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SUMMARY:Garden of Literary Delights 2023
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, Oct 1\, 5-7 pmAtwater Library Auditorium\n\n\nReadings by four\, wonderful Canadian authors of South Asian origin followed by a discussion. Book sale\, giveaways and more! \nRSVP at info@centrekabir.com Please use side entrance to the venue at 4023 Tupper St. \nFarzana Doctor is a Tkaronto-based author\, activist and psychotherapist who has written four critically acclaimed novels\, including the bestselling\, Seven\, which explores the issue of female genital mutilation/cutting. Her most recent work is a poetry collection. \nShailee\, based in Montreal\, is a writer\, poet\, playwright and literary scholar who recently published her first book\, a graphic novel: My Story\, My Voice: Sita and Helen (yes\, Helen of Troy). \nToronto-based Angela Misri is an award-winning journalist (CBC and more)\, educator and author of YA\, adult and children’s fiction. She will regale you with the adventures of her creation\, Portia Adams\, Sherlock Holmes’ granddaughter! \nPlaywright and short story writer\, Zahida Rahemtulla has won accolades for plays\, The Wrong Bashir (a comedy about mistaken identity) and The Frontliners both of which premiered in her hometown\, Vancouver. \nA celebration of diverse genres and voices as well as Muslim Heritage Month (October)\, this event is part of the NexGen MultiArts Festival\, 2023\, organized by the Kabir Cultural Centre\, Montreal.
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LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
CATEGORIES:Festival,Performance
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SUMMARY:As Being Is: Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 2 at 6pmInnovation CommonsMcLennan-Redpath Humanities and Social Sciences Library\, main floor\n\n\n\nPlease join Poetry Matters for a reading with Canadian poets leading from neuroaesthetics. Alongside recent work\, they will share ekphrastic responses to bill bissett’s painting “as being is” guided by cognitive psychology. Featuring Robert Colman\, Geoffrey Cook\, Kevin Andrew Heslop\, Jeremy Luke Hill\, Jim Johnstone\, and Shane Neilson. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Colman is a Newmarket\, Ont.-based writer and editor. His fourth collection of poems\, Ghost Work\, is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press in February 2024. \n\n\n\nGeoffrey Cook‘s poetry and translations have been widely published and anthologized. Postscript (Signal\, 2004) was shortlisted for the Alfred G. Bailey and Gerald Lampert Memorial awards. He teaches English at John Abbott College in Montreal. \n\n\n\nKevin Andrew Heslop is a wandering polyvalence whose debut poetry collection\, the correct fury of your why is a mountain\, appeared in 2021. In 2023\, he mounted his second art exhibition and released his directorial debut. \n\n\n\nJeremy Luke Hill is a publisher at Gordon Hill Press in Guelph\, Ontario. He is the author of Ordinary Perpetual Machinery (845 Press\, 2021)\, among others. His writing has appeared widely. \n\n\n\nJim Johnstone is a Toronto-based poet\, editor\, and critic. He curates Anstruther Books for Palimpsest Press. His seventh book of poetry\, The King of Terrors\, was recently published by Coach House Books. \n\n\n\nShane Neilson is a poet and physician from New Brunswick. His Dysphoria (PQL\, 2017) won the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Poetry in 2018. With Roxanna Bennett\, he published The Suspect We (Palimpsest Press) in 2023 along with Saving: A Doctor’s Struggle to Help His Children (Great Plains Publications).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/as-being-is-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:McLennan-Redpath Humanities and Social Sciences Library
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Protocolo 48 by Gloria Macher
DESCRIPTION:Thurs\, October 5\, 7 pm\n\n\n\nYou are invited to the book launch of Gloria Macher’s Protocolo 48 (published by Editorial Verbum Spain) at Maison Notman House\, 51 Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, on Thursday\, October 5 at 7:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM.  \n\n\n\nThe event will feature special guest Paul Brunet\, health activist and President of the Conseil pour la protection des malades du Québec\, and other distinguished writers and artists.  \n\n\n\nAbout Protocolo 48: https://www.gloriamacher.com/en/critiques
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-protocolo-48-by-gloria-macher/
LOCATION:Maison Notman House\, 51 rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Book Launch
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