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SUMMARY:Open Mic #14 @ Argo
DESCRIPTION:It’s your time to shine! We’ll be hosting our fourteenth open mic night since our reopening. Come share stories\, poetry\, music\, or whatever suits your fancy! \nLet us know you’re planning to come at events@argobookshop.ca – we try to accommodate walk-ins\, but if you want to be sure of a spot\, please let us know in advance. \nBut you can also take your chances coming the day of to lay it on us!\nSee you there.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/open-mic-14-argo/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Eloisa Aquino launches The Life & Times of Butch Dykes
DESCRIPTION:Come meet Eloisa Aquino and learn about the history behind the zine series\, The Life and Times of Butch Dykes. There will be a short talk followed by a Q&A session. \nTHE LIFE & TIMES OF BUTCH DYKES is a compilation of zines published by Eloisa over the past decade. With drawings\, stories\, and quotations showing the great contributions as well as little\, human details about their lives\, it’s perfect for people of all genders seeking role models or to learn or teach history through its unsung heroes. \nELOISA AQUINO is a Brazilian-Canadian artist and zinester who lives and works in Montreal\, where she runs the micro-press B&D Press. She was born in São Paulo (Brazil)\, where she made zines and worked as a journalist and translator\, and moved to Montreal in order to pursue a Master’s in Media Studies. Eloisa’s work is focused in non-fictional illustrated narratives on queer topics\, especially stories and histories at the margins.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/eloisa-aquino-launches-the-life-times-of-butch-dykes/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200115T200000
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Book Club: The Hard Tomorrow
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 January is THE HARD TOMORROW by Eleanor Davis. \nWe will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) on Wednesday\, January 15th at 7 p.m. Join us for refreshments and collective insights! \nABOUT:\nHannah is a thirty-something wife\, home-health worker\, and antiwar activist. Her husband\, Johnny\, is a stay-at-home pothead working—or “working”—on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They’re currently living and screwing in the back of a truck\, hoping for a pregnancy\, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air\, for a better chance at conception\, Hannah scans fertility Reddits while Johnny dreams about propagating plants—kale\, tomatoes—to ensure they have sufficient sustenance should the end times come\, which\, given their fragile democracy strained under the weight of a carceral state and the risk of horrible war\, doesn’t seem so far off. Helping Hannah in her fight for the future is her best friend Gabby\, a queer naturalist she idolizes and who adores her. Helping Johnny build the house is Tyler\, an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist driven sick by his own cloudy notions of reality. \nTold with tenderness and care in an undefined near future\, Eleanor Davis’s The Hard Tomorrow blazes unrestrained\, as moments of human connection are doused in fear and threats. Her astute projections probe at current anxieties in a cautionary tale that begs the question: What will happen after tomorrow? \n***We are offering a 20% discount on THE HARD TOMORROW 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-the-hard-tomorrow/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Teen Book Club: Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday January 10th at 6 pm to discuss Morgan Parker’s debut YA novel Who Put This Song On? at our Teen Book Club hosted by Gigi Devlin. 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 WHO PUT THIS SONG ON? from now until the meeting date!***
URL:https://qwf.org/event/teen-book-club-who-put-this-song-on-by-morgan-parker/
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:20200109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200109T210000
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SUMMARY:2020 Foresight - What's on at Argo?
DESCRIPTION:Have your eye on the calendar for what exciting books might be coming out in 2020? Come join us here at the Argo for a look at some of the work that’s slated to be released this year. \nFind out some of the things that we’re excited about sharing with you\, and share titles that you’re interested in! Beat back the cold with some good book discussion to kick off the new year. Snacks will be provided as well!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/2020-foresight-whats-on-at-argo/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191229T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191229T120000
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SUMMARY:Chanukah Storytime and Activity!
