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SUMMARY:Event Chambers: A Listening Session and Performance
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 21\, 2024Listening Session: 12:00-4:30 pm ETPerformance: 6:30 pm ET (doors 6:00 pm)\n\n\n\nWe are thrilled to invite you to a special and unique event around Oana Avasilichioaei and Klara du Plessis’s expansive projects\, Chambersonic and Post-Mortem of the Event. From noon to 4:30 pm\, stop by to listen and experience the sound installations. In the evening at 6:30 pm\, attend a live performance. Books will be available for purchase. Celebratory drinks will be served after the performance. \n\n\n\nVenue: OBORO4001 Rue BerriStudio 01 (porte 200\, 2nd floor)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/event-chambers-a-listening-session-and-performance/
LOCATION:OBORO\, 4001 Rue Berri\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance,Reading
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SUMMARY:Linguaphile: Book Talk with Julie Sedivy and Gretchen McCulloch
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 19\, 2024\, 7:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nJoin author Julie Sedivy\, in conversation with Gretchen McCulloch\, as they discuss her new book\, Linguaphile! This event will be hosted in person at the Atwater Library’s Adair Auditorium. Attendance is free\, but space is limited\, so please RSVP on TicketSource. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nA celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives\, our loves\, and our world. \n\n\n\nIf there is one feature that defines the human condition\, it is language: written\, spoken\, signed\, understood\, and misunderstood\, in all its infinite glory. In this ingenious\, lyrical exploration\, Julie Sedivy draws on years of experience in the lab and a lifetime of linguistic love to bring the discoveries of linguistics home\, to the place language itself lives: within the yearnings of the human heart and amid the complex social bonds that it makes possible. \n\n\n\nLinguaphile: A Life of Language Love follows the path that language takes through a human life—from an infant’s first attempts at sense-making to the vulnerabilities and losses that accompany aging. As Sedivy shows\, however\, language and life are inextricable\, and here she offers them together: a childish misunderstanding of her mother’s meaning reveals the difficulty of relating to other minds; frustration with “professional” communication styles exposes the labyrinth of standards that define success; the first signs of hearing loss lead to a meditation on society’s discomfort with physical and mental limitations. \n\n\n\nPart memoir\, part scientific exploration\, and part cultural commentary\, this book epitomizes the thrills of a life steeped in the aesthetic delights of language and the joys of its scientific scrutiny. \n\n\n\nAbout the Authors\n\n\n\nJulie Sedivy has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University and the University of Calgary. She is the author of Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Selfand Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics\, as well as the coauthor of Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to Youand What This Says About You. She lives in Calgary\, Canada. \n\n\n\nGretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist and author of the New York Times bestselling Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. She’s been the Resident Linguist at Wired and The Toast and is the co-creator of Lingthusiasm\, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. She lives in Montreal\, but also on the internet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Now
URL:https://qwf.org/event/linguaphile-book-talk-with-julie-sedivy-and-gretchen-mcculloch/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Why We Write
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 20\, 2024\, 5:30-7:00 pm ETLe Petit Dep – Le Loft (290 Rue de la Montagne\, 3rd Floor\, Montreal)\n\n\n\nJoin Writers Collective of Canada as we explore the social impact of making art. Why We Write brings together established and emerging writers in a celebration of writing and storytelling to transform lives. \n\n\n\nThis event will feature a panel discussion and audience engagement through a Q&A period and interactive writing workshop experience. \n\n\n\nPanelists include Susan Doherty\, Josh Freed\, Kook Fuqin Hu\, and Ann Lambert. \n\n\n\nQWF is proud to partner with Writers Collective of Canada to organize this event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on FAcebook
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-why-we-write/
LOCATION:Le Petit Dep – Le Loft\, 290 rue de la Montagne\, 3rd Floor\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel,Reading,Series
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SUMMARY:LANCEMENT | Worldwise: Édouard Roditi’s Twentieth Century
