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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T080000
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SUMMARY:Greenwood's StoryFest 2019
DESCRIPTION:Retired Canadian astronaut Dave Williams is this year’s special guest author at StoryFest for Kids at 10 am and for the adult audience at 2 pm. The morning’s admission is by donation but please reserve your place on line\, and tickets for the afternoon adult presentation are on sale on line.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/greenwoods-storyfest-2019-8/
LOCATION:Stephen F. Shaar Community Centre\, 394 Main\, Hudson\, Quebec\, J0P 1H0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events,Festival
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Danger Model
DESCRIPTION:Madelaine Caritas Longman launches her first book of poetry\, The Danger Model (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2019). The book confronts questions about art\, illness\, identity\, and the paradox of authenticity\, looking at what it means to be a “self” in contexts as diverse as the medical system\, performance art\, queer adolescence\, and Talmudic debate. Featuring a special guest reading by Tess Liem\, whose debut collection Obits was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award and recently won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for 2019.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-the-danger-model/
LOCATION:Librairie Bertrand\, 430 Rue Saint-Pierre\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2Y 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Mary Soderstrom Launches Frenemy Nations
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Frenemy Nations\, as well as a short reading and discussion of why some places that should be alike aren’t alike. \nFRENEMY NATIONS:\nLove and Hate between Neighbo(u)ring States.\nIn the summer of 1968\, Mary Soderstrom and her husband loaded up their VW Beetle and immigrated to Canada from the United States. The contrast between their new home and their old led to a long-running reflection on what makes the two countries different. How could two places that are similar in so many ways be so disparate in others? \nIn Frenemy Nations\, Soderstrom answers this question by addressing a range of geographical “odd couples”: including the United States and Canada; New Hampshire and Vermont; Alberta and Saskatchewan; Haiti and the Dominican Republic; Scotland and Ireland; Rwanda and Burundi; and more. Through it all\, Soderstrom shows how tiny differences—in geographic features\, colonial histories\, resource competition\, education\, women’s roles\, language\, and migration—can have outsized effects on how polities develop. \nMARY SODERSTROM is a Montreal-based writer of fiction and non-fiction with six works of non-fiction\, three short story collections\, six novels and one children’s book to her credit. The University of Regina Press published her non-fiction book Road through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move in 2017 while Cormorant Books published her most recent novel River Music in 2015.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mary-soderstrom-launches-frenemy-nations/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T190000
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SUMMARY:Cherie Dimaline launches Empire of Wild
DESCRIPTION:Librairie Drawn & Quarterly presents: \nCherie Dimaline launches EMPIRE OF WILD \nAbout the book:\nFrom the author of the YA-crossover hit THE MARROW THIEVES\, a propulsive\, stunning and sensuous novel inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou–a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities. A messed-up\, grown-up\, Little Red Riding Hood.Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband\, Victor\, for almost a year–ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One terrible\, hungover morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay\, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher named Eugene Wolff. By the time she staggers into the tent\, the service is over. But as she is about to leave\, she hears an unmistakable voice. \nShe turns\, and there Victor is. The same face\, the same eyes\, the same hands. But his hair is short and he’s wearing a suit and he doesn’t recognize her at all. No\, he insists\, she’s the one suffering a delusion: he’s the Reverend Wolff and his only mission is to bring his people to Jesus. Except that\, as Joan soon discovers\, that’s not all the enigmatic Wolff is doing. \nWith only the help of Ajean\, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with a knowledge of the old ways\, and her odd\, Johnny-Cash-loving\, 12-year-old nephew Zeus\, Joan has to find a way to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor. Her life\, and the life of everyone she loves\, depends upon it. \nAbout the Author:\nCHERIE DIMALINE’s young adult novel THE MARROW THIEVES shot to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published in 2017\, and stayed there for more than a year. It won the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Kirkus Prize in the young adult literature category\, the Burt Award for First Nations\, Métis and Inuit Literature\, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and\, among other honours\, was a fan favourite in the 2018 edition of CBC’s Canada Reads. It was also a Book of Year on numerous lists including the National Public Radio\, the School Library Journal\, the New York Public Library\, the Globe and Mail\, Quill & Quire and the CBC. Cherie was named Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts in 2014\, and became the first Indigenous writer in residence at the Toronto Public Library. From the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario\, she now lives in Toronto.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/cherie-dimaline-launches-empire-of-wild/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
DESCRIPTION:Montreal\, please join author Hazel Jane Plante for the launch of her debut novel ▼Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)▲ \n*with special guest Helen Chau Bradley* \nZoey Leigh Peterson\, author of Next Year\, For Sure\, calls Little Blue Encyclopedia “an exquisite\, kaleidoscopic novel bursting with ache and delight.” \nLITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sifts through a queer trans woman’s unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire\, grief\, and delight\, the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entries about a fictional TV show set on an isolated island. The experimental form functions at once as a manual for how pop culture can help soothe and mend us and as an exploration of oft-overlooked sources of pleasure\, including karaoke\, birding\, and butt toys. Ultimately\, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) reveals with glorious detail and emotional nuance the woman the narrator loved\, why she loved her\, and the depths of what she has lost.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-little-blue-encyclopedia-for-vivian-by-hazel-jane-plante/
LOCATION:L’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 Rue Beaudry\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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