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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:A Vehicule Poetry Workshop with Endre Farkas & Carmine Starnino
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by:\nYolk in collaboration with the Quebec Writers’ Federation \nFacilitated by:\nEndre Farkas\, founding member of the Vehicule Poets\nCarmine Starnino\, Poetry Editor at Véhicule Press\n\nCost:$29.95 CAD (scroll down to sign up) \nLimited to thirty participants.‍\n\nIn this one-time\, three-hour workshop\, poets will be divided into two smaller groups (with a maximum of 15). Each group will have a 75-minute workshop with either Endre or Carmine\, then swap and have another 75-minute workshop with the other facilitator. We will then conclude with a brief open mic. All participants will additionally be offered the student-discount rate of $15 to become a member of the QWF.\n\nENDRE FARKAS: Endre Farkas was born in Hungary and is a child of Holocaust survivors. He and his parents escaped during the 1956 uprising and settled in Montreal. His work has always had a political consciousness and has always pushed the boundaries of poetry. Since the 1970s\, he has collaborated with dancers\, musicians and actors to move the poem from page to stage. Still at the forefront of the Quebec English language literary scene – writing\, editing\, publishing and performing – Farkas is the author of eleven books\, including Quotidian Fever: New and Selected Poems (1974-2007). He is the two-time regional winner of the CBC Poetry “Face Off” Competition. His play\, Haunted House\, based on the life and work of the poet A.M. Klein\, was produced in Montreal in 2009. Farkas has given readings throughout Canada\, USA\, Europe and Latin America. His poems have been translated into French and Spanish\, Hungarian\, Italian\, Slovenian and Turkish.\n\nEndre’s “Playshop”: A creative bent poetry playshop with Vehicule poet Endre Farkas. A playshop for those with a creative bent who want to get more bent. The playshop will focus on the creative process\, content and form. It will consist of exercises – individual and collaborative – and the “playshopping” (critiquing) of participants’ poems. A week prior to the playshop participants are asked to: \n\nSubmit two poems (no more than one page each) to themail@yolkliterary.ca\nSelect a favourite line from five to ten of their favourite poems (not their own).\n\n***** \nCARMINE STARNINO: Carmine Starnino has published six collections of poetry\, including This Way Out\, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2009 and recently translated into French by Éditions Hashtag under the title Par Ici La Sortie. His most recent collection is Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016. His other books include The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry and Lazy Bastardism: Essays & Reviews on Contemporary Poetry. He has received numerous awards\, including the Canadian Author’s Association Prize for Poetry\, the F.G. Bressani Prize\, and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, in addition to being shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Prize for the best first book of poetry. \n\nCarmine’s Workshop: Poems can’t exist without some gratuitous delight in words. And when it comes to generating surprising turns of phrase\, good poets are high-stakes gamblers. Poetry is rehabilitative. It’s an art where words\, muffled by monotony of use\, are given a noisier life. If you want your poems to sound like nothing else people have read\, you need to want to uninhibit your language\, to write against the grain of its everyday usage—the ready-made phrases and the serviceable expressions that threaten to flatline your voice. In this workshop\, we’ll be talking about an aspect of poetry that gets too little consideration: its showmanship\, its capacity to grab the reader’s attention. Participants are asked to come to the workshop with a poem that you believe handles language in a distinctive way. The poem should have a voice of its own\, one can’t be confused with anyone else’s. It should have an authority of style that\, even in a few lines\, would allow us to identify it immediately. \nWorkshop facilitators: Endre Farkas (left)\, Carmine Starnino (right)\n\nRegistered participants may cancel their registration and receive a 100% refund\, provided that they do so within 72 hours of the workshop (before November 25th\, 10:00am). \n  \nSIGN UP>>
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-vehicule-poetry-workshop-with-endre-farkas-carmine-starnino/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:rushes from the river disappointment Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, November 28 @ 7:30 p.m. (EST)\, via Zoom\, for a virtual book launch and readings with stephanie roberts\, Annick MacAskill\, David O’Meara\, and Zoe Imani Sharpe. \n  \nRegistration is required.\nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkcuGtrjgpH9OYwWEJGqoxbgBMPYJcMdFW?fbclid=IwAR1PNETT8Dp0-96fEerIOEIFhBYlZRegYNoRyvoid_TWf_9-BE-l6d4xDh8 \nSponsored by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/rushes-from-the-river-disappointment-book-launch/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:The Favourite Game: Quebec Literary Trivia
DESCRIPTION:How book-savvy are you? Test your knowledge of all things Quebec lit in this virtual pub quiz (you’ll have to BYOB). Hosted by poet and quizmaster extraordinaire Larissa Andrusyshyn. You can play in teams or on your own\, and there are prizes to be won — books\, of course! \nRegister here: https://bit.ly/35akIGi \n  \nThis event is part of the Read Quebec: Holiday Book Fest\, presented by the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec and the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Learn more at readquebec.ca \nHow to participate: \n\nDraft a team of up to 3 people and register for the event (you can also play solo or with one other person). You’ll receive a link to join the Zoom event on Saturday the 28th.\nChoose a team name.\nBe ready with a pen and paper\, and remember NO googling! You can have smart friends not smart phones! We will work with the honour system\, honorable as we are.\nMake sure you don’t post answers in the event’s Zoom chat. You’ll need to organize a group chat on the platform of your choice (i.e. text\, Messenger\, Whatapp\, Google Hangouts\, or just pick up the phone!) for the event so you can communicate with your team\, if you don’t live in the same place.\nEach team will elect a captain who records ‘final answers’ for each round on paper.\nThe quiz will be divided into several rounds with breaks between for teams to discuss.\nAnswers will be given after each round and team captains will report scores to the quizmaster.\n\nTop scores will win prizes from our generous donors: Pow Pow Press\, Véhicule Press\, Metonymy Press\, and Drawn & Quarterly. \nGot it? Got it. See you there! \nAbout your host: \nLarissa Andrusyshyn is a writer\, teacher and local quizmaster. Her trivia nights have drawn crowds at many pubs and fundraising events in Montreal and she is the longstanding host of the weekly pub quiz at Ye Olde Orchard Pub in NDG where over the years they’ve collected upwards of $10\, 000 in support of the NDG Food Depot. She is also an avid quiz participant and hopes one day to make an appearance on Jeopardy! where she can carry on the spirit of her inspiration Alex Trebek.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-favourite-game-quebec-literary-trivia/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events,Read Quebec Book Fair
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