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SUMMARY:Words & Music: Turning the Page
DESCRIPTION:April 17\, 20247:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30)Tickets available on Eventbrite and at the door (while tickets last)Free to to watch online (register here)\n\n\n\n\nBuy Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for the Spring 2024 Edition of The Words and Music Show! \n\n\n\nHosted by Johanne Pelletier\, Words & Music: Turning the Page will feature Moth-style narrative storytelling with an international cast\, with stories about big lessons and finding contentment wherever you are. \n\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\n\n\nJohanne Pelletier (host\, curator)\n\n\n\nKadi Diop (Montreal)\n\n\n\nKurt Mullen (Boston)\n\n\n\nRonna J Levy (Brooklyn)\n\n\n\nClaire Sherwood (Montreal)\n\n\n\n\nWatch Online\n\n\n\nThe event will be livestreamed using the auditoriums A/V equipment and be free to watch on Zoom. Register now to watch it online. \n\n\n\nFor the full experience\, buy your tickets on Eventbrite to attend in person. Tickets will also be for sale at the door (cash or e-transfer only) while tickets last. \n\n\n\nThe Performers\n\n\n\n\nKadi Diop is a half-Guinean\, half-Senegalese queer\, fat\, bilingual\, and multi-hyphenate comedian and storyteller. She is also a long-time community organizer\, a sexology student\, and the former French Education Director and French Inclusion and Diversity coordinator at Montreal Improv. She has performed at OFF-JFL\, Zoofest\, the Black and Funny Improv Festival\, Ottawa Improv festival\, Montreal Sketchfest\, MProv\, and Ladyfest. Kadi performs improv and storytelling regularly in Montreal on various teams\, is one half of the sketch duo Inside Scoop\, and a doting/annoying auntie. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRonna J Levy is an award-winning Brooklyn-based storyteller\, story coach\, producer\, and Boston Red Sox fan. She is a newly retired English professor and has happily made the shift from telling stories in the classroom to telling stories on the stage. She has appeared on WGBH’s Stories from The Stage\, RISK!\, is a two-time Moth Story SLAM winner\, and co-hosts and produces a monthly open mic in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKurt Mullen is an award-winning storyteller\, writer\, teacher\, editor\, and producer. He has appeared on WGBH’s Stories from the Stage\, RISK!\, and the GRIT: True Stories podcast. In magazines\, literary journals and anthologies\, Kurt has written about soldiers coming home from war\, about his own personal loss and grief\, and about the quirky folks who like to go it alone in this world. Kurt lives in Newburyport\, Massachusetts\, with his wife\, Amy Ruth. Learn more about Kurt’s work at www.kurtmullen.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClaire Sherwood is a Montreal writer\, visual collage poet\, and storyteller. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Minority Reports: New English Writing in Quebec\, Kola Magazine\, Zettel Magazine\, Helios\, My Island My City\, and What Lasts. Her collage-poems have been exhibited at Montreal\, Toronto\, and eastern Canada. She has appeared in storytelling line-ups with Confabulation and at Blue Metropolis with This Really Happened. \n\n\n\n\nThe Host\n\n\n\n\nJohanne Pelletier is an award-winning storyteller working in communications in Montreal. She teaches storytelling concepts to scientists and start-ups and is a regular performer of her own writing at shows in Canada and the U.S. She is the first Canadian to have one of her stories featured on Stories From the Stage at WGBH Studios\, is the winner of the GRIT 99-Second Story Grand SLAM\, and the first storyteller to be a finalist for the QWF Spoken Word Prize. For more and the stories\, see www.jpelletier.ca. \n\n\n\n\nGetting to the Venue\n\n\n\nThe show will be held at the Adair Auditorium on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre (1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount). \n\n\n\nAddress: 1200 Atwater Avenue (top floor)Westmount\, QC H3Z 1X4 \n\n\n\nClosest Metro: Atwater Station \n\n\n\nClosest Bus lines: 24\, 63\, 90\, 104\, 138\, 144\, 150 \n\n\n\nAccessibility:\n\n\n\nThe Adair Auditorium is fully accessible by wheelchair from the side entrance on Tupper Street. Once inside\, there is an elevator to the second floor where the auditorium is. Watch a video tour of the accessible entrance and elevator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister to Watch online
URL:https://qwf.org/event/words-and-music-turning-the-page/
LOCATION:Adair Auditorium\, Atwater Library\, 1200 Atwater Avenue (top floor)\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3Z 1T4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,Words and Music
