From Penguin Canada, all the details.
These have been posted piecemeal all over the board, but they should have a thread of their own.

2007 Tour Dates for William Gibson (CANADA)
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Thursday, September 6, 7:00 PM
CBC Studio One Book Club (sponsored by CBC & The Georgia Straight)
775 Cambie Street, Vancouver BC
Tickets in advance ONLY at:
<A HREF="http://www.cbc.ca/bc/bookclub/williamgibson2.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.cbc.ca/bc/bookclub/williamgibson2.html

Tuesday, September 18, 7:00 PM
Bolen Books
111-1644 Hillside Avenue, Victoria BC
http://www.bolen.bc.ca/

Thursday, September 20, 7:30 PM
Hamilton Place (sponsored by A Different Drummer Books)
1 Summers Lane, Hamilton ON
905.639.0925

Friday, September 21, 7:30 PM
Bloor Street United Church (sponsored by Pages Books & Magazines / This Is Not A Reading Series)
300 Bloor Street West, Toronto ON
http://pagesbooks.ca/

Saturday, September 22, 7:30 PM
Library and Archives Canada (sponsored by The Ottawa International Writers Festival)
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa ON
http://www.writersfest.com</A>

Tuesday, September 25, 7:00 PM
University of Waterloo, Festival Room, South Campus Hall
200 University Avenue West
[URL=http://www.uwaterloo.ca]http://www.uwaterloo.ca

Thursday, September 27, 2:00 PM
Millennium Library, Carol Shields Auditorium (sponsored by Thin Air, Winnipeg International Writers Festival)
251 Donald Street, Winnipeg MB
http://winnipegwords.com

Friday, September 28, 2:30 PM
McNally Robinson Booksellers (sponsored by Thin Air, Winnipeg International Writers Festival)
Portage Place Shopping Centre
208-393 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg MB
http://winnipegwords.com

Friday, September 28, 8:00 PM
Manitoba Theatre For Young People (sponsored by Thin Air, Winnipeg International Writers Festival)
2 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg MB
http://winnipegwords.com


Tuesday, October 9
WordFest, Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival
Calgary AB
http://www.wordfest.com/

Wednesday, October 10, 7:30 PM
Telus World of Science (sponsored by Audrey’s Books)
11211 – 142nd Street, Edmonton AB
780.423.3487

Saturday, October 13
WordFest, Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival
Calgary AB
http://www.wordfest.com/

Tuesday, October 16, 4:30 PM
Performance Works (sponsored by Vancouver International Writers Festival)
Vancouver BC
http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/

Thursday, October 18, 8:00 PM
Waterfront Theatre (sponsored by Vancouver International Writers Festival)
Vancouver BC
http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/

Friday, October 19, 8:00 PM
Performance Works (sponsored by Vancouver International Writers Festival)
Vancouver BC
http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/

This message has been edited. Last edited by: tiger68,

If I get the 25000 Norwegian back from the credit card fraud in time, I can see myself blowing it all on Vancouver in October.

And then I will be so poor that all meats will b safe from me for years to come.

Thank you.

Thanks for posting the list.

I just "won" my 2 tickets to the CBC taping--can't wait!

I wanna go see CKC for that.....hmmmmmm.

Boogerhead - if you mean the CBC event, you could still get in - there is room, according to the email I received from them (got a pair of tickets myself, one of which goes to CKC).

Event page

There's no huge "Terms and Conditions" page, so I imagine you could try for a pair of your own. Just enter soon, so they can get you your tickets by then.

If they won't send to the US, I could send you my address (or maybe CKC could).

Great - the day I leave to go hunting for three weeks is the day that rat-bastard Gibson shows up.

Three @un*ing events in W***ipeg? And he can't even make Minneapolis? Weird. Well, I guess I might break my rule and go back there for one of those - while I'm at it I can do some research for my story that never gets finished.

THREE!

*shakes head*

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Originally posted by sw00p:

Three @un*ing events in W***ipeg?

*shakes head*

I've been to Winnipeg. I like Winnipeg. But yeah, no m*therfucken kidding.

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Originally posted by Mean Old Man:
I've been to Winnipeg. I like Winnipeg. But yeah, no m*therfucken kidding.

It's actually a nice place to visit (and that's especially true for pretty much all of greater Manitoba).

