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SUMMARY:The Sound of Dogs
DESCRIPTION:An Imago Theatre and The Sound of Dogs Collective Co-Production \nCentaur Theatre’s Brave New Looks Selection for 2026/27 \nThe World Premiere of \nTHE SOUND OF DOGS \nBy Jennifer Roberts \nDirected by Micheline Chevrier and Pamela Witcher \nOctober 1–10\, 2026 at Centaur Theatre \n  \nTickets: \nRegular: $34\nArts Worker/Senior: $25\nPay-What-You-Decide tickets available for all performances\, starting at $5 \nReceive 10% off your booking when you book a group of 10 or more \nApproximate runtime: 90 minutes\, followed by a 20 minute talkback with an invited guest (no talkbacks on opening night). \n\nGet tickets here. \n  \nAbout the Play: \nWhat’s it like to have Deaf parents? A wry investigation. \nCODA is a hearing child of Deaf parents. She has always seen her life as normal despite being told otherwise. Again. And again. And again. \nIn an attempt to explain her life to curious outsiders\, CODA invites us into her world\, as she traces the not-so-distant histories that have shaped her family and community. Through Deaf cultural storytelling and humour\, she shares personal stories and pushes back against the assumptions made about her parents. \nBlending American Sign Language\, spoken English\, and movement within a vivid digital landscape\, THE SOUND OF DOGS builds a layered world of expression and connection. Both intimate and expansive\, it celebrates the beauty and complexity of Deaf culture (with a touch of mischief). \nTHE SOUND OF DOGS was developed in collaboration with Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal. \nLearn more here. \nJennifer Roberts is a Montreal Playwright and Actor who has been at Imago and a part of our Creators Circle with THE SOUND OF DOGS. Director Micheline Chevrier was a previous Artistic and Executive Director of Imago Theatre\, most recently directing our award winning production of Redbone Coonhound. \nBoth Roberts and Chevrier collaborated with Imago on Upside Down – a series of narrative and documentary films that explore accessibility\, digital theatre\, and the creation process. Upside Down is available to stream for free on our website and is a great companion piece to THE SOUND OF DOGS.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-sound-of-dogs/
LOCATION:Centaur Theatre\, 453 St. Francois-Xavier\, Montreal\, Quebec\, HZY 2T1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Mtl book launch for A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros
DESCRIPTION:Flux Festival 2026 presents the Montreal book launch for\nA Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros\nWith editor Stephanie Loveless\, interviewer Katherine McLeod & performances by book contributors \nDate: Sunday\, October 4th\nLocation: Articule Open-Access Artist-Run Centre\, 6282 Rue St-Hubert\, Montréal\, QC H2S 2M2\nTime: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM\, Ticket: FREE\nFacebook event: https://www.facebook.com/share/1CSFuLTnns \nAccessibility: For complete details\, please visit: https://www.articule.org/en/accessibility\nAccessibilité : Pour plus de détails\, consultez : https://www.articule.org/fr/accessibilite \nCo-presented with Articule Open-Access Artist-Run Centre and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation.\nLive English-to-French translation will take place at the event.\nLibrairie Résonance will be on hand selling copies of A Year of Deep Listening. \nJoin us for a book launch celebrating the publication of A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros (Terra Nova Press)\, edited by Stephanie Loveless. Host Katherine McLeod will lead a discussion about the collection and Deep Listening practice. This will be followed by brief performances of text scores by contributors to the book experienced in Oliveros’ performance practices and Deep Listening. Then join in by helping us perform some of these scores—all you need is a body and the interest! \nThe invited performers: Nik Forrest\, Erin Gee\, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb with Terri Hron and Eric Lewis\, Ben Grossman\, Kathy Kennedy\, and Ellen Waterman. \nArtist info: \nSTEPHANIE LOVELESS is a sound and media artist whose research centres on listening\, vocal embodiment\, and place. Loveless’ sound\, video\, and performance work has been presented widely in festivals\, galleries\, museums and artist-run centres in North America\, South America\, Europe and the Middle East. She served