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SUMMARY:Illuminated Grant-Writing
DESCRIPTION:This series of four workshops will examine how writers with projects for print\, spoken word\, or storytelling can prepare a strong literary arts grant application. From drafting a project description to balancing a budget\, we will also discuss artistic risk\, impact\, and cultural appropriation. Focus will be on funding programs at the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec\, and an arts council program officer will join us to answer questions. This series is intended for Quebec-based writers at all stages of their practice: emerging\, mid-career\, and established. There will be tasks to complete between sessions and participants must have an original literary arts project in mind.Access to MS Word or similar writing software will be necessary as well as a willingness to share work and exchange feedback in a workshop setting.As soon as they have registered for the workshop\, participants must email a short\, one-sentence description of their intended literary arts project to riley@qwf.org with the subject line “For Tawhida Tanya Evanson.” \n\n\n\nTawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet\, novelist\, artist\, and Ashiq known for her work blending poetry\, orality\, music\, and multimedia. Born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal\, she performs internationally\, has released several audio recordings\, short films\, and the award-winning 2024 Afrofuturist concert film CYANO SUN SUITE. Evanson has two published poetry collections and her debut novel Book of Wings won the 2022 CAM/Blue Metropolis New Contribution Prize. Her French autotranslation Livre des ailes followed in 2023. Evanson’s work explores themes of African diasporic identity\, Sufi spirituality\, and the human condition\, and she has received acclaim at home and abroad for her captivating performances and unique approach to poetry. She produces multimedia events as Mother Tongue Media\, is recognized for her role as director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word program\, and is current president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. She moonlights as a whirling dervish. 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/illuminated-grant-writing-5/2025-01-25/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:La nuit de la lecture: Elaine Kalman Naves and Chantal Ringuet
DESCRIPTION:La nuit de la lecture 2025 \n\n\n\nOn January 25 at 8pm\, join Elaine Kalman Naves and translator Chantal Ringuet for a bilingual reading of extracts of Kalman Naves’s memoir Shoshanna’s Story: A Mother\, A Daughter\, And The Shadows Of History\, translated into French by Ringuet. \n\n\n\nTo register: https://tinyurl.com/3jby4sap \n\n\n\nAbout the Book \n\n\n\nAt the end of the Second World War\, a survivor of Auschwitz makes her way home to Hungary. Of all her family\, only she and one sister have survived the camps; her young officer husband disappeared into Russia years before. Believing herself a widow\, Shoshanna falls under the protection of an older man who\, like her\, lost everything in the Holocaust. She gives birth to this man’s child by the time her beloved soldier returns\, and she has to make a choice that will cloud her life – and her daughter’s – ever after.Elaine Kalman Naves is the daughter whose earliest memories are of growing up with the consequences of that decision. Shoshanna raised Elaine with a torrent of family lore and all-too-vivid memories: the glamorous and eccentric aunts; handsome suitors and faithless husbands; death by order of the state and murder at the hand of a lover.Shoshanna’s stories\, haunting and vivid\, were both a gift and a burden to her daughter. This is a lush and exotic family memoir set against momentous events yet timeless in its truth-telling lessons. \n\n\n\nHosted by: Jeannot Clair
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