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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
CATEGORIES:Reading,Series
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 26\, 2025\, 10:00 am–12:30 pm ETOnline via Zoom—RSVP below to receive the Zoom link\n\n\n\nLooking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \n\n\n\nRegister below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do. Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25-minute bursts\, with 5-minute breaks in between. \n\n\n\nThis event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.  \n\n\n\nThe Zoom link will be sent out a day or two before the session. \n\n\n\nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n10:00–10:25: Writing 110:25–10:30: Break10:30–10:55: Writing 210:55–11:00: Break11:00–11:25: Writing 311:25–11:30: Break11:30–11:55: Writing 411:55–12:00: Break12:00–12:25: Writing 5 \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom link\, RSVP below. You will receive the Zoom link a few days before the session. \n\n\n\nNote: RSVPs for virtual Shut Up & Write! sessions close 24 hours before the session begins. If there is no option to RSVP\, RSVPs are closed.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-virtual-33/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Imagination –Writing Dialogue for the Stage Workshop
DESCRIPTION:April 22-27\, 2025\, 11:00 am-12:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nJoin us for this Imagination festival workshop! \n\n\n\nHow does dialogue work in the theatre\, and how does it relate to character and action? Join playwright Leanna Brodie for this workshop to find out! With a mix of theory and hands-on exercises\, explore various approaches to writing for multiple voices and generating text for the stage. \n\n\n\nPhoto by Kristine Cofsky\n\n\n\nLeanna Brodie is an award-winning performer and writer whose plays include The Vic\, For Home and Country\, The Book of Esther\, and Schoolhouse\, which have been performed across Canada. Most recently\, Salesman in China\, written in collaboration with Jovanni Sy\, premiered at the Stratford Festival and National Arts Centre to great acclaim\, winning the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for best new play. Brodie is also a leading translator of Québécois and Franco-Canadian playwrights. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Imagination Writers’ Festival in partnership with QWF’s Writers Out Loud series.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/imagination-writing-dialogue-for-the-stage-workshop/
LOCATION:Morrin Centre\, 44 Chaussée des Écossais\, Quebec City\, Quebec\, G1R 4H3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Workshops,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: To Care for the Earth—In Conversation with Alice Irene Whittaker
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 26\, 2025\, 2:30 pm ETHôtel 10 – Salle Jardin\n\n\n\nNovelist Ian Thomas Shaw interviews author Alice Irene Whittaker to explore the profound act of finding home in nature at a time of heartbreaking change. In her book\, Homing: A Quest for Care for Myself and the Earth\, Alice Irene weaves the wisdom of leading environmentalists with her journey of embracing nature’s cycles in a cabin in the woods\, where she strives to shed perfectionism and cultivate a life rooted in regeneration and care. \n\n\n\nPart of QWF’s Writers Out Loud series. Presented in partnership with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-to-care-for-the-earth-in-conversation-with-alice-irene-whittaker/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Panel,Reading,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Imagination Writers' Festival: Sabrina Reeves
DESCRIPTION:April 26\, 2025\, 2:30-3:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nEnjoy an interview with Sabrina Reeves\, author of Little Crosses\, at this Imagination event! \n\n\n\nPhoto by Tony Chong\n\n\n\nSabrina Reeves grew up in Boston and New York and currently lives in Montreal. Her artistic practice has primarily been in writing performance texts and plays. She founded the performance company Bluemouth Inc.\, with whom she has written and staged over a dozen original works and performed at festivals and theatres all over the world. In 2018\, she completed an MFA in creative writing at Concordia University\, where she was awarded the Dean of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Creative Writing. Her first novel\, Little Crosses\, was published in March of 2024 by House of Anansi Press and was awarded the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction. \n\n\n\nHost : Leila Paddack-Trudel \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Imagination Writers’ Festival in partnership with QWF’s Writers Out Loud series.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/imagination-writers-festival-sabrina-reeves/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Festival,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:Launch! Fred Anderson with Gordon Weekes on great Black music of the Civil Rights era
DESCRIPTION:Librairie Résonance\, Livres Baraka\, and Arts in the Margins present the launch of Fred Anderson’s memoir\, Eyes Have Seen\, From Mississippi to Montreal (April 1\, Livres Baraka)\, along with special guest Gordon Weekes\, host of Anatomy of Caribbean Music\, 1690 AM\, CJLO.COM. \nTo mark the launch\, Fred and Gordon will be in conversation about the music that shaped the Civil Rights era. Nina Simone. Charles Mingus. John Coltrane. Sweet Honey in the Rock. Richie Haven. Roberta Flack. Oscar Peterson. Odetta. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and to be autographed.  Free and all are welcome! \nSaturday\, April 26\, 4 pm\nLIBRAIRIE RÉSONANCE\, 40 rue Beaubien Est\nSTM public transport: Beaubien metro station\nBus stop (north\, St-Laurent at Beaubien): #51440\nBus stop (south\, Clarke at Beaubien): #51411 \nABOUT \nEyes Have Seen at Livres Baraka: https://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/eyes-have-seen\nLibrairie Resonance: https://www.librairieresonance.com\nArts in the Margins: https://artsinthemargins.org
URL:https://qwf.org/event/launch-fred-anderson-with-gordon-weekes-on-great-black-music-of-the-civil-rights-era/
LOCATION:Librairie Résonance\, 40 rue Beaubien Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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