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SUMMARY:Everyday Reconciliation with Derek Aronhie:nens Montour and Elin Sandberg Miller
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Rotunda\, Casa d’Italia \n\n  \nWith: \n\nDerek Aronhie:nens Montour\nElin Sandberg Miller\n\nModerated by Lisa Byer-de Wever \nMany of us are committed to the idea of Reconciliation – but what can we do about it? Derek Montour\, is an Indigenous man who grew up on the Kahnawà:ke Kanien’kehá:ka Territory. Elin Sandberg Miller is an immigrant from Sweden who\, with her outsider view of Canadian society\, brings a fresh perspective to the issues. Together they share their conversation between friends\, bringing warmth and insight on how Reconciliation can be part of our everyday lives. \nDerek Aronhie:nens Montour joined the armed services after high school—first the Canadian Royal Montreal Regiment and later the United States Marine Corps. After leaving the services\, he moved back to Kahnawà:ke to work with the Kahnawà:ke Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services\, and today he is the organization’s executive director. He also serves on the board of directors for the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission and has assisted at the national level on the Child and Family Services Reform National Advisory Committee. He also served on the Minister of National Defence’s Advisory Panel on Systemic Racism and Discrimination\, which submitted their final report in December 2021. Derek grew up in Kahnawà:ke and has two children and a grandchild. \nBorn and raised in Tiotià:ke\, otherwise known as Montreal\, Lisa Byer-de Wever is a Diaconal Ministry in the United Church of Canada. As someone who has navigated the many worlds of colour\, culture\, gender\, religion\, spirituality and language her whole life\, she is passionate about creating space for dialogue\, learning and deep listening where everyone can share their authentic self. \nShe identifies as having mixed West Indian and Indigenous heritage. She has served as the minister for Kahnawake United Church\, as the Executive Director to Saint Columba House\, and more recently Merging Waters United Church on the West Island of Montreal. \nShe co-chairs the United Church’s Regional Right Relations Circle and has facilitated the Kairos Blanket Exercise for about 15 years. She has long been a social justice activist\, involved in issues around Indigenous and LGBTQ2sIA+ justice\, food insecurity and Gaza. \nIn a world where siloed narratives and resistance to the “other” is the norm\, she believes we have the opportunity and responsibility to not only foster coexistence but co-resistance. Not only because our faith invites us to do so but our humanity compels us to. \nElin Sandberg Miller hosted the podcast Everyday Reconciliation in 2021–22\, which she created and co-produced with the think tank Canada 2020. Her work has been published in various newspapers and magazines\, including the Montreal Gazette. She spent most of her working life in the Swedish Foreign Service and more recently at Global Affairs Canada\, working on issues of international law\, human rights\, gender equality\, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. She immigrated to Canada in 2008\, currently lives in Ottawa\, has three children and a grandchild\, and is a dual Swedish-Canadian citizen. \n\n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/everyday-reconciliation-with-derek-aronhienens-montour-and-elin-sandberg-miller/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:How I(t) Work(s): Literary Translation
DESCRIPTION:Located in the Rotunda\, Casa d’Italia \nWith: \n\nChloé Savoie-Bernard\nRachel Martinez\nPablo Strauss\n\nModerated by Katie Grubisic \nQuebec is a hotbed of literary translation. Many of our best translators are also writers\, and many of our writers want to see their books translated\, hopingwanting to reach their fellow Quebecers who read in the other official language. But how does it work? If you have a translation project in mind\, how do you get it onto the page? And how do you get your new book\, published in English\, translated and published in French? Winner of the Governor-General’s Literary Award for French-to-English Translation\, local poet and editor Katia Grubisic will lead a discussion with three established translators working from French to English (Pablo Strauss) and English to French (Rachel Martinez and Chloé Savoie-Bernard). Learn how the business of translation works\, and the art of translation as well. Bring your curiosity to the Q&A. \nKatia Grubisic is a writer\, editor\, and translator. Her work has won the Gerald Lampert award\, the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation\, and the Governor General’s Award for translation\, and been shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Prize. \nRachel Martinez worked for many years in the fields of arts and communications before devoting herself exclusively to translation. A polyglot\, she has translated (from English\, Spanish\, and Italian) more than 130 works in a variety of genres for renowned French-language publishers\, including novels\, short stories\, non-fiction\, arts catalogues\, biographies\, essays\, and children’s literature. She has organized events and served on numerous literary prize juries\, roundtables\, conferences\, and translation residencies both in Canada and abroad. Rachel Martinez represented the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada on the advisory committee of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre from 2018 until its dissolution in 2020. Among other awards and honors\, she was a two-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in French Translation\, which she won for Glenn Gould\, une vie (Boréal) in 2005. \nChloé Savoie-Bernard occupe un poste de professeure de littérature à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Chercheuse\, autrice et traductrice\, elle a entre autres\, publié Des femmes savantes (Triptyque\, 2016) et Sainte Chloé de l’amour (Hexagone\, 2021). Parmi ses traductions\, notons Voix/Éclairs/Tonnerres\, de Myriam Chancy (Remue-ménage\, 2023)\, de même que Sister Love\, une correspondance entre Audre Lorde et Pat Parker\, (Points\, 2024). Sa dernière traduction est la pièce de Ntozake Shange\, Aux filles de couleur qui ont déjà pensé au suicide (Payot\, 2026). \nPablo Strauss’s many translations from Quebec include novels\, personal essays\, nonfiction\, and comics. He is a three-time finalist for the Governor General’s Award for translation\, and has published book reviews\, shorter translations\, and personal essays in Harpers\, Geist\, Granta\, and the Montreal Review of Books. Pablo grew up in Victoria\, B.C.\, and has now lived in Quebec City for two decades. \n2026 Read Quebec Book Fair: See All Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/how-it-works-literary-translation/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Read Quebec Book Fair
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