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SUMMARY:D+Q Cooks! Cookbook Club: Jubilee
DESCRIPTION:Food lovers take note! \nTo attend this club we ask that you cook something from the cookbook and come ready to discuss and eat.\nSuper excited to test recipes from the book beforehand?! Tag us at #DandQCooks on Instagram or post your work here on the Facebook page.\nYou can also join our group Drawn & Quarterly Cook Book Club where we keep the discussion rolling.\nThis club meets at 6pm on Sunday. \n***We are offering a 20% discount on JUBILEE 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. \nTHE BOOK\nThroughout her career\, Toni Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history\, breadth\, and depth of African American cuisine. She’s introduced us to black cooks\, some long forgotten\, who established much of what’s considered to be our national cuisine. After all\, if Thomas Jefferson introduced French haute cuisine to this country\, who do you think actually cooked it? \nIn Jubilee\, Tipton-Martin brings these masters into our kitchens. Through recipes and stories\, we cook along with these pioneering figures\, from enslaved chefs to middle- and upper-class writers and entrepreneurs. With more than 100 recipes\, from classics such as Sweet Potato Biscuits\, Seafood Gumbo\, Buttermilk Fried Chicken\, and Pecan Pie with Bourbon to lesser-known but even more decadent dishes like Bourbon & Apple Hot Toddies\, Spoon Bread\, and Baked Ham Glazed with Champagne\, Jubilee presents techniques\, ingredients\, and dishes that show the roots of African American cooking—deeply beautiful\, culturally diverse\, fit for celebration. \nTHE AUTHOR\nToni Tipton-Martin is a culinary journalist and community activist and the author of the James Beard Award–winning The Jemima Code. Her collection of more than three hundred African American cookbooks has been exhibited at the James Beard House\, and she has twice been invited to the White House to participate in First Lady Michelle Obama’s programs to raise a healthier generation of kids. Tipton-Martin is a founding member of the Southern Foodways Alliance and Foodways Texas.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/dq-cooks-cookbook-club-jubilee/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Words and Music Show
DESCRIPTION:This coming Sunday February 9th the Words & Music Show opens up the stage to guest curator Prakash Kris\, who has been brewing a seriously entertaining show. Prakash is guest curating this month’s edition of the Words & Music Show as a part of QWF’s Fresh Pages Initiative! \nFor more information on what he’s presenting\, check out: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/118607082820176/ \nAdmission is $7 or PWYC ($5 for QWF members)
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-words-and-music-show/
LOCATION:Casa del Popolo\, 4873 boul. St-Laurent\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1R6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Words and Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Desmond Cole - The Skin We're In
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with writer and activist DESMOND COLE as he discusses his new book THE SKIN WE’RE IN: A YEAR OF BLACK RESISTANCE AND POWER! \n///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// \nIn the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates\, a bracing\, provocative and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada’s most celebrated and uncompromising writers\, Desmond Cole. The Skin We’re In will spark a national conversation\, influence policy and inspire activists. \nIn May 2015\, the cover story of Toronto Life magazine shook Canada’s largest city to its core. Desmond Cole’s “The Skin I’m In” exposed the racist practices of the Toronto police force\, detailing the dozens of times Cole had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice of carding. The story quickly came to national prominence\, went on to win a number of National Magazine Awards and catapulted its author into the public sphere. Cole used his newfound profile to draw insistent\, unyielding attention to the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis: the devastating effects of racist policing; the hopelessness produced by an education system that expects little of its black students and withholds from them the resources they need to succeed more fully; the heartbreak of those vulnerable before the child welfare system and those separated from their families by discriminatory immigration laws. \nBoth Cole’s activism and journalism find vibrant expression in his first book\, The Skin We’re In. Puncturing once and for all the bubble of Canadian smugness and naïve assumptions of a post-racial nation\, Cole chronicles just one year–2017–in the struggle against racism in this country. It was a year that saw calls for tighter borders when Black refugees braved frigid temperatures to cross into Manitoba from the States\, Indigenous land and water protectors resisting the celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday\, police across the country rallying around an officer accused of murder\, and more. \nThe year also witnessed the profound personal and professional ramifications of Desmond Cole’s unwavering determination to combat injustice. In April\, Cole disrupted a Toronto police board meeting by calling for the destruction of all data collected through carding. Following the protest\, Cole\, a columnist with the Toronto Star\, was summoned to a meeting with the paper’s opinions editor and informed that his activism violated company policy. Rather than limit his efforts defending Black lives\, Cole chose to sever his relationship with the publication. Then in July\, at another TPS meeting\, Cole challenged the board publicly\, addressing rumours of a police cover-up of the brutal beating of Dafonte Miller by an off-duty police officer and his brother. When Cole refused to leave the meeting until the question was publicly addressed\, he was arrested. The image of Cole walking\, handcuffed and flanked by officers\, out of the meeting fortified the distrust between the city’s Black community and its police force. \nIn a month-by-month chronicle\, Cole locates the deep cultural\, historical and political roots of each event so that what emerges is a personal\, painful and comprehensive picture of entrenched\, systemic inequality. Urgent\, controversial and unsparingly honest\, The Skin We’re In is destined to become a vital text for anti-racist and social justice movements in Canada\, as well as a potent antidote to the all-too-present complacency of many white Canadians. \n////////////////////////////////////////////////////// \nDESMOND COLE is an award-winning journalist\, radio host\, and activist in Toronto. His writing has appeared in the Toronto Star\, Toronto Life\, The Walrus\, NOW Magazine\, Ethnic Aisle\, Torontoist\, BuzzFeed\, and the Ottawa Citizen. He hosts a weekly radio program every Sunday on Newstalk 1010.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-desmond-cole-the-skin-were-in/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Poetry Matters - Shane Neilson
