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SUMMARY:Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:April 24-27\, 2025Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke St. W.\, MontrealOnline starting April 14\n\n\n\nThe Blue Metropolis Festival is one of the largest multilingual literary events in North America. Each year\, writers from Quebec\, Canada\, and around the world converge on Montreal for the event. Festival-goers are treated to live interviews\, roundtable discussions\, public readings\, debates\, masterclasses\, readings\, and writing workshops. Every year\, the festival is structured around several strong themes that bear testimony to a keen social awareness and to a passion for literature in all its richness. \n\n\n\nThe 2025 Edition\n\n\n\nTime\, The Tree\, The Page \n\n\n\nThe Blue Metropolis Festival brings together Time\, The Tree\, and Literature for its 27th edition\, proposing an exploration of patience\, transformation\, and the delicate balance between nature\, culture\, and humanity. \n\n\n\nThe Tree\, a silent witness to centuries\, embodies both the patience of time and the memory of the world. “Trees are their own language; it is their form that speaks\, their entire form that carries their meaning\,” writes Alexis Jenni\, inviting us to reflect on our relationship with time\, literature\, and the environment. \n\n\n\nTime slips away\, accelerates\, is wasted\, and savored. It is both a threat and a promise\, urgency and contemplation. It shapes nature as much as it shapes our lives. Writing takes time; reading does too. Could time be a gift we give ourselves? \n\n\n\nOnce more\, public discussions\, roundtables\, debates\, readings\, master classes\, and podcasts will provide a rich display for both authors and the public to enjoy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 Festival
URL:https://qwf.org/event/blue-metropolis-international-literary-festival-2/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Dual Book Launch & Poetry Reading at Librairie Pulp Books & Café with Louise Marois\, Manahil Bandukwala\, D.M. Bradford\, Faith Paré\, and Misha Solomon
DESCRIPTION:Ring of Dust by Louise Marois\, translated by D.M. Bradford\, and Heliotropia by Manahil Bandukwala will have a dual book launch and reading at Librairie Pulp Books & Café. Join Louise Marois\, D.M. Bradford\, Manahil Bandukwala\, and special guests Faith Paré and Misha Solomon\, for a night of poetry reading. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6:45pm.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/dual-book-launch-poetry-reading-at-librairie-pulp-books-cafe-with-louise-marois-manahil-bandukwala-d-m-bradford-faith-pare-and-misha-solomon/
LOCATION:Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe\, 3952 Wellington Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4G1V3\, Canada
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