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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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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T210000
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T190000
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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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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T193000
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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20200212T220113Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20200220T171448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200220T172251Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20200127T190321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T190321Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200229T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200229T123000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20200203T181554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T202201Z
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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:20260407T165619
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:20260407T165619
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20200210T213954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200210T215838Z
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SUMMARY:Argo Reading Series : Verse\, Prose & Song
DESCRIPTION:Argo Reading Series : Verse\, Prose & Song \nThursday\, March 5\, 2020 \nBlossom Thom\, Zsolt Alapi\, Salena Wiener\, Matthew Rettino\, Hugh Thomas\,\nMarie-Josée MJ Tremblay (music)\, Mark Paterson\, Ilona Martonfi\,\nMike Di Sclafani\, Marie Dupuis\, Sheryl Halpern \nArgo Bookshop 1915 Ste. Catherine St. West \nhttps://www.argobookshop.ca/ Hosted with Moti Lieberman \nArtistic Director Ilona Martonfi ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca \n7 PM-9 PM at the door $6
URL:https://qwf.org/event/argo-reading-series-verse-prose-song-3/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1915 Ste. Catherine Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec H3H 1M3\, Montreal\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T230000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20200229T211542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200229T211542Z
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SUMMARY:Épique Voices: Bilingual Poetry Show
DESCRIPTION:Un classique du festival Dans ta tête depuis maintenant 6 ans\, the best poetry you’ll hear from the poetic Montreal you love! \nCurated by Katherine McLeod and Catherine Cormier-Larose \nWith:\nHélène Bughin\nNadia Chaney\nKlara du Plessis\nEmmanuelle Gauthier (Pierrot La Lune)\nKama La Mackerel\nAlexei Perry Cox\nMaude Pilon & Simon Brown\nMelanie Power\nHector Ruiz\nAlisha Dukelow\nErika Soucy\nKasia Van Schaik \nMusic: Quique\, guitare et impro\nUn peu de flamenco improvisé: Katherine McLeod
URL:https://qwf.org/event/epique-voices-bilingual-poetry-show/
LOCATION:La Vitrola\, 4602 boul St. Laurent\, Montreal\, QC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Festival,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20191206T172316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200217T223607Z
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - Love and Intimacy in Fiction: Setting the Scene
DESCRIPTION:“One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere\, but to the next stroke of lightning.”\n– Alice Munro  \nAll levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \n  \nAre your characters stuck at first base? Maybe you’ve been trying for months to create tasteful romantic tension\, but your revisions seem to be getting tawdrier instead. Love and sex in fiction are challenging to write: We’re striving to find the perfect chemistry between voice\, language\, pacing\, plot\, and setting\, and the measurement of each is never the same from one situation to the next. Just as it takes time in real life for intimacy to grow between people\, it takes more than a few lines in a short story or pages in a novel to develop genuine narrative intimacy. \nThis workshop will provide participants with creative and technical tools to write anything from smoldering eye contact between strangers on a subway to harrowing mid-novel breakup sex between critical characters. We’ll look at a variety of print and digital media\, and everyone will be encouraged to act as a reader as well as a writer—that is\, to share ideas and offer constructive feedback. Participants will leave the workshop with an expanded\, specialized lexicon and the confidence to know when to be nuanced in their writing and when to be explicit. \nThis workshop is not a genre “how-to” for romance or erotica\, but a fun\, holistic survey of tools and techniques writers can use to craft believable and compelling intimacy in any fictional context. \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-love-and-intimacy-in-fiction-setting-the-scene/2020-03-09/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20191206T183817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191206T193422Z
UID:10002082-1583784000-1583791200@qwf.org
SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - From Idea to Script to Screen
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Sabrina Reeves\n12 participants. \n  \nThis workshop will help you adapt your ideas into scripts for TV\, Film\, Video\, Web series\, etc.\, and also show you how to craft pitches and other creative documents designed to attract producers and broadcasters to your material. In addition\, you will receive advice as to which avenues to venture down in terms of seeking potential funding and/or professional representation and/or producing partners for your projects. \n  \nTopics covered will include: \n  \nSetting realistic writing goals; how to break down and analyze a script; the importance of feedback; analysis of produced work; story\, structure\, conflict\, character\, dialogue; the importance of rewriting and how to go about it; pitching; riders\, indemnity waivers\, non-disclosure agreements; contracts\, agents\, lawyers; development funding; and budgeting (time & money). \n  \nRecommended reading: film scripts of all genres and lengths
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-from-idea-to-script-to-screen/2020-03-09/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T230000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20200213T175902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200213T184005Z
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SUMMARY:March in the Beauty: An evening of prose\, poetry\, and music
