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SUMMARY:Perfecting Your Pitch
DESCRIPTION:Perfecting Your Pitch is a three-session intensive workshop designed to bring  out the best in your film\, television\, or web-series idea and present it in a concise\, effective\, and catchy 1-pager\, presentation paragraph\, log-line\, or “Elevator” pitch to potential producers. Whether you’re interested in fine-tuning only one of the above or all four\, this workshop will identify the “hook” of your idea and make sure it is placed front and centre in your presentation. \n  \nThrough the use of examples\, basic notions of storytelling and cinematic structure\, effective oral communication\, and feedback\, Perfecting Your Pitch will focus on originality and appeal\, simplicity\, and delivery in an effort to better acquaint and arm participants with their own work\, ready to pitch effectively at a moment’s notice. \n  \nAdditionally\, the workshop will explore notions of confidence in pitching and identify different avenues available to get your idea in front of industry professionals and decision-makers. \n  \nParticipants should bring an original fiction or documentary idea for a feature or short film\, and/or a TV or web series to the workshop. \nMatt Holland is a screenwriter\, story editor\, and script consultant from Montreal.  His writing credits include short films (Drop Off\, Whistleblowers Anonymous)\, episodic television (Moose TV\, Toi & Moi)\, and feature film (Gone Dark). He has also worked extensively as a development executive for television\, serving as a content analyst for Telefilm Canada and as a manager of development and production for the CTV network\, where he fielded many pitches. He is a Creative Writing graduate of Concordia University and attended both the Writer’s Lab and the Professional Screenwriting Programme at The Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/perfecting-your-pitch/2021-11-06/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Write Here\, Write Now! Local Journalism: A Special Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Write Here\, Write Now! special workshops focus on techniques to be used in poetry\, fiction\, and many types of non-fiction. \nEver wonder what goes into writing the daily news? This workshop will explore the different processes and styles of writing that go into traditional print news reporting and offer participants opportunities to work on writing to inform an audience. Inquiry is a key part of journalism\, so come with questions in mind\, whether they relate to the specific experiences of a community journalist or to broader issues of journalistic ethics and practice. \nAbout the facilitator\nGordon Lambie was reluctantly pulled into the world of community news close to a decade ago and never left. Through his work with “The Record” in Sherbrooke\, Quebec\, he regularly writes on issues ranging from elections to the local bake sale. \nWrite Here\, Write Now! is supported by Bishop’s University Lifelong Learning Academy.\nBishop’s University is located on the Traditional and Unceded Territory of the Abenaki People.\nFor more information\, please e-mail us at bulla@ubishops.ca.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/write-here-write-now-local-journalism-a-special-workshop/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Poetry and the Document: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Our lives are ruled by paper: birth certificates. Leases. Contracts. Yet\, strangely\, these documents are so dry. They can make us feel as much as a poem—but they don’t have the spark of life in them.\nIn this workshop for all ages\, Montreal-area poet Tara McGowan-Ross takes emerging writers through the process that she developed to write her document-poem STRIKE MOTION —a resistance poem layered on the actual document her university department used to go on strike in 2015. By injecting humour\, imagery\, beauty\, and metaphor into the documents that shape our lives\, we have an endless supply of writing material—and a truer archive for our brief and precious life on Earth.\n**This workshop will follow the November 5\, 2021 Atwater Poetry Project featuring Tara McGowan-Ross and Ashley Obscura\, 7:00-8:00 pm in the Atwater Library Auditorium.\nTara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaw multidisciplinary artist and writer. She is the author of the poetry collections Girth and Scorpion Season\, and the nonfiction collection Nothing Will Be Different\, forthcoming in fall 2021. She hosts the Drawn and Quarterly’s Indigenous Literatures Book Club and reviews experimental and independent Montreal theatre for Broadwayworld.\nTo register: awe@atwaterlibrary.ca.\nCo-presented with the Atwater Poetry Project.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-and-the-document-a-workshop/
LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
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