I found I could only truly learn to absolutely loathe and hate the place by living there. Any time I've been back to That Place Whose Name Shall Not Be Spoken I've only been able to stand a couple of days of it. Luckily, my folks moved out to Pinawa, so now, other than to maybe see Mr. Gibson in person, I have no actual need to be there.

Which is all good by me.

Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention (back on topic!) my wife was talking to the owner of the bookstore where she went to a signing recently, and down here they have to bid to get an author in; the publishers get all the cash, and I suppose the authors just go where they're told and get all the regular traveling freebies. Don't know if it's the same with Gibson's publishers or even if that's the case with the Canuckian dates but it makes me wonder what they're thinking about with those clusters.

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Originally posted by ChromaticRat:
Thanks for posting the list.

I just "won" my 2 tickets to the CBC taping--can't wait!

Ditto!

:dances:

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Originally posted by tiger68:
Thursday, September 27, 2:00 PM
251 Donald Street, Winnipeg MB
Friday, September 28, 2:30 PM
McNally Robinson Booksellers (sponsored by Thin
Friday, September 28, 8:00 PM
Manitoba Theatre For Young People

I was wondering if maybe these dates from Penguin were just tentative dates? I can't find anything about them on any of the official websites (McNally Robinson, Winnipeg Words/Thin Air, Winnipeg Public Library/Millennium Centre or the MB Theatre for Young People).

Thanks for posting them, BTW - I'm certain I would never have known about them otherwise.

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Originally posted by sw00p:

quote:

Originally posted by tiger68:
Thursday, September 27, 2:00 PM
251 Donald Street, Winnipeg MB
Friday, September 28, 2:30 PM
McNally Robinson Booksellers (sponsored by Thin
Friday, September 28, 8:00 PM
Manitoba Theatre For Young People

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I feel a bit better about that cluster, now, given that most of them are pay-for events.

The festival sounds like fun.

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Hi Gary,

Sorry for the delay in responding to your email. Our full schedule will be
posted on our website on September 5th but I can tell you that William
Gibson will be doing a reading/interview on Thursday, September 27, and
Afternoon Book Chat on Friday, September 28, and our mainstage Friday,
September 28 event.

Our paid events are the mainstage shows (including matinees) $12.00 at the
door, the William Gibson event on Thursday, September 27 $5.00 and the
French Gala evening $10.00. All other events are free. You can purchase a
festival pass for $35.00 that will get you into ALL paid events.

If you need any more information please do not hesitate to contact me or
check out our website at www.winnipegwords.com after September 5th.


Tavia Palmer
Administrative Coordinator
THIN AIR, Winnipeg International Writers Festival
September 23-30, 2007
tel: (204) 927-7323
fax: (204) 927-7320

I have a query in to the CBC: the email they sent out had the Book Club taping today at 6:30 till 8:00, but the CBC website today says 7:00 till 8:30, and I will post in here if I hear back.

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Originally posted by theminx:
I have a query in to the CBC: the email they sent out had the Book Club taping today at 6:30 till 8:00, but the CBC website today says 7:00 till 8:30, and I will post in here if I hear back.

I emailed the CBC with this same question and haven't heard back. I'm planning to split the difference and arrive for 6:30ish.

She did just mail me back, doors at 6:30, taping at 7:00.

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Originally posted by theminx:
She did just mail me back, doors at 6:30, taping at 7:00.

excellent--thanks!

OOhh...looking forward to your reports...and the footage when they upload it

http://www.cbc.ca/bc/bookclub/williamgibson2.html

I was there - first time seeing, and meeting, t3h Gibson.

Sorry I didn't take notes, but I couldn't have kept up and still have been able to read the chicken-scratch that resulted. Hopefully other, swifter, Wigbers did manage to take notes - or even make their own recordings.

The Man read chapter 12, and part of chapter 17 (the drive in the Maybach with Bigend). The first audience question, in academ-ese, and the answer, were great. I became too absorbed in the whole thing to remember much more, in detail.

The good news is that the whole deal will be available to download as a podcast here, on the 19th this month.

The Autograph

I can't wait for the podcast either! it was such fun, and I thought it was really cool that he didn't just give pat answers or whatever, he really considered the questions (some v good ones).

Biggest faux pas of the evening: CBC lady explains to the uninitiated listener that the movie Gibson is talking about ("if Sony Pictures Classics had released the movie that I wrote, and that we filmed, it would have been a lot better") is The Matrix... Ouch. She was firmly (but politely) corrected by basically everyone in the room.

Fun times!