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Please note that as of October 24th, 2021, Canada’s role as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair has concluded. The information on this and any related pages is no longer being updated and serves only as a record of past activities.

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Poetry on the Mainstage

The Audacity of Canadian children’s literature

Mapping Canada

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“Beluga Hunting”, A Claymation By The Youth Of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories

“Spotlight Canada” at the International Literature Festival Berlin

“HYBRID – Cutting Edge Canada” at HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, in collaboration with MUTEK

#CanLit Talks – Exploring the World of Canadian Books -4- India Desjardins and David A. Robertson

#CanLit Talks – Exploring the World of Canadian Books -5- Catherine Mavrikakis and Michael Crummey

#CanLit Talks – Michel Jean and Paul Seesequasis in conversation with Thomas Böhm

A foretaste of the Canada Focus at the Cologne Children’s Book Weeks 2021

Alianait Arts Festival, Nunavut’s music festival

An Evening With Desmond Cole

An Evening with Edem Awumey and Blaise Ndala

Anna Boghiguian – Solo exhibition at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Art show of winter

Bookmark Ontario: Five short videos featuring Ontario literary talent

Canada as Guest of OPEN BOOKS

Canada Night

Caroline Monnet: “Transatlantic” Video Installation at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Childhood Denied: Indian Residential Schools and Their Legacy

Conversations between the German National Library and Library and Archives Canada: Digital Access and Participation

Dany Laferrière and the lost art of burying your face in a flower

Devour! Film Festival

Exploring the World of Canadian Books – Part 2 – Écrire en français

Exploring the world of Canadian books : Feminist trajectories

Fiery Sparks Of Light, An Augmented Reality Experience

Filming the Handmaid’s Tale in Cambridge, Ontario

Flat Out Food: Wheat

Focus Canada at the VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival Hamburg

Handover Ceremony

If Teardrops Were Pennies: Julia Cockney, an Elder of Tuktoyaktuk

In conversation with the winners of the 2021 Trillium Book Award

In conversation with the winners of the Prix Littéraire Trillium 2021

Incite: Eden Robinson in Conversation with Angela Sterritt

INUA: Inaugural exhibition of Qaumajuq, the new Inuit art centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery

Joséphine Bacon : Innu inspiration

Juergen Boos in conversation with Jan Lisiecki

Kapwani Kiwanga: PLOT – Installation at Haus der Kunst Munich

Leading Ladies of Canadian Literature

Let’s Hear It! Live – Celebrating Black History Month

Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting, 1910-1940

Mapping Canada

Nations to Nations: Indigenous Voices at Library and Archives Canada

Nellie Pokiak: Elder Strength

Novel “Synthese” by Karoline Georges in German – a conversation and reading with the Québec author and her literary translator Frank Heibert

Nunavut’s online cultural programming for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2021

Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket

Poetry on the Mainstage

Preserving and Protecting languages & cultures

PREVIEW Canadian Children’s Book Weeks: Conversation with youth book author Kenneth Oppel

PREVIEW Canadian Children’s Book Weeks: Studio visit and live drawing with Canadian author & illustrator Sydney Smith

Slam : “J’en appelle à la poésie”

Terrance Littletent: World champion hoop dancer

The Audacity of Canadian children’s literature

The literary diversity of Québec: Highlights of the Night of Québec literature

Video performance by Québec author Ariane Lessard

Video series “Québec im Gepäck”: Six Québec authors meet their German-speaking publishers

Wanuskewin: A ‘’Gathering Place’’ for Thousands of Years

Wapikoni‘s Canadian Indigenous short films shine in Frankfurt

Weltlesebühne – Translators present new Canadian titles published in German

Women in STEM – Stories of women, their contribution and challenges

Writing the West Coast: Danny Ramadan talks about food memories and home in “Salma the Syrian Chef”

Writing the West Coast: Julie Flett talks about the approach she takes to tough subjects in her books.

Writing the West Coast: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas talks about how manga inspires his books.