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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:The Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! \nWe’re pleased to announce preliminary details of the 2019 Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair.This year’s fair will take place Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st\, in the Atrium of Concordia University’s McConnell building (1400 blvd Maisonneuve West\, metro Guy-Concordia). \nOur special guest will be novelist Sean Michaels. \n* \nAbout the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair \nThis free\, two-day celebration encourages book-lovers of all ages and interests to browse\, buy and get books signed\, just in time for holiday gift-giving. With Quebec publishers and authors on hand\, expect hundreds of new titles for sale\, along with readings and other events happening throughout the fair.  Click the links below to read details of previous years’ fairs. \nMore details on the AELAQ site.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-holiday-pop-up-book-fair/2019-11-30/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, McConnell Building\, 1400 blvd Maisonneuve West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Storytime + Signing with Angela Misri: Pickles vs. The Zombies
DESCRIPTION:Chattes! Des morts-vivants! Beaucoup d’amusement! \nABOUT THE BOOK\nThe comfortable life of Pickles\, the calico housecat\, is turned upside down when humans succumb to a zombie apocalypse. She doesn’t know where her “pet” – human child Connor – has gone\, only that there are zombies everywhere. \nDetermined to find Connor\, Pickles sets off with her cat friends and a streetwise raccoon\, exploring a world she has only seen through a window. Fending off human zombies\, street cats from the wrong side of the track\, and a fearsome gang of chipmunks\, Pickles and her crew search for remnants of human society. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAngela Misri is the author of the Portia Adams Adventures series and several essays on Sherlock Holmes. As a former CBC Radio digital manager and the Digital Director at The Walrus\, Misri is never offline (although she prefers to write long form in notebooks). She plays MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games)\, speaks several web languages\, and owns too many comic books. Misri currently lives in Toronto\, Ontario.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/storytime-signing-with-angela-misri-pickles-vs-the-zombies/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Storytelling
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