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SUMMARY:Conversation and Q &A with Ariela Freedman about Léa
DESCRIPTION:A conversation and Q & A with Ariela Freedman about her most recent novel\, Léa\, moderated by Linda Shohet. Based on famed Quebec activist Léa Roback (1903-2000)\, the novel brings to life a heroine emboldened by political struggles that resonate to this day. Léa\, born to a large Jewish family and raised in a small French Catholic town\, navigates languages and cultures to fight for social justice and change for women\, for unions\, and for any cause where she noted injustice. Ariela will discuss what drew her to Roback\, why she chose to focus on her early years\, and why Roback remains a revered figure in Quebec social justice circles.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/conversation-and-q-a-with-ariela-freedman-about-lea/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: Navigating the Impacts of Bill 96
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 18\, 20237:00-8:30 pm ESTFree\, online and in person\n\n\n\nJoin us for Writers Out Loud: Navigating the Impacts of Bill 96. Authors Christopher Neal\, Shailee\, and Vanessa Sasson sit down with Guy Rex Rodgers to discuss Bill 96 and its impact on language issues in Quebec.  \n\n\n\nThe panel will be in person at the Atwater Library Auditorium. Attendees can attend in person or register to join online via Zoom. You do not have to register if you plan to attend in person. \n\n\n\nFeel free to share the Facebook event with friends and family. \n\n\n\nTo attend online\, register to get the link to the Zoom Webinar. You do not need to register if you plan to attend in person. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for Zoom Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Participants\n\n\n\n\nA graduate of the National Theatre School’s playwriting program and long-time arts activist\, Guy Rex Rodgers was co-founder of the Quebec Drama Federation (QDF) and the Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF)\, was a member of the founding board of le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and founding Executive Director of the English-Language Arts Network (ELAN).  In 2015 he was appointed a companion in l’Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec. Since leaving ELAN in 2020\, Guy has written and directed eight documentary films about Anglos in Quebec in collaboration with MAtv\, the National Film Board of Canada and CBC. He also writes a monthly column about culture\, politics and history for The Montrealer magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShailee is a writer and graduate student originally from India. She recently completed her master’s thesis\, investigating the politics of queer representation in postcolonial Indian theatre\, at the department of English at McGill University. Her book\, Sita and Helen—a graphic novel for young adults published by Tulika Books—hit the shelves earlier this year. In May\, her paper on Rahul Varma’s play Counter Offence was published in the International Association of Theatre Critics’ peer-reviewed journal\, Critical Stages/ Scènes critiques. It explores the effects of the linguistic politics propagated by Bill 96 on theatre culture in Montréal by focusing on the anglophone\, diasporic work of Teesri Duniya Theatre company. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Neal is a journalist and communications professional. He has been a freelance correspondent in Latin America\, and a staff writer at the Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Citizen. He has also held  communications leadership positions in Canada’s federal development aid agency\, and at the World Bank\, where he helped guide strategic communications for economic policy\, data and research\, operations in Latin America\, energy and climate change. Since returning to Montreal from Washington DC in 2016\, he has served on the boards of the Quebec Community Groups Network and Quebec Writers’ Federation\, for which he drafted and presented a brief on Bill 96. He is currently Vice-President of the McGill Community of Lifelong Learning and President of the Canadian International Council’s Montreal chapter. His 2022 book\, The Rebel Scribe – Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to US Policy in Latin America\, was short-listed for the Mavis Gallant Award for Non-Fiction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVanessa R. Sasson is a professor of Religious Studies in the Liberal Arts Department of Marianopolis College where she has been teaching since 1999. She is also a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State and Research Member at CERIAS at UQAM. She has published a number of articles and book chapters\, is the author of The Birth of Moses and the Buddha: A Paradigm for the Comparative Study of Religions (Sheffield University Press\, 2007) and editor or co-editor of a number of academic volumes\, including Little Buddhas: Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions (Oxford University Press\, 2013)\, Jewels\, Jewelry\, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary (Hawaii University Press\, 2021)\, and most recently with Kristin Scheible\, The Buddha: A Storied Life (Oxford University Press\, 2023). Yasodhara and the Buddha (Bloomsbury\, 2021) is her first academic novel; it is followed by The Gathering (Equinox 2023)\, which focuses on the women’s request for ordination. Another is sure to follow. \n\n\n\n\nGetting to the Venue\n\n\n\nThe Adair Auditorium is located on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre. \n\n\n\nAddress: 4023 Tupper StreetWestmount\, QC H3Z 1X4 \n\n\n\nNote: As this event will be held outside the library’s opening hours\, please use the Tupper Street entrance if the main entrance on Atwater is closed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClosest Metro: Atwater Station \n\n\n\nClosest Bus lines: 24\, 63\, 90\, 104\, 138\, 144\, 150 \n\n\n\nAccessibility: The auditorium is fully accessible by wheelchair. From Tupper Street\, there is a slight slope down to a side entrance to the basement. Once inside\, there is an elevator to the second floor\, where the auditorium is located. \n\n\n\nFor questions or requests about accessibility\, contact John Wickham\, Communications Officer\, at john@qwf.org. \n\n\n\nLearn more about the office location and accessibility.