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SUMMARY:D+Q Cooks! Cookbook Club: Jubilee
DESCRIPTION:Food lovers take note! \nTo attend this club we ask that you cook something from the cookbook and come ready to discuss and eat.\nSuper excited to test recipes from the book beforehand?! Tag us at #DandQCooks on Instagram or post your work here on the Facebook page.\nYou can also join our group Drawn & Quarterly Cook Book Club where we keep the discussion rolling.\nThis club meets at 6pm on Sunday. \n***We are offering a 20% discount on JUBILEE from now until the meeting date!*** \nBy purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support free events like this one\, independent publishing and retailing\, our neighborhood\, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. You also get to take advantage of a great discount! Your support is appreciated. \nTHE BOOK\nThroughout her career\, Toni Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history\, breadth\, and depth of African American cuisine. She’s introduced us to black cooks\, some long forgotten\, who established much of what’s considered to be our national cuisine. After all\, if Thomas Jefferson introduced French haute cuisine to this country\, who do you think actually cooked it? \nIn Jubilee\, Tipton-Martin brings these masters into our kitchens. Through recipes and stories\, we cook along with these pioneering figures\, from enslaved chefs to middle- and upper-class writers and entrepreneurs. With more than 100 recipes\, from classics such as Sweet Potato Biscuits\, Seafood Gumbo\, Buttermilk Fried Chicken\, and Pecan Pie with Bourbon to lesser-known but even more decadent dishes like Bourbon & Apple Hot Toddies\, Spoon Bread\, and Baked Ham Glazed with Champagne\, Jubilee presents techniques\, ingredients\, and dishes that show the roots of African American cooking—deeply beautiful\, culturally diverse\, fit for celebration. \nTHE AUTHOR\nToni Tipton-Martin is a culinary journalist and community activist and the author of the James Beard Award–winning The Jemima Code. Her collection of more than three hundred African American cookbooks has been exhibited at the James Beard House\, and she has twice been invited to the White House to participate in First Lady Michelle Obama’s programs to raise a healthier generation of kids. Tipton-Martin is a founding member of the Southern Foodways Alliance and Foodways Texas.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/dq-cooks-cookbook-club-jubilee/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Words and Music Show
DESCRIPTION:This coming Sunday February 9th the Words & Music Show opens up the stage to guest curator Prakash Kris\, who has been brewing a seriously entertaining show. Prakash is guest curating this month’s edition of the Words & Music Show as a part of QWF’s Fresh Pages Initiative! \nFor more information on what he’s presenting\, check out: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/118607082820176/ \nAdmission is $7 or PWYC ($5 for QWF members)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-words-and-music-show/
LOCATION:Casa del Popolo\, 4873 boul. St-Laurent\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1R6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Words and Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Desmond Cole - The Skin We're In
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with writer and activist DESMOND COLE as he discusses his new book THE SKIN WE’RE IN: A YEAR OF BLACK RESISTANCE AND POWER! \n///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// \nIn the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates\, a bracing\, provocative and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada’s most celebrated and uncompromising writers\, Desmond Cole. The Skin We’re In will spark a national conversation\, influence policy and inspire activists. \nIn May 2015\, the cover story of Toronto Life magazine shook Canada’s largest city to its core. Desmond Cole’s “The Skin I’m In” exposed the racist practices of the Toronto police force\, detailing the dozens of times Cole had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice of carding. The story quickly came to national prominence\, went on to win a number of National Magazine Awards and catapulted its author into the public sphere. Cole used his newfound profile to draw insistent\, unyielding attention to the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis: the devastating effects of racist policing; the hopelessness produced by an education system that expects little of its black students and withholds from them the resources they need to succeed more fully; the heartbreak of those vulnerable before the child welfare system and those separated from their families by discriminatory immigration laws. \nBoth Cole’s activism and journalism find vibrant expression in his first book\, The Skin We’re In. Puncturing once and for all the bubble of Canadian smugness and naïve assumptions of a post-racial nation\, Cole chronicles just one year–2017–in the struggle against racism in this country. It was a year that saw calls for tighter borders when Black refugees braved frigid temperatures to cross into Manitoba from the States\, Indigenous land and water protectors resisting the celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday\, police across the country rallying around an officer accused of murder\, and more. \nThe year also witnessed the profound personal and professional ramifications of Desmond Cole’s unwavering determination to combat injustice. In April\, Cole disrupted a Toronto police board meeting by calling for the destruction of all data collected through carding. Following the protest\, Cole\, a columnist with the Toronto Star\, was summoned to a meeting with the paper’s opinions editor and informed that his activism violated company policy. Rather than limit his efforts defending Black lives\, Cole chose to sever his relationship with the publication. Then in July\, at another TPS meeting\, Cole challenged the board publicly\, addressing rumours of a police cover-up of the brutal beating of Dafonte Miller