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The FOLD hosts festivals and year-round events that celebrate underrepresented authors and storytellers.

The Festival of Literary Diversityfold-icon

April 27, 2025 - May 4, 2025

Downtown Brampton

The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) celebrates Canadian and international authors every year at its flagship festival in May.

The festival includes panels, discussions, workshops, and interactive events that allow guests from across Canada and around the world to participate. The festival delivered in-person events for four festivals and presented virtual events for two years in response to the pandemic, and since 2022, the festival has presented more than thirty events annually in a multi-modal format, beginning with a virtual festival and transitioning into in-person events later in the week.

The 2025 festival will return April 27 – May 4. Events April 27 – 30 will be virtual, while events May 1 – 4 will be offered in-person.

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A group of diverse people featuring racialized and disabled children and adults sitting on a bus. They are dressed in winter gear, and reading and listening to books. Some are carrying protest signs. There's a FOLD Kids Book Fest logo in the middle with the dates November 4-9, 2025.

FOLD Kids Book Fest

November 4, 2025 - November 9, 2025

Downtown Brampton

To better serve young readers and writers and to celebrate the incredible power of children’s literature, in 2019 the FOLD moved all of its kids programming to start a second festival in the fall.

The first FOLD Kids Book Fest – a festival dedicated to children’s literature – kicked off in September 2019 with authors Debbie Ridpath Ohi, Ruth Ohi, Rina Singh, Angelot Ndongmo, Hilary Leung, Kevin Sylvester, Njacko Backo and more.

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