7:30 pm, Mark Askwith interviewing on stage and GGK reading. January 22: Ottawa - The Clock Tower Brew Pub, lower level private events room, 7 -8.30 pm 575 Bank Street (at Isabella) Hosted by Perfect Books. 2006 November 25-30: GGK will be in St Petersburg, Russia from November 25-27 and in Moscow from 28-30, at the invitation of the Canadian Embassy and the Non/Fiction book fair taking place in Moscow. There will be signings and interviews in both cities on behalf of his Russian publishers, Sekatchev, and details will be posted as they emerge. October 26-29: GGK has accepted a jointly-issued invitation from the Belgrade Book Fair, the Canadian Consulate in Serbia, and his publishers there, Laguna, to attend the Fair from October 26-29, 2006 to promote Laguna's launch of Sailing to Sarantium - the first of his titles to appear in Serbia. October 21-25: GGK be touring Croatia (for the 3rd time) to help Algoritam launch The Summer Tree - Fionavar being, ironically, the last of GGK's works to be published in that country. September 14: Something a little different. GGK will play a small role in an evening featuring brightweavings' resident artist and musician, Martin Springett. Namely: "An Evening of Words and Music", featuring readings by Guy Gavriel Kay, Caitlin Sweet and R. Scott Bakker. Music inspired by their works composed and played by Martin Springett, guitar and voice, with Chris Mkhool on violin, Rahlen Sullaphen on bass and Andy MacKay on percussion. Performance begins at 8 pm., Merril Collection Library, 239 College St, Toronto. June 4th: GGK has accepted an invitation to read at the Elora Writer's Festival on June 4th. Elora is a genuinely charming small town about 90 minutes from Toronto. Details here: http://www.artscouncil.elora.on.ca/WW04/ewf2004.htm May 8-14: GGK has agreed to be a one-week online writer-in-residence (of sorts) at Writer's Dock, a UK-based site for writers of all kinds. He'll be logging in and answering posted questions from May 10-16. The brightweavings denizens are very much invited to stop by and have a look, or post queries of their own (subversively or otherwise). You DO need to log in. Here's some
abbreviated site information: May 5-7th: GGK will be the guest of honour at the Congres Boreal, an SF convention in Montreal. It will be held at Université Concordia. Details on their website here: http://www.congresboreal.ca/ April 7: GGK has agreed, on short notice, to participate in Words in Whitby, a gala evening event near Toronto, on Friday, April 7th starting at 6:30 pm. There's a cocktail reception, an onstage interview (done by Ted Barris of CBC), and then a reading followed by a signing with coffee and desert. The other author appearing for the event is David Gilmour, winner of this year's Governor General's Award for fiction in Canada. Given the somewhat stylish context, there's a somewhat steep admission of $25. Details at http://www.whitbylibrary.on.ca/wiw.php March 31-April 2: GGK will be making an appearance at Ad Astra, the 25th anniversary of the major Toronto sf convention. It takes place at the Crown Plaza Don Valley Hotel on the weekend of March 31 to April 2. The website is ad-astra.org for hotel and registration info. He'll be there most of the Saturday, doing, among other things, a panel with brightweaving's own Martin Springett on authors and artists, and a reading (no not yet from the new book), as well as the traditional mass signing with all the attending authors. It is also worth noting that Martin will be closing the convention with a concert, late Sunday afternoon. February 11: GGK will be speaking and signing at Barnes & Noble in Oakland, California, at 7 pm, Saturday, February 11th. Address is 98 Broadway. Phone: (510) 272-0120. February 10: GGK will be reading, signing, and chatting over wine on Friday, February 10, 7 pm, at Bay Books, 316 Alvarado St., Monterey, California. 2005 November 18-20: GGK has accepted an invitation from Alire to appear at the Salon du Livre in Montreal. He'll also be Guest of Honour at the Boreal Convention in Montreal in May 2006. Details: November 5: GGK will be reading at this year's gritLIT festival in Hamilton, Ontario. The festival runs November 4th-6th at the newly opened Downtown Cultural Centre in Hamilton. The reading is scheduled for 3.30p.m. Saturday November 5th. (gritLit takes its name from Hamilton's proud reputation as a 'gritty city'.) October 5: GGK will be reading with other Sunburst Award nominees on the presentation night, as part of the Harbourfront Reading Series in Toronto. September 20: GGK will be reading from Beyond This Dark House at the Art Bar Poetry series at 8 pm on September 20th at the Victory Café (scene of DebCon1 during Torcon!), 581 Markham Street (1 blk. west and south of Bathurst and Bloor) in Toronto. 