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SUMMARY:14th Annual Lac Cafe Retreat
DESCRIPTION:A women’s writing weekend\, open to experienced writers of fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry and all in-between genres. The retreat is designed to generate new material and drop you deeper into existing work. We will write both together and apart\, in a quiet natural setting by a pristine lake\, where we can open ourselves to whatever wants to speak through us. Non-binary writers welcome. \nLise Weil has over thirty years’ experience teaching writing in both academic and alternative settings. Her memoir In Search of Pure Lust appeared in 2018 with Inanna Press. She is the founding editor of Dark Matter: Women Witnessing and teaches in the Goddard Graduate Institute in Plainfield\, Vermont. www.liseweil.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/14th-annual-lac-cafe-retreat/
LOCATION:Rawdon\, QC
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190907T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190908T180000
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SUMMARY:Papier Marché
DESCRIPTION:September 7 + 8\, 12h – 18h\nFLOH 4301 St-Denis (accessible)\, \nFree admission \nPapier Marché is a literary and visual art print market.\nMore than 40 independent artists and writers will be present\, selling chap books\, zines\, comics\, art books\, printed art\, posters\, and original\, paper based works! A great event for fans of Volume and Expozine! \nIf you’d like to apply as a vendor\, please get in touch!\nIG: @papier_marche\nemail: papiermarchepapier@gmail.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/papier-marche/
LOCATION:4301 Rue St-Denis\, 4301 Rue St-Denis\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2J 2K9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Festival,Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190909T210000
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SUMMARY:Billy-Ray Belcourt Launches NDN Coping Mechanisms
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the launch of Billy-Ray Belcourt’s latest book: NDN Coping Mechanisms! \nIn the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection\, This Wound is a World\, Billy-Ray Belcourt aims more of an anthropological eye at the contours of NDN and queer social worlds to spot much that is left unsaid when we look only to the mainstream media. In this genre-bending work\, Belcourt employs poetry\, poetics\, prose\, and textual art to illuminate the rogue possibilities bubbling up everywhere NDNs are. \nNDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field emerges out of a form of auto/ethnographic sensibility that is at turns campy and playful\, jarring and candid\, displaying\, once again\, the writer’s extraordinary craft\, guile\, audacity\, and the sheer dexterity of his imagination. \n〰️️〰️️〰️️ \nLibrairie Drawn & Quarterly recognizes that our events and bookstores are located on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Many of us refer to Montreal as our home\, but it is named Tiohtiá:ke. This has always been a gathering place for many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse population of Indigenous peoples. It is important to think about how each and every one of us has arrived here. We are grateful that creating and sharing stories has been a part of this land for thousands of years and we urge you to seek out a story that is different from your own. \n〰️️〰️️〰️️ \nLa Petite Drawn and Quarterly Accessibility information: \n– Our event space uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance\, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside\, there are no additional steps.\n– It is not a sober space\, our events sometimes offer alcohol. \n♥️ Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate (for example\, saving you a seat if you have mobility needs) for you to be able to enjoy our events\, worry-free\, and feel free to contact us for any concerns you may have ♥️
URL:https://qwf.org/event/billy-ray-belcourt-launches-ndn-coping-mechanisms/
LOCATION:Rialto Theatre\, 5723 Av du Parc\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2V 4G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190910T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190910T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Nataly Restokian - MASKS
DESCRIPTION:Middle-Eastern TV star hopes to promote #MeToo movement in Arabic countries\nTimely\, the personal story uncovers fame\, betrayal\, and passion under Middle East spotlight. \nMASKS debut novel by Nataly Restokian \nTuesday\, September 10 at 7pm \n“A deftly written\, inherently fascinating\, iconoclastic novel of one woman’s emotional struggle to break through a patriarchal society’s compulsory norms for her gender and the difficulties of being true to her own personal and emotional aspirations.” James A. Cox\, Midwest Book Review \nAfter positive results from early promotion in the US and UK including various nominations\, author Nataly Restokian is looking forward to the hometown launch of her first novel\, Masks. Restokian\, the granddaughter of Armenian genocide survivors\, was born and raised in Beirut against the backdrop of civil war. She spent two decades as a celebrated television journalist\, actor\, and live talk show and radio host in Lebanese and Arabic societies\, where she was one of the most recognizable women in the media. But at what cost? Against all odds\, Restokian rose to the top before giving it all up and moving to Montreal for a chance at genuine happiness and personal truth. \nPlease join her for the launch of her first novel\, Masks\, on Tuesday\, September 10\, for readings\, a Q&A and refreshments. \nWhat people are saying about Masks:\nForeword Reviews 2018 INDIES Book of the Year award\, finalist- Multicultural (Adult Fiction).