by an off-duty police officer and his brother. When Cole refused to leave the meeting until the question was publicly addressed\, he was arrested. The image of Cole walking\, handcuffed and flanked by officers\, out of the meeting fortified the distrust between the city’s Black community and its police force. \nIn a month-by-month chronicle\, Cole locates the deep cultural\, historical and political roots of each event so that what emerges is a personal\, painful and comprehensive picture of entrenched\, systemic inequality. Urgent\, controversial and unsparingly honest\, The Skin We’re In is destined to become a vital text for anti-racist and social justice movements in Canada\, as well as a potent antidote to the all-too-present complacency of many white Canadians. \n////////////////////////////////////////////////////// \nDESMOND COLE is an award-winning journalist\, radio host\, and activist in Toronto. His writing has appeared in the Toronto Star\, Toronto Life\, The Walrus\, NOW Magazine\, Ethnic Aisle\, Torontoist\, BuzzFeed\, and the Ottawa Citizen. He hosts a weekly radio program every Sunday on Newstalk 1010.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-desmond-cole-the-skin-were-in/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Poetry Matters - Shane Neilson
DESCRIPTION:Shane Neilson is a poet\, physician\, and critic from New Brunswick. He is author of several books of poetry\, including Complete Physical (2010)\, On Shaving Off His Face (2015)\, Dysphoria (2017)\, and New Brunswick (2019). As a Vanier postdoctoral scholar at McMaster University\, he researches the representations of pain in CanLit. Dysphoria\, the final entry in his affect trilogy\, was published in 2017 with the Porcupine’s Quill. He has just launched a collection of essays\, Constructive Negativity\, compiling commentary from different periods of his work. Recipient of the Walrus Poetry Prize and the Hamilton Literary Award for poetry\, Neilson currently holds a SSHRC Talent Award. \nNeilson focuses on the articulation of pain and disordered affect through poetic form. As poet and editor\, he comments on the emergent area of “disability poetics”; as a physician\, he considers the value of poetry in medical practice. \nFor this reading\, Poetry Matters is delighted to partner with McGill University’s Osler Library of the History of Medicine (part of ROAAr\, Rare & Special Collections\, Osler\, Art and Archives). Materials from the Osler Collections will be featured at the event. Special thanks to Mary Hague-Yearl\, Osler Head Librarian.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-matters-shane-neilson/
LOCATION:Colgate Room\, 3459 McTavish Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 0C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T190000
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SUMMARY:Get the Word Out: Book Coverage in the Media
DESCRIPTION:The public often turns to trusted media sources to help them choose their next read; having a book covered by a national or international outlet can give a huge boost to publishers and writers. In this panel discussion\, three media professionals will speak to their visions for their outlets\, as well as what gets books noticed\, and what publishers and writers can do to give their books an edge. Join us for a lively panel discussion and Q&A. \nWith Erin Balser (CBC Books)\, Jade Colbert (The Globe & Mail)\, and Cevin Bryerman (Publishers Weekly). Moderated by Christopher DiRaddo.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/get-the-word-out-book-coverage-in-the-media/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T200000
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SUMMARY:Meet the author : Rodney Saint-Éloi
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, writer and essayist Rodney Saint-Éloi will be talking about his literary career and the publishing house he founded\, Mémoire d’encrier. He will also share his thoughts on the reality facing authors from diverse backgrounds. French activity.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/meet-the-author-rodney-saint-eloi/
LOCATION:Bibliothèque de Pierrefonds\, 13 555 Boulevard de Pierrefonds\, Pierrefonds\, Qc\, Pierrefonds-Roxboro\, Olivia\, H9A 1A6\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T210000
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Book Club: BTTM FDRS
DESCRIPTION:Each month we host a Graphic Novel Book Club\, open to all\, during which we hang out and informally discuss a featured graphic novel. Our pick for February is BTTM FDRS by Ben Passmore and Ezra Claytan Daniels. \nThis Afrofuturist graphic novel explores gentrification and cultural appropriation with a blend of humor and horror. \nWe will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) on Thursday\, February 13th at 7 p.m. Join us for refreshments and collective insights! \nABOUT:\nOnce a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago’s south side\, the “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend\, Cynthia\, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent\, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the walls of their new home. Like a cross between Jordan Peele’s Get Out and John Carpenter’s The Thing\, Daniels and Passmore’s BTTM FDRS (pronounced “bottomfeeders”) offers a vision of horror that is gross and gory in all the right ways. At turns funny\, scary\, and thought provoking\, it unflinchingly confronts the monsters—both metaphoric and real—that are displacing cultures in urban neighborhoods today. \nGentrification and body horror collide in this brutal satire from the award-winning creators of Upgrade Soul and Your Black Friend and other Strangers. \n***We are offering a 20% discount on BTTM FDRS from now until the meeting date!*** \nBy purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support free events like this one\, independent publishing and retailing\, our neighborhood\, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. You also get to take advantage of a great discount! Your support is appreciated.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/graphic-novel-book-club-bttm-fdrs/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T213000