2004 December 10: For all those in the south of France (or the annoying ability to get there easily), GGK will be reading from The Last Light of the Sun in "Book in Bar" the English-language bookstore in Aix en Provence, at #1 r Joseph Cabassol. Reading is at 6 pm, followed by drinks, cheese, conversation. Copies of all books will be available in French and English. October 3-5: GGK will be Guest of Honour at Icon '04 - the Israeli SF convention held in Tel Aviv. Details of the program can be found at http://www.icon.org.il. Including a panel discussing GGK's books in which his his esteemed webmistress will be one of the panelists (gulp). June 23: GGK will be doing a book signing session at Bennington Gate Books in St John's, Newfoundland, at 7pm on Wednesday 23rd June. June 3-5: GGK has accepted an invitation to be a Guest at the first Mythic Journeys Conference in Atlanta. This is an ambitious gathering of novelists, poets, artists, musicians, and academics sponsored in part by the Joseph Campbell Foundation. Details are here: http://www.mythicjourneys.org April 3: GGK has now confirmed he will be attending the Ad Astra Convention at the Crown Plaza Don Valley Hotel in Toronto, this Saturday, April 3rd, (that day only) and signing books at 3:30pm. March 1-17, Last Light of the Sun Tour March 17: GGK will be doing the Toronto launch of The Last Light of the Sun at the Harbourfront Centre as part of their Reading Series, at 7:30 pm on March 17th. He'll read, and then be interviewed on stage by Mark Askwith, of the SPACE channel. The schedule for signings and readings for the Canadian tour (March 1-12) will also be posted as soon as I have it. December 10: GGK will be participating in the annual on-stage reading of Dickens's A Christmas Carol as a fundraiser for charity at Toronto University's Hart House at 7.30pm. Five distinguished alumni of the university read the work, with the Hart House Choir performing in between staves. A reception for performers and audience will follow. It takes place at the Great Hall in Hart House. For more information, check out their website. September 30: The Toronto branch of the Editors' Association of Canada is hosting 'A Celebration of Words', a reading series to be held on Tuesday, September 30 and Tuesday, October 7, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. each evening. On September 30, Guy Gavriel Kay will read from his new book of poetry, Beyond This Dark House. You can also enjoy readings from additional authors on both evenings. 'A Celebration of Words' be held in the Hart House Library, second floor, at 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto. Admission is free. April 2003: With the publication of Beyond this Dark House in early April, GGK is going to be doing several appearances as part of a brief tour: 2002 November 15-17: GGK will be in Montreal for the Salon du Livre. GGK will be at the Alire booth (#328-330) on the Friday night (the 15th) from 6-8 pm, with further signings Saturday 10:30-12, 1:30-3 and 4:30-6, and Sunday from 12 - 1:30, and 3 to 4. Readers who arrive with flasks of single malt scotch, given that schedule, will be especially welcome! The Salon is open to the public (with an admission fee) and takes place at the Bonaventure Hilton. August 9-11: GGK has agreed to replace George R.R. Martin as Guest of Honour at CONVERSION 19/CANVENTION 22, the Canadian National SF Convention, at the Metropolitan Centre in Calgary, from August 9th to 11th. The convention website is at http://www.con-version.org . July 26-27: GGK has accepted an invitation to appear at the Festival of Words, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, (his first-ever reading in the province where he was born), on July 26th and 27th. The Festival website is here http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/praifes/ April 16-20: GGK will be doing a media and speaking tour