\nwww.goodreads.com/book/show/39805939-masks \nCheck out www.natalyrestokian.com/news-and-reviews for reviews\, interviews and blog tour. \nYou can read excerpts from the book here:\nwww.amazon.com/Masks-Nataly-Restokian/dp/1773708104#reader_B07BB6RMDS \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-nataly-restokian-masks/
LOCATION:DIB Design\,\, 1215 Curé-Labelle Boulevard\, Laval\, Quebec\, H7V 2V8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190910T190000
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SUMMARY:True Reads Book Club: Three Women
DESCRIPTION:Come discuss the most interesting books in new Non-Fiction with our True Reads book club! Happening every 4-6 weeks hosted by a charming member of the Drawn & Quarterly staff. \nFor our SEPTEMBER meeting\, we’ll be reading Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. The book club will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard Ouest at 7pm. La Petite’s Arizona O’Neil will be hosting! \nTHREE WOMEN\nIt thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts\, destroys our lives\, and it’s all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives\, desire remains largely unexplored—until now. Over the past eight years\, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six times to embed herself with ordinary women from different regions and backgrounds. The result\, Three Women\, is the deepest nonfiction portrait of desire ever written and one of the most anticipated books of the year. \nBased on years of immersive reporting\, and told with astonishing frankness and immediacy\, Three Women is a groundbreaking portrait of erotic longing in today’s America\, exposing the fragility\, complexity\, and inequality of female desire with unprecedented depth and emotional power. It is both a feat of journalism and a triumph of storytelling\, brimming with nuance and empathy\, that introduces us to three unforgettable women—and one remarkable writer—whose experiences remind us that we are not alone. \n**We offer a 20% discount on Three Women from now until the meeting date.**
URL:https://qwf.org/event/true-reads-book-club-three-women/
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:20190911T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190911T220000
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SUMMARY:P O E T R Y N I T E
DESCRIPTION:Our first show back was … WOW! Seriously\, this community – our talent – our love – our capacity to show up fully for ourselves and each other?!?! There is nothing like us\, together. Come be part of it. \n► DOORS @ 7 – READINGS @ 8 \n► READERS: we reserve up to eight spots before the show and after that it goes to open mic which is mostly first-come\, first-served with priority to BIPOC folks. All artists/musicians welcome!! \n► Show is $5 (tinyurl.com/y9w8j4pm) \n► We want to foster a supportive\, positive environment for everyone. That means no racism / sexism / ableism / homophobia / transphobia and a request that poets please give trigger warnings before your poems. If you have a concern please speak to the poet directly or to one of the hosts! \n——- \n► PORTES @ 7 – LECTURES @ 8 \n► LECTEURS: Nous acceptons jusqu’à huit inscriptions à l’avance\, celles-ci vous garantissent un moment sur la scène. S’ensuit ensuite un micro ouvert sous la formule premier.ère arrivé.e\, premier.ère servi.e avec une priorité pour les gens du BIPOC. Tous les artistes / musiciens sont les bienvenus !! \n► Le spectacle coûte 5 $ (tinyurl.com/y9w8j4pm) \n► Dans l’optique d’assurer un climat accueillant pour toustes\, nous ne tolérerons auncun comportement et propos raciste\, sexiste\, homophobe\, transphobe\, ou s’inscrivant dans toute autre logique d’oppression systémique. Nous demandons aussi aux lecteur.trices de donner des avertissements de contenus (trigger warnings) avant leurs poèmes. Si un problème se fait sentir de ce côté\, prière d’en faire part à l’artiste ou aux organisateur.trices.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/p-o-e-t-r-y-n-i-t-e/2019-09-11/
LOCATION:Chez Morrigan\, 1221 Crescent St\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Open Mic,Performance,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Send More Tourists... the Last Ones Were Delicious
DESCRIPTION:Tracey Waddleton will be signing copies of her debut story collection\, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious\, at Librairie Bertrand from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Come out to mingle\, enjoy some munchies and meet the author!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-signing-send-more-tourists-the-last-ones-were-delicious-2/