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SUMMARY:Poets for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:April 4 & April 18\, 7:00 pm\n\n\n\nTwo evenings of poetry on Thursday April 4th and 18th at 7 pm. Each evening\, four Quebec poets will not only read their own poems but those of Palestinian poets as well. The Palestinian Poets are Abu Toha\, Remi Kanazi\, Hala Alyan\, Ahlam Bsharat\, Dalia Taha  and Refaat Alareer.  \n\n\n\nThe aim of the event is to raise consciousness about the role of the poet in the ongoing struggle for peace and justice and to show that the creative act is also an act of giving voice to those who can’t. \n\n\n\nCurated by Carolyn Marie Souaid and Endre Farkas. \n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\nApril 4 \n\n\n\n\nFortner Anderson\n\n\n\nMisha Solomon\n\n\n\nCarolyn Marie Souaid\n\n\n\nMeryem Yildiz\n\n\n\n\nApril 18 \n\n\n\n\nEndre Farkas\n\n\n\nLiz Howard\n\n\n\nZeina Jhais\n\n\n\nSteve Luxton\n\n\n\n\nThere will also be a raffle and a passing of a hat for donations. All proceeds will go to the PCRF (Palestinian Children Relief Fund).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poets-for-palestine/2024-04-18/
LOCATION:Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe\, 3952 Wellington Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4G1V3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: National Animal by Derek Webster
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 18\, 2024\, 7:00 pm EDT\n\n\n\nLibrairie De Stiil and Véhicule Press invite you to the launch of Derek Webster’s new collection of poetry\, National Animal. The event will start at 7 p.m. and feature readings and conversation\, and is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNational Animal\, Derek Webster’s second book of poetry\, inhabits a wider public space than his acclaimed debut Mockingbird. In poems that extend beyond the biographical toward the political\, Webster’s quiet\, sharp-eyed narrator—a man “tripping / my way forward\, trying to lead my own life”—watches history being erased in favour of more socially palatable ideas and comforting self-portraits. Uncompromising and substantial\, National Animal explores our “civic moment” where “birds sing oblivion / estranged from all things\,” and meditates\, in a final image-rich sequence\, on our place in a science-based cosmos. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDerek Webster’s Mockingbird (2015) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poems in Canada. He received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis\, where he studied with Carl Phillips\, and was the founding editor of Maisonneuve magazine. He lives in Montreal and Toronto.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-national-animal-by-derek-webster/
LOCATION:De Stiil Booksellers\, 351 Avenue Duluth\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2W1J3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Vancouvered Out by Norman Nawrocki
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 20\, 2024\, 4:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nAcclaimed Montreal author Norman Nawrocki launches his exciting and timely new novella\, Vancouvered Out\, Saturday April 20\, 2024 at the Milton-Parc Community Library\, 3516 ave du Parc\, Montreal\, H2X 2H7. The 4pm launch is free.  \n\n\n\nVancouvered Out (Nawrocki’s 17th book) is a dramatic and timely story about roots\, gentrification\, housing rights\, community and the fight for a city. Although the story is set in Vancouver\, the issues it raises concern Montrealers also. We see the city through the eyes of Steve\, a poor and unemployed labourer. Demons and drug dealers drove him out of town ten years earlier in 2004. Now he’s back seeking a new life and answers to the mysterious death of his teen daughter. But in this west coast paradise he once called home\, he feels strangely out-of- place. As the love of family and friends stokes his own smouldering defiance of the new soul- destroying urban order\, he aches for justice and a livable city for all. \n\n\n\n\nVisit Facebook Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch Book Trailer
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-vancouvered-out-by-norman-nawrocki/
LOCATION:Milton Parc Community Library\, 3518 avenue du Parc\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Confabulation presents: Food Fights — Stories of family traditions\, minced words and soul food
DESCRIPTION:Confabulation Montreal presents: “Food Fights — Stories of family traditions\, minced words and soul food.” \nSaturday April 20\, 2024 @ 20h \nMainline Theatre 3997 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, Quebec H2W 1Y4
URL:https://qwf.org/event/confabulation-presents-food-fights-stories-of-family-traditions-minced-words-and-soul-food/
LOCATION:Mainline Theatre\, 3997 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2W 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance
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