The Bonaventure Book fair ends this Sunday on positive feedback from guests and the public. It was the ninth edition, after a break in 2024.
A text from Alice Jacottin
According to the organization, nearly 2,500 people have subsided the Desjardins de Bonaventure recreational center. We were afraid because we jumped for a year
testifies to the president of the board of directors of the Book Fair, Anne-Marie Aubin.
The event coordinator, Dominique Landry, is delighted with the popularity of the Bonaventure Book Fair and the success of certain proposed activities. There was also a lot of presence in children’s activities
she describes. We are very happy
.
In addition to the kiosks of authors and authors, storytelling readings, questioning games for the youngest and recordings of live Balados were offered to the public.
A formula on a human scale
Even if the event took place in the heart of an arena, Anne-Marie Aubin raises a social line at the book fair. Children and adults who come have time to have a real conversation with [les auteurs].
I saw the impact of a fair in the regions on readers of tomorrow.
This was a first experience for the native youth author of Rivière-au-Renard Rhéa Dufresne, accustomed to publishers.
The living room here, I really like, that is to say that I have my table to me
she explains, This allows me to have all my books at different publishers in the same place.
I like the formula, I loved it. […] It gives me the taste to come back.
For the Badenist Guillaume Perrault, the opportunity was perfect for meeting his readers.
He describes the work as an illustrator as lonely and sedentary. It’s time to end up with my readers, it’s a way to see them, to know what touched them in my books, to be able to share my universe with them a little
he testifies.
Among the visitors, Lydia Henry is delighted with the family atmosphere of the book fair. It’s always pleasant to come, both young and old
she says.
I find it super fun, I think I’m going to come the next few years
supports Caroline Pinette, from new Richmond.
Diversify exchanges
Anne-Marie Aubin specifies that the organization wanted to receive authors from diversity, We wanted to have authors who write on the difference
.
It is important that it comes out of Montreal, because there are a lot of things that are Montrealocentrée
reacts the teacher in sociology at the Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup, Magalie Lefebvre-Jean.
The author of the book Neither like my father, nor like my mother: Chronicle of a fierce biracial woman says that subjects and multi-identities must be discussed in the regions, We have to open the discussion
.
A thought on which a visitor of Bonaventure agrees, Ambroise Henry. We hear about the salons of the Montreal Book, in Quebec, but in Gaspésie des Salons du Livre, it does not run the streets
.
We are privileged to have that in our court.
The board of directors wanted to allow create weddings
Between city perpetrators and the Gaspésie, and to offer an exchange space, indicates the coordinator of the event, Dominique Landry.
We are witnessing before our eyes the emergence of new literary projects between authors who meet here at the show
she says.
For Anne-Marie Aubin, this formula from the Bonaventure Book Fair is the most effective, given the organizational means and staff. We could always do the Bay-des-Chaleurs, but not cover Gaspé, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Matane
she says.
However, she specifies that other occasional activities related to reading should continue before the next edition.
With information from Marie-Claude Tremblay
