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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
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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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/2019-11-27/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191127T190000
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SUMMARY:Fawn Parker and Tara McGowan-Ross Double Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join local poet and benign degenerate Tara McGowan-Ross as well as rock star Fawn Parker as they launch Tara’s sophomore full-length collection of poetry – Scorpion Season – and Fawn’s latest novel – Set Point – at Drawn and Quarterly! A portion of all proceeds will go to the Last Door Recovery Center. \nSCORPION SEASON\nIn this narrative in verse\, a failed academic with a dead-end domestic labour job disappears into her own consciousness in an attempt to distance herself from her circumstances. Up against poverty and political tyranny that seems to worsen by the day\, she finds solace in substance abuse and destructive relationships. But as the boundaries between fantasy\, reality\, her past\, and her present start to break down\, she’s left to figure out what in her life is within her control and what is simply written in the stars. A meditation on grief\, pleasure\, free will\, and totalitarianism\, Scorpion Season is an experimental and genre-bending book of poetry about a strange time to be alive. \nSET POINT\nLucy Frank is a 20-something old aspiring screenwriter who takes up digital sex-work to pay the bills. Circulating a confused social atmosphere of half-engagement with lovers\, friends\, and co-workers in present-day Montreal—Lucy struggles with her self-image\, an eating disorder\, and the illness of her mother.\nHaunted by self-doubt and a desire to believe in her work and worth\, Lucy volleys between self-sabotage and ambition as she tries to develop a parodic script set within a massive multiplayer world-building game. She is thrown into amplified chaos when one of her sex-work clients threatens to dox her.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/fawn-parker-and-tara-mcgowan-ross-double-launch/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Mansfield Press Book Launches
DESCRIPTION:Mansfield Press is coming to Montreal to celebrate the debut book of local hero Joshua Levy along with Toronto writers Julie Hartley and David (ex Montrealer) Menear. Please join us for readings\, wine\, and great conversation. \nHear CBC interview Levy about his debut book\, The Loudest Thing https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-78-all-in-a-weekend/clip/15745807-joshua-levy-the-loudest-thing
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mansfield-press-book-launches/
LOCATION:ursa\, 5589 Ave Du Parc\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2V 4S8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community 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/2019-11-27/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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