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SUMMARY:A Soundtrack for Your Words: Creating and Performing Literature with Music
DESCRIPTION:Ian Ferrier and Moe Clark bring years of experience as spoken word performers and soundscape innovators. They will offer writing prompts and exercises to help generate ideas\, and support participants through editing and crafting their written works for performance\, including a collaborative exploration of sound as a base for words. Ian and Moe will bring the looping pedal\, teweikan\, guitar\, synthesizer and other instruments\, to be used in creation of the soundscapes. Participants will explore breathwork\, vocal work\, and improvisation to engage with audiences and to move beyond the anxiety of performance. Workshop will culminate in a Sunday afternoon performance open to the public.\nOpen to all poets\, writers\, and anyone interested in exploring sound with their work\, including short prose\, monologues. Also open to musicians interested in developing more language for their sound.\nThis workshop is FREE but space is limited. To register: elise.m@videotron.ca.\nMétis multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a nomadic songbird with wings woven from circle singing and spoken word. Originally from Treaty 7\, she calls tio’tia:ke (Montreal) home.\nIan Ferrier is a poet\, musician and performer. Ian is the founder of the monthly Words & Music Show and the Mile End Poets’ Festival.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-soundtrack-for-your-words-creating-and-performing-literature-with-music/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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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/2019-11-25/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:New Reads: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
DESCRIPTION:The New Reads Book Club focuses on contemporary literature and is hosted by Drawn and Quarterly staff members. The book club meetings take place every 4-6 weeks\, and are open to all. For our NOVEMBER meeting\, we will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Bernard O.) at 7 pm to discuss Flights\, by Olga Tokarczuk. The evening will be hosted by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly’s own Alyssa Favreau. Join us for discussion and drinks! \nFLIGHTS\nFrom the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk\, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body\, broaching life\, death\, motion\, and migration. Chopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart\, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories\, interwoven with haunting\, playful\, and revelatory meditations\, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler\, a wanderer\, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting\, unsettling\, and wholly original\, Flights is a master storyteller’s answer. \n**We offer a 20% discount on Flights from now until the meeting date.** \nBy purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support free events like this one\, independent publishing and retailing\, our neighborhood\, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. You also get to take advantage of a great discount! Your support is appreciated.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/new-reads-flights-by-olga-tokarczuk/
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/2019-11-25/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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