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SUMMARY:Follow the Money
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 7\, 10:30 – 4:30 \nOpen to all\nLimited to 12 participants\nHybrid workshop* \nLabour\, rent\, childcare\, credit cards\, tuition\, grants\, divorce\, inheritance\, fantasy\, debt—everyone talks\, worries\, and daydreams about money in private. This two-part workshop offers a series of creative and practical opportunities to think about money out in the open. \n  \nYou can sign up for one or both sessions. \n  \nMorning Session: 10:30 to 1:00 \n  \nFocussed on the part of the story only the money can tell\, this session focuses on writing about money. Writers working in all genres are welcome. Participants should expect: \n  \n\nVulnerability\, cringiness\, self-incrimination\, fun\nExploratory writing and open conversation about money woes and wants they are interested in exploring in writing\nExercises to compile and create explicit financial details and work them into an existing text or something brand new\nTime to share\, discuss\, and ask questions about results.\n\n  \nParticipants are encouraged to bring an existing text to work from and/or notes toward a new piece of writing. \n  \nAfternoon Session: 2:00-4:30 \n  \nDedicated to navigating the practical\, real-life aspects of money and financial literacy\, this session is designed for those planning (or in the midst of) a writing career. Participants should expect: \n  \n\nVulnerability\, cringiness\, self-incrimination\, fun\nAn open\, Ask-Me-Anything session about handling money and planning financially as artists and real people\nHands-on budgeting and light accounting exercises based on your actual money goals\nTackling budgeting and tax consequences for a life in the arts\, for a single project\, and with a sporadic income in mind\nTime to share\, discuss\, and ask questions about results.\n\n  \nIf participants have budgets needing attention\, they should bring them in! A budgeting excel sheet created by Darby will be provided to everyone. \n  \nDarby Minott Bradford is the award-winning author of Dream of No One but Myself and Bottom Rail on Top. A 2026 Simon Fraser University Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities\, Darby thinks about money a lot and is currently at work on a book and a podcast about property and home. Darby has 16 years of experience as a full-time\, registered self-employed person\, including GST and QST remittance\, 11 years of experience managing their own investments\, a six-year track record doing their own Canadian and US business tax\, four successful Canada Council-related audits turned around\, and 18 months of spending too much money on owning a home while maintaining good savings. Darby lives and works in Verdun\, Qc\, on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka territory. \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/follow-the-money/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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