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SUMMARY:Other Maps Montreal Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, Sept 29\, 2024\, 5:00-7:00 pm\n\n\n\nPlease join us to celebrate the launch of Rebecca Morris’s debut novel OTHER MAPS\, forthcoming September 14th with Linda Leith Publishing. Event hosted by Monique Polak. \n\n\n\nAbout Other Maps\n\n\n\nAnna Leverett is home for her dad’s retirement party\, counting the days until she can leave and sick of reminders that her life has consisted of wrong turns and dead ends. Then a meeting with her ex-best friend Helen raises unexpected questions: What really happened at that New Year’s party back in high school? How true were all those ugly rumours? With Helen at her side\, Anna can finally reckon with her past and chart a course towards a better future. \n\n\n\nA literary fiction #metoo novel set in early 2000’s Guelph\, Other Maps explores truth\, resilience and the ride-or-die friendship between two young women who will support each other at any cost. \n\n\n\n“Morris may steer readers outside their comfort zone\, yet her debut novel has grip\, the road rich with unexpected twists. Here\, friendship is a life-saving light on a young woman’s quest for truth in the aftermath of sexual assault.”— Kimberly Bourgeois\, Montreal Review of Books \n\n\n\n“A beautiful exploration of sisterhood\, memory and the stories we tell ourselves\, Other Maps is both timely and timeless. With a sharp eye for detail and a deep empathy for the messiest among us\, Morris gives us a friendship that you will never forget.”— Julie Lalonde\, author of Resilience is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde \n\n\n\n“Other Maps is a propulsive novel that explores just how fraught the lives of young women can be. From the dangers that plague girlhood to the uncertainties of adulthood\, Rebecca Morris beautifully writes how we reckon with our pasts\, fight for acknowledgement\, and stumble into\, hopefully\, better futures.”— Jen Sookfong Lee\, author of Superfan \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRebecca Morris is a Montreal writer. Originally from Guelph\, Ontario\, Rebecca taught high school before turning to writing full time. Her stories have won the Malahat Review Open Season Award for Fiction and the Humber Literary Review’s Emerging Writers Fiction contest. She is a Banff Centre alumna\, recipient of a Canada Council Arts grant and an active member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Other Maps is her first novel.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/other-maps-montreal-book-launch/
LOCATION:Monkland Tennis Club\, 4225 Av. Royal\, Montreal\, H4A 2M4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Art of Being Irish in Hell's Kitchen: A Memoir on the Organizing of the Irish Arts Center in New York City\, 1972-78\, by Jim Olwell
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 2\, 2024\, 5:00-7:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nYouth is not wasted on the young. It is their learning playground for their early dramas. They learn who they are and who they are becoming\, by trying something new or not trying\, by succeeding or failing and usually both. \n\n\n\nIn the 1970s New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood\, then a slum\, these young Irish and other Americans created an environment where they could learn\, by supporting and learning from each other and by being inclusive. They taught each other and learned from skilled artists how to play music and dance\, how to act and do theatre\, how to sing songs they loved. They learned how to build an organization\, their own arts and cultural organization\, by their own doing.  \n\n\n\nThey were tin whistle players and uilleann pipers\, not to mention fiddlers and dancers\, penniless artists and aspiring poets\, hundreds of volunteers and dreamers of dreams. \n\n\n\nThat early activity helped initiate a vibrant\, living Irish culture there in New York and the US. 50 years later\, a magnificent new multi-faceted Irish Arts Center was built on 11th avenue in Manhattan right around the corner from and connected to in the back their original building on west 51st street \n\n\n\nThis memoir on how it all began is written by an Irish American from the Bronx who was the second director and 6 year organizer at the Center. He fell in love with a young French Canadian modern dancer from Montreal on a grant to study with Merce Cunningham\, and in 1978 he moved here to be with her. They had 2 bilingual children who were born and live here. He spent his professional life here as a community organizer with the CLSC Benny Farm where he helped citizens create organizations and services they needed and did not have. Author Jim Olwell will be launching his new memoir at the Benny Library in NDG in September. \n\n\n\nThis is a free event.
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LOCATION:Benny Library 6400 Monkland Ave.\, 6400 Monkland Ave.\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Quebec\, H4B1H3\, Canada
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