in Croatia next week, to assist the launch of the Algoritam edition of A Song for Arbonne - the last of his books to be published in that country. The two volumes of The Sarantine Mosaic appeared in the fall, and were national bestsellers there. He'll be speaking in Zagreb on April 16th, then in Split (the site of Diocletian's Palace!) and at the national librarians' conference in Novi Vinodolski, and then will be signing books back in Zagreb on the 20th. There's a remarkably well-timed query on the Forums here as to whether he'll ever visit Croatia (he was there five years ago, for a similar launch of Tigana and Lions). March 17-18: GGK will be speaking and reading in Vancouver, B.C. twice in March. At the Richmond Public Library on Sunday, March 17th at 3 PM, and on Monday the 18th at 7 PM at the Isaac Waldman Jewish Public Library. Both readings are funded by the Canada Council. February 8-10: GGK will be Writer Guest of Honour at Ad Astra, Toronto's annual SF convention. GGK will be delivering a variant of the 'Home and Away' speech, offering a reading, appearing on a couple of panels, signing books, and establishing what single malts are available in the bar. On the Saturday night, Martin Springett and his band will do a long set of music inspired by the works of Tolkien and Kay. Word is that they are wonderful. The other Guest of Honour is John Howe, flying in from New Zealand and his work on the Tolkien film. Howe's work can also be seen here - he's done several of GGK's UK covers. 2001 November 29: GGK will be appearing at the University of Waterloo in Ontario at 1 pm on the afternoon of November 29th, giving a lecture/address on contemporary use of Arthurian motifs. The core audience is a class studying Arthurian Literature under Professor Kathy McArthur, but the university will advertise it as an 'open' appearance and all are welcome. November 1-4: The 2001 World Fantasy Convention takes place in Montreal, Canada this year. GGK has confirmed that he will be attending. September 28-30: GGK will be appearing at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, where the Sunburst Award (for which he is nominated) will be presented. The award ceremony is on the Saturday afternoon, and he'll be doing a reading on Sunday night. For more information on the festival, click through to their website. June 4th: GGK will be the keynote speaker in Orillia, Ontario, at the annual conference of the College Association of Language and Learning (CALL), which is an association of all faculty teaching English in Ontario's 25 Community Colleges. This is mostly in the way of a 'for your information' as admission is not open to the public. GGK has written that he'll try to get me a copy of his speech to post on Brightweavings, though, shortly after the event. April 23rd: GGK will be speaking at Hart House Library at the University of Toronto, by invitation of Woodsworth College, on April 23 at 7 pm. It will be a reading session followed by questions. April 21st: GGK will be participating in the EOS Books online convention on the afternoon of April 21st. He will be participating in two chats. The first is titled 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep, and Looking In,' and will address the role of the outsider (as character or as author) in speculative and fantasy fiction. The other panelists appearing with him will be Dave Duncan, Teresa Edgerton, and Juliet McKenna. This chat will occur at 1pm, EDT. The second chat is titled 'What if John Wilkes Booth Shot My Grandfather?' and will address the employing of history and alternative histories as springboards for fantastic fiction. For this chat, GGK will be appearing together with Susan Matthews, Sean Russell, and Pamela Sargent. This chat will take place at 3pm EDT. To participate, you must register with eoscon (it's free) at http://www.scifi.com/eoscon/ April 10th: GGK is doing an online chat for an Israeli fantasycon today, April 10th at 12.30pm EDT. Sorry for the last minute posting of this news (tech problems) but if you want to see the chat in progress, pop along to www.opus.co.il/chat.asp and choose the room 'Author's Chat' - you won't be able to participate by actually asking questions unless you're registered for the con, but you will be able to view it in progress. |
     
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