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SUMMARY:Your Story\, Embodied
DESCRIPTION:Open to storytellers of all levels of experience. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nHave you ever sat captivated by a stranger standing on a stage recounting true events from their life? Did you get caught up in the tension of the room\, waiting with everyone else to find out what would happen next? Ever wonder what it would be like to hold an audience’s breath in the palm of your hand? \n\n\n\nYou can. You already have everything you need: your body. \n\n\n\nJoin Lukas and Emma\, two seasoned and engaging storytellers\, for eight weeks of exploration into using your body to craft and perform your own true-life stories. \n\n\n\nThe objectives of this workshop are to: \n\n\n\nEquip participants to prepare and perform a five-minute true story with no notes and no props.Facilitate and support exploration of emotionally charged material in search of unique stories.Harness the inherent strength of your body – the vessel for sharing your stories.Examine the tenets of storytelling\, including finding your narrative\, conflict\, and other essential elements of storycraft.\n\n\n\nThese intimate sessions will involve a mixture of group discussion\, critical analysis of stories\, and workshopping participants’ own stories with the goal of embodying an original five-minute story for invited guests at the final session. Stories will be workshopped in groups as well as one-on-one with facilitators and fellow workshop participants. \n\n\n\nEach week will focus on a particular theme with a corresponding body part\, with story examples to support each theme and illustrate the foundations of storytelling. By week 3\, participants should have a story in mind that we will work on for the final presentation. \n\n\n\nLukas Rowland is a writer\, storyteller\, and bodywork practitioner. He has told many stories with Confabulation\, where he is producer and communications coordinator. He was selected for the QWF Mentorship Program in 2020\, where he studied under Carousel author April Ford as a fiction mentee. He curated and produced an evening of queer stories for the Violet Hour. Though he has lived in and around Montreal these past 14 years\, he comes from Southern Louisiana\, where storytelling is part of every Cajun’s life. You can find him on Twitter @lukaslikeswords and on Instagram at @luka2ndfloor and at lukasrowland.com. \n\n\n\nEmma Lanza is a born-and-bred Montrealer with a background in storytelling\, theatre performance\, and arts management. She earned her Master’s degree in Library Science and currently works in medical research administration. A self-proclaimed fat bisexual babe\, Emma is a staunch believer in fat liberation and radical self-love and she wants you to know you look fabulous in that outfit! She has performed at Confabulation\, YARN\, The Wiggle Room\, Concordia University\, and Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids. She founded the bi-monthly Fattie Book Club @fattiebookclub and can be found on Instagram @emma_lanza and on Twitter @emmalanza.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/your-story-embodied/2022-11-02/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Montreal Review of Books—Fall 2022 Issue Launch
DESCRIPTION:Part of the 2022 Holiday Book FairFree\, no registration requiredIn person and live-streamed (see below for details) \n\n\n\nJoin us for the launch of the Fall Issue of the Montreal Review of Books\, with readings by featured authors Alexei Perry Cox (PLACE)\, Neil Smith (Jones)\, and Toula Drimonis (We\, the Others). Hosted by Montreal Review of Books editor Malcolm Fraser. \n\n\n\nIn-person event details\n\n\n\nSpace is limited; first come\, first seated. In accordance with public health guidelines\, mask wearing for in-person events is optional\, though encouraged. Ursa MTL is at garden-level and have a small set of stairs leading into the venue. They unfortunately do not have a ramp\, but we are happy to help accommodate folks to the best of our ability. Please let us know if you require assistance with the stairs. Doors will open at 6:30 pm.  \n\n\n\nLive streaming details\n\n\n\nThe event will be live-streamed to our YouTube account\, no prior registration is required. Tune in at 7 pm on November 2\, 2022\, to view and participate in the Q&A via the chat function.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nExplore other 2022 Holiday Book Fair events here\, and discover more English-language books written\, published\, or translated in Quebec at ReadQuebec.ca. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you on November 2nd! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToula Drimonis is a Montreal-based opinion columnist\, writer and news producer. A former news director for TC Media\, she has reported and written on politics\, social justice\, and women’s issues for national and international publications. She has worked in television\, radio\, and print in all three of her languages\, and has appeared on TV as both panelist and contributor to English and French-language current-affairs and cultural news shows. \n\n\n\nAlexei Perry Cox is a writer and teacher and organizer. She is the author of Night 3 | اليوم الرابع (Centre for Expanded Poetics)\, Re:Evolution (Gap Riot Press)\, Finding Places to Make Places (Vallum)\, as well as the full length collection Under Her (Insomniac Press). PLACE is now out from Noemi Press. Her poetry and criticism has graced the pages of a wide variety of publications\, including  Jouranl Safar (جورنال سفر)\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, Moko Magazine\, Carte Blanche and The Georgia Review. At the core of her makings is the belief that we imagine relationally\, sometimes with words and sometimes with graze.  \n\n\n\nNeil Smith is a Canadian writer and translator. His novel Boo\, published in 2015\, won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Boo was also nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award\, and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec. Smith published his debut book\, the short story collection Bang Crunch\, in 2007. It was chosen as a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Globe and Mail\, won the McAuslan First Book Prize from the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, and was a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Three stories in the book were also nominated for the Journey Prize. Smith also works as a translator\, from French to English. The Goddess of Fireflies\, his translation of Geneviève Pettersen’s novel La déesse des mouches à feu\, was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for translation. \n\n\n\nThank you to our generous funders\, partners\, and sponsors!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/montreal-review-of-books-fall-2022-issue-launch/
LOCATION:Ursa Montreal\, 5589 Park Avenue\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2V 4S8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Playwriting 101: A Playwriting Intensive
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will be conducted via Zoom. \n\n\n\nPlaywriting is an artform about curiosity\, obsession\, energy\, entertainment\, transformation\, and illumination. It’s about inspiration\, dedication\, and practice. It’s about following your impulses and shaping those impulses; about creating a series of freedoms and constraints that focus inspiration into a text that can be used as a blueprint for performance. Unlike most other forms of writing\, a play text must leave space for other creators to bring their artistry to the work. Director\, actors\, designers and technicians eventually fill in those spaces left by the writer to transform what is on the page into a three-dimensional performance that necessitates an audience for it to be fully realized. Having written plays that have been staged throughout Canada and beyond (Stratford Festival\, Shaw Festival\, Soulpepper Theatre\, Segal Centre\, Centaur Theatre)\, Erin Shields has developed a number of exercises\, strategies and best practices to imagine\, explore\, and write plays. \n\n\n\nPlaywriting 101 is an invitation for writers of other genres to try their hand at playwriting and for playwrights to deepen their practice. Throughout this eight-week workshop\, participants will bring their own particular understanding of story\, character\, and theme to the table\, to explore how to apply those same skills to the art of playwriting. Each class will focus on one of the following dramatic elements: character\, conflict\, desire\, premise\, form\, plot\, and structure. Through conversations\, focused exercises\, and sharing work\, participants will gain an understanding of how to organically and technically write a play. The process will alternate focus each class between the micro elements (character\, dialogue) and macro elements (theme\, story structure)\, as writers gradually learn how to build the world of the play with nuanced characters. \n\n\n\nDuring these eight weeks\, participants will write. A lot. By the end of the workshop\, writers \n\n\n\nwill have a strong understanding of the basic elements of a play and how to use those elements to write their own play. \n\n\n\nErin Shields (www.erinshields.ca) is a Canadian playwright. Most of her work highlights the negation or misrepresentation of women in classical texts by adapting these stories through a feminist lens for a contemporary audience. Erin’s adaptation of Paradise Lost premiered at The Stratford Festival of Canada and won the Quebec Writers Federation Prize for Playwriting. Erin won the 2011 Governor General’s Award for her play If We Were Birds\, which premiered at Tarragon Theatre. Other theatre credits include: Jane Eyre (Citadel Theatre)\, Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Productions/Segal Centre)\,The Lady from the Sea (The Shaw Festival). Upcoming productions include Queen Goneril for Soulpepper Theatre and Ransacking Troy for The Stratford Festival.  \n\n\n\nFacebook: Erin Shields \n\n\n\nInstagram: shieldserin1 \n\n\n\nWebsite: www.erinshields.ca
URL:https://qwf.org/event/playwriting-101-a-playwriting-intensive/2022-11-02/
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