DESCRIPTION:Join us at La Petite Librairie D+Q on Sunday December 29th at 11 am for a Chanukah storytime followed by an activity in which kids are invited to make their own dreidel pencil topper! \nThis event is free and open to all.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/chanukah-storytime-and-activity/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191219T210000
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SUMMARY:Argo Reading Series: Solstice Fest
DESCRIPTION:Argo Reading Series: Solstice Fest\nGeneviève Lacombe\, Ilona Martonfi\, Gloria Macher\,\nBrian Campbell\, Mike Di Sclafani\, Danielle Wong\,\nR.M. Cutler\, Mark Foss\, Marc-Alexandre Chan\,\nColleen Gray\, Harry Rajchgot \nArgo Bookshop 1915 Ste. Catherine St. West \nhttps://www.argobookshop.ca/ Hosted with Moti Lieberman\nArtistic Director Ilona Martonfi ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca \nThursday\, December 19\, 2019 7 PM-9 PM at the door $6 \nWe gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts\,\nand the League of Canadian Poets.” \nFACEBOOK EVENT\nDec 19\nTHU\nArgo Reading Series : Solstice Fest
URL:https://qwf.org/event/argo-reading-series-solstice-fest/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1915 Ste. Catherine Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec H3H 1M3\, Montreal\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191218T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191218T223000
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SUMMARY:Accent Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:  \nAccent Open Mic \nLa Marche à Côté\, 5043 St. Denis\n7:30pm\, 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.\naccentseriesmontreal.wordpress.com\n\nAccent Open Mic is a bilingual reading series that takes place at La Marche à Côté\, (5043 St. Denis) on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. Hosted by Devon Gallant and Luc-Antoine Chiasson\, each night we feature 1 anglophone reader and 1 francophone reader along with an open mic. Sign up for the open mic starts at 7:30\, show starts at 8pm. For more information visit: accentseriesmontreal.wordpress.com or on Facebook: @accentopenmic.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/21092/2019-12-18/
LOCATION:La Marche à côté\, 5043 St-Denis\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2J 2L8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Open Mic,Performance,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191211T210000
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker Launches Who Put This Song On? w/ Monique Polak
DESCRIPTION:Morgan Parker (Magical Negro\, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce) talks about her first young adult novel\, Who Put This Song On?\, in an on-stage interview with author Monique Polak (The Taste of Rain). \nABOUT THE BOOK :\nIn the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and Girl in Pieces\, comes poet Morgan Parker’s pitch-perfect novel about a black teenage girl searching for her identity when the world around her views her depression as a lack of faith and blackness as something to be politely ignored. \nTrapped in sunny\, stifling\, small-town suburbia\, seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she’s in therapy. She can’t count the number of times she’s been the only non-white person at the sleepover\, been teased for her “weird” outfits\, and been told she’s not “really” black. Also\, she’s spent most of her summer crying in bed. So there’s that\, too. \nLately\, it feels like the whole world is listening to the same terrible track on repeat—and it’s telling them how to feel\, who to vote for\, what to believe. Morgan wonders\, when can she turn this song off and begin living for herself?\nLoosely based on her own teenage life and diaries\, this incredible debut by award-winning poet Morgan Parker will make readers stand up and cheer for a girl brave enough to live life on her own terms—and for themselves.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/morgan-parker-launches-who-put-this-song-on-w-monique-polak/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191215T150000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143245
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SUMMARY:Double Bill: Dark Red by: Willow Cioppa & Cry Baby by: Kalale Dalton-Lutale
DESCRIPTION:For the first time ever\, Black Theatre Workshop & Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal will be presenting 2 one-act plays in a special Double Bill presentation at the MAI (Montréal\, arts interculturels). BTW places the spotlight on two of our Artist Mentorship Program playwright alumni’s recent work. \nAbout Dark Red by Willow Cioppa \nCalliope is a young woman on the cusp of a complete meltdown. Alone in her apartment\, she writes a single letter addressing every man she’s ever fucked\, blurring them all together to create one beast\, representative of all her trauma. Addressing this man in a vulgar\, crass\, and brutally honest text\, Calliope unravels her experiences of heartache and abuse\, searching for closure in songs\, books\, memories\, and liquor. Dark Red is a viscous\, textural exploration of what it means to lick our own wounds and heal ourselves\, moving past our brokenness and reclaiming our pain in order to move forward. \nAbout Cry Baby by Kalale Dalton-Lutale. \nSo you have these memories\, right? And they’re all sort of hanging above your head like a tangled mobile. Pieces of songs that remind you of your dad in college\, the smell of chlorine\, your mother’s hand writing\, a card you made for your sister. \nIn Kalale Dalton-Lutale’s Cry baby we watch as a young woman unravels. Relying on her personal archive as source material\, Dalton-Lutale’s (2016) work offers the audience a non-linear piece of theatre. By resurrecting the archive\, she unveils the framework of love that has shaped her into the person she is today. Prompted by falling in love for the first time\, the playwright reflects on her own Blackness\, family\, and womanhood. Cry baby asks us “how can we be whole when a part of us is missing?”
