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SUMMARY:Centaur Theatre Family Classes
DESCRIPTION:This fall\, Centaur Theatre invites children and their parents/caregivers to make theatre\, explore backstage\, and unleash their imaginations together. \nLed by professional theatre artists and educators Alison Darcy and Jesse Stong\, Centaur+ Family Classes are playful\, hands-on workshops where families can discover storytelling\, movement\, improvisation\, character creation and the joy of making something together. \nNo theatre experience necessary. Just bring your imagination!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/centaur-theatre-family-classes/
LOCATION:Centaur Theatre\, 453 St. Francois-Xavier\, Montreal\, Quebec\, HZY 2T1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Writing Outside the Box: An Edgy Fiction Workshop (Mondays)
DESCRIPTION:Eight Wednesdays\, Oct 7–Nov 25\, 5:45–7:45 p.m.\nOpen to all\nLimited to 12 participants\nOnline workshop* \nDue to the content in some of the exercises\, this workshop is restricted to participants aged 18+. \nLooking to shake up your process? Interested in breaking the rules a little? Designed to inspire unique approaches to creative writing\, this workshop will help squash your inner editor and provoke your inner rebel\, giving you the confidence you need to write more openly and honestly. \nOver the course of eight weeks\, you’ll explore the work of unconventional writers like Italo Calvino\, Zsuzsi Gartner\, Kelly Link\, John Elizabeth Stintzi\, Tamas Dobozy\, and George Saunders. You’ll learn tips and techniques for producing work quickly and fearlessly while dabbling in ekphrasis\, magic realism\, and second-person perspective. You’ll also hone your ability to give and receive constructive feedback in a creative working environment. \nThis is a fun\, provocative\, and productive workshop that’s generated award-winning fiction and long-term friendships. It’s suitable for writers of any experience level\, working in any medium or genre—from the shy beginner to the established professional. And while filled with lesson-based exercises and guided assignments\, this workshop is happily (and willfully) anti-academic. Participants are not taught writing theory but are encouraged to develop their skills through the acts of reading and writing alone. \nThere is no submission required prior to the first session. Participants will be expected to share fiction with the group as the workshop progresses. \nThis is the perfect way to kickstart a project\, rejuvenate your existing process\, or to simply step outside of your comfort zone by experimenting with new approaches to creativity. \nCome play with the weird kids of the writing world. \n(One of us. One of us.) \n*This workshop will take place online via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants a week or so prior to the first session.  \n  \nTracey Waddleton is a Newfoundland writer living in Montréal. A finalist for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers and recipient of the 2015 Lawrence Jackson Writers’ Award\, Waddleton’s work has been described as weird minimalist dark realism. Her first book\, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious\, was published in July of 2019 and won the 2020 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Tracey was the inaugural recipient of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Max Margles Writing Residency in 2020 and was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in May of 2023. She is finishing her first novel. \nwww.traceywaddleton.com \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writing-outside-the-box-an-edgy-fiction-workshop-mondays/2026-10-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Free\, open to QWF members \nRegister for the session by filling out the RSVP form below. \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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are registered but can no longer attend\, please email john@qwf.org. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-virtual-71/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:What a Character! A Solo Sketch-Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Oct 24\, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.\nOpen to all\nLimited to 12 participants\nIn-person workshop* \n  \nGet ready to get in touch with your silly side! In this 6-hour workshop\, we will tap into your unique sense of humor through a mix of improv exercises\, group discussions\, writing challenges\, and performance tips! I believe that everyone can be funny\, and I aim to foster a safe environment for your inner child to come out and play! By the end of the workshop\, each participant will have a 1-2-minute portrayal of a character inspired by themselves\, someone they know\, or their imagination! You will leave this workshop with a comedic bit you can share online\, perform at your next hang with your friends\, or just read and laugh at your funny ideas! \nAgenda \n\nHours 1-2: Connecting: Using a mix of improv exercises and group discussions\, we will shake off our jitters and tap into our funny ideas! In this part of the class\, we will unlock your best ideas while laughing the entire time.