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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:2025 Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Produced by Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal in partnership with Centaur theatre\, the Queer Reading Series continues for its 6th year showcasing the works of emerging Queer playwrights. Taking place on April 25 and 26th at 7:30PM at Centaur Theatre\, and curated by Jesse Stong\, this two-day event will feature public readings of two works in-progress by Gabrielle Banville and Anton May. Following the Saturday performance\, join us for a night of music and celebration\, featuring cool beats from QRS-Alumni Blxck Cxsper. \nBoth readings will be presented with live captioning\, and the talkbacks will be presented with auto-generated captioning\, for accessibility purposes. \nThe Queer Reading Series is a FREE event. Donations help us keep our programming free to artists\, and will be gratefully accepted at the door. \nJoin us to celebrate the power of queer storytelling in the theatre and support emerging Queer artists.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/2025-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:Centaur Theatre\, 453 St. Francois-Xavier\, Montreal\, Quebec\, HZY 2T1\, Canada
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