URL:https://qwf.org/event/double-bill-dark-red-by-willow-cioppa-cry-baby-by-kalale-dalton-lutale/
LOCATION:Montreal arts interculturels\, 3680\, rue Jeanne-Mance\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 2K5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance,Storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191209T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191209T220000
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SUMMARY:Slantwise to the Truth: Navigating Narrative Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Niamh Malcolm\nAll levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \n“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant/success in Circuit lies” — let poet Emily Dickinson’s words inspire you as we navigate narrative nonfiction\, writing that takes the best elements of fiction\, applies those to facts\, and ends with compelling stories. \nIn this workshop you will take your own “big idea” and add to it week-by-week until at the end of eight sessions you’ll have a draft narrative essay of 2\,000 words or more. Each meeting will be split between discussing one of six elements necessary for good narrative nonfiction and workshopping participants’ writing. This will be supported by readings related to the discussion and to the week’s assigned writing. Below is an outline covering six weekly discussions. Two additional weeks are left open to allow for flexibility – perhaps there will be spillover from a previous week’s discussion or perhaps by consensus we’ll toss in another idea to discuss or take extra time to workshop participants’ work. \nPlease note that this workshop will not focus on memoir writing. Although memoir falls into the category of narrative nonfiction\, I encourage participants to look beyond it when considering their writing for these eight weeks. \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/slantwise-to-the-truth-navigating-narrative-nonfiction/2019-12-09/
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:20191209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191209T203000
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SUMMARY:Carmen Maria Machado launches IN THE DREAM HOUSE
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with National Book Award Finalist & Guggenheim Fellow Carmen Maria Machado \nLibrairie Drawn & Quarterly presents: \nCarmen Maria Machado launches In The Dream House\nLa Sala Rossa\, 4848 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, QC H2T 1R5\nlundi 9 décembre à 19h \nTickets: \nBook + Ticket Combo: $24.95+ tx\n*Includes 1 General Admission + 1 Copy of IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado (to be picked up at the event) \nGeneral Admission : $15+tx \n(Présentation en anglais) \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nCarmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties \, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nA revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. \nIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad\, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman\, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. \nAnd it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope–haunted houses\, erotica\, bildungsroman–in which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence\, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian\, and widens the view with essayistic explorations about the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. \nMachado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit\, playfulness\, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings\, Star Trek and Disney villains\, fairy tales\, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching\, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/carmen-maria-machado-launches-in-the-dream-house/
LOCATION:La Sala Rossa\, 4848 St. Laurent Boulevard\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 2R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191209T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191209T190000
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SUMMARY:Manifestos As A Poetic Form
DESCRIPTION:Please join McGill’s Institute for Human Development and Well-being (IHDW)\, in partnership with Poetry Matters\, for a participatory art-making workshop on manifestos as a poetic form \nThis is neither a lecture nor a seminar – rather\, it’s an opportunity to work together in a collective environment of exploration and play on making manifestos\, considered as an art form\, genre\, and way of thinking about aesthetic and cultural change. \n  \nThe workshop will take place in McGill’s Art Hive space\, on the first floor of the Education Building. Please come prepared to work and play with crayons\, Sharpies\, folded paper\, ideas\, dreams – and to collaborate with others on making manifestos. \nWhen:  Monday\, December 9\, 5-7\nWhere:  McGill’s Art Hive | Education Building\, 3700 McTavish | 1st Floor \nProgram: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1On-QSEBVZCB8PQWQdCGf7ulu84ytRcMQ/view \n  \nThere will be snacks and beverages. We do not have accommodations for child care\, but this is a kid friendly event\, so please feel welcome to bring the young ones. \nBeautiful poster thanks to Ramy Gorgis of the IHDW.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/manifestos-as-a-poetic-form/
