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SUMMARY:Familiar Constellations Reading
DESCRIPTION:“Familiar Constellations\,” will be held at Galerie du Viaduc (5806 blvd. St. Laurent\, in Mile End) this coming Sunday\, January 19th\, at 7 pm. Nine poets will be reading\, and there will be drinks and snacks to share.Poster final Familiar Constellations[1]
URL:https://qwf.org/event/familiar-constellations-reading/
LOCATION:Galerie du Viaduc\, 5806 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, Qc\, H2T 1T3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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SUMMARY:Make Friends with the Mic: Literary Events 101
DESCRIPTION:Make Friends with the Mic: Literary Events 101 \nMonday January 20th\, 6-8:30 PM\nEspace Pop\, 5585 Ave. du Parc \nDoes giving a reading fill you with anxiety? Do you fear having to adjust a mic stand? Do you want your literary events to run smoothly and drama-free? If so\, this workshop is for you! Led by experienced sound technician and voice teacher Pamela Hart\, the hands-on session will teach you how to improve your reading skills and overcome common problems at live events\, in a supportive and low-pressure environment. \nYou’ll learn: \n-mic technique\, mic stand placement and adjustment\n-breath control\, projection and other tips for live readings\n-how to run a basic sound setup\n-technical troubleshooting \nThis workshop is recommended for: \n-Writers who want to get better at giving live readings\n-Anyone who hosts literary events\, panel discussions\, or live interviews \nWorkshop limited to 20 people. Please come with something to read—it doesn’t have to be your own work\, just something you can practice with. \nPamela Hart is an audio engineer and vocalist.  She has worked in live sound\, recording\, education\, installation and radio in her audio field\, and is currently working in audiobooks.  She is a performing and recording vocalist\, most recently singing in Mich Cota’s Algonquin opera Wàsakozi. She is the founder and co-director of Montreal’s Forever Chorus.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/make-friends-with-the-mic-literary-events-101/
LOCATION:Espace Pop\, 5585 ave du Parc\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2V 4S8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:True Reads Book Club: How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Come discuss the most interesting books in new Non-Fiction with our True Reads book club! Happening every 4-6 weeks hosted by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly staff. \nFor our JANUARY meeting\, we’ll be reading HOW TO DO NOTHING by Jenny Odell. The book club will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard Ouest at 7pm. This month’s meeting is hosted by Drawn & Quarterly Children’s Coordinator Kennedy Rooke. Join us for discussion and drinks! \n**We offer a 20% discount on HOW TO DO NOTHING by Jenny Odell from now until the meeting date.* \nABOUT THE BOOK\n“A complex\, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual\, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto.”—Jonah Engel Bromwich\, The New York Times Book Review \nNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. \nSo argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention\, she writes\, we can undertake bolder forms of political action\, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment\, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. \nFar from the simple anti-technology screed\, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often\, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative\, timely\, and utterly persuasive\, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. \n*By 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/true-reads-book-club-how-to-do-nothing-by-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Strange Futures Book Club: The Fifth Season
DESCRIPTION:The Strange Futures book club focuses on sci-fi and speculative fiction by QT/BIPOC writers. “Strange Futures” speaks to the unknown worlds that are to come–but also to the strangeness that is ascribed to marginalized voices\, and how such strangeness can actually be generative\, challenging\, discomforting\, and revolutionary. Hosted by Helen Chau Bradley\, the book club meetings take place every two months\, and are open to the public. \nOn Tuesday\, January 21st we’ll assemble at the Petite Librairie Drawn + Quarterly (176 Bernard O.) at 7 PM to talk about N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. Join us for discussion and drinks! \n**We offer a 20% discount on The Fifth Season from now until the meeting date.** \n*By 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.* \n/////////////////////////////////////// \nTHE FIFTH SEASON\nThis is the way the world ends…for the last time. \nIt starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent\, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death\, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal\, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. \nThis is the Stillness\, a land long familiar with catastrophe\, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/strange-futures-book-club-the-fifth-season/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Lisa Robertson Launches The Baudelaire Fractal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Montreal launch of The Baudelaire Fractal\, the debut novel from acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson! \nTHE BAUDELAIRE FRACTAL\nA debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson\, in which a poet realizes she has written the works of Baudelaire. One