BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Quebec Writers' Federation - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://qwf.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Quebec Writers' Federation
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T123000
DTSTAMP:20260501T032112
CREATED:20250421T182842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T182934Z
UID:10004315-1745665200-1745670600@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Imagination –Writing Dialogue for the Stage Workshop
DESCRIPTION:April 22-27\, 2025\, 11:00 am-12:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nJoin us for this Imagination festival workshop! \n\n\n\nHow does dialogue work in the theatre\, and how does it relate to character and action? Join playwright Leanna Brodie for this workshop to find out! With a mix of theory and hands-on exercises\, explore various approaches to writing for multiple voices and generating text for the stage. \n\n\n\nPhoto by Kristine Cofsky\n\n\n\nLeanna Brodie is an award-winning performer and writer whose plays include The Vic\, For Home and Country\, The Book of Esther\, and Schoolhouse\, which have been performed across Canada. Most recently\, Salesman in China\, written in collaboration with Jovanni Sy\, premiered at the Stratford Festival and National Arts Centre to great acclaim\, winning the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for best new play. Brodie is also a leading translator of Québécois and Franco-Canadian playwrights. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Imagination Writers’ Festival in partnership with QWF’s Writers Out Loud series.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/imagination-writing-dialogue-for-the-stage-workshop/
LOCATION:Morrin Centre\, 44 Chaussée des Écossais\, Quebec City\, Quebec\, G1R 4H3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Workshops,Writers Out Loud
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/484903949_1192793076186435_4934074272584535687_n.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T143000
DTSTAMP:20260501T032112
CREATED:20250313T215332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T215336Z
UID:10004254-1745677800-1745677800@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: To Care for the Earth—In Conversation with Alice Irene Whittaker
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 26\, 2025\, 2:30 pm ETHôtel 10 – Salle Jardin\n\n\n\nNovelist Ian Thomas Shaw interviews author Alice Irene Whittaker to explore the profound act of finding home in nature at a time of heartbreaking change. In her book\, Homing: A Quest for Care for Myself and the Earth\, Alice Irene weaves the wisdom of leading environmentalists with her journey of embracing nature’s cycles in a cabin in the woods\, where she strives to shed perfectionism and cultivate a life rooted in regeneration and care. \n\n\n\nPart of QWF’s Writers Out Loud series. Presented in partnership with the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-to-care-for-the-earth-in-conversation-with-alice-irene-whittaker/
LOCATION:Hotel 10\, 10 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 4C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Panel,Reading,Writers Out Loud
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/42_Alice_Irene_Whitaker_1152x648.webp
ORGANIZER;CN="Blue Metropolis":MAILTO:info@bluemetropolis.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T153000
DTSTAMP:20260501T032112
CREATED:20250421T181632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T182623Z
UID:10004314-1745677800-1745681400@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Imagination Writers' Festival: Sabrina Reeves
DESCRIPTION:April 26\, 2025\, 2:30-3:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nEnjoy an interview with Sabrina Reeves\, author of Little Crosses\, at this Imagination event! \n\n\n\nPhoto by Tony Chong\n\n\n\nSabrina Reeves grew up in Boston and New York and currently lives in Montreal. Her artistic practice has primarily been in writing performance texts and plays. She founded the performance company Bluemouth Inc.\, with whom she has written and staged over a dozen original works and performed at festivals and theatres all over the world. In 2018\, she completed an MFA in creative writing at Concordia University\, where she was awarded the Dean of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Creative Writing. Her first novel\, Little Crosses\, was published in March of 2024 by House of Anansi Press and was awarded the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction. \n\n\n\nHost : Leila Paddack-Trudel \n\n\n\nOrganized by the Imagination Writers’ Festival in partnership with QWF’s Writers Out Loud series.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/imagination-writers-festival-sabrina-reeves/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Festival,Writers Out Loud
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://qwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/484903949_1192793076186435_4934074272584535687_n.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Morrin Centre":MAILTO:INFO@MORRIN.ORG
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR