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SUMMARY:The Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! \nWe’re pleased to announce preliminary details of the 2019 Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair.This year’s fair will take place Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st\, in the Atrium of Concordia University’s McConnell building (1400 blvd Maisonneuve West\, metro Guy-Concordia). \nOur special guest will be novelist Sean Michaels. \n* \nAbout the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair \nThis free\, two-day celebration encourages book-lovers of all ages and interests to browse\, buy and get books signed\, just in time for holiday gift-giving. With Quebec publishers and authors on hand\, expect hundreds of new titles for sale\, along with readings and other events happening throughout the fair.  Click the links below to read details of previous years’ fairs. \nMore details on the AELAQ site.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-holiday-pop-up-book-fair/2019-12-01/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, McConnell Building\, 1400 blvd Maisonneuve West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Read Quebec Book Fair
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Book Club: Grass
DESCRIPTION:Each month we host a Graphic Novel Book Club\, open to all\, during which we hang out and informally discuss a featured graphic novel. Our pick for September is GRASS by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. \nWe will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) on Wednesday\, December 4th at 7 p.m. Join us for refreshments and collective insights! \nABOUT:\nGrass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel\, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Lee Ok-sun who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War – a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history. \nBeginning in Lee’s childhood\, Grass shows the leadup to World War II from a child’s vulnerable perspective\, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Korean folk. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee’s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee’s memories. \nCartoonist Gendry-Kim’s interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass\, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful non-fiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee’s wartime suffering changed her. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace. \nGrass is translated from Korean by Janet Hong\, an award-winning writer and translator based in Vancouver\, Canada. Her translations include Ancco’s Bad Friends (Drawn & Quarterly\, 2018)\, Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale (Graywolf Press\, 2017) and Ha Seong-nan’s The Woman Next Door (forthcoming from Open Letter Books in 2019). She is currently long listed for the 2018 PEN Translation Prize. \n***We are offering a 20% discount on GRASS from now until the meeting date!***
URL:https://qwf.org/event/graphic-novel-book-club-grass-2/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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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/21092/2019-12-04/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191207T150000
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SUMMARY:Funny Boy (Violet Hour Book Club)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next meeting of the Violet Hour Book Club\, a reading group devoted to modern and classic works of LGBTQ literature. The book we will be discussing is Funny Boy (1997) by Shyam Selvadurai.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/funny-boy-violet-hour-book-club/
LOCATION:Never Apart\, 7049 Rue Saint-Urbain\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2S 3H4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Series
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SUMMARY:Launch of Ethel Meilleur’s “Funny Girl”
DESCRIPTION:Ethel Meilleur will read from her first chapbook\, Funny Girl\, published by Sky of Ink Press.\nMusic by Brian Campbell \nFinger food\, wine\, refreshments \nAdmission free \nEthel Meilleur’s Funny Girl is absolutely a must-read:\nLusty in lung and busty in breath\, these poems are\ngusty with gusto. You gotta read em aloud\, shout em out\,\nand bust out laughin–appropriately–when you comprehend\nthe gutsy Black\, back-country wisdom\, the Africadian\,\naphoristic backtalk\, and the bluesy narratives that the poet\nthrows down. These lyrics are hoe-down\, show-down\, and\nget-down at sundown. Only a serious Funny Girl can deliver\nlines like these: “Wrap me in your personality / and roll me\noff your tongue // open your mouth and let the river run through /\nwhile I fish into your taste buds.” Mmm\, mmm\, mmm. Amen\,\nAmen\, Amen-Ra\, Rah-Rah-Rah. \nGeorge Elliott Clarke\n7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016 & 2017)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/launch-of-ethel-meilleurs-funny-girl/
LOCATION:YWCA\, Salle Holden-Fisher\, 1355 boulevard Réné Lévesque\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1T3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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