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SUMMARY:Infinithéâtre Presents: Dominoes at the Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:March 7–March 16\n\n\n\nPresenting the world premiere production of Dominoes at the Crossroads\, based on the novel by Kaie Kellough and adapted and directed by Zach Fraser in collaboration with a team of multidisciplinary artists. \n\n\n\nExploring race\, history\, and coming-of-age by way of confessions and dreams\, Dominoes at the Crossroads offers a poetic ode to an epic and universal search for home and belonging\, gently anchored into port here in our eclectic city that is Montréal. Running from March 7th – 16th at 3680 rue Jeanne-Mance in Montréal (H2X 2K5). \n\n\n\nTickets available at: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/f56d43f8-23be-4a72-b2e1-aca6c64b6cee
URL:https://qwf.org/event/infinitheatre-presents-dominoes-at-the-crossroads/
LOCATION:3680 rue Jeanne-Mance\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X2K5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Writing Biography: A One-Day Creative Nonfiction Workshop
DESCRIPTION:“Biography is a metaphor. It’s not the person’s life; it’s writing about a person’s life.” \n\n\n\n            –Benjamin Moser\, author of a biography of Susan Sontag \n\n\n\nThis workshop aims to introduce participants to the art and science of writing the story of another person’s life. After unpacking the notion of “biography” and examining examples of different approaches\, the workshop will focus on the challenges and methodologies of biographical investigation\, research\, and writing. Participants are invited to bring to the workshop a favourite book-length biography and\, if possible\, to briefly present the subject of a biography that they would like to write. \n\n\n\nMorning (10.30 am – 1 pm): \n\n\n\n\nIntroductory remarks and participant introductions\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography as creative nonfiction (As opposed to memoir\, autobiography\, auto-fiction\, or fiction).\n\n\n\n\n\n“My favourite biography.” Each participant\, beginning with the workshop leader\, briefly presents a favourite book-length biography. (Participants are invited to prepare these brief presentations before coming to the workshop and\, if possible\, to bring in a copy of the book they wish to highlight.)\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussion\n\n\n\n\nAfternoon (2 pm – 4.30 pm): \n\n\n\n\nThe research and writing process. (Including a breakdown of the workshop leader’s research\, methodology\, and writing process for his two award-winning published biographies.)\n\n\n\n\n\n“My future biography.” Each participant briefly presents the subject of a biography they would like to write\, with emphasis on the “why” and the “how\,” describing how they would go about doing it and the pitfalls they might anticipate.\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussion and wrap-up\n\n\n\n\nSuggested reading: Robert A. Caro\, Working: Researching\, Interviewing\, Writing. Penguin Random House\, 2019. \n\n\n\nMarc Raboy is a former print and broadcast journalist\, emeritus professor of media studies\, and author or editor of some twenty books\, including the award-winning biographies: Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World\, finalist for the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Awards\, and Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel\, which won the 2022 QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction. He lives in Montréal and Abercorn\, Qc.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-biography-a-one-day-creative-nonfiction-workshop/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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