LOCATION:McGill Art Hive\, 3700 rue McTavish\, 1st Floor\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191209T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191209T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:Please join McGill’s Institute for Human Development and Well-being (IHDW) in partnership with Poetry Matters\, for a participatory art-making workshop on manifestos as a poetic form \nThis is neither a lecture nor a seminar – rather\, it’s an opportunity to work together in a collective environment of exploration and play on making manifestos\, considered as an art form\, genre\, and way of thinking about aesthetic and cultural change. \n  \nThe workshop will take place in McGill’s Art Hive space\, on the first floor of the Education Building. Please come prepared to work and play with crayons\, Sharpies\, folded paper\, ideas\, dreams – and to collaborate with others on making manifestos. \nWhen:  Monday\, December 9\, 5-7\nWhere:  McGill’s Art Hive | Education Building\, 3700 McTavish | 1st Floor \nProgram: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1On-QSEBVZCB8PQWQdCGf7ulu84ytRcMQ/view \n  \nThere will be snacks and beverages. We do not have accommodations for child care\, but this is a kid friendly event\, so please feel welcome to bring the young ones. \nBeautiful poster thanks to Ramy Gorgis of the IHDW.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/25738/
LOCATION:McGill Art Hive\, 3700 rue McTavish\, 1st Floor\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 1Y2\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
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SUMMARY:Launch of Ethel Meilleur’s “Funny Girl”
DESCRIPTION:Ethel Meilleur will read from her first chapbook\, Funny Girl\, published by Sky of Ink Press.\nMusic by Brian Campbell \nFinger food\, wine\, refreshments \nAdmission free \nEthel Meilleur’s Funny Girl is absolutely a must-read:\nLusty in lung and busty in breath\, these poems are\ngusty with gusto. You gotta read em aloud\, shout em out\,\nand bust out laughin–appropriately–when you comprehend\nthe gutsy Black\, back-country wisdom\, the Africadian\,\naphoristic backtalk\, and the bluesy narratives that the poet\nthrows down. These lyrics are hoe-down\, show-down\, and\nget-down at sundown. Only a serious Funny Girl can deliver\nlines like these: “Wrap me in your personality / and roll me\noff your tongue // open your mouth and let the river run through /\nwhile I fish into your taste buds.” Mmm\, mmm\, mmm. Amen\,\nAmen\, Amen-Ra\, Rah-Rah-Rah. \nGeorge Elliott Clarke\n7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016 & 2017)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/launch-of-ethel-meilleurs-funny-girl/
LOCATION:YWCA\, Salle Holden-Fisher\, 1355 boulevard Réné Lévesque\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 1T3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191207T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191207T163000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20191016T160404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T160404Z
UID:10002021-1575730800-1575736200@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Funny Boy (Violet Hour Book Club)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next meeting of the Violet Hour Book Club\, a reading group devoted to modern and classic works of LGBTQ literature. The book we will be discussing is Funny Boy (1997) by Shyam Selvadurai.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/funny-boy-violet-hour-book-club/
LOCATION:Never Apart\, 7049 Rue Saint-Urbain\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2S 3H4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T220000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20190828T185044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190913T155012Z
UID:10001916-1575489600-1575496800@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Everything Happens at Once: Your Page One
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Marina Vulicevic\nThis workshop is intended for people interested in short- and long-form fiction who have begun puzzling out the beginnings of their stories. Limited to 12 participants. \nIn this fiction-writing workshop\, we will get our stories to hit the ground running by working on our Page One. Short story or long-form fiction\, all the elements of narration are thrown into play right away on the first page (okay\, maybe a little on the second). The themes and problems of the piece are all present\, stated or suggested\, sometimes hidden. We will learn to do that: get out of the starting blocks fast\, leaving our anxieties behind. \nThe “everything at once” approach means putting all the narrative elements into play simultaneously. Setting speaks for character\, dialogue speaks for plot\, the description of place speaks for the theme. All intertwined\, not consecutive. Everything at once\, like when you meet someone in real life\, even if it takes time to understand what you first thought you knew. \nWe’ll look at the beginning page of works of fiction to see how others have handled their beginnings. That revolver on the dining room table – does it really have to go off\, and who or what will be the target? When Dante admits in Sentence One\, “Halfway through the journey of my life\, I found myself lost in a forest dark\,” what sort of darkness is this\, and why is he telling us about it? The issue of who is talking to us\, and why\, will be essential to our Page Ones. \nThe object is to become more self-aware from the beginning\, without turning into hyper-planners intent on deleting all spontaneity. The Page One approach is one of the antidotes to the anxieties of the beginning writer\, since it stresses action: moving quickly\, getting the elements in play\, foreseeing eventual themes\, helping answer the question\, “Why does this story exist\, and where is it going?” \nOften the beginnings of stories wonder about their own existence. Tom O’Brien’s The Things They Carried meditates on the difficulty of telling a true war story. How can you tell if a war story is true? What is a war story anyway? Whom can we trust? This Page-One questioning launches the book.