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SUMMARY:A Soundtrack for Your Words: Creating and Performing Literature with Music
DESCRIPTION:Ian Ferrier and Moe Clark bring years of experience as spoken word performers and soundscape innovators. They will offer writing prompts and exercises to help generate ideas\, and support participants through editing and crafting their written works for performance\, including a collaborative exploration of sound as a base for words. Ian and Moe will bring the looping pedal\, teweikan\, guitar\, synthesizer and other instruments\, to be used in creation of the soundscapes. Participants will explore breathwork\, vocal work\, and improvisation to engage with audiences and to move beyond the anxiety of performance. Workshop will culminate in a Sunday afternoon performance open to the public.\nOpen to all poets\, writers\, and anyone interested in exploring sound with their work\, including short prose\, monologues. Also open to musicians interested in developing more language for their sound.\nThis workshop is FREE but space is limited. To register: elise.m@videotron.ca.\nMétis multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a nomadic songbird with wings woven from circle singing and spoken word. Originally from Treaty 7\, she calls tio’tia:ke (Montreal) home.\nIan Ferrier is a poet\, musician and performer. Ian is the founder of the monthly Words & Music Show and the Mile End Poets’ Festival.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/a-soundtrack-for-your-words-creating-and-performing-literature-with-music/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191201T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191201T170000
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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:20191202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T220000
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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/2019-12-02/
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:20191204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T200000
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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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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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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:20191204T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T220000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191207T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191207T163000
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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:20191207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191207T210000
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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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