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CREATED:20191209T171736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T170351Z
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction Workshop: Writing and Creating Alternative Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Led by Sunburst-nominated author Su J. Sokol\, this workshop is for anyone who’s interested in writing science fiction or adding wonder to the stories they’re already writing. \nDuring the four sessions\, participants will learn about science fiction and its sub-genres and be guided through the process of world-building\, developing interesting and realistic characters\, and creating a satisfying story arc. Finally\, participants will create their own short works of fiction which will be workshopped during the class. \nThe workshop consists of four 2 1/2 hour sessions on Thursday nights beginning on January 9th\, with a two-week break in the middle to work on your stories. \nThe dates of the four workshops are:\nJanuary 9th and 16th\, followed by February 6th and 13th.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/science-fiction-workshop-writing-and-creating-alternative-worlds/
LOCATION:Sur Place Media\, 5585 Avenue du Parc\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2V 4H2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Series,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T123000
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF
DESCRIPTION:Looking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \nRegister below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do at the Atwater Library. Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25 minute bursts\, with 5 minutes break in between. \nThis event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member. \nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n10:00 – 10:25 – Writing 1\n10:25 – 10:30 – Break\n10:30 – 10:55 – Writing 2\n10:55 – 11:00 – Break\n11:00 – 11:25 – Writing 3\n11:25 – 11:30 – Break\n11:30 – 11:55 – Writing 4\n11:55 – 12:00 – Break\n12:00 – 12:25 – Writing 5
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-2/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Series,Shut Up & Write!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T120000
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SUMMARY:Valentine's Story Time | Heure du conte de la Saint-Valentin
DESCRIPTION:La Petite Librairie D&Q hosts a weekly bilingual story time every Saturday at 11:30. Story times are free and open to all but most suitable for kids ages 3-5. Join us on February 15th for a special Valentine’s Story Time! \nRejoignez-nous à La Petite Librairie D&Q chaque Samedi à 11 h 30 pour une heure du conte bilingue. Les heures du contes sont gratuits et ouvert à tous mais surtout destinées aux 3 à 5 ans. Rejoignez-nous le 15 février pour une heure du conte spéciale pour le Saint-Valentin!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/valentines-story-time-heure-du-conte-de-la-saint-valentin/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Storytelling
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200217
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SUMMARY:Women's All-day Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:All-day women’s writing retreat on Parc Laurier with Lise Weil. Designed to help generate new material and move you deeper into existing work. For experienced writers in all genres. \nNon-binary people welcome. \n$90 includes lunch and light supper. \nLise Weil\, Ph. D.\, teaches in Goddard College’s Graduate Institute and has over thirty years’ experience teaching writing in both academic and alternative settings. \nwww.liseweil.com \nFor more info: lweil22@gmail.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/womens-all-day-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:Parc Laurier\, 1028 Laurier E\, Montreal\, QC\, H2J 1G6\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200217T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T181407
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SUMMARY:True Reads Book Club: The Undying
DESCRIPTION:Come discuss the most interesting books in new Non-Fiction with our True Reads book club! Happening every 4-6 weeks hosted by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly staff. \nFor our February meeting\, we’ll be reading THE UNDYING by Anne Boyer. The book club will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard Ouest at 7pm. This month’s meeting is hosted by Drawn & Quarterly Bookseller Benjamin. Join us for discussion and drinks! \n**We offer a 20% discount on THE UNDYING by Anne Boyer from now until the meeting date.* \nTHE UNDYING\nA week after her forty-first birthday\, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care\, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. \nA twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor\, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival\, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens\, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists\, cancer hoaxers and fetishists\, cancer vloggers\, corporate lies\, John Donne\, pro-pain ”dolorists\,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy\, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde\, Kathy Acker\, Susan Sontag\, and others. \nA genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts\, The Undying will break your heart\, make you angry enough to spit\, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally\, perversely glorious. \n*By purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support free events like this one\, independent publishing and retailing\, our neighborhood\, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. You also get to take advantage of a great discount! Your support is appreciated.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/true-reads-book-club-the-undying/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T120000
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SUMMARY:Heure du conte | Story Time: Les ours! Bears!
