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SUMMARY:Unravelling in Rhymes: Dreaming in Verses
DESCRIPTION:Unravelling in Rhymes is a FREE creative writing workshop where we invite people of colour who identify as women\, trans\, gender nonconforming\, 2-spirit and non-binary\, ages 17-30 years old\, to come together in a safe(r)\, non-judgmental and supportive space and share an afternoon of writing and sharing. \nIn past workshops we have found that this space is more one of healing\, sharing our stories (sometimes for the first time)\, and connecting with other people of colour and creating community\, more than it is about the writing we create. \nDate: Friday\, February 28\nTime: 5 – 7 PM\nLocation: The Open Centre/Plaza Vendome (5165 Sherbrooke W.\, suite 300). Short walk from Vendome metro.\nFree!\nRefreshments provided \nPlease register for this workshop by providing a name and contact on the link below (Spaces are limited):\nhttps://forms.gle/9gofFd4Fjo2bqD3u6 \nParticipants are invited to participate in the ways and amounts they feel most comfortable. Previous poetry-writing and performing experience is not necessary! \nWorkshop Description:\nCan dreams prompt our creative writing process? Can we write using the same language/structures that our dream brain uses to tell us stories while we sleep? This is poetry meets Inception! By use of various writing exercises\, including free-writing and visualization\, we will try to tap into our subconscious and dip our feet in a waking “dream world”\, and allow its imagery and emotions to guide our writing. The workshop is designed to be accommodating of different comfort levels\, providing different options and variations for each prompt/activity. \nFacilitator: HAR LEEN (Harleen Bhogal)\nBorn in Montreal\, HAR LEEN is a South Asian writer\, artist and educator\, whose practice is entrenched in feminist and anti-racist principles and community-building approaches. As an educator\, she uses arts-based approaches\, ranging from visual arts to spoken word\, to facilitate grassroots youth programming. HAR LEEN understands that artistic self-expression in safe and loving settings can become a catalyst for collective healing and inducing transformative change\, and is dedicated to creating these spaces in her community.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/unravelling-in-rhymes-dreaming-in-verses/
LOCATION:The Open Centre\, 5165 Sherbrooke W.\, suite 300\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Teen Book Club: Hot Comb
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday February 28th at 6 pm to discuss Ebony Flowers’ graphic novel Hot Comb at our Teen Book Club. Pizza will be served. All attendees must have the assigned book\, or one book in the assigned series. \nThis is a book club for teenagers\, with a median age of 13-16 or grades sec 1-5–all kids must be in secondary school. There will be a different book every meeting. The focus is to provide teenagers a safe space to learn to discuss and express thoughts and ideas about literature among their peers without parents or teachers. \n***We are offering a 20% discount on HOT COMB from now until the meeting date!*** \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nHot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women’s lives and coming-of-age stories as seen across a crowded\, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved into. In “Virgin Hair\,” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. “My Lil Sister Lena” shows the stress of being the only black player on a white softball team. Lena’s hair is the team curio\, an object to be touched\, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates\, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Throughout Hot Comb\, Ebony Flowers re-creates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s need for hair relaxers and products. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page. \nRealizations about race\, class\, and the imperfections of identity swirl through these stories and ads\, which are by turns sweet\, insightful\, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her Ph.D.\, and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/teen-book-club-hot-comb/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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