Blue Metropolis Announces Springtime Festivals Online and later outdoors, more than 50 eclectic events with 200 artists will delight eyes and minds around the theme.by BWW News Desk Starting April 24 and running until May 2, the spring programming of the 23rd Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival will be in full swing, along with the TD-Blue Metropolis Children's Festival. Online and later outdoors, more than 50 eclectic events with 200 artists will delight eyes and minds around the theme, The Challenges of Our Times. Free multilingual events in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic take the form of captivating panels, debates and interviews. Events are added daily and will remain online. "This very special edition of the festival is presented during a pandemic which isn't letting up, but which has not got the better of our great energy and our endless will," said William St-Hillaire, Blue Metropolis Executive and Artistic Director. When literature rhymes with pleasure, literacy with discovery, and books with hooked... (sort of), you know Blue Metropolis is about to start. Here's a taste of what's in store, with full programming described at bluemetropolis.org/2021festival/.