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SUMMARY:A Casual Reconstruction & STRIKE/THRU\, at MAI and online
DESCRIPTION:𝗣𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻. 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱: 𝟭𝟬$. \n𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 + 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐄 / 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐔 is a double-bill interdisciplinary encounter between two old friends from Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Nadia Myre is a contemporary visual artist and Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg First Nation\, and Johanna Nutter is a 7th generation euro-settler theatre maker and curator. Along with six invited participants\, they explore the uncomfortable feelings around being Indigenous and/or non-Indigenous. \nAt the heart of 𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is a recorded dinner conversation between six people whose origins are Indigenous and “other\,” about the politics of belonging within the confines of colonialism. A verbatim transcript is given to Settler participants\, who re-enact the conversation in front of the audience. Oscillations of identity constructs ensue. 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐄 / 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐔 is a playful exchange between Nadia and Johanna\, incorporating elements raised by the reenactment with their own lived histories\, in an always-evolving search for what a true act of conciliation might feel like and look like . \n𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 + 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐄 / 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐔 have gone from stage to screen and will now live in both worlds simultaneously. Using the plasticity of the digital environment to bridge Nadia and Johanna’s disciplines\, and the accessibility of the virtual environment to reach out to a wider range of participants\, they are preparing a LIVE hybrid to be presented onstage at the MAI (Montréal\, arts interculturels) and online at the same time. June 3-5\, 2021 at 3PM EST \nNadia Myre et Johanna Nutter are recipients of MAI (Montréal\, arts interculturels)’s Alliance program.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-casual-reconstruction-strike-thru-at-mai-and-online/2021-06-03/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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SUMMARY:Librairie D+Q Presents Jordan Abel launching Nishga
DESCRIPTION:Librairie Drawn & Quarterly and McClelland & Stewart present Jordan Abel launching Nishga\, in conversation with Ian Williams.\nRSVP here: https://bit.ly/3dZx8Fo\nFind the book here: https://bit.ly/2Pyb1ML\nMore info on our webstore here:\nhttp://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/posts/webstore-faq\nBy purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support 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///////////////////////////////////////\n\nNISHGA\nAs a Nisga’a writer\, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga’a language\, Nisga’a community\, and Nisga’a cultural knowledge. However\, as an intergenerational survivor of residential school–both of his grandparents attended the same residential school–his relationship to his own Indigenous identity is complicated to say the least.\nNISHGA explores those complications and is invested in understanding how the colonial violence originating at the Coqualeetza Indian Residential School impacted his grandparents’ generation\, then his father’s generation\, and ultimately his own. The project is rooted in a desire to illuminate the realities of intergenerational survivors of residential school\, but sheds light on Indigenous experiences that may not seem to be immediately (or inherently) Indigenous.\nDrawing on autobiography and a series of interconnected documents (including pieces of memoir\, transcriptions of talks\, and photography)\, NISHGA is a book about confronting difficult truths and it is about how both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples engage with a history of colonial violence that is quite often rendered invisible.\n///////////////////////////////////////\n\nJORDAN ABEL is a Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)\, Un/inhabited\, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). Abel’s work has recently been anthologized in The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (Hayward)\, The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry (Anstruther)\, Best Canadian Poetry (Tightrope)\, Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene (Wesleyan)\, and The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation (ARP). Abel’s work has been published in numerous journals and magazines–including Canadian Literature\, The Capilano Review\, and Poetry Is Dead–and his visual poetry has been included in exhibitions at the Polygon Gallery\, UNIT/PITT Gallery\, and the Oslo Pilot Project Room in Oslo\, Norway. Abel recently completed a Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University\, and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing.\n\nIAN WILLIAMS is the author of Reproduction\, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Personals\, shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award; Not Anyone’s Anything\, winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada; and You Know Who You Are\, a finalist for the ReLit Prize for poetry. He was named as one of ten Canadian writers to watch by CBC. Williams completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Toronto\, mentored by George Elliot Clarke\, and is currently an assistant professor of poetry in the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia. He was the 2014-2015 Canadian Writer-in-Residence for the University of Calgary’s Distinguished Writers Programme. He has held fellowships or residencies from the Banff Center\, Vermont Studio Center\, Cave Canem\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, and Palazzo Rinaldi in Italy. He was also a scholar at the National Humanities Center Summer Institute for Literary Study and is a judge for the 2018 Griffin prize. His writing has appeared in several North American journals and anthologies.\n///////////////////////////////////////\n\nLibrairie Drawn & Quarterly recognizes that our events and bookstores are located on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Many of us refer to Montreal as our home\, but it is named Tiohtiá:ke. This has always been a gathering place for many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse population of Indigenous peoples. It is important to think about how each and every one of us has arrived here. We are grateful that creating and sharing stories has been a part of this land for thousands of years and we urge you to seek out a story that is different from your own.\nPlease email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any questions!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/librairie-dq-presents-jordan-abel-launching-nishga/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:The Joy of Editing
DESCRIPTION:THE JOY OF EDITING\nThursday\, June 3\, 2021\nTime: 7pm – 8:30pm EST\nRegister in advance for this webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_ORzI_8mcTxyeaWHISQhbjA\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.\nHosted by Palimpsest Press\nPoetry reading & discussion about the writer/editor relationship
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-joy-of-editing/
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CATEGORIES:Community Events
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