Music & Poetry with Melanie Power, Ranee Lee, and Svens Telemaque

Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 7:30 pm
Presbyterian College Chapel (3495 University St., McGill University, Montreal)

An evening of music and poetry with Melanie Power, Ranee Lee, and Svens Telemaque.

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RANEE LEE is now celebrating over 40 years in Montreal, Quebec, where she enjoys a successful, multi-faceted career as one of Canada’s most popular jazz vocalists, an award-winning actress, a songwriter, and a proud author of children’s books. Ranee has recorded thirteen albums for Justin Time, a proud discography of acclaimed recordings that feature some of the finest jazz musicians of our time among its sidemen.

MELANIE POWER is the author of Full Moon of Afraid and Craving (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022). Her work has appeared broadly in literary journals such as The Malahat Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Fire, Grain Magazine, Southword Journal, and elsewhere. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest, as well as longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. She is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in oral history and literature at Concordia University. Born and raised in Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal (Tiohtià:ke).

SVENS TELEMAQUE is an activist, a spoken word artist, a prisoners’ right’s advocate and so much more. A man who had walked the side of life which could have endangered his well being, turned over a new leaf through poetry. Svens travels the world speaking at different engagements worldwide with his program Broken Crayons Still Colour.

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