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/everything-happens-at-once-your-page-one/2019-12-04/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T223000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20190903T211736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190903T212138Z
UID:10001940-1575487800-1575498600@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Accent Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:  \nAccent Open Mic \nLa Marche à Côté\, 5043 St. Denis\n7:30pm\, 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.\naccentseriesmontreal.wordpress.com\n\nAccent Open Mic is a bilingual reading series that takes place at La Marche à Côté\, (5043 St. Denis) on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. Hosted by Devon Gallant and Luc-Antoine Chiasson\, each night we feature 1 anglophone reader and 1 francophone reader along with an open mic. Sign up for the open mic starts at 7:30\, show starts at 8pm. For more information visit: accentseriesmontreal.wordpress.com or on Facebook: @accentopenmic.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/21092/2019-12-04/
LOCATION:La Marche à côté\, 5043 St-Denis\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2J 2L8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Open Mic,Performance,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20191101T194838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191101T194838Z
UID:10002042-1575486000-1575493200@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Book Club: Grass
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 September is GRASS by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. \nWe will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) on Wednesday\, December 4th at 7 p.m. Join us for refreshments and collective insights! \nABOUT:\nGrass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel\, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Lee Ok-sun who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War – a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history. \nBeginning in Lee’s childhood\, Grass shows the leadup to World War II from a child’s vulnerable perspective\, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Korean folk. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee’s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee’s memories. \nCartoonist Gendry-Kim’s interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass\, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful non-fiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee’s wartime suffering changed her. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace. \nGrass is translated from Korean by Janet Hong\, an award-winning writer and translator based in Vancouver\, Canada. Her translations include Ancco’s Bad Friends (Drawn & Quarterly\, 2018)\, Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale (Graywolf Press\, 2017) and Ha Seong-nan’s The Woman Next Door (forthcoming from Open Letter Books in 2019). She is currently long listed for the 2018 PEN Translation Prize. \n***We are offering a 20% discount on GRASS from now until the meeting date!***
URL:https://qwf.org/event/graphic-novel-book-club-grass-2/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20190828T183623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190830T204132Z
UID:10001884-1575482400-1575489600@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Expanding Our Poetic Range through Memory\, Place\, and the Senses
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Cristina Plamadeala\nThis workshop is for poets of any level of experience who are seeking to expand the range of their subject matter. Limited to 12 participants. \nHow\, as writers\, can we break the surface of the everyday and go deep? Over the eight sessions of the workshop\, we will take some time to dwell in the places our writers’ sensibility can travel to when we tune in to our senses and journey into memory and place. The aim of this workshop will be to generate a rich pool of new material\, from which our best work can emerge. \nWorkshops will consist of in-class writing exercises\, weekly writing assignments\, and time for participating poets to receive constructive feedback from their peers and the workshop leader. As a group\, we will also perform close readings of works by a range of published writers that constellate around a series of themes selected to help us mine our own memories and sensory experiences of the world around us. Proposed themes include \n\na child’s-eye view: writing through the lens of childhood;\nlost and found: orienting through poetry;\n(re)mapping our world: a sense of place;\nentering the myth: poetic exchanges with mythology; and\nmapping the landscape of the body.\n\nParticipants will be encouraged\, for the duration of the workshop\, to “apprentice” themselves to the work of a published poet of their choice\, whose voice will be a steady and nourishing guide as they work on their own material. They will also have the opportunity (though it is by no means obligatory) to read their own work aloud\, both as a practice tool for giving future poetry readings and to “lend an ear” to the editing process. The workshop will be a safe and friendly space\, with an emphasis on diving into the messiness of creation and getting excited about new ideas.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/expanding-our-poetic-range-through-memory-place-and-the-senses/2019-12-04/