DESCRIPTION:La Petite Librairie D&Q hosts a weekly bilingual story time every Saturday at 11:30. Story times are free and open to all but most suitable for kids ages 3-5. Join us on Saturday February 29th at 11:30 for a story time all about bears! \nRejoignez-nous à La Petite Librairie D&Q chaque Samedi à 11 h 30 pour une heure du conte bilingue. Les heures du contes sont gratuits et ouvert à tous mais surtout destinées aux 3 à 5 ans. Rejoignez-nous le 29 février pour lire des histoires sur les ours !
URL:https://qwf.org/event/heure-du-conte-story-time-les-ours-bears/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T230000
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SUMMARY:Accent Open Mic - Cactus Press Launch
DESCRIPTION:Accent Open Mic is a bilingual poetry series based in Montreal\, Quebec that takes place on the first and third Tuesday of the month from 8:30 pm to 11 at ‘La Marche a Cote’ 5043 St. Denis. Every week Accent features two poets – 1 Francophone\, 1 Anglophone – followed by an open mic. \nFebruary 18th\, we will be launching James Dunnigan’s new chapbook of poetry through Cactus Press (cactuspresspoetry.com).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/accent-open-mic-cactus-press-launch/
LOCATION:La Marche à côté\, 5043 St-Denis\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2J 2L8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T181407
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Kaie Kellough - Dominoes at the Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the launch of Dominoes at the Crossroads! Kaie Kellough will be interviewed by Dimitri Nasrallah\, and of course\, Kaie will be reading from his story collection. \nStories that map an alternate Canada—one crisscrossed by a Caribbean diaspora seeking futures\, portals to the past\, and music. \n“Dominoes at the Crossroads is at once boldly speculative yet meticulously faithful to the textures and histories of place. It is a book both witty and moving\, self-reflexive and cunningly metaphysical. Kaie Kellough is an astonishingly talented and versatile artist whose ongoing calibrations of sound and language find new form here in scrupulously lucid prose.” –David Chariandy\, author of Brother \nAn internationally acclaimed sound performer and writer\, Kaie Kellough’s books include Accordéon\, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Amazon Canada First Novel Award\, and Magnetic Equator\, shortlisted for the 2019 Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Born in Vancouver\, he currently lives in Montréal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-kaie-kellough-dominoes-at-the-crossroads/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T173000
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SUMMARY:Morris House Reading Series - Elise Moser
DESCRIPTION:Bishop’s University is pleased to host Elise Moser\, who will be reading from her YA novel\, Lily & Taylor\, which was named to the Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014 list by the American Library Association. The reading will be followed by a Q&A and an informal reception.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/morris-house-reading-series-elise-moser/
LOCATION:Bishop’s University\, 2600 College Street\, Sherbrooke\, Quebec\, J1M 1Z7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Series
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SUMMARY:Double Book Launch: "CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event" & "Home Feelings"
DESCRIPTION:Launch of the book CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event edited by Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod and the book Home Feelings by Jody Mason. Hosted by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada\, the launch will feature two 10 minute presentations by the editors and author\, and will be followed by a cocktail. Books will be available for purchase at the event. \nABOUT the books and editors/authors: \nCANLIT ACROSS MEDIA: UNARCHIVING THE LITERARY EVENT\nAn innovative collection that evaluates diverse methods of recording\, archiving\, and remediating literature and literary culture in Canada. \nJason Camlot is professor in the Department of English at Concordia University.\nKatherine McLeod is an affiliated researcher with SpokenWeb at Concordia University. \nHOME FEELINGS\nA history of the Canadian reading camp movement and the meanings of literacy\, literature\, and citizenship in the early twentieth century.\nJody Mason is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/double-book-launch-canlit-across-media-unarchiving-the-literary-event-home-feelings/
LOCATION:Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore\, 2220 McGill College Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 3P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: William Gibson  - Agency (with guest Natalia Yanchak)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we launch William Gibson’s latest novel and follow-up to The Peripheral\, Agency\, with guest Natalia Yanchak! \nLibrairie Drawn & Quarterly and Penguin Random House present:\nWilliam Gibson launches Agency\nRialto Theatre – 5723 Park Ave\, Montréal\, QC H2V 4S8\nThursday 20th February 2020\, 19h\n(Présentation en anglais) \nWILLIAM GIBSON is credited with having coined the term “cyberspace” and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. He is the author of Neuromancer\, Count Zero\, Mona Lisa Overdrive\, Burning Chrome\, Virtual Light\, Idoru\, All Tomorrow’s Parties\, Pattern Recognition\, Spook