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SUMMARY:Book signing
DESCRIPTION:Vteran CJAD broadcaster Tommy Schnurmacher will be signing copies of his new memoir Makeup Tips from Auschwitz. How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life which tells the story of his Jewish mom got two world-famous Nazis to save her life and the powerful impact that had on their relationship.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-signing/
LOCATION:Indigo\, Place Montreal Trust\, 1500 McGill College Ave\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H3A 3J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:The Worlds of Joseph Conrad - a lecture by Maya Jasanoff
DESCRIPTION:On November 13\, leading historian and author Maya Jasanoff will deliver a lecture based on her award-winning book\, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. \nJasanoff will present Joseph Conrad\, the influential Modern writer\, as a prophet of globalization — an author who explored the tensions of global capitalism\, encroaching imperialism and unprecedented migration which still characterize our global world. She’ll delve into her process of writing this book\, which brought her sailing across the Indian Ocean and down the Congo River. \nJoin us at the Faculty Club of Montreal\, and mingle with an audience of authors\, historians and history-lovers during a cocktail before the lecture begins. \nRegister at cundillprize.com/lecture \nOn the speaker —\nMaya Jasanoff is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University and resident faculty at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. She is the author of several prize-winning books\, including The Dawn Watch\, which won the US$75\,000 Cundill History Prize in 2018. \nOn the prize —\nAdministered by McGill University\, the Cundill History Prize is the richest international award for non-fiction. The prize celebrates the work of historians that turn outstanding scholarship into beautifully told narratives that stimulate\, excite and challenge us.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-worlds-of-joseph-conrad-a-lecture-by-maya-jasanoff/
LOCATION:Faculty Club of Montreal\, 3450 McTavish St.\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 1X9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Adèle Barclay + Klara du Plessis Double Launch w/guest Tess Liem
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the publication of Adèle Barclay’s second book of poetry Renaissance Normcore and Klara Du Plessis’ chapbook of essays unfurl with special guest Tess Liem. \nRENAISSANCE NORMCORE belts like a classically trained riot grrrl\, composing catchy tunes in the key of fear and desire. Building on the dreamy emotional landscapes she plumbed in If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You\, Barclay navigates even sharper peaks and valleys in her second collection to examine the links between intimacy and power. Tracking the paradoxical impulses of anguish and joy that underpin daily life in our hostile neoliberal climate\, these poems are both abject and sweet as they repurpose loss into life and test the bounds of how much a poem can hold. \nUNFURL: four essays. \n//////////////////////////////// \nADÈLE BARCLAY is the author of If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You\, which won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Renaissance Normcore is her second collection and was named a book to look out for by CBC and 49th Shelf. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry and The Walrus’ 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Vallum\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Room Magazine\, The Puritan\, Heavy Feather Review\, glitterMOB\, The Fiddlehead and elsewhere. She is Arc Magazine’s 2018-19 Poet in Residence and an editor at Rahila’s Ghost Press. \nKLARA DU PLESSIS is a South African Canadian poet residing in Montreal. Her debut collection Ekke—winner of the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award—was released from Palimpsest Press; and her Anstruther chapbook\, Wax Lyrical\,was shortlisted for the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Klara is a PhD English Literature student at Concordia University\, and currently expanding her curatorial practice to include experimental Deep Curation poetry reading events. \nTESS LIEM is a queer writer living in Montreal\, Tiotia:ke—unceded Haudenosaunee and Mohawk territories. Her writing has appeared in Plenitude\, Room Magazine\, PRISM\, and elsewhere. Her 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/adele-barclay-klara-du-plessis-double-launch-w-guest-tess-liem/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:P O E T R Y N I T E
DESCRIPTION:Our first show back was … WOW! Seriously\, this community – our talent – our love – our capacity to show up fully for ourselves and each other?!?! There is nothing like us\, together. Come be part of it. \n► DOORS @ 7 – READINGS @ 8 \n► READERS: we reserve up to eight spots before the show and after that it goes to open mic which is mostly first-come\, first-served with priority to BIPOC folks. All artists/musicians welcome!! \n► Show is $5 (tinyurl.com/y9w8j4pm) \n► We want to foster a supportive\, positive environment for everyone. That means no racism / sexism / ableism / homophobia / transphobia and a request that poets please give trigger warnings before your poems. If you have a concern please speak to the poet directly or to one of the hosts! \n——- \n► PORTES @ 7 – LECTURES @ 8 \n► LECTEURS: Nous acceptons jusqu’à huit inscriptions à l’avance\, celles-ci vous garantissent un moment sur la scène. S’ensuit ensuite un micro ouvert sous la formule premier.ère arrivé.e\, premier.ère servi.e avec une priorité pour les gens du BIPOC. Tous les artistes / musiciens sont les bienvenus !! \n► Le spectacle coûte 5 $ (tinyurl.com/y9w8j4pm) \n► Dans l’optique d’assurer un climat accueillant pour toustes\, nous ne tolérerons auncun comportement et propos raciste\, sexiste\, homophobe\, transphobe\, ou s’inscrivant dans toute autre logique d’oppression systémique. Nous demandons aussi aux lecteur.trices de donner des avertissements de contenus (trigger warnings) avant leurs poèmes. Si un problème se fait sentir de ce côté\, prière d’en faire part à l’artiste ou aux organisateur.trices.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/p-o-e-t-r-y-n-i-t-e/2019-11-13/
LOCATION:Chez Morrigan\, 1221 Crescent St\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Open Mic,Performance,Series
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SUMMARY:Everything Happens at Once: Your Page One
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Marina Vulicevic\nThis workshop is intended for people interested in short- and long-form fiction who have begun puzzling out the beginnings of their stories. Limited to 12 participants. \nIn this fiction-writing workshop\, we will get our stories to hit the ground running by working on our Page One. Short story or long-form fiction\, all the elements of narration are thrown into play right away on the first page (okay\, maybe a little on the second). The themes and problems of the piece are all present\, stated or suggested\, sometimes hidden. We will learn to do that: get out of the starting blocks fast\, leaving our anxieties behind. \nThe “everything at once” approach means putting all the narrative elements into play simultaneously. Setting speaks for character\, dialogue speaks for plot\, the description of place speaks for the theme. All intertwined\, not consecutive. Everything at once\, like when you meet someone in real life\, even if it takes time to understand what you first thought you knew. \nWe’ll look at the beginning page of works of fiction to see how others have handled their beginnings. That revolver on the dining room table – does it really have to go off\, and who or what will be the target? When Dante admits in Sentence One\, “Halfway through the journey of my life\, I found myself lost in a forest dark\,” what sort of darkness is this\, and why is he telling us about it? The issue of who is talking to us\, and why\, will be essential to our Page Ones. \nThe object is to become more self-aware from the beginning\, without turning into hyper-planners intent on deleting all spontaneity. The Page One approach is one of the antidotes to the anxieties of the beginning writer\, since it stresses action: moving quickly\, getting the elements in play\, foreseeing eventual themes\, helping answer the question\, “Why does this story exist\, and where is it going?” \nOften the beginnings of stories wonder about their own existence. Tom O’Brien’s The Things They Carried meditates on the difficulty of telling a true war story. How can you tell if a war story is true? What is a war story anyway? Whom can we trust? This Page-One questioning launches the book.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/everything-happens-at-once-your-page-one/2019-11-13/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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