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SUMMARY:Kama La Mackerel's ZOM-FAM Book Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Kama La Mackerel\, the poet behind the debut lyric poetry collection ZOM-FAM\, for their cross-continental book tour! In virtual venues from Halifax to Vancouver\, with special guests including Jillian Christmas and jes sachse\, Kama’s My Body Is the Ocean Tour will take place on dates between November 16th and December 2nd\, 2020. Find one that works for you. \nABOUT ZOM-FAM:\nIn their debut poetry collection\, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island\, Mauritius. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling\, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrative that summons ancestral voices\, femme tongues\, broken colonial languages and a tender queer subjectivity\, all of which grapple with the legacy of plantation servitude. \nKAMA LA MACKEREL is a Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist\, educator\, writer\, community-arts facilitator and literary translator who works within and across performance\, photography\, installations\, textiles\, digital art and literature. Kama’s work is grounded in the exploration of justice\, love\, healing\, decoloniality\, hybridity\, cosmopolitanism and self- and collective-empowerment.\nlamackerel.net\n@KamaLaMackerel \nClosed captioning will be included for most events. Please support the local bookseller hosts by getting a copy of the book through them. Please contact Metonymy Press with any accessibility requests or questions about events.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/kama-la-mackerels-zom-fam-book-tour/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Silver Pins: Novel Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Workshop details TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/silver-pins-novel-writing-workshop/2020-11-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Rapid-Fire Reading\, Ricochet Writing: Holiday Book Fest Edition
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we kick off the Read Quebec: Holiday Book Fest with an online version of this much-loved\, fast-paced literary variety show. \nFifteen writers from a range of genres will keep things hopping by reading from their new work—for only two minutes each! After each writer reads\, they will contribute to a collaborative text that will be read aloud at the end of the show—with élan!—by host Nisha Coleman. \nWith: Breezy\, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch\, April Ford\, Nathan Caro Frechette\, Dani Jansen\, Andreas Kessaris\, Richard King\, Justin Ling\, Rachel McCrum\, Saleema Nawaz\, Hazel Jane Plante\, stephanie roberts\, Greg Santos\, Lauren Turner. \nSponsored by Penguin Random House Canada.\nLive transcription available.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/rapid-fire-reading-ricochet-writing-holiday-book-fest-edition/
LOCATION:Crowdcast
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance,QWF Events,Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Book Club: Paying the Land
DESCRIPTION:Join our Graphic Novel Book Club as we meet online every month to discuss contemporary Graphic Novels!\nAt our next meeting\, Wednesday November 25th\, at 7 PM EST\, we’ll discuss PAYING THE LAND by Joe Sacco. \nBy purchasing your book from our online store — mtl.drawnandquarterly.com — you help support community 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. Your support is appreciated. \n/////////////////////////////////////////// \nPAYING THE LAND \nThe Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial\, by their account. To the Dene\, the land owns them\, not the other way around\, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are home to valuable resources\, including oil\, gas\, and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment\, but also road-building\, pipelines\, and toxic waste\, which scarred the landscape\, and alcohol\, drugs\, and debt\, which deformed a way of life.\nIn Paying the Land\, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to “remove the Indian from the child”; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture.\nAgainst a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale\, Paying the Land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs\, activists and priests\, to tell a sweeping story about money\, dependency\, loss\, and culture—recounted in stunning visual detail by one of the greatest cartoonists alive.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/graphic-novel-book-club-paying-the-land/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Writing What We Don’t (Yet) Know: Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Workshop description TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-what-we-dont-yet-know-fiction/2020-11-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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