Wordfest™ beams out from Calgary, Alberta in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, Treaty 7 territory. We are an entrepreneurial arts non-profit founded in 1996 as one of Canada’s leading literary festivals. Our goal? To help audiences of all ages think bigger, dig deeper, and build meaningful relationships with the world’s most compelling authors (prioritizing Canadian talent). Whether you love fiction or non-fiction, memoir or mysteries, food culture or pop culture, politics or poetry, major prize winners or breakout stars, a Wordfest show is the exclamation between the book being written and the book being read.Our unique (and free) Wordfest Youth program focuses on Grades 5 to 12 to fuel teen literacy, providing interactive experiences and class sets of books to thousands of students every year. Thanks to donors like you, we’ve given out thousands of books by contemporary, relevant, award-winning Canadian authors (often the first books teens are able to claim as their own). Our small team’s mission has evolved to include producing lively, accessible shows year-round, in addition to the fall Imaginairium (Canada’s Liveliest Literary Festival). We also produce Imagine On Air Audio to make our programming even more accessible. If you enjoy everything Wordfest does to meaningfully connect audiences of all ages with life-changing ideas, please consider making a donation today. For questions about charitable giving, please contact Everett Wilson, Senior Director of Development and Audience Engagement at ewilson@wordfest.com.