4 Nov

Postcards to the Future!

Mail a message to your older self. We’ll be designing with words and pictures a double sided postcard with a message you’d like your future self to know. It could be serious or playful or both, you decide what the adult version of you should know! For kids 10 and up.

4 Nov

Scarborough Screening

In a pre-festival special event, Image+Nation Queer Culture, Montreal’s long-running queer film festival, will join the Violet Hour to co-sponsor this moving film, an adaptation of Catherine Hernandez’s novel of the same name.

4 Nov

Making Monster Heads – An Exercise in Slow Group Drawing

Together we’ll SLOWLY build a weird and wonderful bunch of monster heads that we can only create as a team! For all ages.

24 Nov

Writing the Environment

Pre­sent­ed by the Asso­ci­a­tion of Eng­lish-Lan­guage Pub­lish­ers of Que­bec, this dia­log­ic per­for­mance of poet­ry in Eng­lish, French, and trans­la­tion will imag­ine writ­ing the envi­ron­ment. Fea­tur­ing Kaie Kel­lough and Chan­tal Neveu, it will embody lan­guage in its rela­tion to land and space, and reflect on poetry’s rad­i­cal stance towards a sus­tain­able future.

27 Nov 1 Dec

Read Quebec at the Salon du livre de Montréal

We’re excited to showcase some of the latest releases and bestsellers from participating local English-language publishers. Find us at kiosk #401 through the week at the hours below:

7 Dec 8 Dec

Read Quebec Book Fair

The Read Quebec Book Fair is back! Join us on December 7th and 8th at Casa d’Italia (505 rue Jean Talon Est) to discover the latest releases of new works from local publishers, authors, and translators.

7 Dec

A Duck in New York City – Musical Performance for Kids of All Ages

Saturday, December 7 202412 pm–1 pm ET 20th Anniversary Celebration with Connie Kaldor and Paul Campagne, complete with anniversary More info Read more

7 Dec

Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel in Conversation with Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain

Join Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, longtime activist and visual artist, to hear about her new book, When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance.

7 Dec

Create Your Own Comic Strip! A workshop with Vasilios Billy Mavreas

Explore the basic building blocks to get you started on drawing and writing a (mostly silly!) comic strip featuring fun characters we’ll create together. For kids 5 to 9.

7 Dec

Opening Cocktail

A very special edition of the Read Quebec Book Fair’s 5 à 7. Come have a drink at the end of an exciting day of book browsing and literary events.

8 Dec

Archives Out Loud: A Panel Discussion on Italian-Canadian Writing in English in Quebec

Moderated by Nancy Marrelli, archivist of the Italian-Canadian Community Archives of Quebec, which are housed at the Casa d’Italia, an exchange between: Domenic Cusmano, publisher of Accenti: The Magazine with an Italian Accent; novelist and literary impresario Christopher DiRaddo, and playwright Michaela Di Cesare. 

8 Dec

How I Got Published: Fiction Edition

Looking for tips on getting your own writing into print? Writer/translator Mélissa Bull will moderate a panel discussion on writers’ journeys to publication.

 

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