as a Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Arts from 2018-2026\, and as Director of the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer from 2020-2026. In 2025\, Loveless published A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros\, which brought together a year’s worth of daily scores for listening\, contributed by over 300 artists. Her co-edited volume\, Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard (2025)\, is a collection of essays that contribute theories and practices of embedded\, contextual\, and critical listening to the growing literature in the field of sound studies. https://stephanieloveless.com \nKATHERINE MCLEOD is an academic and dancer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Alongside her project Literary Radio and publications on poetry and performance\, she produced the series ShortCuts for The SpokenWeb Podcast and now co-hosts the podcast Literary Listening (with Jason Camlot). \nNIK FORREST is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. They recently completed a PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University titled “Trans Sonic Practices: Listening and Sounding Livable Worlds”. Their sound\, video\, and installation projects have been shown at festivals\, galleries and museums across Canada and internationally\, including at the Joliette Art Museum (Quebec)\, the Listening Biennale (Berlin)\, Oboro (Montreal) and Kunsthalle Mulhouse (France). They have also received artists’ residencies in Paris\, Buenos Aires\, Hamburg\, Winnipeg and Saskatoon. Forrest’s recent projects explore experimental sound and listening as non-binary relational fields in which emergence\, mutation and interdependence can be sensed. They teach in the Media Arts Department at John Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue\, Quebec. https://nikforrest.org \nERIN GEE is a Canadian artist and composer whose work centers on voice\, affect and technology. She develops custom biofeedback instruments that link the human body to sound and interactive systems. In creating these systems\, she considers emotional manipulation as a technical layer alongside hardware and software in biofeedback systems\, linking this to feminist theory. Using roleplay\, ASMR and hypnosis\, she explores intimacy and resonance while reimagining human–machine relations across AI\, VR\, and robotics. Her installation works have been presented at Ars Electronica\, MUTEK\, and the Toronto and Karachi Biennales\, and she has performed at festivals such as MUTEK\, Vancouver New Music\, Sussurra Luce (Italy) and Music Gallery (Toronto). https://eringee.net \nJerusalem-born\, Montreal-based vocalist and composer AYELET ROSE GOTTLIEB is an international performer and Deep Listener who blends jazz\, Middle Eastern and Jewish music with conceptual improvisation. Winner of the 2026 Prix Opus for Album of the Year—World Music\, she collaborates with innovative artists\, including John Zorn\, IONE and Naomi Shihab Nye. https://ayeletrose.com \nBEN GROSSMAN is a busy musician and sound artist: Improviser\, studio musician\, composer\, noisemaker and curator. He toils in several fields\, having played on over one hundred CDs and on film and television soundtracks. He has composed and designed sound for theatre\, dance and installations; designed radio transmissions; and performs live\, spanning early medieval music to experimental electronics. Ben’s tools of choice are electronics\, percussion and especially the vielle à roue (hurdy-gurdy). www.macrophone.org \nTERRI HRON is a musician\, performer and multimedia artist whose work explores relationships and belonging with places\, people\, and scores. Using historical performance practice\, field recording\, invented/augmented instruments and videoscores\, she often works in close collaboration with others and produces performances\, gatherings and events. She also works for the Canada Council for the Arts. \nKATHY KENNEDY is a sound artist with formal training in visual art and classical singing. Her art practice generally involves the voice and issues of interface with technology\, often using telephony or radio transmission. She is active in community art and is a founder of the digital media centre for women in Canada\, Studio XX (now called Ada-X)\, as well as the innovative women’s choral group\, Choeur Maha. https://kathykennedy.ca \nERIC LEWIS is the president of Arts in the Margins and a professor of philosophy at McGill University\, where he directs the