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SUMMARY:Indigenous Literatures Book Club: ʔbédayine
DESCRIPTION:The Indigenous Literatures Book Club focuses on work by indigenous writers from around the world. Hosted by Tara McGowan-Ross\, a Mi’kmaq multidisciplinary artist and writer\, the meetings will take place every 4-6 weeks and are open to all. \nFor our January meeting\, we will gather at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Bernard O.) at 7 pm to discuss ʔBédayine by Kaitlyn Purcell. \nʔBÉDAYINE\nIn Edmonton\, Ronnie learns what it is to be a young Indigenous woman\, almost-alone in the city; unable to hear herself over its noise\, see through the glare of its lights to find the ground beneath her feet. Stories of addiction\, self-discovery\, and the love of a good friend come together to form ʔbédayine\, Kaitlyn Purcell’s breathtaking debut. \n**We offer a 20% discount on ʔBédayine 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/indigenous-literatures-book-club-%ca%94bedayine/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Visual Arts Centre Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Visual Arts Centre Reading Series Tuesday\, January 28\, 2020\nRhonda Mullins\, Ilona Martonfi\, Rana Bose\,\nTommy Schnurmacher\, Andrea Lake (music)\,\nDevon Gallant\, Jason Santerre\, Willow Loveday Little\,\nMike Di Sclafani\, Alejandro Saravia \n350 Victoria Avenue\, Westmount\nwww.visualartscentre.ca \nArtistic Director Ilona Martonfi\nilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca\nco-hosted with Mike Di Sclafani \nDoors 7 PM Readings 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM\nAt the door $6 \nAn Evening of Poetry & Prose & Music \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/visual-arts-centre-reading-series-5/
LOCATION:Visual Arts Centre\, 350 Avenue Victoria\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 2N4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance,Series
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SUMMARY:New Reads Book Club: The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
DESCRIPTION:The New Reads Book Club focuses on contemporary literature and is hosted by Drawn and Quarterly staff members. The book club meetings take place every 4-6 weeks\, and are open to all. \nFor our JANUARY meeting\, we will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Bernard O.) at 7 pm to discuss THE TOPEKA SCHOOL\, by Ben Lerner. The evening will be hosted by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly’s own Saelan Twerdy. \nJoin us for discussion and drinks! \n**We offer a 20% discount on THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben Lerner 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. \n//////////////////////////////////////////// \nTHE BOOK\nFrom the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station\, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century\, hailed by Maggie Nelson as Ben Lerner’s “most discerning\, ambitious\, innovative\, and timely novel to date.” \nAdam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School\, class of ’97. His mother\, Jane\, is a famous feminist author; his father\, Jonathan\, is an expert at getting “lost boys” to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater\, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids\, ready to fight or\, better\, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren Eberheart–who is\, unbeknownst to Adam\, his father’s patient–into the social scene\, to disastrous effect. \nDeftly shifting perspectives and time periods\, The Topeka School is the story of a family\, its struggles and its strengths: Jane’s reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father\, Jonathan’s marital transgressions\, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech\, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right\, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/new-reads-book-club-the-topeka-school-by-ben-lerner/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:SpeakUp
DESCRIPTION:  \nGRATUITE\nSpeakUp: L’Échange Interactif de Poésie de Montréal\nPoètes : Jeramy Dodds\, Carmelita McGrath\, Derek Webster\nAVEC SPEAKUP\, LE PUBLIC EST ENGAGÉ\n• Toutes les personnes présentes reçoivent une copie du poème\n• La poète lit le poème\, suivi de 15 à 20 minutes de discussion\n• Le poète lit le poème une dernière fois \nFREE EVENT\nSpeakUp: The Montreal Inter-Active Poetry Exchange\nPoets: Jeramy Dodds\, Carmelita McGrath\, Derek Webster\nA POETRY READING WITH A DIFFERENCE: AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT\n• Each audience member receives a copy of the poems\n• Poet reads poems\, followed by 15 to 20-minute discussion on the poem\n• Poet reads poem a final time \nBring a friend and get a book! Visit our Facebook page for details and other events.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speakup-4/
LOCATION:Cafe Shaika\, 5526 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4A 1W2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance,Series
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SUMMARY:Book Club with Author Su J. Sokol
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the latest iteration of our Book Club with the Author\, where a local Montreal author joins us to discuss their book! This time\, we’ll be discussing Run J Run by author Su J Sokol. As with all our book clubs\, we recommend reading the book in advance\, but you are welcome to attend as long as you are all right with spoilers. \nAbout the book:\nJeremy\, a high school English teacher coming to grips with a shattered marriage and haunted by the brother he lost\, unexpectedly falls in love with his best friend\, Zak. Attractive\, wildly unconventional\, and happy in an open relationship with his partner Annie\, Zak seems to embody everything missing from Jeremy’s life\, but when the arrest and death of a marginalized student at the Brooklyn high school where they both teach trigger Zak’s mental breakdown and slow descent\, Jeremy and Annie are compelled to cross boundaries\, both external and internal\, in a desperate attempt to save him. \nAbout the author:\nSu J. Sokol is a social rights activist and a writer of speculative\, liminal and interstitial fiction. Originally from Brooklyn\, she now makes Montréal her home. Her short fiction has appeared in The Future Fire\, Spark: A Creative Anthology\, TFFX 10th Anniversary Anthology\, Glittership: an LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy Podcast\, Glittership: Year One anthology\, and After the Orange: Ruin and Recovery. \nHer debut novel\, Cycling to Asylum\, was longlisted for the Sunburst for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic\, and has been optioned for a feature-length film.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-club-with-author-su-j-sokol/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Bodies in Lyric – Tanya Evanson on Spoken Word @ 4th SPACE
