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Thin Air is Coming Up!

Have you checked out Thin Air? AKA The Winnipeg International Writers Festival?

Yes? Great! They have soon pretty nifty events coming up, so check ‘em out by clicking here.

No? Well, we can fix that right now by clicking here.

Have fun!

Used Book Sale this Weekend!

From our friends at Thin Air:

This weekend’s USED BOOK SALE at The Forks Market is a treasure-seeker’s paradise. Books are cheap ($5 hardcover, $2 soft cover, plus lots of $1 bargain books) and the selection is amazing. Especially rich picking in literature, kids/teen, SF/fantasy, & GLBT. We’ll be there Saturday, Sunday, & Monday, 9:30 – 6:30. Cash, debit, credit. Please drop by! Find something perfect & support the festival at the same time!

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Coming soon from Thin Air

Just passing this along from our friends at Thin Air: The Winnipeg International Writers Festival.

 

NEWS FROM THIN AIR:

1. This weekend’s USED BOOK SALE at The Forks Market is a treasure-seeker’s paradise. Books are cheap ($5 hardcover, $2 soft cover, plus lots of $1 bargain books) and the selection is amazing. Especially rich picking in literature, kids/teen, SF/fantasy, & GLBT. We’ll be there Saturday, Sunday, & Monday, 9:30 – 6:30. Cash, debit, credit. Please drop by! Find something perfect & support the festival …

Book Sale

We all have them. That stack of books on your bookshelf or desk (or the floor) that you really don’t want anymore but don’t know what to do with.

So here’s some good news. Thin Air wants your books! They will be having a book sale over the September long weekend to raise money for the Winnipeg International Writers Festival.

They’re taking pretty much everything except magazines and National Geographic.

Drop off your books during business hours at the festival office: top floor of Artspace, …

THIN AIR 2011 presents Peter Robinson, aka, Inspector BANKS

THIN AIR – the WInnipeg International Writers Festival is having a fundraiser this weekend:
so if you are or know of someone who has:

a) a love for all things mystery writing

b) a love for all things THIN AIR – the Winnipeg International Writers Festival

c) a couple dollars and a sincere desire to support the Arts in Winnipeg
YOU SHOULD COME!

THIN AIR 2011 presents Peter Robinson, aka, Inspector BANKS

Saturday, June 11 ·
8:00pm- 11:00pm
MTYP (2 Forks Market
Road, Winnipeg, MB)

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Thin Air 2011 Presents Peter Robinson

Saturday, June 11th @ 8 pm join the Winnipeg International Writers Festival at MTYP, 2 Forks Market Road for a lovely little fundraiser!

We’re excited to invite everyone to an evening with the internationally celebrated Peter Robinson, crime writer extraordinaire. Chief Inspector Banks has wound his way through nineteen books now, and readers around the world have connected with his wit, his acuity, and his all-too-real collection of foibles.

Peter Robinson will read from his most recent novel, Bad Boy, and talk with festival director …

Thin Air 2011 Presents Peter Robinson

Saturday, June 11th @ 8 pm join the Winnipeg International Writers Festival at MTYP, 2 Forks Market Road for a lovely little fundraiser!

We’re excited to invite everyone to an evening with the internationally celebrated Peter Robinson, crime writer extraordinaire. Chief Inspector Banks has wound his way through nineteen books now, and readers around the world have connected with his wit, his acuity, and his all-too-real collection of foibles.

Peter Robinson will read from his most recent novel, Bad Boy, and talk with festival director …

A Beautiful Tribute to Michael from Charlene Diehl

The wonderful Charlene Diehl, Director of Thin Air, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, remarks on the passing of her dear friend Michael Van Rooy, who among his many hats was Thin Air’s Audience Development Coordinator – at thinairwinnipeg.ca…

Notably Notables at THIN AIR 2010

Thin Air is going on this week and we are just plum excited about it! If you don’t know, Thin Air is the Winnipeg International Writers Festival that takes place every September when writers from all over descend upon our great city and show us fair writerly types what they are working on. There is truly something for everyone. Every night there’s a main stage panel at MTYP in the Forks, and other events take place across the city.

Some things we’re going to make …

The Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba Performs for THIN AIR 2010

OOOO this’ll be fuuuuuun… join the ABORIGINAL Writers Collective of Manitoba for a little irreverence, AQUA BOOKS – 274 Garry Street, Friday, September 24th, 10:30-11:30 PM. It’s a late night AfterWords show for Thin Air – the Winnipeg International Writers Festival….

“Wherever members of Winnipeg’s Aboriginal Writers Collective gather, there’s bound to be incisive observation and raucous laughter—often in equal measure. This is First Nations storytelling for the twenty-first century!”

Performing at THIN AIR 2010 are Duncan Mercredi, Jordan Wheeler, Shayla Elizabeth, Maeengan Linklater, Marie …