Country\, Zero History\, Distrust That Particular Flavor\, and The Peripheral. He lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia\, with his wife. \nAGENCY\n“One of the most visionary\, original\, and quietly influential writers currently working”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral. \nWilliam Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades\, ever since coining the term “cyberspace” and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is “spectacular\, a piece of trenchant\, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer.” Now Gibson is back with Agency—a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events. \nVerity Jane\, gifted app whisperer\, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant\, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. “Eunice\,” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses\, manifests a face\, a fragmentary past\, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is\, Verity instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t. \nMeanwhile\, a century ahead in London\, in a different time line entirely\, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers\, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His boss\, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer\, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice are her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can’t: their own version of the jackpot\, just around the corner\, and the roles they both may play in it. \n*The Boston Globe \nBorn in Toronto\, Canada\, NATALIA YANCHAK moved to Montreal to attend Concordia University’s Creative Writing program. After graduation\, she toured internationally as keyboardist and singer with The Dears. Finding moments between touring and recording sessions\, she began writing long and short-form speculative fiction. \nShe has written and produced content for VICE\, CBC\, Huffington Post Canada\, Paper Magazine\, and Cult Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly 035\, Nevertheless: Tesseracts Twenty-One and Selected Poems by Indie Rock Stars. She is a member of the QWF and CSFFA. \nNatalia likes cats\, growing her own food and playing video games. She lives in Montreal and can be found on Twitter and Instagram @nataliayanchak.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-william-gibson-agency-with-guest-natalia-yanchak/
LOCATION:Rialto Theatre\, 5723 Av du Parc\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2V 4G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Megan Fernandes - Good Boys w/ Alexei Perry Cox and Joshua Neves
DESCRIPTION:Poet Megan Fernandes celebrates the release of her new book\, Good Boys. She’ll be joined by Alexei Perry Cox and Joshua Neves. \nIn an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability\, Megan Fernandes’s GOOD BOYS offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage\, negotiations with race and travel\, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless\, nervy\, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city\, from enchantment to disgust\, always reemerging-just barely-on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora\, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory\, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately\, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds\, the hounded earth\, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and\, more importantly\, where to direct our mercy. \n//////////////////////////////////////// \nMEGAN FERNANDES is a writer living in New York City. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Quarterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, The Common\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, among others. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her second book of poetry\, Good Boys\, was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize (2018)\, the Saturnalia Book Prize (2018)\, and is forthcoming with Tin House Books in February 2020. Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College and teaches courses on poetry\, creative nonfiction\, and critical theory. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nALEXEI PERRY COX is the author of the poetry collection Under Her. Her poetry\, fiction and non-fiction works have appeared in publications such as The Puritan\, Vallum\, Matrix\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Lemonhound and The Beijinger. Excerpts of her forthcoming manuscript Finding Places to Make Places have been printed\, often in different iterations\, in The Fiddlehead (Fredericton)\, carte-blanche (Montreal) Hart House Review (Toronto)\, Contemporary Verse 2 (Winnipeg)\, Headlight Anthology (Montreal)\, and Journal Safar (جورنال سفر)\, Rusted Radishes and Makhzin (مخزن) in Beirut. She is finishing this manuscript and parenting two wondrous and very wee young ones named Isla and Ilham. \nJOSHUA NEVES is Canada Research Chair and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) lab at Concordia University (Montréal). His research centers on digital media\, cultural and political theory\, and problems of development and legitimacy. He is the author of Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy (2020)\, and co-editor of Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global (2017).
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-megan-fernandes-boys-w-alexei-perry-cox-and-joshua-neves/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Heure du conte en espagnol avec Yayo!