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:20191202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T220000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20190828T183354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190828T184332Z
UID:10001875-1575316800-1575324000@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Slantwise to the Truth: Navigating Narrative Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Niamh Malcolm\nAll levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \n“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant/success in Circuit lies” — let poet Emily Dickinson’s words inspire you as we navigate narrative nonfiction\, writing that takes the best elements of fiction\, applies those to facts\, and ends with compelling stories. \nIn this workshop you will take your own “big idea” and add to it week-by-week until at the end of eight sessions you’ll have a draft narrative essay of 2\,000 words or more. Each meeting will be split between discussing one of six elements necessary for good narrative nonfiction and workshopping participants’ writing. This will be supported by readings related to the discussion and to the week’s assigned writing. Below is an outline covering six weekly discussions. Two additional weeks are left open to allow for flexibility – perhaps there will be spillover from a previous week’s discussion or perhaps by consensus we’ll toss in another idea to discuss or take extra time to workshop participants’ work. \nPlease note that this workshop will not focus on memoir writing. Although memoir falls into the category of narrative nonfiction\, I encourage participants to look beyond it when considering their writing for these eight weeks. \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/slantwise-to-the-truth-navigating-narrative-nonfiction/2019-12-02/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191201T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191201T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20190903T212552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T134148Z
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SUMMARY:The Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! \nWe’re pleased to announce preliminary details of the 2019 Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair.This year’s fair will take place Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st\, in the Atrium of Concordia University’s McConnell building (1400 blvd Maisonneuve West\, metro Guy-Concordia). \nOur special guest will be novelist Sean Michaels. \n* \nAbout the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair \nThis free\, two-day celebration encourages book-lovers of all ages and interests to browse\, buy and get books signed\, just in time for holiday gift-giving. With Quebec publishers and authors on hand\, expect hundreds of new titles for sale\, along with readings and other events happening throughout the fair.  Click the links below to read details of previous years’ fairs. \nMore details on the AELAQ site.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-holiday-pop-up-book-fair/2019-12-01/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, McConnell Building\, 1400 blvd Maisonneuve West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Read Quebec Book Fair
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191130T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191130T123000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20191101T194859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191101T194859Z
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SUMMARY:Storytime + Signing with Angela Misri: Pickles vs. The Zombies
DESCRIPTION:Chattes! Des morts-vivants! Beaucoup d’amusement! \nABOUT THE BOOK\nThe comfortable life of Pickles\, the calico housecat\, is turned upside down when humans succumb to a zombie apocalypse. She doesn’t know where her “pet” – human child Connor – has gone\, only that there are zombies everywhere. \nDetermined to find Connor\, Pickles sets off with her cat friends and a streetwise raccoon\, exploring a world she has only seen through a window. Fending off human zombies\, street cats from the wrong side of the track\, and a fearsome gang of chipmunks\, Pickles and her crew search for remnants of human society. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAngela Misri is the author of the Portia Adams Adventures series and several essays on Sherlock Holmes. As a former CBC Radio digital manager and the Digital Director at The Walrus\, Misri is never offline (although she prefers to write long form in notebooks). She plays MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games)\, speaks several web languages\, and owns too many comic books. Misri currently lives in Toronto\, Ontario.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/storytime-signing-with-angela-misri-pickles-vs-the-zombies/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191130T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20190903T212552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T134148Z
