Join prominent Canadian writers and leaders in the arts, business, and society for a national conversation on connection. An onstage conversation with prizewinning authors Marcello Di Cintio, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Jenny Heijun Wills moderated by Shelley Youngblut, Wordfest’s CEO & Creative Ringleader, at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks. Writers’ Trust of Canada is a charitable organization that supports Canadian writers and writing – and we turned 50 this year. To mark our anniversary, we are putting on special events in cities across the country, including in Calgary. About our Authors: Marcello Di Cintio won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2012 for Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. He is a journalist and the author of six books of deeply reported nonfiction, the most recent of which is Precarious: The Lives Migrant Workers. Guy Vanderhaeghe won the Timothy Findley Award for his outstanding body of work, which already at that time in 2004, included four novels and three short story collections. He was nominated for the 2021 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for his tenth book, August into Winter. Jenny Heijun Wills won the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for her memoir, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related., and in 2024 she was nominated for the same prize for her essay collection, Everything and Nothing At All. Our Moderator: Shelley Youngblut is the CEO & Creative Ringleader of Wordfest. She was the recipient of the 2020 Calgary Award for Community Achievement in the Arts and the 2018 Rozsa Award for Arts Leadership. She also won the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Western Magazine Awards. With 50 years of supporting writers as the truth-tellers of our world, Writers’ Trust of Canada believes that we need writers to help us navigate the future. Writers’ Trust beneficiaries of 50 years of literary programming will bring their ideas to stages and communities across the country with the goal of helping us see that, despite how it can feel in tumultuous times, there is more that connects us than divides us. Parking is available weekdays after 5:00PM and on weekends. The parkade code will not work outside of these hours, so anyone arriving before 5:00PM will need to fi nd street parking and can move their car into the parkade after 5:00PM. The show starts promptly at the performance time stated above. Please allow extra time to arrive at the theatre as roads may be busy with closures. PARKING INFORMATION: The DJD Dance Centre has free underground parking available to valid ticket holders on the date of their performance on a first come, first serve basis. There is also ample street parking and surface lots available near the DJD Dance Centre. • Enter the alley behind the Kahanoff Centre off of Centre Street • Stick to the left and note the keypad on the wall • Enter Code: 0072 5678# • An alarm sound will go off, this means the door is opening • You can park in any space available (EXCLUDING SPOTS RESERVED 24/7). • Please re-enter code to enter vestibule and access the elevator. • For more details see attached visual parking guide on DJD website. PLEASE NOTE: Patrons may only use the parkade while attending a show at the DJD Centre. Guests are not permitted to leave cars in the parkade after the performance/event is finished. If your car is left in the parkade, you will be towed at your own expense. If you have any questions, please contact the DJD Front Desk at: 403-245-3533