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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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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: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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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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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: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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