UID:10001942-1575108000-1575133200@qwf.org
SUMMARY:The Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! \nWe’re pleased to announce preliminary details of the 2019 Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair.This year’s fair will take place Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st\, in the Atrium of Concordia University’s McConnell building (1400 blvd Maisonneuve West\, metro Guy-Concordia). \nOur special guest will be novelist Sean Michaels. \n* \nAbout the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair \nThis free\, two-day celebration encourages book-lovers of all ages and interests to browse\, buy and get books signed\, just in time for holiday gift-giving. With Quebec publishers and authors on hand\, expect hundreds of new titles for sale\, along with readings and other events happening throughout the fair.  Click the links below to read details of previous years’ fairs. \nMore details on the AELAQ site.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-holiday-pop-up-book-fair/2019-11-30/
LOCATION:Concordia University\, McConnell Building\, 1400 blvd Maisonneuve West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Read Quebec Book Fair
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20191115T200402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T200402Z
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SUMMARY:Alexei Perry Cox and Sina Queyras • Vallum Chapbook Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Rocket Science Room for the launch of 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔 by Alexei Perry Cox (Winner of the 2019 Vallum Chapbook Award) and 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒔 by Sina Queyras. \nAlexei Perry Cox is the author of the poetry collection Under Her and short fiction collection To Utter a Life’s Sentence. Her work has appeared in various iterations in The Puritan\, carte-blanche\, CV2\, Hart House Review\, Vallum\, Makhzin / مخزن\, Matrix\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Rusted Radishes\, Journal Safar (جورنال سفر) The Beijinger\, Lemonhound and elsewhere. She has two wondrous young ones named Isla and Ilham. \nSina Queyras grew up on the road in western Canada and has since lived in Vancouver\, Toronto\, Montreal\, New York\, Philadelphia\, and Montreal. They are the author most recently of My Ariel (2017)\, MxT (2014) and Autobiography of Childhood (2011). Their previous collection of poetry\, Expressway (2009)\, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award and a selection from that book won Gold in the National Magazine Awards. Lemon Hound (2006) won a Lambda Award and the Pat Lowther Award. Queyras lives in Montreal where they curate Writers Read and teach creative writing at Concordia. \nDoors at 6:30\nReadings at 7:00 \nThe venue is on the second floor. There is a single flight of stairs off the main entrance with no wheelchair access\, however\, there is a functioning elevator on the main floor. If you require assistance of any kind\, please let us know! We’d be happy to accommodate any of your needs to the best of our ability.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/alexei-perry-cox-and-sina-queyras-%e2%80%a2-vallum-chapbook-launch/
LOCATION:#204-170 Jean Talon O.\, Atlas Building\, Little Italy Montreal\, Quebec H2R 2X4\, #204-170 Jean Talon O. Atlas Building\, Montreal\, QC\, H2R 2X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20191111T211040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191112T180108Z
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SUMMARY:YA book launch: Dear Twin by Addie Tsai
DESCRIPTION:Houston-based Addie Tsai launches her first novel\, Dear Twin\, a crossover YA that dives into queer teen love\, mixed race identity\, and being an identical twin. Addie will be twinned with Montreal authors *Shanice Nicole* and *Kama La Mackerel* and drinks and snacks will pair well! Reading with Q&A to follow. \nSynopsis: Poppy wants to go to college like everyone else\, but her father has other ideas. Ever since her mirror twin sister\, Lola\, mysteriously vanished\, Poppy’s father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can convince Lola to come home\, and perhaps also procure her freedom\, by sending her twin a series of eighteen letters\, one for each year of their lives. \nWhen not excavating childhood memories\, Poppy is sneaking away with her girlfriend Juniper\, the only person who understands her. But negotiating the complexities of queer love and childhood trauma are anything but simple. And as a twin? That’s a whole different story. \n// This event is hosted by la Petite Drawn and Quarterly and Montreal-based publisher Metonymy Press //
URL:https://qwf.org/event/ya-book-launch-dear-twin-by-addie-tsai/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20191101T194926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191101T194926Z
UID:10002044-1575054000-1575061200@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Addie Tsai Launches Dear Twin
