Let's Celebrate!
Authors’ associations rallied to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Public Lending Right Program.
Throughout the year, several events engaged writers, playwrights, poets, translators, authors and the public.
- Reading: Un acte d’amour, Lire: An Act of Love, was organized by the Literary Translators’ Association, l'UNEQ and the Quebec Writers' Federation where they acknowledged the PLR's 25th anniversary. (September, 2011)
- The Canadian Authors Association commissioned a poster celebrating the PLR's anniversary to use at their various events at Word on the Street (Vancouver). Bernice Lever, a member of the PLR Commission, hosted a talk about PLR. (September, 2011)
- The Playwrights Guild of Canada organized a series of readings in public libraries in PLR’s honour around Culture Days. (September, 2011)
- Ken McGoogan, Chair of the PLR Commission, was a featured speaker at Edmonton's LitFest.(October, 2011)
- The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) partnered with the Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCU) and the Public Lending Right (PLR) and launched a project called Listen, I read, as part of the program imagineaction. Visit the Canadian Teachers’ Federation youtube page to see the videos of the Council’s spoke persons, Michelle Legault (in English), Executive Secretary, Public Lending Right Program and Diane Miljours (in French), program officer, Governor General Literary Awards, and the CTF president, Paul Taillefer. Visit the GGs webpage to see the videos of the pilot projects.
- Public libraries were invited to celebrate the PLR Program and the GG Awards by showcasing Canadian books.(November 2011)
- On February 11th, 2012, the UNEQ, the BAnQ and the QWF combined their efforts to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Public Lending Right Program with a conference/lecture titled: L’écrivain dans la bibliothèque.
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