DESCRIPTION:La Petite Librairie D&Q hosts a weekly bilingual story time every Saturday at 11:30. Story times are free and open to all but most suitable for kids ages 3-5. Join us on February 22nd for a story time with our new artist-in-residence\, Yayo! Yayo will be doing a Spanish reading of his book Pikiq. \nRejoignez-nous à La Petite Librairie D&Q chaque Samedi à 11 h 30 pour une heure du conte bilingue. Les heures du contes sont gratuits et ouvert à tous mais surtout destinées aux 3 à 5 ans. Rejoignez-nous le 22 février pour une heure du conte avec notre nouveau auteur-en-résidence\, Yayo! Il va lire en espagnol son livre Pikiq.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/heure-du-conte-en-espagnol-avec-yayo/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T160000
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SUMMARY:Copy Yourself: An Intro to Zine Making
DESCRIPTION:A zine is a small photocopied personal publication\, each as unique as the person who made it! \nUsing collage\, writing\, and drawing\, participants will make their own ready-to-copy 8-page zine. Bring along your fave art supplies (pens\, pencils\, markers\, rubber stamps) and a magazine to cut up and share; if you don’t happen to have some of your own\, don’t worry — supplies will also be available at the workshop. \nBilly Mavreas lives in Montreal\, Quebec where he creates comics\, collage\, drawings and visual poetry. He operates an art studio and archive of found paper ephemera out of his gallery space Monastiraki in the Mile-End neighbourhood. He has published\, exhibited\, and collaborated widely. \nThis workshop is FREE but space is limited. To register: elise.m@videotron.ca. \nWhere: Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4 \nThis event is taking place on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka. \nGenerously supported by the Community Cultural Action Fund (CCAF) of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/copy-yourself-an-intro-to-zine-making/
LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T213000
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SUMMARY:Visual Arts Centre Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Visual Arts Centre Reading Series Tuesday\, February 25\, 2020 \nSusan Elmslie\, Zoe Shaw\, Susan Doherty\, Harold Hoefle\, Larissa Andrusyshyn\, Jeff Gandell (music)\, R.M. Cutler\,\nAnn Lambert\, Mike Di Sclafani\, Ilona Martonfi \n350 Victoria Avenue\, Westmount www.visualartscentre.ca \nArtistic director Ilona Martonfi ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca\nCo-hosted with Mike Di Sclafani \nDoors 7 PM Readings 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM At the door $6 \nAn Evening of Poetry & Prose & Music
URL:https://qwf.org/event/visual-arts-centre-reading-series-6/
LOCATION:Visual Arts Centre\, 350 Avenue Victoria\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 2N4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T210000
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SUMMARY:New Reads Book Club: Frying Plantain
DESCRIPTION:The New Reads Book Club focuses on contemporary literature and is hosted by Drawn and Quarterly staff members. The book club meetings take place every 4-6 weeks\, and are open to all. \nFor our February 26th meeting\, we will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Bernard O.) at 7 pm to discuss Frying Plantain\, by Zalika Reid-Benta. The evening will be hosted by Drawn & Quarterly’s Bookstore Director Rebecca Lloyd! \nJoin us for discussion and drinks! \n**We offer a 20% discount on FRYING PLANTAIN by Zalika Reid-Benta from now until the meeting date.** \nBy purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support free events like this one\, independent publishing and retailing\, our neighborhood\, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. You also get to take advantage of a great discount! Your support is appreciated. \n///////////////////////////////////////////////// \nFRYING PLANTAIN\nKara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican\, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons\, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft.” Set in “Little Jamaica\,” Toronto’s Eglinton West neighbourhood\, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood\, from elementary school to high school graduation\, in these twelve interconnected stories. We see her on a visit to Jamaica\, startled by the sight of a severed pig’s head in her great aunt’s freezer; in junior high\, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother’s house\, trying to cope with the ongoing battles between her unyielding grandparents. \nA rich and unforgettable portrait of growing up between worlds\, Frying Plantain shows how\, in one charged moment\, friendship and love can turn to enmity and hate\, well-meaning protection can become control\, and teasing play can turn to something much darker. In her brilliantly incisive debut\, Zalika Reid-Benta artfully depicts the tensions between mothers and daughters\, second-generation Canadians and first-generation cultural expectations\, and Black identity and predominately white society.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/new-reads-book-club-frying-plantain/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T210000
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SUMMARY:Poetry w/ Sarah Wolfson\, James Crews\, Kasia Juno\, Laura Zacharin
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, February 27th as we welcome Sarah Wolfson\, and Laura Zacharin for the launch of their latest and an evening of poetry readings with guests James Crews and Kasia Juno at La Petite Drawn & Quarterly! \nThe poems in A COMMON NAME FOR EVERYTHING are concerned primarily with the holiness of rural spaces. They build idiosyncratic worlds around the themes of nature\, home\, parenting\, and naming. They can be both poignant and absurd: a professional namer of lakes explains his standards; new mothers are given gifts of mammoths; the rural gods are given names; a study of sheep results in loneliness. In the places these poems build\, wandering is a state of being\, and nostalgia for home has no balm. Steeped in sound play and borrowing academic language to create a specimen lens\, these poems bask in the local as they seek to name even the commonest earthly things. \nIn COMMON BROWN HOUSE MOTHS\, poems step back from the hurry\, blur and ordinariness to take a closer look at the the hazards of daily life . From her work as a doctor and everyday family life\, first time author\, Laura Zacharin considers themes of memory\, change\, Illness\, recovery and loss. A variety of poetic forms\, uses energy of these forms to engage with encounter and experience. Sometimes with humour\, always with stark honesty\, and often indirectly\, Zacharin uses ordinary language for clarity and immediacy in this elegant and imagistic collection rife with emotional pull. \n////////////////////////////////////////////////////// \nSARAH WOLFSON is the author of the poetry collection A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press). Her poems have appeared in Canadian and American journals including The Fiddlehead\, TriQuarterly\, PRISM international\, CV2\, AGNI\, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was named a notable poem in Best Canadian Poetry 2019. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Originally from Vermont\, she now lives in Montreal\, where she teaches writing at McGill University. \nOriginally from Montreal LAURA ZACHARIN currently lives in Toronto. In 2018 Laura completed her Creative Writing Certificate at University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and received the Marina Nemat Poetry Award. She was a finalist in 2018 for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Poetry Contest. In 2017 she attended the Emerging Writer’s Intensive at the Banff Centre. Her poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead\, CV2\, The Malahat Review and Juniper. Her first book Common Brown House Moths was published in September 2019 (Frontenac House). \nJAMES CREWS is the author of four full-length collections of poetry\, including The Book of What Stays\, winner of the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize\, and Telling My Father\, winner of the 2017 Cowles Prize. He is also editor of several anthologies: Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection\, published by Green Writers Press and chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as her monthly book selection for the Poetry Foundation\, and Queer Nature: An Ecopoetry Anthology\, forthcoming from Autumn House Press in 2021. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares\, New York Times Magazine\, Crab Orchard Review and The New Republic\, among dozens of other journals\, and he is a regular contributor to The (London) Times Literary Supplement. He lives on part of an organic farm with his husband in Vermont and teaches creative writing at SUNY-Albany. \nKASIA VAN SCHAIK is the author of the poetry chapbook Sea Burial Laws According to Country (Desert Pets Press\, 2018) and her writing has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry Anthology (2015)\, Electric Literature\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Rumpus\, Prism International\, Jacket2\, and more. Kasia received the Quebec Writer’s Federation Short Story Prize (2009) and was a finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize (2017). She lives in Montreal where she is completing a PhD at McGill University.\nFind her at @kasiajuno or at www.kasiajuno.weebly.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-w-sarah-wolfson-james-crews-kasia-juno-laura-zacharin/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:SpeakUp
DESCRIPTION:GRATUITE\nSpeakUp: L’Échange Interactif de Poésie de Montréal\nPoètes : Robyn Sarah\, Mark Plourde\, Peter Richardson \nAVEC SPEAKUP\, LE PUBLIC EST ENGAGÉ \nToutes les personnes présentes reçoivent une copie du poème\nLa poète lit le poème\, suivi de 15 à 20 minutes de discussion\nLe poète lit le poème une dernière fois\nAmenez un ami et recevez un livre gratuit!\nVisitez notre page Facebook pour plus de détails. \nFREE EVENT\nSpeakUp: The Montreal Inter-Active Poetry Exchange\nPoets: Robyn Sarah\, Mark Plourde\, Peter Richardson \nA POETRY READING WITH A DIFFERENCE: AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT \nEach audience member receives a copy of the poems\nPoet reads poems\, followed by 15 to 20-minute discussion on the poem\nPoet reads poem a final time \nBring a friend and receive a free book!\nVisit our Facebook page for more details.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speakup-5/
LOCATION:Cafe Shaika\, 5526 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4A 1W2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T190000
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SUMMARY:Unravelling in Rhymes: Dreaming in Verses
DESCRIPTION:Unravelling in Rhymes is a FREE creative writing workshop where we invite people of colour who identify as women\, trans\, gender nonconforming\, 2-spirit and non-binary\, ages 17-30 years old\, to come together in a safe(r)\, non-judgmental and supportive space and share an afternoon of writing and sharing. \nIn past workshops we have found that this space is more one of healing\, sharing our stories (sometimes for the first time)\, and connecting with other people of colour and creating community\, more than it is about the writing we create. \nDate: Friday\, February 28\nTime: 5 – 7 PM\nLocation: The Open Centre/Plaza Vendome (5165 Sherbrooke W.\, suite 300). Short walk from Vendome metro.\nFree!\nRefreshments provided \nPlease register for this workshop by providing a name and contact on the link below (Spaces are limited):\nhttps://forms.gle/9gofFd4Fjo2bqD3u6 \nParticipants are invited to participate in the ways and amounts they feel most comfortable. Previous poetry-writing and performing experience is not necessary! \nWorkshop Description:\nCan dreams prompt our creative writing process? Can we write using the same language/structures that our dream brain uses to tell us stories while we sleep? This is poetry meets Inception! By use of various writing exercises\, including free-writing and visualization\, we will try to tap into our subconscious and dip our feet in a waking “dream world”\, and allow its imagery and emotions to guide our writing. The workshop is designed to be accommodating of different comfort levels\, providing different options and variations for each prompt/activity. \nFacilitator: HAR LEEN (Harleen Bhogal)\nBorn in Montreal\, HAR LEEN is a South Asian writer\, artist and educator\, whose practice is entrenched in feminist and anti-racist principles and community-building approaches. As an educator\, she uses arts-based approaches\, ranging from visual arts to spoken word\, to facilitate grassroots youth programming. HAR LEEN understands that artistic self-expression in safe and loving settings can become a catalyst for collective healing and inducing transformative change\, and is dedicated to creating these spaces in her community.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/unravelling-in-rhymes-dreaming-in-verses/