LOCATION:Librairie Bertrand\, 430 Rue Saint-Pierre\, Montréal\, Quebec\, H2Y 2M5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T210000
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SUMMARY:Open Mic #12
DESCRIPTION:It’s your time to shine! We’ll be hosting our twelfth open mic night since our reopening. Come share stories\, poetry\, music\, or whatever suits your fancy! Let 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. But you can also take your chances coming the day of to lay it on us! See you there.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/open-mic-12/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Open Mic,Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T210000
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Book Club: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
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 LAURA DEAN KEEPS BREAKING UP WITH ME by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell . \nWe will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) on Thursday\, September 12th at 7 p.m. Join us for refreshments and collective insights! \nHosting the club will be Drawn & Quarterly Production Assistant Megan Tan \nABOUT:\nAll Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got back together was the best one of Freddy’s life\, but nothing’s made sense since. Laura Dean is popular\, funny and SO CUTE … but she can be really thoughtless\, even mean. Their on-again\, off-again relationship has Freddy’s head spinning — and Freddy’s friends can’t understand why she keeps going back. \nWhen Freddy consults the services of a local mystic\, the mysterious Seek-Her\, she isn’t thrilled with the advice she receives. But something’s got to give: Freddy’s heart is breaking in slow motion\, and she may be about to lose her very best friend as well as her last shred of self-respect. Fortunately for Freddy\, there are new friends\, and the insight of advice columnist Anna Vice\, to help her through being a teenager in love. \nMariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell bring to life a sweet and spirited tale of young love that asks us to consider what happens when we ditch the toxic relationships we crave to embrace the healthy ones we need. \n***We are offering a 20% discount on LAURA DEAN KEEPS BREAKING UP WITH ME from now until the meeting date!***
URL:https://qwf.org/event/graphic-novel-book-club-laura-dean-keeps-breaking-up-with-me/
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:20190914T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190914T160000
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SUMMARY:Suspended Meaning: Making Filmpoems
DESCRIPTION:Three SATURDAYS: September 14\, 21\, and 28\, 2019 – 10:00 am to 4:00 pm \nScreening of completed filmpoems\, TUESDAY\, October 8\, 2019 – 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm \nLearn how to create and produce your own filmpoems. What happens when poetry and film collide? Come spend three Saturdays with poet Rachel McCrum as she takes you through the complete process from writing to filming to editing. Suitable for beginners in both poetry and film – just bring your enthusiasm and commitment to the process! \nThere will a premiere screening of the completed filmpoems on Tuesday\, October 8\, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to enjoy this FREE event\, co-sponsored by the Mile End Poets’ Festival \nThis workshop is FREE. Participants will need to have access to a laptop and basic digital camera (a camera phone will suffice) for the three Saturdays\, and for some work at home (2-3 hours) in between the sessions. Laptops can be borrowed for use at the Library but not brought home. \nSpace is limited and advance registration is required. Participants are strongly urged to attend all three sessions to learn everything they need to know to complete their fabulous filmpoem! \nTo register: elise.m@videotron.ca \nRachel McCrum is a poet\, performer and workshop facilitator. From Northern Ireland\, she lived in Edinburgh\, Scotland where she was the first BBC Scotland Poet-in-Residence\, co-founder of Stewed Rhubarb Press\, and Broad of cult spoken word cabaret Rally & Broad. She has taught and performed internationally. Her first book is The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (2017). She has worked on numerous filmpoetry projects\, including the international collaboration project “Moving Borders & Pictures” between Quebec\, UK\, South Africa\, Croatia\, Bangladesh\, and Trinidad & Tobago (Mile End Poets’ Festival\, 2017/18). \n \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/suspended-meaning-making-filmpoems/2019-09-14/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190914T180000
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SUMMARY:Furthering Kinship in a Broken World
DESCRIPTION:During her residency at Main & Station in Nova Scotia\, Rae Marie offers a Spoken Word performance on the shores of the Bay of Fundy\, bringing together our kinship with each other and with the earth. September 14th.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/furthering-kinship-in-a-broken-world/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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