DESCRIPTION:Houston-based Addie Tsai launches her first novel\, Dear Twin. A crossover YA that dives into queer teen love\, mixed race identity\, and being an identical twin\, Addie will be twinned with Montreal authors *Shanice Nicole* and *Kama La Mackerel* and drinks and snacks will pair well! Reading with Q&A to follow. \nDEAR TWIN\nPoppy wants to go to college like everyone else\, but her father has other ideas. Ever since her mirror twin sister\, Lola\, mysteriously vanished\, Poppy’s father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can convince Lola to come home\, and perhaps also procure her freedom\, by sending her twin a series of eighteen letters\, one for each year of their lives.\nWhen not excavating childhood memories\, Poppy is sneaking away with her girlfriend Juniper\, the only person who understands her. But negotiating the complexities of queer love and childhood trauma are anything but simple. And as a twin? That’s a whole different story. \nADDIE TSAI teaches courses in literature\, creative writing\, dance\, and humanities at Houston Community College. She collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankensteinand Camille Claudel\, among others. Addie holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Her writing has been published in Banango Street\, The Offing\, The Collagist\, The Feminist Wire\, Nat. Brut.\, and elsewhere. She is the Nonfiction Editor at The Grief Diaries and Senior Associate Editor in Poetry at The Flexible Persona.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/addie-tsai-launches-dear-twin/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191129T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191129T200000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20191113T155453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191113T155453Z
UID:10002062-1575046800-1575057600@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Book Launch: "The Best of the Worst News: Tales of Inspiration from Around the World and My Life with ALS"
DESCRIPTION:Norman MacIsaac was alone on a cold December day when he received his worst news. At first\, he didn’t know what to do with a prognosis of just a few years to live\, of growing more and more disabled until he could no longer move\, swallow\, or\, in the end\, breathe. \nTravel the world with the author in search of wisdom and inspiration\, from the Himalayas to the slums of Mumbai\, from his home in Montreal to the African savannah. Written over nearly five years\, this is an authentic “live” look at the multiple and evolving challenges\, the frustrations\, and the unparalleled joy that mark living with a degenerative terminal illness. \nThis book is about the emotional and psychological aspects rather than the medical side of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)\, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It’s about focusing on what’s really important and overcoming obstacles to experience the best of what remains to be lived. It’s an ode to a life well lived and an audacious approach to defiantly embracing the best of the worst news. \n* Everyone is welcome!\n* Presentation by author at 6:30 pm\n* Wheelchair accessible\n* Coffee\, alcoholic beverages & snacks available for purchase
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-the-best-of-the-worst-news-tales-of-inspiration-from-around-the-world-and-my-life-with-als/
LOCATION:Cafe Shaika\, 5526 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4A 1W2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20191101T195714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191101T195714Z
UID:10002050-1574967600-1574974800@qwf.org
SUMMARY:Connor Willumsen launches Bradley of Him
DESCRIPTION:Connor Willumsen presents his latest book BRADLEY OF HIM\, the ever-shifting story of a somewhat familiar method actor preparing for a role as long-distance runner under the heat and bright lights of Las Vegas. \nCONNOR WILLUMSEN is a Montreal-based artist originally from Calgary\, AB\, where he received a design degree at The Alberta College of Art. He began making comics while attending the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Since then\, he has drawn stories for Marvel\, DC and Dynamite and illustrated the covers for Criterion editions of David Cronenberg’s Scanners and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing. His Koyama Press debut Anti-Gone was nominated for the 2018 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/connor-willumsen-launches-bradley-of-him/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T143246
CREATED:20190904T150246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190911T185942Z
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SUMMARY:SpeakUp
DESCRIPTION:FREE\nSpeakUp: Interactive Poetry Exchange of Montreal\nPoets: Blossom Thom\, Greg Santos\, Clarence Baynes \nPOETRY READING WITH A DIFFERENCE: AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT\nEach audience member receives a copy of the poem\nPoet reads poem\, followed by 15-20 minute discussion on the poem\nPoet reads poem a final time \nBring a friend and get a book!\nVisit our Facebook page for details and other events. \n* \nGRATUITE\nSpeakUp: L’Échange Interactif de Poésie de Montréal\nPoètes: Blossom Thom\, Greg Santos\, Clarence Baynes \nAVEC SPEAKUP\, LE PUBLIC EST ENGAGÉ\nToutes les personnes présentes reçoivent une copie du poème\nLa poète lit le poème\, suivi de 15-20 minutes de discussion\nLe poète lit le poème une dernière fois \nAmenez un ami et obtenez un livre!\nVisitez notre page Facebook pour plus de détails et d’autres événements. \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speakup-3-2019-11-28/
LOCATION:Cafe Shaika\, 5526 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4A 1W2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Bilingual/Multilingual,Community Events,Performance,Series
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