LOCATION:The Open Centre\, 5165 Sherbrooke W.\, suite 300\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T200000
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SUMMARY:Teen Book Club: Hot Comb
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday February 28th at 6 pm to discuss Ebony Flowers’ graphic novel Hot Comb at our Teen Book Club. Pizza will be served. All attendees must have the assigned book\, or one book in the assigned series. \nThis is a book club for teenagers\, with a median age of 13-16 or grades sec 1-5–all kids must be in secondary school. There will be a different book every meeting. The focus is to provide teenagers a safe space to learn to discuss and express thoughts and ideas about literature among their peers without parents or teachers. \n***We are offering a 20% discount on HOT COMB from now until the meeting date!*** \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nHot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women’s lives and coming-of-age stories as seen across a crowded\, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved into. In “Virgin Hair\,” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. “My Lil Sister Lena” shows the stress of being the only black player on a white softball team. Lena’s hair is the team curio\, an object to be touched\, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates\, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Throughout Hot Comb\, Ebony Flowers re-creates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s need for hair relaxers and products. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page. \nRealizations about race\, class\, and the imperfections of identity swirl through these stories and ads\, which are by turns sweet\, insightful\, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her Ph.D.\, and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/teen-book-club-hot-comb/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200229T123000
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF
DESCRIPTION:  \nLooking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \nRegister below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do at the Atwater Library. Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25 minute bursts\, with 5 minutes break in between. \nThis event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member. \nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n10:00 – 10:25 – Writing 1\n10:25 – 10:30 – Break\n10:30 – 10:55 – Writing 2\n10:55 – 11:00 – Break\n11:00 – 11:25 – Writing 3\n11:25 – 11:30 – Break\n11:30 – 11:55 – Writing 4\n11:55 – 12:00 – Break\n12:00 – 12:25 – Writing 5\n\nNote: QWF Members\, you must be logged in to your Member Account in order to check event availability and to access the RSVP form on this page. If you are having any issues with the RSVP form\, please email workshops(at)qwf(dot)org and someone will be happy to help you.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-3/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Shut Up & Write!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200303T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200303T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T181407
CREATED:20200213T162710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200213T163148Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Sex Work Activism in Canada
DESCRIPTION:À l’occasion de cette Journée internationale des droits des travailleuses et travailleurs du sexe\, nous organisons le lancement du livre de Amy Lebovitch et Shawna Ferris\, Sex Work Activism in Canada. Notre chapitre « Stella\, l’amie de Maimie: créer un espace pour les travailleuses » rassemble certaines de nos réflexions de ces 25 dernières années. Nous sommes fières de l’espace que nous partageons dans le livre avec d’autres groupes incroyables pour la défense des droits des travailleuses du sexe. Une des éditrices\, Shawna Ferris\, va prends la parole avec d’autres invitées.\nCet événement sera principalement en anglais. Traduction chuchotée disponible. \n=== \nOn this International Sex Workers’ Rights Day we are hosting the launch of the hot off the press book by Editors Amy Lebovitch and Shawna Ferris\, Sex Work Activism in Canada. Our chapter “Stella\, l’amie de Maimie: Creating a Space for Working Women” is a snapshot on some of our reflections and organizing over the past 25 years. We are proud to share space in the book with other amazing sex worker rights groups. One of the editors of the book\, Shawna Ferris\, will be speaking\, along with other special guests.\nThis event will mainly be in English. Whisper translation provided.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-sex-work-activism-in-canada/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T181407
CREATED:20200226T221245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200226T221245Z
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SUMMARY:Indie Author Café - Learn about Self-Publishing
DESCRIPTION:The indie author café is an event organized by to provide aspiring and published authors a place to meet\, share ideas\, learn from trade professionals and discover the ins and outs of self-publishing. \nOur next indie author café will be held in Montreal on Thursday\, March 5th (from 5 to 7 PM). \nIt’s a great opportunity to shake off the winter chills\, join fellow authors and publishing professionals as we talk about self-publishing\, all in the cozy setting of NDG’s Shaïka Café. \nAll are welcome! \nFree and open to the public; please RSVP by following the website link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/indie-author-cafe-tickets-94219425839
URL:https://qwf.org/event/indie-author-cafe-learn-about-self-publishing/
LOCATION:Cafe Shaika\, 5526 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4A 1W2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Networking
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ORGANIZER;CN="CanamBooks":MAILTO:info@canambooks.com
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