morning\, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Surprising as this may be\, it’s no more surprising to Brown than the impossible journey she’s taken to become the writer that she is. Animated by the spirit of the poète maudit\, she shuttles between London\, Vancouver\, Paris\, and the French countryside\, moving fluidly between the early 1980s and the present\, from rented room to rented room\, all the while considering such Baudelairian obsessions as modernity\, poverty\, and the perfect jacket. .. Part memoir\, part magical realism\, part hilarious trash-talking take on contemporary art and the poet’s life\, The Baudelaire Fractal is the long-awaited debut novel by the inimitable Lisa Robertson. \nLISA ROBERTSON\nPoet and essayist Lisa Robertson has held residencies at the California College of the Arts\, Cambridge University; University of California\, Berkeley; UC San Diego; and American University of Paris. Her books include Cinema of the Present\, Debbie: An Epic (nominated for the Governor General’s Award in Canada)\, The Men\, The Weather\, R’s Boat (poetry) and Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (essays). Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip (Coach House) was named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010\, and was longlisted for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing. She currently lives in France.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/lisa-robertson-launches-the-baudelaire-fractal/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200123T133000
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SUMMARY:Tommy Schnurmacher - Atwater Library Lunchtime Series
DESCRIPTION:For the Atwater Library Lunchtime Series\, veteran CJAD broadcaster Tommy Schnurmacher discusses his memoir Makeup Tips from Auschwitz: How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life.  The book tells the story of how his Jewish mother got two top Nazis to save her life and the powerful impact that had on their relationship. \nWith Q&A and discussion.  Coffee and biscuits served.\nCopies of the book will be on sale.\nFREE.  Donations welcome. \nAtwater Library\, 1200 Atwater Ave. at Ste-Catherine (métro Atwater).  514-935-7344.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/atwater-library-lunchtime-series/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Series
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SUMMARY:Poetry Matters with christian favreau\, M.W. Jaeggle\, & Rebecca Salazar
DESCRIPTION:Please join Poetry Matters for an evening with poets christian favreau\, M.W. Jaeggle\, and Rebecca Salazar\, exploring questions of trauma\, grief\, healing\, and gratitude.\n\n\n—\n\nWhen: Thursday\, January 23\, 7pm-9pm\nWhere: Anticafé Vieux-Port\, 406 Notre-Dame St. East\, Montreal\, Quebec H2Y 1C8\n\n\n\n\nHow can wellness be imagined for and by survivors of ongoing\, intersectional trauma? Addressing trauma as experienced by individual\, chronically ill bodies and on an ecological scale\, these poems turn to secular ritual and magic as ethical structures that may permit healing to coexist and engage politically with complex harms.\n\n\n\nRebecca Salazar (she/they) is the author of the knife that justifies the wound (Rahila’s Ghost) and Guzzle (Anstruther Press)\, a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead and Plenitude magazines\, and a PhD candidate living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq peoples.\n\n\n\nYou think that because you understand “one” that you must therefore understand “two” because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand “and.”—Sufi parable\n\nFor far too long we have othered nature; the distinction between humans and the land has only bolstered illusions of authority and hierarchy. If\, as Phyllis Webb suggested\, poetry cannot change the world\, it can change individual consciousness—starting with the poet’s—in efforts to understand the “and” between “one” and “one.” This reading explores ecological grief\, the responsibility of connection\, and gratitude.\n\n\nchristian favreau is a poet and activist living in Montréal (Tiohtiá:ke). His work has appeared in The McGill Daily Literary Supplement and Vallum. His forthcoming book of poetry with JackPine Press will be available in late 2020.\n\n\n\n\n\nIn “Talking to Grief\,” poet Denise Levertov depicts grief as a stray dog desiring the companionship of the speaker—suggesting that taking ownership of grief transforms both the emotion and those experiencing it. In dialogue with Levertov\, Jaeggle’s Night of the Crash\, a sequence of poems on the death of the narrator’s son\, proposes that wellness is only antithetical to grief when grief is denied its history.\n\n\n\nM.W. Jaeggle’s poetry has appeared in The Antigonish Review\, Contemporary Verse 2\, The Dalhousie Review\, Vallum\, The Veg\, and elsewhere. He is author of two chapbooks\, Janus on the Pacific and The Night of the Crash. While pursuing an MA at McGill\, Mike served as Poetry Editor at Scrivener Creative Review and was awarded the Mona Adilman Prize in poetry. Currently Poetry Editor at Montreal Writes\, he lives in Vancouver.\n\n\n\n—\nFor further information on Poetry Matters\, please see https://www.mcgill.ca/poetrymatters/\n\nSuggestions for upcoming sessions very welcome – and please spread the word to any others who might be interested.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-matters-with-christian-favreau-m-w-jaeggle-rebecca-salazar/
LOCATION:Anticafé Vieux-Port\, 406 rue Notre-Dame E\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2Y 1C8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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