\nHours 3-4: Writing. Once the ideas are flowing\, it is time to write them down! I will share my method of outlining and writing my ideas so you can apply it to your own writing. I will spend time with each student helping them perfect their own funny character.\nHours 5-6: Performing. Sketches are best when performed. I will discuss performance strategies and how you can apply them to your own piece. Then each person in the class (if comfortable) will perform their sketch as we workshop together the best strategies for effective delivery.\n\nPlease bring an open mind and be prepared to laugh. No comedy experience required. \n*This workshop will take place in person at the QWF Office (Room 3\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec). \nShanthony Exum is a multimedia artist who embraces creativity in all forms. She has been an improv & sketch comedy performer since 2018 and currently teaches\, performs\, and produces comedy around Montreal. Her troupe “Imploding” won the 2023 Threepio competition\, and her sketch troupe 100% Human People was named “Best Local Troupe” in the 2024 edition of Montreal Sketch Fest. She has also performed at Ladyfest\, OFF JFL\, Montreal Fringe Festival\, and the Big Pond Improv Festival.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/what-a-character-a-solo-sketch-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:EMBODIED WRITING: The Unhaunting edition
DESCRIPTION:We’re all haunted somehow. Maybe it’s the deafening hush of something you’ve never dared speak out loud. Or a story you’ve carried for too long like an invisible weight on the heart. Or a sensation that returns\, again and again\, asking to be witnessed. The body holds all the answers we’ve been looking for\, even if we have yet to formulate the right questions. \nHaunting is that quiet (or not-so-quiet) persistence that lurks beneath the surface—unfinished\, unrequited\, unresolved. To unhaunt is not to dismiss or erase\, but rather\, to befriend our full selves\, ghosts and all\, gifting language to that which lurks in the darkest corners of our dreams. \nThis workshop invites you into a safe and sacred space. We will write from rather than about the body\, allowing what stirs our depths to blossom onto the page. Allowing breath\, movement\, and sensation to lead the way\, we will enter the shadows with great tenderness\, witnessing ourselves in our truest\, most creative form. \nOur practice will interweave:\n-Kundalini breathwork\n-Stretches & light movement\n-Creative writing prompts & exercises\n-Meditation\n-An optional sharing & discussion circle\n-Homemade chai & a sweet treat \nFull details: https://heartfirekundalini.com/#events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/embodied-writing-the-unhaunting-edition/
LOCATION:Studio 414\, 10 Avenue des Pins West #414\, Montreal
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:More Than a MILF: Sex and the Aging Female Body
DESCRIPTION:Come join Robyn Diner as she launches her creative nonfiction anthology\, More Than a MILF: Sex and the Aging Female Body\, starring an international lineup of unruly midlife and older writers reading snippets of their often spicy\, usually funny and always raw stories: \n•	Gail Rice (Australia)\n•	Sisi S (Lebanon)\n•	Chanée Naomi (Paris)\n•	Abbe Aronson (Woodstock)\n•	Samira Hassan (Victoria)\n•	Andrea Zanin (Toronto)\n•	Clementine Morrigan (Montréal) \nThere will be food and drink. You can meet the contributors\, and the publisher: Marion Lougheed founder of Off Topic Publishing. \nPre-registration is welcome\, but not required though it allows you to order a signed copy. \n— \nMore Than a MILF is the only nonfiction literary anthology in recent years to zero in on sex in relationship to aging female and nonbinary bodies. \nA 70-year-old psychotherapist in Australia hires an escort. When he doesn’t give her what she asked for\, she emails him to request a refund…  \nA middle-aged woman in Lebanon is in the middle of a ménage à trois when bombs start exploding around the building…  \nA teacher in their fifties reflects on decades of queer sex and concludes that they would rather eat cheese… \nFeaturing thirty diverse and disruptive voices\, these stories both celebrate pleasure and interrogate why so much shame and pain still haunt the terrain.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/more-than-a-milf-sex-and-the-aging-female-body/
LOCATION:QC
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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