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SUMMARY:'Get Lit' - Grand Slam de Traduction//Grand Translation Slam
DESCRIPTION:GRAND SLAM DE TRADUCTION // GRAND TRANSLATION SLAM \nSpace: L’Agora \nDeux duos de traducteurs·trices littéraires se livrent un combat de mots\, en parfait état livresque. Comment est-ce que chaque choix de traduction modifie le sens et le ton de l’œuvre finale? Venez assister à la métamorphose d’un texte\, alors qu’il passe d’une langue à une autre et qu’auteurs·trices et traducteurs·trices se penchent sur les nuances propres à la traduction littéraire. L’évènement est suivi d’une période de questions avec le public. (Présentation en français et en anglais.) \nTwo pairs of literary translators head into a bookish battle of words. How does each translation choice bend meaning and tone to create the final effect? Hear the texts morph from one language to the next\, as the authors and translators delve into the nuances of translating fiction. Followed by a Q&A with the audience. (Presented in French & English). \nHost: Katia Grubisic \nParticipants: \nMelissa Bull and Natalia Hero\, translating short fiction by David Clerson from French to English \nRachel Martinez and Éric Fontaine\, translating short fiction by Paige Cooper from English to French
URL:https://qwf.org/event/get-lit-grand-slam-de-traduction-grand-translation-slam/
LOCATION:place bonaventure\, 800\, rue de la Gauchetière Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Slam
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SUMMARY:Expanding Our Poetic Range through Memory\, Place\, and the Senses
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Cristina Plamadeala\nThis workshop is for poets of any level of experience who are seeking to expand the range of their subject matter. Limited to 12 participants. \nHow\, as writers\, can we break the surface of the everyday and go deep? Over the eight sessions of the workshop\, we will take some time to dwell in the places our writers’ sensibility can travel to when we tune in to our senses and journey into memory and place. The aim of this workshop will be to generate a rich pool of new material\, from which our best work can emerge. \nWorkshops will consist of in-class writing exercises\, weekly writing assignments\, and time for participating poets to receive constructive feedback from their peers and the workshop leader. As a group\, we will also perform close readings of works by a range of published writers that constellate around a series of themes selected to help us mine our own memories and sensory experiences of the world around us. Proposed themes include \n\na child’s-eye view: writing through the lens of childhood;\nlost and found: orienting through poetry;\n(re)mapping our world: a sense of place;\nentering the myth: poetic exchanges with mythology; and\nmapping the landscape of the body.\n\nParticipants will be encouraged\, for the duration of the workshop\, to “apprentice” themselves to the work of a published poet of their choice\, whose voice will be a steady and nourishing guide as they work on their own material. They will also have the opportunity (though it is by no means obligatory) to read their own work aloud\, both as a practice tool for giving future poetry readings and to “lend an ear” to the editing process. The workshop will be a safe and friendly space\, with an emphasis on diving into the messiness of creation and getting excited about new ideas.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/expanding-our-poetic-range-through-memory-place-and-the-senses/2019-11-20/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:NaNoWriMo Workshop 3: The Play and Work of Writing a Picture Book
DESCRIPTION:Discover the joys and challenges of writing a picture book through a hands-on workshop that will have you playing with and working on your own story ideas. With Andrew Katz. \nSpace is limited; registration required.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/nanowrimo-workshop-3-the-play-and-work-of-writing-a-picture-book/
LOCATION:Beaconsfield Library\, 303 Beaconsfield Boulevard\, Beaconsfield\, Quebec\, H9W 4A7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Lynda Barry + Chris Ware in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Librairie Drawn & Quarterly presents \nLYNDA BARRY + CHRIS WARE in conversation \nTickets:\nBook + Ticket Combo: Rusty Brown: $46.95+tx\n*Includes 1 copy of Rusty Brown by Chris Ware + 1 General Admission (book to be received at the event) \nBook + Ticket Combo : Making Comics $25.95+tx\n*Includes 1 copy of Making Comics by Lynda Barry + 1 General Admission(book to be received at the event) \nGeneral Admission : $10+tx \n(Présentation en anglais) \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nLYNDA BARRY has worked as a painter\, cartoonist\, writer\, illustrator\, playwright\, editor\, commentator\, and teacher. She is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek\, and author of The Freddie Stories\,One! Hundred! Demons!\, The! Greatest! of! Marlys!\, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel\, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies!\, and The Good Times are Killing Me\, which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor’s Award. Barry has written three bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels for D+Q: the Eisner Award-winning What It Is\, and Picture This\, and Syllabus: Notes from an accidental professor. \nCHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged as the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and seven-year-old daughter. His J immy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by the London Times in 2009. An irregular contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker (where some of the pages of this book first appeared) his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial\, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago\, and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park\, Illinois. \nABOUT THE BOOKS\nMAKING COMICS by Lynda Barry \nMaking Comics is the follow-up to Barry’s bestselling Syllabus\, and this time she shares all her comics-making exercises. In a new hand-drawn syllabus detailing her creative curriculum\, Barry has students drawing themselves as monsters and superheroes\, convincing students who think they can’t draw that they can\, and\, most important\, encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so long as it is hand drawn. \nBarry teaches all students and believes everyone and anyone can be creative. At the core of Making Comics is her certainty that creativity is vital to processing the world around us. \nRUSTY BROWN by Chris Ware\nA major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. \nRusty Brown is a fully interactive\, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of three complete consciousnesses in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling\, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life\, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story\, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age\, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers\, a teen who matures into a paternal despot\, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/lynda-barry-chris-ware-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Rialto Theatre\, 5723 Av du Parc\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2V 4G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:GET LIT Salon du Livre 2019: The Violet Hour
DESCRIPTION:Mercredi 20 novembre 2019 \n19h15 – 20h00 – 45 min \nSpace: Grande place \n  \nThe Violet Hour \n  \nUne soirée de courtes lectures et performances bilingues par d’écrivain.e.s et d’artistes LGBTQ+. \nAnimateur: Christopher DiRaddo; Auteurs: Erín Moure\, Denis-Martin Chabot\, Malek Yalaoui et autres. \n  \nAn evening of short bilingual readings and performances by LGBTQ writers and artists. \nHost: Christopher DiRaddo; Authors:  Erín Moure\, Denis-Martin Chabot\, Malek Yalaoui and others. \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/get-lit-salon-du-livre-2019-the-violet-hour/
LOCATION:place bonaventure\, 800\, rue de la Gauchetière Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Performance,QWF Events
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SUMMARY:Accent Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:  \nAccent Open Mic \nLa Marche à Côté\, 5043 St. Denis\n7:30pm\, 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.\naccentseriesmontreal.wordpress.com\n\nAccent Open Mic is a bilingual reading series that takes place at La Marche à Côté\, (5043 St. Denis) on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. Hosted by Devon Gallant and Luc-Antoine Chiasson\, each night we feature 1 anglophone reader and 1 francophone reader along with an open mic. Sign up for the open mic starts at 7:30\, show starts at 8pm. For more information visit: accentseriesmontreal.wordpress.com or on Facebook: @accentopenmic.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/21092/2019-11-20/
LOCATION:La Marche à côté\, 5043 St-Denis\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2J 2L8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Open Mic,Performance,Series
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SUMMARY:GET LIT: Salon du Livre 2019 - Rapid-Fire Reading\, Ricochet Writing
DESCRIPTION:Mercredi 20 novembre 2019 \n20h00 – 21h00 – 1 heure \nSpace: Grande place \n  \nRapid-Fire Reading\, Ricochet Writing \nEighteen of the province’s hottest writers and spoken word performers will keep things hopping by reading from their most engaging work—for only 90 seconds each!—Then\, still on stage\, each will sit down at a laptop to contribute on the spot to a collaborative text that will be read aloud at the end of the show—with élan! This event is primarily in English\, with some French. \nHost: Maria Schamis Turner \nAuthors: Paige Cooper\, Kym Dominique-Ferguson\, Kama La Mackerel\, Serge Lamothe\, Ann Lambert\, Jonathan Lamy\, Angela Leuck\, Nora Loreto\, Steve Luxton\, Karen McBride\, Ross Murray\, Mark Paterson\, Monique Polak\, seeley quest\, Greg Santos\, Neil Smith\, Gillian Sze\, and Élise Turcotte.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/get-lit-salon-du-livre-2019-rapid-fire-reading-ricochet-writing/
LOCATION:place bonaventure\, 800\, rue de la Gauchetière Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Performance,QWF Events
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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/2019-11-20/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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