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SUMMARY:Writing to Preserve Memory: Capturing and Sharing Life Stories
DESCRIPTION:All levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \nIsabel Allende confessed\, “I write to preserve memory against the erosion of oblivion and to bring people together.” \nEvery life is a story\, and when we write that story\, we not only preserve it but share the joys and disappointments\, the heartaches and the triumphs\, and most importantly\, the lessons learnt. \nMemoir\, by its nature\, is more concerned with the emotional truth of occurrences and moments from a life\, as opposed to biography\, which is more often focused on factual or chronological events. \nIn this memoir workshop\, we will explore how to begin telling your story and review examples of the different ways that a story can be told. Will it be a travelogue or will it focus on major events that influenced your life? Or will it be about a relationship with a loved one? These are just a few possibilities. \nA portion of each session will be set aside for writing exercises based on prompts to help unlock the confidence you need to shape your story\, and to share your writing. \nAs an adjunct\, a recommended reading list of traditional and innovative memoirs will be provided\, and participants will be encouraged to review and share their favourite styles.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-to-preserve-memory-capturing-and-sharing-life-stories/2019-11-04/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:True Reads Book Club: I Like to Watch
DESCRIPTION:Come discuss the most interesting books in new Non-Fiction with our True Reads book club! Happening every 4-6 weeks hosted by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly staff. \nFor our NOVEMBER meeting\, we’ll be reading I LIKE TO WATCH by Emily Nussbaum. The book club will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard Ouest at 7pm. This month’s meeting is hosted by Drawn & Quarterly Marketing Assistant Nathalie Marsh. Join us for discussion and drinks! \n**We offer a 20% discount on I Like to Watch from now until the meeting date.** \nI LIKE TO WATCH\nFrom her creation of the “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker\, Emily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV. In this collection\, including two never-before-published essays\, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television\, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer\, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up\, how fans warp the shows they love\, the messy power of sexual violence on TV\, and the year that jokes helped elect a reality-television president. There are three big profiles of television showrunners—Kenya Barris\, Jenji Kohan\, and Ryan Murphy—as well as examinations of the legacies of Norman Lear and Joan Rivers. The book also includes a major new essay written during the year of #MeToo\, wrestling with the question of what to do when the artist you love is a monster. \nMore than a collection of reviews\, the book makes a case for toppling the status anxiety that has long haunted the “idiot box\,” even as it transformed. Through it all\, Nussbaum recounts her fervent search\, over fifteen years\, for a new kind of criticism\, one that resists the false hierarchy that elevates one kind of culture (violent\, dramatic\, gritty) over another (joyful\, funny\, stylized). I Like to Watch traces her own struggle to punch through stifling notions of “prestige television\,” searching for a more expansive\, more embracing vision of artistic ambition—one that acknowledges many types of beauty and complexity and opens to more varied voices. It’s a book that celebrates television as television\, even as each year warps the definition of just what that might mean. \nEMILY NUSSBAUM has written for The New Yorker since 2011. She is the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for criticism and the 2014 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. Previously\, she was the TV critic and editor of the Culture Pages for New York magazine\, where she created the Approval Matrix\, the playful culture charticle that closes each issue. Nussbaum has written for The New York Times\, Slate\, and Lingua Franca. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband\, Clive Thompson\, and their two children.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/true-reads-book-club-i-like-to-watch/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Slantwise to the Truth: Navigating Narrative Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Niamh Malcolm\nAll levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \n“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant/success in Circuit lies” — let poet Emily Dickinson’s words inspire you as we navigate narrative nonfiction\, writing that takes the best elements of fiction\, applies those to facts\, and ends with compelling stories. \nIn this workshop you will take your own “big idea” and add to it week-by-week until at the end of eight sessions you’ll have a draft narrative essay of 2\,000 words or more. Each meeting will be split between discussing one of six elements necessary for good narrative nonfiction and workshopping participants’ writing. This will be supported by readings related to the discussion and to the week’s assigned writing. Below is an outline covering six weekly discussions. Two additional weeks are left open to allow for flexibility – perhaps there will be spillover from a previous week’s discussion or perhaps by consensus we’ll toss in another idea to discuss or take extra time to workshop participants’ work. \nPlease note that this workshop will not focus on memoir writing. Although memoir falls into the category of narrative nonfiction\, I encourage participants to look beyond it when considering their writing for these eight weeks. \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/slantwise-to-the-truth-navigating-narrative-nonfiction/2019-11-04/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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