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SUMMARY:Mile End Poets' Festival 2019
DESCRIPTION:Mile End Poets’ Festival will return in 2019! Watch this space for updates. \nMore information on MEPF can be found here.  \n* \nThe Mile End Poets’ Festival is a multidisciplinary arts festival focusing on literature in performance. Its goal was to present in a single local festival a range of the exciting artistic activity regularly taking place in and around Montreal’s Mile End district. The district is home to a huge number of poets\, musicians\, writers\, dancers and performers. \nThe festival was founded in 2010 by Montreal poet\, performer and curator Ian Ferrier\, with help from writer/performers Moe Clark and Kaie Kellough. In its first year it was entirely artist-funded. It presented four nights of programming\, each curated by a different artist or poet from the Mile End. This has been the model ever since. The festival now regularly receives much needed support from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Quebec Writers’ Federation. It presents work from multiple artistic communities with links to work by First Nations\, literary and performance poetry artists\, contemporary dancers\, top artists from the city and elsewhere in Canada\, and musicians who both tour internationally and regularly work in the neighbourhood’s exciting performance venues. \nIn 2017\, Ian Ferrier was joined by Northern Irish poet & performer Rachel McCrum as Administrative Director for the Festival.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mile-end-poets-festival-2019/
LOCATION:Various
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Festival,Open Mic,Performance,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Deep Curation: Experiments in Poetry Reading Curation
DESCRIPTION:This series of events are organized in partnership with SpokenWeb\, Writers Read\, and the Mile End Poets’ Festival. Opening with a panel discussion on literary event curation\, this event will feature Margaret Christakos\, Deanna Radford\, Danielle St. Amour and Jason Camlot\, facilitated by Klara du Plessis. It will focus on different contemporary and historical strategies for literary event curation\, while also incorporating a visual arts curatorial perspective for the inclusion of textual and audiotextual material in gallery spaces. Next\, a Deep Curation workshop will offer a playful opportunity for participants to create and perform short\, experimental and interwoven poetic readings. Finally\, a Deep Curation reading\, curated by Klara du Plessis\, and featuring Margaret Christakos\, Kaie Kellough\, and Deanna Radford will place poets’ work in deliberate dialogue with one another. This experimental approach to literary event organization heightens the curator’s agency toward the poetic product. Free event. Light refreshments will be served.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/deep-curation-experiments-in-poetry-reading-curation/
LOCATION:4th SPACE\, Concordia University\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montreal\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival,Performance,Series,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T200000
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SUMMARY:The Very Short Story: Reading and Writing Fiction of 300 to 1000 Words
DESCRIPTION:All levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \nThe very short story comes in many guises. Tale\, fable\, cronica\, feuilleton\, anecdote\, aphorism\, vignette\, sketch\, flash\, prose poem\, yarn\, joke—each of these may fall into its fold\, as may extra-literary forms such as lists or memos. Its main characteristic is brevity. Since it can be written relatively quickly\, it offers a wonderful place for experimentation. Since each word\, punctuation mark\, and line of white space speaks\, it demands precision and invites us to hone our writing skills. \nIn this class we will be reading and discussing a wide variety of very short stories\, from  contemporary writers and writers of the past. We will be reading as writers: seeking inspiration\, and looking at what these stories are doing and how they achieve their ends. What makes a story a story? What can be left out? What is the effect of omission? \nDrawing on class discussion\, students will write their own stories as homework and bring them to class to share. We will read them together\, but we will not focus on critique; our class will be about generating work\, permission to try new things\, and celebrating creativity. It will welcome new writers and those with experience. Participants should end the course with a portfolio of at least eight very short stories. \nFor our first class\, please bring in a published work of fiction of about 300 to 500 words. Be prepared to read it aloud and say what you love about it.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-very-short-story-reading-and-writing-fiction-of-300-to-1000-words/2019-11-07/
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
DESCRIPTION:The launch of Tommy Schnurmacher’s memoir Makeup Tips from Auschwitz. How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life which tells the story of how the author’s mother got two world-famous Nazis to save her life and the impact this had on their relationship.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-2/
LOCATION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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CREATED:20191031T152216Z
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SUMMARY:Launch of Tommy Schnurmacher memoir
DESCRIPTION:Wine and cheese reception catered by One Stop Kosher to launch Tommy Schnurmacher’s memoir Makeup Tips from Auschwitz. How Vanity Saved My Mothers’s Life.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/launch-of-tommy-schnurmacher-memoir/
LOCATION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T200000
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SUMMARY:Ravvin & Freedman: Launch & Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Writers Norm Ravvin and Ariela Freedman will read from their new novels\, converse on all things literary\, and ply you with wine. Both books available at the event from Linda Leith Publishing. Live jazz by Alexander Ravvin and Félix Blanchette.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/ravvin-freedman-launch-conversation/
LOCATION:Espace Knox\, 6215 Godfrey\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4B 1K3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Ilona Martonfi & Victoria LeBlanc & Carole Giangrande Launch
DESCRIPTION:Ilona Martonfi\n& Victoria LeBlanc\n& Carole Giangrande\nBook Launch at Argo\nWith Special Guests & Music \nArgo Bookshop 1915 Ste. Catherine St. West (514) 931-3442\nThursday\, November 7\, 2019 7-9 pm\nLight refreshments Free \nIlona Martonfi is an editor\, poet\, curator\, advocate & activist\, her latest poetry title is Salt Bride (Inanna\, 2019). Forthcoming\, The Tempest (Inanna\, 2021). \nVictoria LeBlanc\, writer\, artist & curator. Author of a first poetry book\, Hold. Forthcoming\, Reed River Stone\, a daughter’s memoir. \nCarole Giangrande\, award-winning author of 10 books. Her latest novel is The Tender Birds (Inanna\, 2019). www.carolegiangrande.com \nJames Dunnigan’s chapbook The Stained Glass Sequence won the Frog Hollow Press chapbook competition in 2018. He sells fish for a living. \nMike Di Sclafani\, A multidisciplinary artist\, author of Vultures (2017). Forthcoming\, spoken word album Apothecary (2019). mikedisclafani.com \nApril Ford’s debut novel\, Carousel\, is forthcoming with Inanna Spring 2020. https://aprilfordauthor.com \nMichael Carrino has published seven books of poetry: most recently Always Close\, Forever Careless\, & Until I’ve Forgotten\, Until I’m Stunned. \nFACEBOOK EVENT \nNov 7\nTHU\nIlona Martonfi & Victoria LeBlanc & Carole Giangrande Launch
URL:https://qwf.org/event/ilona-martonfi-victoria-leblanc-carole-giangrande-launch/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T220000
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SUMMARY:Urgency\, Dread\, Risk: A Short-Fiction Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Adam Michiels\nThis workshop is intended for fiction writers who have written short stories before\, and who have experience with the workshop environment. Limited to 12 participants. \nWe’ll be writing towards emotional impact. The workshop will be supplemented by readings and generative exercises to explore the question of expression vs. evocation—as well as imagination\, self-surgery\, ambition\, and accountability. We’ll also talk about sentences\, with a focus on line edits. \nParticipants will be workshopped twice. You’ll have the option of bringing in an existing piece and writing a new second piece\, or else bringing in one piece followed by a revision of the same. \nReadings will include Namwali Serpell\, Jamel Brinkley\, Casey Plett\, Carys Davis\, Octavia Butler\, and Ottessa Moshfegh\, among others.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/urgency-dread-risk-a-short-fiction-workshop/2019-11-07/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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