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SUMMARY:Create Your Own Comic Strip!
DESCRIPTION:November 4\, 2023\, 11:30 am-12:30 pm\n\n\n\nMcConnell Atrium\, Concordia University1400 Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, MontrealFree\, no registration required. In person.\n\n\n\nWe’ll explore the basic building blocks to get you started on drawing and writing a (mostly silly!) comic strip featuring fun characters we’ll create together. Close up faces\, word balloons\, sound effects and more! For kids 5 to 9.  \n\n\n\nVasilios Billy Mavreas (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist and creativity workshop leader specializing in jumpstarting inspiration through collaborative creative play. The author of four graphic novels and director of gallery boutique Monastiraki (1998–2021)\, he has been involved in the Montreal arts community since the 1980s.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/create-your-own-comic-strip/
LOCATION:Atrium\, McConnell Building\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West\, Montreal\, H3G 1M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Getting Lit with Linda: Live podcast recording featuring guests Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker
DESCRIPTION:November 4\, 2023\, 1:00 pm\n\n\n\nDeSève Cinema\, McConnell Building\, Concordia University1400 Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, MontrealIn-person. Free\, no registration required.\n\n\n\nRSVP to the Facebook event.\n\n\n\nIn a first-ever episode with a live audience\, award-winning podcaster Dr. Linda Morra will interview novelists Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker. Both authors will be available to sign books afterward. Co-sponsored by Montreal’s queer reading series\, the Violet Hour. \n\n\n\nCatherine Hernandez (she/her) is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is a proud queer woman who is of Filipino\, Spanish\, Chinese and Indian descent and married into the Navajo Nation. Her first novel\, Scarborough\, won the Jim Wong-Chu Award for the unpublished manuscript and was a finalist for several awards including Canada Reads 2022. She wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Scarborough\, which was nominated for 11 Canadian Screen Awards and won 8 including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Her second novel\, Crosshairs\, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and made the CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction\, NOW Magazine’s 10 Best Books\, Indigo Best Book\, and NBC 20 Best LGBTQ Books list of 2020. Her third novel\, The Story of Us\, was published this year by HarperCollins Canada and was an instant bestseller. She is currently working on a few television projects and her fourth novel. \n\n\n\nEva Crocker grew up in Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland) and currently resides in Tiohti:áke (Montreal). Her debut novel All I Ask was longlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize and won the 2020 BMO Winterset Award. Her short story collection Barreling Forward was shortlisted for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQS2 Writers and won the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Author’s Award. She is a PhD student in Concordia University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities program. \n\n\n\nLinda Morra is a professor of Canadian and Indigenous literatures\, writer\, editor\, and literary podcaster who lives in Montreal (Tiohtià:ke). Getting Lit With Linda\, which she co-produces with Marco Timpano\, won the Canadian Podcasting Awards in 2022 and has been shortlisted for the People’s Choice Podcasting Awards this year. Photo credit: Nadia Zhang.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/getting-lit-with-linda-live-podcast-recording-featuring-guests-catherine-hernandez-and-eva-crocker/
LOCATION:DeSève Cinema\, Concordia University\, 1400 Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Postcards to the Future!
DESCRIPTION:November 4\, 2023\, 1:30-2:30 pm\n\n\n\nAtrium of McConnell Building\, Concordia University1400 Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, MontrealIn-person. Free\, no registration required.\n\n\n\nRSVP to the Facebook event.\n\n\n\nMail a message to your older self. We’ll be designing with words and pictures a double sided postcard with a message you’d like your future self to know. It could be serious or playful or both\, you decide what the adult version of you should know! For kids 10 and up. \n\n\n\nVasilios Billy Mavreas (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist and creativity workshop leader specializing in jumpstarting inspiration through collaborative creative play. The author of four graphic novels and director of gallery boutique Monastiraki (1998 – 2021)\, he has been involved in the Montreal arts community since the 1980s.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/postcards-to-the-future/
LOCATION:Atrium\, McConnell Building\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West\, Montreal\, H3G 1M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Scarborough Screening
DESCRIPTION:November 4\, 2023\, 3:00 pm\n\n\n\nDeSève Cinema\, McConnell Building\, Concordia University 1400 Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, MontrealIn person. Free\, no registration required.\n\n\n\nIn a pre-festival special event\, Image+Nation Queer Culture\, Montreal’s long-running queer film festival\, will join the Violet Hour to co-sponsor this moving film\, an adaptation of Catherine Hernandez’s novel of the same name.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/scarborough-screening/
LOCATION:DeSève Cinema\, Concordia University\, 1400 Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Making Monster Heads – An Exercise in Slow Group Drawing
DESCRIPTION:November 4\, 2023\, 3:30-4:30 pm\n\n\n\nAtrium of McConnell Building\, Concordia University1400 Maisonneuve Blvd. W.\, MontrealIn-person. Free\, no registration required.\n\n\n\nRSVP to the Facebook event.\n\n\n\nTogether we’ll SLOWLY build a weird and wonderful bunch of monster heads that we can only create as a team! For all ages. \n\n\n\nVasilios Billy Mavreas (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist and creativity workshop leader specializing in jumpstarting inspiration through collaborative creative play. The author of four graphic novels and director of gallery boutique Monastiraki (1998 – 2021)\, he has been involved in the Montreal arts community since the 1980s.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/making-monster-heads-an-exercise-in-slow-group-drawing/
LOCATION:Atrium\, McConnell Building\, Concordia University\, 1400 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West\, Montreal\, H3G 1M8\, Canada
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