2022 schedule & TICKETS
Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
Thursday, June 23 - Sunday, June 26 | Admission to all events (except workshops, Sunday concert, & Blue Pencil mentoring)
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
2022 - 2023 | $1 to show your support for the written arts in the Kootenays!
THURSDAY, JUNE 23
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
9 a.m. - noon (and Friday, June 24, 9 a.m. - noon) | Two-day skills course | With Bob Keating
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. | Hands-on skills, by donation | With 2022 Writer-in-Residence Shaena Lambert
FRIDAY, JUNE 24
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
9 a.m. - noon (and Thursday, June 23, 9 a.m. - noon) Please register by June 16 | Two-day skills course | With Bob Keating
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
7:30 - 9:30 p.m. | Feature presentation | With Ellen Burt, Lucas Myers, and Magpie Ulysses
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
9 a.m. - noon | Half-day skills course | With Magpie Ulysses
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | Suzanne Simard, Tom Wayman, Matty Kakes & Avi Phillips
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
2 - 3 p.m. | Shaena Lambert, Angie Abdou, Lucas Myers & Brian Lye
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
7:30 - 9:30 p.m. | Feature presentation | With best-selling author Angie Abdou, 2022 Writer-in-Residence Shaena Lambert, international bestselling author Dr. Suzanne Simard, and 2022 George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award winner Tom Wayman.
SUNDAY, JUNE 26
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?
10 a.m. - noon | Social event | at Port 701, Prestige Lakeside Resort, with Festival authors & team
BLUE PENCIL MENTORING (Please register by June 10, or contact us)
- Sep 17, 2023, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The End Times are over, and you survived in Nelson’s Bunker. The doors are about to open, and you are invited to enter a new world. Who are you now? What will you find? What kind of community emerges from the Bunker? What do you leave behind, and what do you carry forward?