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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:The Gabriel Safdie Event: Jerusalem of the Mind—The Groundwork for the Day After
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, April 27th\, 2025\, 2:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nPart of the 2025 Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival \n\n\n\nHow do we continue living through endless conflict in the Middle East? How do we lay the groundwork for the day after? What role do we have as writers\, poets\, storytellers and journalists in the arduous and grassroots task of dialogue toward peace building? We must first explore ways toward building empathy among enemies. \n\n\n\nA discussion on the current Middle East among a scholar\, a poet\, a writer\, and a filmmaker. \n\n\n\nParticipants: Danae Elon\, Yacov Rabkin\, Moustafa Bayoumi\, Ehab Lotayef \n\n\n\nModerator: Kareem Shaheen
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-gabriel-safdie-event-jerusalem-of-the-mind-the-groundwork-for-the-day-after/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Panel
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SUMMARY:Imagination – Leanna Brodie
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, April 27\, 2025\, 2:30-3:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nEnjoy an interview with Leanna Brodie\, author of Salesman in China\, at this Imagination event!  \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\nHost: Michael Bourguignon \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Imagination Writers’ Festival in partnership with QWF’s Writers Out Loud series.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/imagination-leanna-brodie/
LOCATION:Morrin Centre\, 44 Chaussée des Écossais\, Quebec City\, Quebec\, G1R 4H3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Imagination – Literary Notes
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, April 27\, 2025\, 4:00-5:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nDiscover three poets at our Literary Notes event during the Imagination festival! \n\n\n\nThe Morrin Centre joins forces with the Ligue d’improvisation musicale de Québec (LIMQ) to present a notewordy concert. Tune in to listen to readings by Jes Battis\, Domenica Martinello\, and Derek Webster\, accompanied by music improvised and performed by musicians from the LIMQ which captures the spirit of their poetry books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJes Battis teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Regina. They are the author of The Winter Knight with ECW Press\, the Occult Special Investigator series with Penguin\, and I Hate Parties\, their debut book of poems with Nightwood Press. Their work has been included in Canada Reads\, and shortlisted for the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and the Sunburst Award for Candian Literature of the Fantastic. The Winter Knight won both an Independent Publisher’s Award and an Indie Foreword Award. Jes is currently working on two projects: a nonfiction book on the film Labyrinth\, and a queer romance novel that combines witchcraft with the cozy mood of Schitt’s Creek. \n\n\n\nPhoto by Gino Visconti\n\n\n\nDomenica Martinello is the author of All Day I Dream about Sirens (Coach House Books\, 2019) and Good Want (Coach House Books\, 2024) and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The title poem of her most recent collection\, “Good Want\,” won the Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize in 2023. For her prose writing\, Domenica won the carte blanche 3Macs Prize (2017) for a genre-bending work of literary criticism on Elena Ferrante\, and has published reviews and criticism in The Globe & Mail\, The Montreal Review of Books\, Canadian Notes & Queries\, and elsewhere. Domenica has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2019 and Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (Biblioasis\, forthcoming)\, and her work has been supported by The Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\nPhoto by Saleema Nawaz Webster\n\n\n\nDerek Webster received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis\, where he studied with Carl Phillips\, and is the founding editor of award-winning arts magazine Maisonneuve. His first book of poems\, Mockingbird (Véhicule Press) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best poetry debut in Canada and his second collection\, National Animal\, recently won the 2024 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. In the words of Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Diane Seuss\, “National Animal embodies the body politic\, entangled in war and estrangement\, and the human animal caught in a vanishing natural world. From Joni Mitchell to Blanche DuBois\, and in forms that range from the sonnet to an epic\, physics-driven creation myth\, Webster uncovers the universe’s capacity to ‘equilibrate’ without a modicum of sentimentality.” Webster lives in Montreal and Toronto. His work can be read at derekwebsterwriter.com.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/74928/
LOCATION:Morrin Centre\, 44 Chaussée des Écossais\, Quebec City\, Quebec\, G1R 4H3\, Canada
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