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SUMMARY:WORDPLAY  A writing workshop in celebration of creativity and wonder
DESCRIPTION:In a time of busy schedules\, and places to be and people to see\, it can be hard to find the time to simply play. WORDPLAY is a writing play group\, a time in your week reserved for you — a time to connect with the wonder that lies at the heart of words and where they can take us. \nFor a period of six weeks we will meet for two hours of writing projects and prompts designed to welcome the unexpected\, the spontaneous\, and the serendipitous\, culminating in an evening of readings on the last night. \nWhether you are a poet\, a fiction or non-fiction writer\, an aspiring writer\, a musician or a visual or performance artist\, or simply someone who loves the joy of words\, or even scrabble\, boggle or crossword puzzles\, this is an opportunity to entertain what it means to revel\, gambol and cut loose with language. \nWorkshop leader: Carolyn Boll\nA trained dancer\, and recipient of several Canada Council and Quebec multi-media and choreography grants\, author Carolyn Boll is a graduate of The Humber School for Writers. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Lavender Review\, The Gay & Lesbian Review\, and Mayday Magazine\, and her non-fiction writing has appeared in The Dance Current and The Montreal Gazette. Her first book\, a playful partnering between poetry\, image and dance\, is called Social Dance A Book of Ballroom Poetry and was published by Sally Jane Books\, the specialty imprint of indie publisher Headmistress Press.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/wordplay-a-writing-workshop-in-celebration-of-creativity-and-wonder/2019-11-05/
LOCATION:Atelier d’Art Meteque\, 5442 Cote Saint Luc Road\, NDG\, QC\, H3X2C5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,Workshops
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SUMMARY:P O E T R Y N I T E
DESCRIPTION:Our first show back was … WOW! Seriously\, this community – our talent – our love – our capacity to show up fully for ourselves and each other?!?! There is nothing like us\, together. Come be part of it. \n► DOORS @ 7 – READINGS @ 8 \n► READERS: we reserve up to eight spots before the show and after that it goes to open mic which is mostly first-come\, first-served with priority to BIPOC folks. All artists/musicians welcome!! \n► Show is $5 (tinyurl.com/y9w8j4pm) \n► We want to foster a supportive\, positive environment for everyone. That means no racism / sexism / ableism / homophobia / transphobia and a request that poets please give trigger warnings before your poems. If you have a concern please speak to the poet directly or to one of the hosts! \n——- \n► PORTES @ 7 – LECTURES @ 8 \n► LECTEURS: Nous acceptons jusqu’à huit inscriptions à l’avance\, celles-ci vous garantissent un moment sur la scène. S’ensuit ensuite un micro ouvert sous la formule premier.ère arrivé.e\, premier.ère servi.e avec une priorité pour les gens du BIPOC. Tous les artistes / musiciens sont les bienvenus !! \n► Le spectacle coûte 5 $ (tinyurl.com/y9w8j4pm) \n► Dans l’optique d’assurer un climat accueillant pour toustes\, nous ne tolérerons auncun comportement et propos raciste\, sexiste\, homophobe\, transphobe\, ou s’inscrivant dans toute autre logique d’oppression systémique. Nous demandons aussi aux lecteur.trices de donner des avertissements de contenus (trigger warnings) avant leurs poèmes. Si un problème se fait sentir de ce côté\, prière d’en faire part à l’artiste ou aux organisateur.trices.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/p-o-e-t-r-y-n-i-t-e/2019-11-06/
LOCATION:Chez Morrigan\, 1221 Crescent St\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Open Mic,Performance,Series
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SUMMARY:Accent Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:  \nAccent Open Mic \nLa Marche à Côté\, 5043 St. Denis\n7:30pm\, 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.\naccentseriesmontreal.wordpress.com\n\nAccent Open Mic is a bilingual reading series that takes place at La Marche à Côté\, (5043 St. Denis) on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. Hosted by Devon Gallant and Luc-Antoine Chiasson\, each night we feature 1 anglophone reader and 1 francophone reader along with an open mic. Sign up for the open mic starts at 7:30\, show starts at 8pm. For more information visit: accentseriesmontreal.wordpress.com or on Facebook: @accentopenmic.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/21092/2019-11-06/
LOCATION:La Marche à côté\, 5043 St-Denis\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2J 2L8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Open Mic,Performance,Series
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SUMMARY:Mile End Poets' Festival 2019