Laboratory of Urban Culture. His academic interests centre on Black aesthetics\, critical race theory\, the philosophy of improvisation and the politics and ethics of new media art. He has decades of experience running community-facing art-centred projects\, and a strong commitment to social justice and equity. He is also an active improviser on brass and reeds\, and performs in numerous ensembles including Ton-e Rêve\, the Free Jazz Messengers\, the Murray Street Band and the Instant Synthesis Ensemble\, among others. \nELLEN WATERMAN is a flutist and vocalist who co-creates intersensory improvisations with environments. Bodily Listening in Place was developed in consultation with spill.propagation through a commission from New Adventures in Sound Art for World Listening Day\, 2022. She wrote about it for Performance Matters journal (2023). Her definitions of intersensory listening and bodily listening in place are included in the new Listening Glossary (2026).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mtl-book-launch-for-a-year-of-deep-listening-365-text-scores-for-pauline-oliveros/
LOCATION:Articule\, 6282 rue St-Hubert\, Montreal\, QC\, H2S 2M2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Festival,Performance
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SUMMARY:Garden of Literary Delights (GOLD) 2026
DESCRIPTION:Presented by NexGen MultiArts Festival & the Book Club of Kabir Cultural Centre\, Montréal\, Garden of Literary Delights is an annual event celebrating Canadian authors of South Asian origin\, curated by QWF member\, Veena Gokhale.  \nFeatured authors: \nAnuja Varghese\, Giller-prize winning writer\, reading from A Kiss of Crimson Ash\, a medieval India-inspired romantasy. The novel is part of a trilogy published by Viking. \nZeenat Nagree\, art writer\, curator\, living between Bombay & Montréal\, reading from her first novel\, My Summer Vacation (Vehicule Press) \nAcclaimed Afghan-Canadian author\, Jamaluddin Aram\, reading from his essay collection\, The Blood of Things (Penguin Random House). His debut novel\, Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday\, won the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Literary Fiction. \nAuthor\, Veena Gokhale\, reading from her latest work\, Annapurna’s Bounty\, Indian Food Legends Retold (Dundurn Press) \nAnd introducing Joie de Livres\, a trendy\, bilingual\, local bookstore\, in charge of the book sale. \nReadings\, Refreshments\, Q&A\, giveaways \nFree admission; donations welcome; RSVP: info@centrekabir.com or\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1693781315040887 \nHope to see you there! It’s a fun event…
URL:https://qwf.org/event/garden-of-literary-delights-gold-2026/
LOCATION:Salle 3\, Centre SANAAQ\, 1200 rue du Sussex\, Montréal\, Qc\, H3H 0E3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Roughling
DESCRIPTION:Join Linda Leith Publishing and author Alex Costa for the Montreal launch of THE ROUGHLING\, a fantasy adventure for 8 to 12 year olds!\nAbout the Book\n“You must find the Key. You are the only one who can.”\nWith these words\, Ambrose Peters learns that the bedtime stories his parents told him are real. \nOn his twelfth birthday\, he and his friends Stan and Aurora discover a curious note in the library of his home\, an old estate in the heart of Toronto. When peculiar creatures start turning up\, the three of them stumble on a mysterious world hidden in the wild spaces of their once-familiar city. \nBut Ambrose’s time is running out. With an ancient menace closing in on him\, Ambrose must find the key to save himself\, his friends\, and the extraordinary––and dangerous––new world they only just discovered. \nThe Roughling is an epic adventure teeming with mystery\, friendship\, action\, unforgettable characters and perilous secrets. \nAbout the Author\nAlex Costa has degrees in biology and dentistry from McGill University. Born and raised in the neighbourhood of North Toronto\, she grew up near the ravines that inspired this story. She now lives in Montreal with her husband Mark\, also a dentist\, her two sons\, and a big shaggy dog named Rookie who has excellent teeth. The first in a planned trilogy\, The Roughling is her first novel.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-the-roughling/
LOCATION:WILLS Brewery\, 6729 Avenue de l’Esplanade\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2V 4P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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