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SUMMARY:Indigenous Dramaturgies Exchange 2023
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Dramaturgies Exchange offers emerging Indigenous artists professional development and space for artistic exchange on a current or upcoming dramaturgy project\, with a focus on on-the-land engagement as a way of locating stories. \nThis program provides reciprocal mentorship and community building\, and you are encouraged to apply with a partner\, mentor\, or collaborator. \nIndigenous dramaturgies; as artistic ceremony\, as political resistances\, and as community-building\, are under studied and under supported. In this program we will discuss and explore your roles in deeper detail\, with the support of faculty and with cultural facilitators for on-the-land engagement sessions. This program includes daily check-ins as a group to share in creative processes and showcase your work in order to look to yourselves\, your cultural realities\, relationships\, and teachings as ways that navigate your artistic practice. \n*Financial Aid of up to 100% of tuition fee\, meal and accommodation fee is available for this program. All accepted participants will receive the financial aid package. \nProgram Dates: May 8 – 26\, 2023\nApplication Deadline: February 15\, 2023\nLearn more and apply online: http://bit.ly/3tPly6S
URL:https://qwf.org/event/indigenous-dramaturgies-exchange-2023/
LOCATION:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive\, Banff\, Alberta\, T1L 1H5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn with QWF
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 16\, 12:00–1:00 pmOnline via ZoomTo register: RSVP below \n\n\n\nLooking to connect with a community of like-minded writers? Whether you’re a new member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation or just curious about what we offer\, join us for an engaging virtual lunchtime session with QWF! \n\n\n\nOur knowledgeable staff members are passionate about supporting writers at all stages of their careers\, from emerging wordsmiths to seasoned scribes. During this session\, we’ll give you a deep dive into all of our programs and services\, so you can get a better understanding of how QWF can support you on your writing journey. \n\n\n\nWhether you’re interested in taking part in our writing workshops and mentorship programs\, applying for our literary awards\, or attending our events to connect with fellow writers and industry professionals\, QWF has the resources and support you need to take your writing to the next level. We’re excited to meet you and look forward to welcoming you to our vibrant literary community! \n\n\n\nRiley Palanca (Membership Services Coordinator) will be discussing QWF’s many programs and services geared toward emerging and aspiring writers\, including our mentorship program\, Shut Up & Write writing sessions\, and writing workshops. \n\n\n\nLori Schubert (Executive Director) will be explaining QWF programs and services for more established writers\, including the Writers in the Community program\, the Hire a Writer Directory\, and the QWF Awards. \n\n\n\nJohn Wickham (Communications Officer) will provide a brief walkthrough of the website\, highlighting sections and resources that are particularly useful to QWF members.  \n\n\n\nThere will be time for questions at the end of the session. \n\n\n\nTo register\, RSVP below. The Zoom link will be emailed to you a few days before the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote: As this is a virtual event\, you can join us from the comfort of your own home via Zoom. You’ll be able to interact with QWF staff and other attendees in real-time\, and have the opportunity to ask questions and learn more about what QWF has to offer.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/lunch-learn-with-qwf/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events
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SUMMARY:Daniel Allen Cox launches I Felt the End Before It Came in conversation with Heather O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 16\, 7:00 pmIn person and livestreamed\n\n\n\nJoin Daniel Allen Cox in conversation with Heather O’Neill for the launch of I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness\, which has been referred to by the latter author as “hugely entertaining\, open-hearted\, and insightful… a joy to read from start to finish.” The event will take place at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly at 176 rue Bernard O at 7 pm on Tuesday\, May 16th\, and will feature a reading\, a conversation\, Q&A and signing. \n\n\n\nThis event will be ASL interpreted. It is free and open to all. Books will be available for purchase at the event and the author will sign copies of their book. \n\n\n\nPlease note that we are asking all guests to wear masks at this event. Masks will be available free of charge upon entry. \n\n\n\nThe event will also be livestreamed on Drawn & Quarterly’s YouTube account—link to come. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nDaniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays; voting in elections\, pursuing higher education\, and other forays into independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would have consequences for his mother\, just as their stance on homosexuality would for him. \n\n\n\nBut even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his congregation’s presiding elder\, catalyzing his disassociation\, the distinction between “in” and “out” isn’t always clear. Still in the midst of a lifelong disentanglement\, Cox grapples with the group’s cultish tactics—from gaslighting to shunning—and their resulting harms—from simmering anger to substance abuse—all while redefining its concepts through a queer lens. Can Paradise be a bathhouse\, a concert hall\, or a room full of books? \n\n\n\nWith great candour and disarming self-awareness\, Cox takes readers on a journey from his early days as a solicitous door-to-door preacher in Montreal to a stint in New York City\, where he’s swept up in a scene of photographers and hustlers blurring the line between art and pornography. The culmination of years spent both processing and avoiding a complicated past\, I Felt the End Before It Came reckons with memory and language just as it provides a blueprint to surviving a litany of Armageddons. \n\n\n\nAbout the Participants\n\n\n\nDaniel Allen Cox is the author of I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness. His essays have appeared in Electric Literature\, Literary Hub\, Catapult\, TriQuarterly\, The Malahat Review\, The Rumpus\, Maisonneuve\, and elsewhere. His essay “The Glow of Electrum” was named Notable in Best American Essays 2021 and was a finalist for a 2021 National Magazine Award. Daniel is the author of four novels\, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award\, the Ferro-Grumley Award\, and the ReLit Award. He is past president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation and lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\nHeather O’Neill is a novelist\, short-story writer and essayist. Her most recent bestselling novel\, The Lonely Hearts Hotel\, won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her previous work\, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals\, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels\, has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction\, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. She has won CBC’s Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal\, O’Neill lives there with her daughter.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/daniel-allen-cox-launches-i-felt-the-end-before-it-came-in-conversation-with-heather-oneill/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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