Year-Round Shows

Celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2025, Wordfest™ produces lively, accessible shows year-round in addition to the fall Imaginairium Festival. Our goal is to help you think bigger, dig deeper, and build meaningful relationships. Sign up for our newsletter here to become a part of the vital Wordfest community. For questions or assistance booking tickets, please email us at boxoffice@wordfest.com

November

SOLD OUT - Wordfest & Taylor Centre  for the Performing Arts  Present Matty Matheson
SOLD OUT Wordfest Presents Matty Matheson

Nov 16 @ 1 PM MT 

Bella Concert Hall, The Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts @ MRU
18 Mt Royal Cir SW
SOLD OUT IN RECORD TIME! Click here to join the waitlist. (Thank you, Wordfesters, for your remarkable support. If you missed out on tickets, get yourself, your friends, family, supper club, and neighbours to sign up for our e-blast to ensure you are all the first to hear about even more stellar authors coming to Calgary this year.) YES CHEF! Wordfest & The Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts are thrilled to announce that Matty Matheson will be making an exclusive appearance at the Bella Concert Hall in Calgary on Saturday, Nov. 16 @ 1pm. Don't miss the acclaimed Canadian chef, bestselling author, actor, and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning series The Bear in conversation with CBC Radio's Paul Karchut. Your ticket to this unmissable experience includes a signed copy of Matty's new cookbook: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches. READ MORE
Wordfest Presents Marc Garneau
Wordfest Presents Marc Garneau

Nov 19 @ 7 PM MT $15 - $25

Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor
1221 2 St SW
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Wordfest is over the moon to present the first Canadian to fly to outer space, astronaut Marc Garneau and his captivating memoir, A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream. The don’t-miss conversation starts at 7PM MT and will be hosted by journalist and adventurer David Gray. This event includes an audience Q & A and book signing, fuelled by Owl’s Nest Books. READ MORE
Wordfest Presents Jody Wilson-Raybould
Wordfest Presents Jody Wilson-Raybould

Nov 27 @ 7 PM MT $15 - $25

Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor
1221 2 St SW
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Wordfest is thrilled to welcome back lawyer, politician, and best-selling author Jody Wilson-Raybould with her new book, co-written with Roshan Danesh, Reconciling History: A Story of Canada. It’s a continuation of the vital conversation fuelled by the history shared in True Reconciliation, which sparked one of Wordfest’s most meaningful in-person experiences in 2022. The conversation, hosted by Wordfest's Shelley Youngblut, includes an audience Q&A and book signing. READ MORE

About Us

Wordfest™ beams out from Calgary, Canada 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 small team’s mission (which is to connect the world’s best audiences with the world’s best authors) has evolved to include producing lively, accessible shows year-round, in addition to the fall Imaginairium Festival. 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. We also produce Imagine On Air Audio, as well as online programming.