DESCRIPTION:Mile End Poets’ Festival will return in 2019! Watch this space for updates. \nMore information on MEPF can be found here.  \n* \nThe Mile End Poets’ Festival is a multidisciplinary arts festival focusing on literature in performance. Its goal was to present in a single local festival a range of the exciting artistic activity regularly taking place in and around Montreal’s Mile End district. The district is home to a huge number of poets\, musicians\, writers\, dancers and performers. \nThe festival was founded in 2010 by Montreal poet\, performer and curator Ian Ferrier\, with help from writer/performers Moe Clark and Kaie Kellough. In its first year it was entirely artist-funded. It presented four nights of programming\, each curated by a different artist or poet from the Mile End. This has been the model ever since. The festival now regularly receives much needed support from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Quebec Writers’ Federation. It presents work from multiple artistic communities with links to work by First Nations\, literary and performance poetry artists\, contemporary dancers\, top artists from the city and elsewhere in Canada\, and musicians who both tour internationally and regularly work in the neighbourhood’s exciting performance venues. \nIn 2017\, Ian Ferrier was joined by Northern Irish poet & performer Rachel McCrum as Administrative Director for the Festival.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mile-end-poets-festival-2019/
LOCATION:Various
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Festival,Open Mic,Performance,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Deep Curation: Experiments in Poetry Reading Curation
DESCRIPTION:This series of events are organized in partnership with SpokenWeb\, Writers Read\, and the Mile End Poets’ Festival. Opening with a panel discussion on literary event curation\, this event will feature Margaret Christakos\, Deanna Radford\, Danielle St. Amour and Jason Camlot\, facilitated by Klara du Plessis. It will focus on different contemporary and historical strategies for literary event curation\, while also incorporating a visual arts curatorial perspective for the inclusion of textual and audiotextual material in gallery spaces. Next\, a Deep Curation workshop will offer a playful opportunity for participants to create and perform short\, experimental and interwoven poetic readings. Finally\, a Deep Curation reading\, curated by Klara du Plessis\, and featuring Margaret Christakos\, Kaie Kellough\, and Deanna Radford will place poets’ work in deliberate dialogue with one another. This experimental approach to literary event organization heightens the curator’s agency toward the poetic product. Free event. Light refreshments will be served.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/deep-curation-experiments-in-poetry-reading-curation/
LOCATION:4th SPACE\, Concordia University\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montreal\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival,Performance,Series,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Pieces of Process #3
DESCRIPTION:PIECES OF PROCESS is an event series all about creative process. The intent is two-fold: to destigmatize creativity for would-be-creatives whose anxieties about failure hinder their ability to create and as a means of demystifying creative process to contextualize art. Artists will showcase their works then tell us about the process itself—challenges they encountered\, inspirations fueling the projects\, or anything else pertaining to the topic. \nRemember\, the final result is the iceberg’s tip. Come see what lurks below the water’s glassy surface. \nTHE ARTISTS:\nTara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaw multidisciplinary artist. She is a graduate of the Concordia University Philosophy program. She writes criticism of experimental and independent Montreal theatre for Broadwayworld\, runs the Indigenous Literatures book club at Drawn and Quarterly\, was the first runner up for the 2018 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize\, and is the author of “Girth” and the forthcoming “Scorpion Season.” Her work appears in print and online. \nJaelle Dutremble-Rivet is a Montreal-based media maker with a background in intermedia arts. Her work explores the boundaries between storytelling\, documentary\, and ethnography. As a graduate of the Media Studies MA at Concordia University\, she has completed a research-creation thesis on linguistic identity in Montreal. Visit her at https://www.jaelledr.org/. \nGio Gio (J.T Media x Giostino Giotezio) is a director and visual artist wandering through life’s experiences\, endlessly searching for Paradise. GioGio’s style can be defined as a mixture influenced by Anime\, Nature\, Retro Technology and Surrealism. With two short films and appearances at various Montreal art shows such as Art Jam and RAW\, GioGio continues to develop and bring his work to light. GioGio has collaborated with numerous artists and strives to one day form a collective that reshapes how music and film come together. \nThe event will take place on the third floor auditorium of Atwater Library. Please enter the building through the side door if the front entrance is locked. Entry is pay what you can; suggested donation 5$. Please give generously as all proceeds go to the artists. \nWe acknowledge that the land on which the event takes place is the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk)\, which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. \nJointly sponsored by Beatrice Pearson and The Animated Woman
URL:https://qwf.org/event/pieces-of-process-3/
LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance,Series
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