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SUMMARY:WORDPLAY  A writing workshop in celebration of creativity and wonder
DESCRIPTION:In a time of busy schedules\, and places to be and people to see\, it can be hard to find the time to simply play. WORDPLAY is a writing play group\, a time in your week reserved for you — a time to connect with the wonder that lies at the heart of words and where they can take us. \nFor a period of six weeks we will meet for two hours of writing projects and prompts designed to welcome the unexpected\, the spontaneous\, and the serendipitous\, culminating in an evening of readings on the last night. \nWhether you are a poet\, a fiction or non-fiction writer\, an aspiring writer\, a musician or a visual or performance artist\, or simply someone who loves the joy of words\, or even scrabble\, boggle or crossword puzzles\, this is an opportunity to entertain what it means to revel\, gambol and cut loose with language. \nWorkshop leader: Carolyn Boll\nA trained dancer\, and recipient of several Canada Council and Quebec multi-media and choreography grants\, author Carolyn Boll is a graduate of The Humber School for Writers. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Lavender Review\, The Gay & Lesbian Review\, and Mayday Magazine\, and her non-fiction writing has appeared in The Dance Current and The Montreal Gazette. Her first book\, a playful partnering between poetry\, image and dance\, is called Social Dance A Book of Ballroom Poetry and was published by Sally Jane Books\, the specialty imprint of indie publisher Headmistress Press.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/wordplay-a-writing-workshop-in-celebration-of-creativity-and-wonder/2019-10-29/
LOCATION:Atelier d’Art Meteque\, 5442 Cote Saint Luc Road\, NDG\, QC\, H3X2C5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Morris House Reading Series (MHRS) - Kim Thuy
DESCRIPTION:Kim Thúy’s debut novel Ru won the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction at the 2010 Governor General’s Awards. An English edition\, translated by Sheila Fischman\, was published in 2012. The novel was a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The novel won the 2015 edition of Canada Reads\, where it was championed by Cameron Bailey. In 2016\, Thúy published her third novel\, Vi. An English translation\, again by Fischman\, was published in 2018. The book was named as a long-listed nominee for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. \nShe reads and speaks at Bishop’s University (in Cleghorn\, McGreer Building) on October 29\, 2019\, from 4.30 pm to 5.30 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/morris-house-reading-series-mhrs-kim-thuy/
LOCATION:Bishop’s University\, 2600 College Street\, Sherbrooke\, Quebec\, J1M 1Z7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T200000
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SUMMARY:Write Now: A Playwriting Intensive to Jumpstart Your Play
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Sabrina Reeves\nThis workshop will give budding and experienced playwrights a forum in which to hear their work read aloud and have it commented on\, supported\, and developed. Limited to 12 participants. \nThis 8-week workshop is designed to get your play out of your head and onto the page. Through a combination of in-class writing exercises and reading scripts aloud\, it will allow playwrights to take their scripts to the next level. \nTopics covered will include: \n\nCharacter development\nStructure\nDialogue\nStakes\nRe-writes.\n\nEach week\, selected participants will bring in sections of their work for feedback. \nThe workshop will be more fun and useful to participants who have a play that they are already working on\, a few scenes\, or at the very least\, an outline of the idea they wish to pursue. It may be of particular interest (and complementary) to those who have taken an Introduction to Playwriting workshop. Participants can expect to come out of the workshop with a more developed script as well as tools for carrying on with their work and some ideas/suggestions of where to go and what to do with a finished draft.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/write-now-a-playwriting-intensive-to-jumpstart-your-play/2019-10-29/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Danger Model
DESCRIPTION:Madelaine Caritas Longman launches her first book of poetry\, The Danger Model (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2019). The book confronts questions about art\, illness\, identity\, and the paradox of authenticity\, looking at what it means to be a “self” in contexts as diverse as the medical system\, performance art\, queer adolescence\, and Talmudic debate. Featuring a special guest reading by Tess Liem\, whose debut collection Obits was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award and recently won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for 2019.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-the-danger-model/
LOCATION:Librairie Bertrand\, 430 Rue Saint-Pierre\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2Y 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T210000
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SUMMARY:Mary Soderstrom Launches Frenemy Nations
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Frenemy Nations\, as well as a short reading and discussion of why some places that should be alike aren’t alike. \nFRENEMY NATIONS:\nLove and Hate between Neighbo(u)ring States.\nIn the summer of 1968\, Mary Soderstrom and her husband loaded up their VW Beetle and immigrated to Canada from the United States. The contrast between their new home and their old led to a long-running reflection on what makes the two countries different. How could two places that are similar in so many ways be so disparate in others? \nIn Frenemy Nations\, Soderstrom answers this question by addressing a range of geographical “odd couples”: including the United States and Canada; New Hampshire and Vermont; Alberta and Saskatchewan; Haiti and the Dominican Republic; Scotland and Ireland; Rwanda and Burundi; and more. Through it all\, Soderstrom shows how tiny differences—in geographic features\, colonial histories\, resource competition\, education\, women’s roles\, language\, and migration—can have outsized effects on how polities develop. \nMARY SODERSTROM is a Montreal-based writer of fiction and non-fiction with six works of non-fiction\, three short story collections\, six novels and one children’s book to her credit. The University of Regina Press published her non-fiction book Road through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move in 2017 while Cormorant Books published her most recent novel River Music in 2015.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mary-soderstrom-launches-frenemy-nations/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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