On Saturday, I will be staying awake ALL NIGHT in order to run an event I’ve programmed for the city-wide Nuit Blanche festival.

Literary fantasia Bedtime Tales: Fables and Fantasies is a live anthology featuring more than twenty literary stars and provocateurs, assembled in Yorkville’s gothic Heliconian Club.

The authors will delight, entertain, and heat up the wee hours of the morning in between stops on your Scotiabank Nuit Blanche route. Pause for a cup of hot cocoa and cookies, grab a cushion, stretch out beneath the vaulted ceilings, and enjoy tales of the night ranging from the surreal to the sensual to the scary…

7:01 PM to 7:30 AM
Sat. September 30 to Sun. October 1, 2006
35 Hazelton Avenue (one block east of Avenue Rd)

BEDTIME TALES SCHEDULE:
Lillian Allen 7:01 PM
Hadley Dyer 7:30 PM
Olive Senior 8:00 PM
Jean Yoon 8:30 PM
Kerri Sakamoto 9:00 PM
Pam Mordecai 9:30 PM
Ibi Kaslik 10:00 PM
Tamara Faith Berger 10:30 PM
Russell Smith 11:00 PM
BREAK 11:30 PM
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm 12:00 AM
Mariko Tamaki 12:30 AM
Kelley Armstrong 1:00 AM
Paul Hong 1:30 AM
BREAK 2:00 AM
Sabrina Jalees 2:30 AM
Kristyn Dunnion 3:00 AM
Caitlin Sweet 3:30 AM
BREAK 4:00 AM
R.M. Vaughan 4:30 AM
Andrew J. Paterson 5:00 AM
BREAK 5:30 AM
Gemma Files 6:00 AM
Emily Pohl-Weary 6:30 AM

Download the full program with readers’ bio notes…