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SUMMARY:Jewish Book Month (it's more than books!) - award winning writers\, lectures\, Russian culture\, workshops- livestreamed until Nov. 30
DESCRIPTION:Far from being only about books\, this entertaining and thought-provoking series of multilingual\, eclectic events brings together some of today’s top literary minds in interviews and inspiring lectures\, along with workshops\, concerts and Russian dance & culture. \nFrom Boston\, Steven Pinker continues his exploration on the genealogy of reason with insight and humour with his new work\, “Rationality: What It Is\, Why It Seems Scarce\, Why It Matters” (Nov. 17); live from France\, Valerie Zenatti is a Francophone author grounded in the European and Middle Eastern romantic traditions in conversation with Chantal Ringuet (Nov. 14); the 16th annual Evening of Russian Culture- “Our Hearts Are Holding Hands” stars poets\, musicians\, vocalists and dancers bringing famous Russian bard Bulat Okudzhava to life\, in English and Russian. Tickets available to watch live in person at the Segal Centre or livestreamed (Nov. 13); and Chanie Ehrentreu\, host of The Boss Maidel Podcast\, is in conversation with author Fiona Davis in the new series\, Boss Maidel Conversations with Female Writers from California and New York (Nov. 30). \nLivestreamed from cities around the world\, Q&A follow each event. Presented by the Jewish Public Library.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/jewish-book-month-its-more-than-books-award-winning-writers-lectures-russian-culture-workshops-livestreamed-until-nov-30/
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SUMMARY:Storytelling-In Your Own Voice\, In Your Own Words
DESCRIPTION:Open to all \nLimited to 12 participants \n  \n  \nTell us a story of your hopes\, dreams and fears. \n  \nWhether yours is a love story or an adventure\, a true-life story or one that’s totally imagined\, you will be free to improvise and adapt as you are guided through the creative process of bringing a story to life and telling it In Your Own Voice and Your Own Words. \n  \nThis six-week online workshop is an invitation to explore not only the process of creative writing\, but also a brief introduction to the essential elements of oral and nonverbal communication necessary to assimilate (as opposed to memorizing) an original story for a traditional style oral transmission\, i.e.\, a telling vs. a reading. \n  \nUnleashing the imagination \n  \n\nUsing images and working within allotted time limits\, your will be guided through the basic steps and elements of creative story writing (these elements being the key to any storytelling project\, written or oral).\n\n  \n\nThe writing sessions will include exercises in creative thought\, improvisation\, situation\, and character motivation as well as the ongoing transition and adaptation of your story.\n\n  \n\nThroughout the workshop\, you will continue to experiment and improvise\, and the ongoing transition and adaptation of your written text (Your Words) will gradually evolve into a story made to tell (Your Voice).\n\n  \n\nStorytelling exercises will cover creating the storyboard\, incorporating senses and emotions\, and using both voice and gesture to bring the story to life.\n\n  \n\nFreedom of creative voice and individual style are encouraged!\n\n  \nThrough the sharing of stories\, we may see past our differences; stimulate interaction between generations\, languages\, and cultures; strengthen our confidence\, identity\, and sense of community. \nWith laughter and tears\, participants will share their thoughts and ideas\, memories and emotions\, in a positive\, enjoyable\, and non-judgmental environment designed to encourage growth and well-being. . . simply for the pleasure of it!\n \n  \nPatti Warnock\, aka La Contesse\, travels the globe\, collecting and sharing her stories. She has participated in festivals and cultural activities throughout Quebec\, Canada\, the Caribbean\, France\, Iran\, and China\, \nreceiving commendations for her storytelling and writing work. Her repertoire (for the young at heart of all ages) consists not only of traditional style tales\, but also of her own creations\, where reality and fiction walk hand in hand\, and which are based on the reality of everyday life events\, and on her own childhood in rural Quebec and in northern Canada. \n  \nW.R.I.T.E.