DESCRIPTION:Shane Neilson is a poet\, physician\, and critic from New Brunswick. He is author of several books of poetry\, including Complete Physical (2010)\, On Shaving Off His Face (2015)\, Dysphoria (2017)\, and New Brunswick (2019). As a Vanier postdoctoral scholar at McMaster University\, he researches the representations of pain in CanLit. Dysphoria\, the final entry in his affect trilogy\, was published in 2017 with the Porcupine’s Quill. He has just launched a collection of essays\, Constructive Negativity\, compiling commentary from different periods of his work. Recipient of the Walrus Poetry Prize and the Hamilton Literary Award for poetry\, Neilson currently holds a SSHRC Talent Award. \nNeilson focuses on the articulation of pain and disordered affect through poetic form. As poet and editor\, he comments on the emergent area of “disability poetics”; as a physician\, he considers the value of poetry in medical practice. \nFor this reading\, Poetry Matters is delighted to partner with McGill University’s Osler Library of the History of Medicine (part of ROAAr\, Rare & Special Collections\, Osler\, Art and Archives). Materials from the Osler Collections will be featured at the event. Special thanks to Mary Hague-Yearl\, Osler Head Librarian.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-matters-shane-neilson/
LOCATION:Colgate Room\, 3459 McTavish Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3A 0C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Get the Word Out: Book Coverage in the Media
DESCRIPTION:The public often turns to trusted media sources to help them choose their next read; having a book covered by a national or international outlet can give a huge boost to publishers and writers. In this panel discussion\, three media professionals will speak to their visions for their outlets\, as well as what gets books noticed\, and what publishers and writers can do to give their books an edge. Join us for a lively panel discussion and Q&A. \nWith Erin Balser (CBC Books)\, Jade Colbert (The Globe & Mail)\, and Cevin Bryerman (Publishers Weekly). Moderated by Christopher DiRaddo.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/get-the-word-out-book-coverage-in-the-media/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T200000
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SUMMARY:Meet the author : Rodney Saint-Éloi
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, writer and essayist Rodney Saint-Éloi will be talking about his literary career and the publishing house he founded\, Mémoire d’encrier. He will also share his thoughts on the reality facing authors from diverse backgrounds. French activity.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/meet-the-author-rodney-saint-eloi/
LOCATION:Bibliothèque de Pierrefonds\, 13 555 Boulevard de Pierrefonds\, Pierrefonds\, Qc\, Pierrefonds-Roxboro\, Olivia\, H9A 1A6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novel Book Club: BTTM FDRS
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 February is BTTM FDRS by Ben Passmore and Ezra Claytan Daniels. \nThis Afrofuturist graphic novel explores gentrification and cultural appropriation with a blend of humor and horror. \nWe will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) on Thursday\, February 13th at 7 p.m. Join us for refreshments and collective insights! \nABOUT:\nOnce a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago’s south side\, the “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend\, Cynthia\, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent\, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the walls of their new home. Like a cross between Jordan Peele’s Get Out and John Carpenter’s The Thing\, Daniels and Passmore’s BTTM FDRS (pronounced “bottomfeeders”) offers a vision of horror that is gross and gory in all the right ways. At turns funny\, scary\, and thought provoking\, it unflinchingly confronts the monsters—both metaphoric and real—that are displacing cultures in urban neighborhoods today. \nGentrification and body horror collide in this brutal satire from the award-winning creators of Upgrade Soul and Your Black Friend and other Strangers. \n***We are offering a 20% discount on BTTM FDRS 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-bttm-fdrs/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T213000
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction Workshop: Writing and Creating Alternative Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Led by Sunburst-nominated author Su J. Sokol\, this workshop is for anyone who’s interested in writing science fiction or adding wonder to the stories they’re already writing. \nDuring the four sessions\, participants will learn about science fiction and its sub-genres and be guided through the process of world-building\, developing interesting and realistic characters\, and creating a satisfying story arc. Finally\, participants will create their own short works of fiction which will be workshopped during the class. \nThe workshop consists of four 2 1/2 hour sessions on Thursday nights beginning on January 9th\, with a two-week break in the middle to work on your stories. \nThe dates of the four workshops are:\nJanuary 9th and 16th\, followed by February 6th and 13th.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/science-fiction-workshop-writing-and-creating-alternative-worlds/
LOCATION:Sur Place Media\, 5585 Avenue du Parc\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2V 4H2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Series,Workshops
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T123000
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & 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\n10:00 – 10:25 – Writing 1\n10:25 – 10:30 – Break\n10:30 – 10:55 – Writing 2\n10:55 – 11:00 – Break\n11:00 – 11:25 – Writing 3\n11:25 – 11:30 – Break\n11:30 – 11:55 – Writing 4\n11:55 – 12:00 – Break\n12:00 – 12:25 – Writing 5
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-2/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Events,Series,Shut Up & Write!
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T120000
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SUMMARY:Valentine's Story Time | Heure du conte de la Saint-Valentin
DESCRIPTION:La Petite Librairie D&Q hosts a weekly bilingual story time every Saturday at 11:30. Story times are free and open to all but most suitable for kids ages 3-5. Join us on February 15th for a special Valentine’s Story Time! \nRejoignez-nous à La Petite Librairie D&Q chaque Samedi à 11 h 30 pour une heure du conte bilingue. Les heures du contes sont gratuits et ouvert à tous mais surtout destinées aux 3 à 5 ans. Rejoignez-nous le 15 février pour une heure du conte spéciale pour le Saint-Valentin!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/valentines-story-time-heure-du-conte-de-la-saint-valentin/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Storytelling
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