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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: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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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:Kai Cheng Thom Launches I Hope We Choose Love
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Montreal launch of Kai Cheng Thom’s I Hope We Choose Love! \nI HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE\nWhat can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? \nIn a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems\, blending the confessional\, political\, and literary\, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author’s characteristic eloquence and honesty\, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence\, complicity\, family\, vengeance\, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization\, for healing in a time of justice\, and for love in an apocalypse. \nKAI CHENG THOM is a writer\, performer\, and community healer based in Toronto\, Treaty 13 territory. She is the winner of the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LBGT Writers and a two-time Lambda Literary nominee. She has published widely\, including the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: a Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir\, a poetry collection a place called No Homeland\, and children’s book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/kai-cheng-thom-launches-i-hope-we-choose-love/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF
DESCRIPTION:  \nLooking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \nRegister below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do at the Atwater Library. Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25 minute bursts\, with 5 minutes break in between. \nThis event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member. \nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n1000 – 1025: Writing 1\n1025 – 1030: Break\n1030 – 1055: Writing 2\n1055 – 1100: Break\n1100 – 1125: Writing 3\n1125 – 1130: Break\n1130 – 1155: Writing 4\n1155 – 1200: Break\n1200 -1225: Writing 5
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Shut Up & Write!
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