® Workshops: Culture in the Schools – ELAN ArtistsInpire – QWF programs. \nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/patti-warnock-13a7a83b/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/storytelling-in-your-own-voice-in-your-own-words/2021-11-15/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writing Outside the Box: a Workshop on Edgy Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Interested in examining unsettling or edgy themes but don’t know how to get started? Nervous about writing outside the usual rules of CanLit? This workshop series is designed to help writers of any medium\, genre or experience level learn to start pushing boundaries with their work. \nFull of provocative exercises and frank discussion\, these fun and interactive sessions will provide participants with tips and techniques that will help build confidence in working with the unusual\, the taboo and the experimental. \nStudents will be asked to read aloud from their work and to provide feedback to other participants. Students will also receive written feedback from the instructor as the course progresses. \nPlease note: due to the content in some of the exercises\, this workshop is 18+. \nTracey Waddleton is a Newfoundland writer living in Montréal. Her work has been published in Riddle Fence\, NQ\, the Cuffer Anthology and elsewhere. A finalist for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers and recipient of the 2015 Lawrence Jackson Writers’ Award\, Waddleton’s work has been described as weird and wonderful minimalist dark realism. Her first book\, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious\, was published in July of 2019. She is the inaugural recipient of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Max Margles Writing Residency and is scheduled to spend a month writing in Dublin in 2021. \nSchedule: Mondays\, November 15 \,22\, 29\, December 6\, from 6 pm – 8 pm
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-outside-the-box-a-workshop-on-edgy-fiction-3/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Creating Compelling Non-Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Open to all \nLimited to 12 participants \n  \nCreative non-fiction has been breaking out of its niche to become an increasingly central component of the literary scene. For those wishing to enter this vibrant and thriving field\, having one’s work read and constructively critiqued by an established writer and a group of one’s peers is an invaluable experience. Creating Compelling Non-Fiction is precisely such an opportunity.  \n  \nOur workshopping will be done from the ground up. Analysis will be rigorous\, readings will be close\, group feedback will be thorough\, supportive\, and respectful. As workshop leader I will provide advice and critique that is both pertinent to the type of non-fiction being addressed and applicable to the genre as a whole. I’ll strive to provide practical and creative tips drawn from my extensive experience with short- and long-form journalism and book-length non-fiction.    \n  \nAlong the way\, numerous questions will be confronted and addressed: \n  \n\nWhat are the qualities and writing options unique to this form? \nWhat are the lines between non-fiction\, creative non-fiction\, and fiction? \nAre some subjects and narrative strategies better suited to a non-fiction treatment than others? \nWhat distinguishes memoir from autobiography? \nWhat is the writer’s responsibility to factual rigour in non-fiction? \nHow much research is too much research? \nWhat are some of the ways to invest non-fiction writing with the narrative pull of good fiction? \nPrecisely what story does the writer wish to tell? \nWhat are the choices—sentence by sentence\, paragraph by paragraph\, page by page—that will best serve that story\, and lead to effective and engaging non-fiction? \nFinally\, how do writers know when their piece is done?\n\n  \nThroughout the workshop I will stress the mutual\, collective nature of our undertaking. Offering one’s work to the eyes of others is an essential step in the journey of all writers\, and attaining a degree of comfort with that process is its own reward.  \n  \nTo complement and underpin our workshopping\, a short list of works by some of the contemporary masters of the form will be read and discussed. I will emphasize the general importance of reading as deeply as possible\, especially in the area in which one wishes to write; where useful\, I will provide personally tailored suggestions-for-further-reading lists for participants. A guest appearance by a prominent Montreal-based writer and journalist will be incorporated.  \nIan McGillis has been writing about books and visual arts for the Montreal Gazette for more than twenty years. His critically acclaimed novel A Tourist’s Guide to Glengarry was shortlisted for the QWF’s Hugh MacLennan Prize For Fiction and McAuslan First Book Prize\, and was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/creating-compelling-non-fiction/2021-11-15/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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