DESCRIPTION:Please join Sharon Lax\, BA Markus\, Deanna Radford\, Cora Sire\, Sivan Slapak\, and Su J Sokol as they read from their prose and poetry. Special guest musicians TBA. \nSHARON LAX’s short story collection\, Shattered Fossils\, launches on May 2nd. Her work has been published in various Canadian journals and longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. \nB.A. MARKUS’s creative non-fiction stories appear in magazines and anthologies across Canada. Her play\, “The What Mommy Needs Cabaret\,” will premiere at the 2020 Festival St. Ambroise Fringe. \nDEANNA RADFORD is a writer\, poet\, performer\, curator\, editor\, and organizer\, and a member of Cloud Circuit\, an experimental poetry and sounds ensemble. \nCORA SIRÉ is the author of two novels and a collection of poems. Her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in Canada\, the U.S. and Mexico. \nSIVAN SLAPAK works in Montreal’s arts and culture sector\, and towards finishing a collection of interlinked short stories. Some can already be found in The New Quarterly\, carte blanche and Montreal Serai. \nSU J SOKOL is author of two novels\, Cycling to Asylum\, longlisted for the Sunburst Award\, and Run J Run. Her short stories have been published and podcast in various magazines.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/march-in-the-beauty/
LOCATION:Café Résonance\, 5175A Park Ave\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2V 4G3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20191210T202359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T202359Z
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - Inventing the Truth: The Art of Personal Writing
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this workshop is TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-inventing-the-truth-the-art-of-personal-writing/2020-03-10/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20191210T182338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T185051Z
UID:10002125-1583949600-1583956800@qwf.org
SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - Writing Long: The Novel
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this workshop is TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-writing-long-the-novel/2020-03-11/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20200220T175539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200220T175629Z
UID:10002218-1583953200-1583953200@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Meet the author : David Homel
DESCRIPTION:With his eight novel The Teardown under his belt\, the writer\, journalist and translator David Homel will be talking about the writing profession and the Quebec modern literary scene.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/meet-the-author-david-homel/
LOCATION:Bibliothèque de Pierrefonds\, 13 555 Boulevard de Pierrefonds\, Pierrefonds\, Qc\, Pierrefonds-Roxboro\, Olivia\, H9A 1A6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
CREATED:20200220T165018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200220T165018Z
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Book Club: This Woman's Work
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 THIS WOMAN’S WORK by Julie Delporte. \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! \n***We are offering a 20% discount on THIS WOMAN’S WORK 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-this-womans-work/
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:20200311T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - The Writer’s Tune-Up: Create with Courage
DESCRIPTION:For all those looking for a practical\, hands-on workshop of generative prompts to get your wheels turning\, your creative engine humming\, and new projects out of the blocks.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-the-writers-tune-up-create-with-courage/2020-03-11/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200330T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165619
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SUMMARY:Teesri Duniya Theatre’s Counter Offence
DESCRIPTION:COUNTER OFFENCE\nWritten by Rahul Varma Directed by Arianna Bardesono\nWednesday\, March 11– Sunday\, March 29\, 2020 \nIn counterpoint\, domestic violence and racism blur\, distorting the issues while officials satisfy their own agendas. Continuing their mandate to encourage dialogue\, the company will hold post-show talkbacks on March 16\, 22\, 24 and 29. An evolving\, interactive installation of visual art will be in the lobby complementing the production. Mature content—ages 13+. \nCounter Offence is a collision of virtues. Shazia\, an Indo-Québecoise woman with traditional Muslim parents\, is in an abusive relationship with her husband Shapoor\, an Iranian facing immigration issues. What happens when the fight against racism comes into conflict with the struggle to end violence against women? Working backwards through flashbacks\, the intersection of the two is explored. The consequences of gender versus race force us to question our own prejudices and motivations. \nReflecting the streets of Montreal\, the talented\, culturally diverse cast is Maureen Adelson\, Amena Ahmad\, Michael Briganti\, Davide Chiazzese\, Alida Esmail\, Minoo Gundevia\, Amir Sám Nakhjavani and Arun Varma. \nFrom playwright Rahul Varma: “Whenever I spoke to peers about the play’s themes\, their usual comment was: ‘This happens a lot in your community\, doesn’t it?’ From what I knew\, yes it did. But I was surprised they didn’t ask the same question of themselves. According to available statistics and cultural evidence\, domestic violence occurs in the white community just as it does in the South Asian community\, and perhaps more often. I was perturbed by the dichotomy that Canadians perceive spousal abuse as a crime if the perpetrator is a white male\, but a cultural value if he is a person of colour. Throughout the writing process I was confronted with issues of race\, multiculturalism and gender. I struggled with how far a multicultural society and its laws tolerate cultural differences that could have coercive effects on women; a complicated issue which posed new questions.” \n———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— \nTeesri Duniya Theatre’s Counter Offence\nMarch 11-29 \nat Segal Centre for Performing Arts\, 5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd. \nThe show runs: Mon.-Sun. 8pm—NO SHOW ON FRIDAYS—plus Sundays & Tues. Mar. 24 at 2pm \nTickets: $25-$29; Monday night promotion—50%* off the second ticket (*by phone/door only) \n514 739-7944 or online at Segal Centre \nPay-It-Forward: Purchase a Counter Offence ‘suspended ticket’ which goes directly to a member of a community organization\, giving the gift of theatre to someone who cannot otherwise afford it. \nwww.teesriduniyatheatre.com \nwww.facebook.com/events/218818525670152/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/teesri-duniya-theatres-counter-offence/
LOCATION:QC
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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