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SUMMARY:Geddy Lee launches Geddy Lees Big Beautiful Book of Bass
DESCRIPTION:Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Presents \nBook signing and conversation for: \nGeddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass\nRialto Theatre\, 5723 Av du Parc\, Montréal\, QC H2V 4G9\nTuesday\, June 4\, 7:00 PM (doors open 6:00 PM)\nAdmission included with book purchase: $93 +tax\nDouble Admission with book purchase: $123+tax\nGeddy Lee will be signing all books.*\nGeddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass (408 pages\, 11.25 x 11.25)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/geddy-lee-launches-geddy-lees-big-beautiful-book-of-bass/
LOCATION:Rialto Theatre\, 5723 Av du Parc\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2V 4G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:3 terres\, 4 voix\, une planète; 3 Lands\, 4 Voices and One Planet
DESCRIPTION:Through their creative work\, three writers will share their experience\, knowledge & hope for our relationship with the Land. \nStories\, prose\, poetry\, and music to match! \nA free\, bilingual event. Donations welcome. \nJoin us on the un-ceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka in Montreal\, originally named Tiohtiá:ke. \nThe Voices: \nRae Marie Taylor\, Spoken Word poet\, and visual artist\, is the author of the non-fiction work\, The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope\, concerned with her New Mexico/Colorado homeland. Rae will read in English and French. \nVeena Gokhale\, an Indo-Canadian writer will read in English from her novel\, Land for Fatimah\, set in Kamorga\, an imaginary East African country. \nLaure Morali\, poet\, writer\, and cinematographer\, will read in French. Born in Bretagne\, France\, Laure is also québéçoise and a close friend of the Innu. She has become an important presence for French-speaking First Nations Literature. \nBrian Campbell\, co-organiser of The Lawn Chair Soirée\, poet\, and singer-songwriter\, will provide a musical note.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/3-terres-4-voix-une-planete-3-lands-4-voices-and-one-planet/
LOCATION:Librarie Bertrand\, 430 Rue St-Pierre\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2Y 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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SUMMARY:The Violet Hour (Montreal Fringe edition)
DESCRIPTION:An evening of short readings and performances by LGBTQ writers and artists appearing at this year’s Montreal International Fringe Festival. 18+
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-violet-hour-montreal-fringe-edition/
LOCATION:Mainline Theatre\, 3997 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2W 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190606T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Jim Olwell 'Pensions'
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us as Jim Olwell launches his new poetry collection\, Pensions! We will have a reading from Jim\, and books will be available for sale and signing. About the collection: In these seventeen poems\, Jim Olwell takes readers into the ballparks and boxing gyms of his early years in the Bronx\, and the community centres of Montreal where he has worked for the past forty years. We meet lost boys and inspirational teachers\, great artists (Beckett\, Rodin\, O’Neill)\, strangers struggling through their days without pensions—and necessarily\, life and love’s natural departures.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-jim-olwell-pensions/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190607T160000
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SUMMARY:Quebec City Meetup!
DESCRIPTION:QWF wants to reach out to those writing in English\, and interested in English language literature\, across Quebec – not just in Montreal! We’d like to hear from you about how we might be able to support those literary communities that exist across the province\, and perhaps even help to build some new ones. \nQWF Membership & Communications Coordinator Rachel McCrum will be at the Morrin Centre in Quebec City on Friday\, June 7\, 2019\, 4 – 530pm\, to host a get-together and conversation. If you’re a writer\, whether emerging or professional\, or simply interested in literature in English in Quebec – RSVP and come say hello! \nOpen to existing QWF members and non-members. Free. \nACCESS INFORMATION: The venue will be accessible by ramp and elevator to the College Hall (where the meeting will be held) \nPlease RSVP to rachel@qwf.org. If you can’t attend but would like to kept up to date on the discussion\, drop me a line and I’ll add you to the mailing list. \nI look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/quebec-city-meetup/
LOCATION:Morrin Centre\, 44 Chaussée des Écossais\, Quebec City\, Quebec\, G1R 4H3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Networking,QWF Events
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Rana Bose 'Fog'
DESCRIPTION:Baraka Books invites to the launch of Rana Bose’s new novel entitled Fog. \n“Suspenseful and sublime\,” says Cora Siré\, “superbly written” and “highly recommended” notes James Fisher (The Miramichi Reader)\, Fog is set in the Main district of Montreal and in the blue-green mountains of Kandahar. \nRana will read Fog and take part in a Q. and A. led by Maya Khankhoje. \nRefreshments will be served.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-rana-bose-fog/
LOCATION:Espace Knox\, 6215 Godfrey\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4B 1K3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190608T100000
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SUMMARY:Write The Body Electric: A Creative Process Workshop for Writers in All Genres
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Leader: Stacey Engels \nCost: $160 for QWF members; $190 for non-members \nCost of QWF membership (annual) plus workshop: $200 \nPayment is due within one week of registration to confirm your spot. Please review our cancellation policy. \nFor more information\, or to register: (514) 933-0878 or workshops@qwf.org \n* \nThis two-session course is open to writers in all genres. \nWhether you have a specific writing goal or are playing with the puzzle pieces of a new project\, this class will provide strategies for developing good work habits\, honing your curiosity and finding inspiration everywhere–without and within. \nOver the two Saturday sessions\, we will learn to find the sweet spot between discipline and freedom. We aim to break the boundaries that stand between us and our true innovative capacities\, and develop the boundaries that safeguard and sustain a regular writing practice. \nIn each session\, we will discuss selected writings in different genres\, drawing on these and non-writing media for inspiration in creative experiments. We will play with colour\, sound\, rhythm\, and form to ignite the senses and expand our understanding of what’s possible in writing\, before diving into prompts and exercises. \nWe will also borrow from meditation techniques to focus our concentration\, explore our preconceptions about time\, and ally ourselves with our bodies as sources of information and inspiration. \nWith practice\, using the techniques shared in this course\, participants will learn to maximize their available time\, bypass the inner critic\, and tap into inspiration\, innovation\, and authenticity every time they sit down to write.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/write-the-body-electric-a-creative-process-workshop-for-writers-in-all-genres-2/2019-06-08/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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