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-navigating-the-impacts-of-bill-96/
LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
CATEGORIES:Panel,Writers Out Loud
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SUMMARY:The Writer Is In: Pop-Up Writing Booth
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 19\, 12-2 pmOutside Centre St. Jax1439 Sainte-Catherine St. W.\, Montreal\n\n\n\nJoin us for The Writer Is In\, a free series of pop-up writing booths we’re organizing in and around downtown Montreal in October and November. \n\n\n\nOn October 19\, from 12 to 2 pm\, we’ll be outside Centre St. Jax on Sainte-Catherine Street with writers from QWF’s Hire a Writer Directory\, who will be offering free writing services to passers-by. They’ll be there to take on any writing request you may have\, from business letters to love letters and everything in between. Stop by\, say hi\, and treat yourself to some poetic pampering. \n\n\n\nPart of our Writing Matters campaign to raise awareness about writers’ value to our culture\, society\, and economy. \n\n\n\n\nView All Writer Is In Events
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-writer-is-in-oct-19/
LOCATION:St. Jax\, 1439 St. Catherine street west\, montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1S6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,Writing Matters
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SUMMARY:A reading with Kasia Van Schaik & Padma Viswanathan
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 19\, 5:30 pmMaxwell Cohen Moot Court\, New Chancellor Day Hall\, McGill3644 Peel Street\, MontrealFree\, open to all\n\n\n\nThe Department of English invites you to a joint reading with the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated authors Kasia Van Schaik & Padma Viswanathan. The readings will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Professor Ara Osterweil. This event does not require registration. \n\n\n\nKasia Juno Van Schaik is the author of the linked story collection We Have Never Lived on Earth\, which was nominated for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2022 Concordia University First Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books\, CBC Books\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, Best Canadian Poetry\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus and more. Kasia holds a PhD in Literature from McGill University\, where she teaches creative writing. She is currently working on a book of cultural criticism and memoir entitled Women Among Monuments. In 2021\, Kasia served as a CBC QWF writer-in-residence. \n\n\n\nPadma Viswanathan is a Canadian-American novelist\, published in eight countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Recent publications include Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime and São Bernardo\, a translation of a novel by Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos. Forthcoming works include a novel\, The Charterhouse of Padma\, and a translation of Djamila Ribeiro’s Where We Stand: Notes on Speech\, Place and Justice. Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas\, she divides her time between Fayetteville and Montréal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-reading-with-kasia-van-schaik-padma-viswanathan/
LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court\, 3644 Peel Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 1W9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:StoryFest 2023: Anita Anand
DESCRIPTION:Anita Anand is a Montreal author and translator. Her collection of short stories entitled Swing in the House won the 2015 Concordia University First Book Award and was nominated for a couple of others. Her novel\, A Convergence of Solitudes was a finalist in 2022 for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was nominated for a 2022 Foreward Indies Award; it has won the 2023 IPPY gold medal in the category of Multicultural Fiction and is also shortlisted for this year’s Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award. Her translation of Nirliit\, a novel by Juliana Léveillé-Trudel won her a nomination for the John Glassco prize for a first translation. As the Andes Disappeared\, Anita’s translation of Là où je me terre by Caroline Dawson\, will be in bookstores in November. The Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) is a co-sponsor for this event through their Writers’ Out Loud series. \n\n\n\nTickets are available here or as a cash-only purchase at Que de Bonnes Choses (484-D rue Main\, Hudson). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/storyfest-2023-anita-anand/
LOCATION:Hudson Creative Hub\, 273 rue Main\, Hudson\, Quebec\, J0P 1H0\, Canada
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