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 20\, 6:00 pm ETLibrairie Le Port de tête (269 avenue du Mont-Royal Est\, Montreal)\n\n\n\nJoin Robert Schwartzwald et Sherry Simon for the launch of their new book: Worldwise: Édouard Roditi’s Twentieth Century. \n\n\n\nAbout the Authors\n\n\n\nRobert Schwartzwald is a Professor of literature at the Université de Montréal and Chair of the Jewish Public Library’s J.I. Segal Awards Committee. His publications include a monograph on the film C.R.A.Z.Y. and the English translation of Daniel Guérin’s The Brown Plague : Travels in Late Weimar and Early Nazi Germany. \n\n\n\nSherry Simon is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Concordia University. She has published widely on the cultural dynamics of multilingual cities\, including  Translating Montreal and Translation Sites.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/lancement-worldwise-edouard-roditis-twentieth-century/
LOCATION:Librairie Le Port de tête\, 262 avenue du Mont-Royal Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1P6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Lawn Chair Soirée Publications Party
DESCRIPTION:November 21\, 2024\, 7:00 pm ET1444 av Union\, Montreal\, 2nd floor\, St. Anselm’s Chapel\n\n\n\nWe are celebrating the recent publications by these authors. \n\n\n\n\nAhmad Al-Khatat – The Finest Cigarette (impspired\, 2024)\n\n\n\nLouise Carson – The Cat Crossed a Line (Signature Editions\, 2024)\n\n\n\nMary Dean Lee – Tidal (Pine Row Press\, 2024)\n\n\n\nNorman Nawrocki – Vancouvered Out (Les Pages Noires\, Montréal\, QC)\n\n\n\nJim Olwell – The Art of Being Irish in Hell’s Kitchen (FriesenPress\, 2024)\n\n\n\nClaire Sherwood – Eat Your Words (Turret House Press\, 2024)\n\n\n\nCarolyn Marie Souaid – Looking for Her (Baraka Books\, Montreal\, QC)\n\n\n\nNeil Whitehouse – The Gospel of Jesus Green: Home for All\, Not Just for Humans (Wipf and Stock Publishers\, Eugene\, OR)\n\n\n\nJan Jorgensen – Birthing Godde (Ekstasis Editions\, Victoria\, BC) \n\n\n\n\nhttp://lawnchairsoiree.org/janjorgensen/index.html \n\n\n\nBooks will be available for purchase. \n\n\n\nThere will be an Open Mic. 3 minutes max.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/lawn-chair-soiree-publications-party/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Poetics and Magic: Modernist Verse and  Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Orla Polten
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 22\, 20244:00-5:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nOrla Polten (they/she) is a research affiliate at McGill University working on the relationship between magic and poetics. They earned their Ph.D. in English from the University of Cambridge\, specialising in anglophone reception of Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Polten’s first book\, English Verse in Classical Metres\, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Their current research asks what is at stake in the claim—prevalent in modernist poetic discourse—that poetry is a kind of magic. 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetics-and-magic-modernist-verse-and-artificial-intelligence-with-dr-orla-polten/
LOCATION:Birks Building\, 3520 rue University\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Panel
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Subterrane by Valérie Bah
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 22\, 2024\, 7:00-8:30 pm ETLibrairie Saint-Henri Books\n\n\n\nVéhicule Press and Librairie Saint-Henri Books invite you to the launch of Valérie Bah’s Subterrane. Hosted by Esplanade Books editor Dimitri Nasrallah\, the event will feature Valérie reading from the novel\, as well as conversation with special guests Leïka Narcisse and Esi Callender. Refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n*** \n\n\n\nA speculative comedy comprised of a carousel of Black and Queer voices being pushed further underground by urban prosperity. \n\n\n\nNew Stockholm\, a metropolis like any other across North America\, is unofficially divided between two worlds. Its upwardly mobile form the centre of its gleaming eye\, but their prosperity and affluence are not the focus of Zeynab’s government-funded abstract documentary. Her lens trails to the city’s margins instead\, in polluted industrial wastelands such as Cipher Falls\, one of New Stockholm’s last affordable neighbourhoods\, where creatives and other anti-capitalist voices increasingly find themselves pushed into demeaning\, dead-end jobs. In this growing underground network\, Zeynab’s lens focuses on the mysterious demise of Doudou Laguerre\, whose death may be related to his activism against a construction project. \n\n\n\nSubterrane connects us to a constellation of Black and Queer voices\, the hair braiders\, tattoo artists\, holistic healers\, weed dealers\, and sidewalk horticulturists struggling to make a life in New Stockholm. Together\, they illustrate how in cities across the continent\, entire communities are being sidelined in the name of prosperity. \n\n\n\n*** \n\n\n\nValérie Bah is a multidisciplinary Québécois artist\, filmmaker\, documentarian\, photographer\, and writer. Bah’s first collection\, The Rage Letters\, was translated from the French by Kama La Mackerel and published by Metonymy Press. Subterrane is their first book in English. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-subterrane-by-valerie-bah/
LOCATION:Librairie Saint-Henri Bookstore\, 4622 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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