DESCRIPTION:Oral poetry\, storytelling\, monologue\, slam and experimental sound performance remain at the fringes of the literary world–largely because they lack a critical framework. \nThis talk by Tanya Evanson will examine some current states in spoken word and look at the work of three Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artists: Kaie Kellough\, Moe Clark and Cat Kidd. We round it all out with a live performance featuring Tanya Evanson on vocals\, Jahsun on percussion and Jean-Michel Frédéric on keys. A co-presentation of the Atwater Writers Exhibition\, SpokenWeb\, and the Atwater Poetry Project. \nThis event is a sister to The Page with Ears Open — a Spoken Word Workshop on Saturday\, Feb. 1.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/bodies-in-lyric-tanya-evanson-on-spoken-word-4th-space/
LOCATION:4th SPACE\, Concordia University\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montreal\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance,Slam
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SUMMARY:Bodies in Lyric with Tanya Evanson
DESCRIPTION:Oral poetry\, storytelling\, monologue\, slam and experimental sound performance remain at the fringes of the literary world–largely because they lack a critical framework. This talk will examine some current states in spoken word and look at the work of three Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artists: Kaie Kellough\, Moe Clark and Cat Kidd. \nWe round it all out with a live performance featuring Tanya Evanson on vocals\, Jahsun on percussion and Jean-Michel Frédéric on keys. A co-presentation of Spoken Web\, the Atwater Writers Exhibition\, and the Atwater Poetry Project. \n  \nJanuary 31st\, 4-6 p.m. @ 4TH SPACE\, Concordia University
URL:https://qwf.org/event/bodies-in-lyric-with-tanya-evanson/
LOCATION:4th SPACE\, Concordia University\, 1400 De Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montreal\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,Slam
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SUMMARY:Young Readers Book Club: Artemis Fowl
DESCRIPTION:Join us at la Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly for our Young Readers book club\, hosted by Caleb Turner. January’s pick is Artemis Fowl. Pizza will be served. All attendees must have the assigned book\, or one book in the assigned series. \nThis is a book club for young readers\, with a median age of 10-12 or fifth\, sixth and sec 1 grades. Younger kids are welcome if the book is appropriate\, but not younger than 8-9\, please. There will be a different book every meeting. The focus is to provide tweens a safe space to learn to discuss and express thoughts and ideas about literature among their peers without parents or teachers. Please note we do not have the space to have parents and kids! \n***We are offering a 20% discount on Artemis Fowl 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/young-readers-book-club-artemis-fowl/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Genji Book Club - Intro
DESCRIPTION:The Tale of Genji\, written by Murasaki Shikibu around the year 1000\, is often considered the world’s first novel. Her story of the Shining Prince of the Imperial Court and his life\, culture\, and relationships with women\, has stood the test of time and form an important piece of the foundation of Japanese literature. \nFor 2020\, the Japan Book Club\, presented in collaboration with the Argo and JETAA Q/A\, is meeting monthly to discuss this important and still lively work. You can read the complete Tale of Genji in any of its English translations\, by Arthur Waley\, Edward Seidensticker\, Royall Tyler\, or Dennis Washburn; we have all of them available for sale in the store. \nIn our first edition\, before we dive into the text\, our group leader will discuss the aesthetics\, mores\, and context of the Heian period\, to provide context for the story ahead. Please join us for this trip through a historic yet timeless tale!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/genji-book-club-intro/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Shut Up and Write! with QWF
DESCRIPTION:Looking 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-and-write-with-qwf/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events,Series,Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:The Page with Ears Open – A Spoken Word Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Dive into the creation of literature and orature using mystical\, poetic and neo-futurist tools. Write fresh autobiographical work and perform it using the voice and body as instruments of stardom in space. Ideal for extroverted introverts and writers who can’t sit still\, all experience levels welcome. Skills sharpened here can be applied to any professional setting—in the arts or beyond. Requirements: pen and paper or laptop\, relaxed clothing. \nParticipants are encouraged to attend the critical talk and performance\, “Bodies in Lyric” on Friday\, January 31 as part of the workshop experience. It will provide ideas and examples for Saturday’s work. \nWorkshop leader Tanya Evanson is an Antiguan-Canadian writer and performer from Tiotià:ke/Montreal. She has presented spoken word in over a dozen countries\, released four studio albums and two videopoems\, and is program director of The Banff Centre Spoken Word residency. In addition to work in journals and anthologies\, her two published poetry collections are Bothism (Ekstasis 2017) and Nouveau Griot (Frontenac 2018). She moonlights as a whirling dervish. mothertonguemedia.com \nAdvance registration required: elise.m@videotron.ca. \nThis event takes place on traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka.\nGenerously supported by the Community Cultural Action Fund\, Department of Canadian Heritage.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-page-with-ears-open-a-spoken-word-workshop/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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