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SUMMARY:The Power of Place: Making a Communal Memory Map
DESCRIPTION:In this two-afternoon workshop\, presented by the Atwater Writers Exhibition\, participants will paint\, draw\, stitch and/or appliqué details of a place that evokes personal memories: an old cinema\, your grandmother’s garden\, or another remembered place that is important to you. We will provide a recycled paint tarp for background\, as well as art supplies. Come prepared to share your stories of your chosen place: we will talk with each other while we make a communal tapestry for display at the Atwater Library. Bring any meaningful fabric scraps or other material you might wish to include in your part of the memory map (and don’t mind leaving as part of the communal artwork). No artistic or sewing experience necessary. \nWorkshop leader Kathleen Winter has written novels\, short stories\, and an Arctic travel memoir. She has lived in the UK\, Newfoundland\, and Verdun. She has worked with young people and elders\, making folk textile pieces that celebrate memory\, place and personal story. \nTo register: elise.m@videotron.ca.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-power-of-place-making-a-communal-memory-map/
LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200406T180000
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - Love and Intimacy in Fiction: Setting the Scene
DESCRIPTION:“One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere\, but to the next stroke of lightning.”\n– Alice Munro  \nAll levels are welcome. Limited to 12 participants. \n  \nAre your characters stuck at first base? Maybe you’ve been trying for months to create tasteful romantic tension\, but your revisions seem to be getting tawdrier instead. Love and sex in fiction are challenging to write: We’re striving to find the perfect chemistry between voice\, language\, pacing\, plot\, and setting\, and the measurement of each is never the same from one situation to the next. Just as it takes time in real life for intimacy to grow between people\, it takes more than a few lines in a short story or pages in a novel to develop genuine narrative intimacy. \nThis workshop will provide participants with creative and technical tools to write anything from smoldering eye contact between strangers on a subway to harrowing mid-novel breakup sex between critical characters. We’ll look at a variety of print and digital media\, and everyone will be encouraged to act as a reader as well as a writer—that is\, to share ideas and offer constructive feedback. Participants will leave the workshop with an expanded\, specialized lexicon and the confidence to know when to be nuanced in their writing and when to be explicit. \nThis workshop is not a genre “how-to” for romance or erotica\, but a fun\, holistic survey of tools and techniques writers can use to craft believable and compelling intimacy in any fictional context. \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-love-and-intimacy-in-fiction-setting-the-scene/2020-04-06/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200406T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200406T220000
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CREATED:20191206T183817Z
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - From Idea to Script to Screen
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Sabrina Reeves\n12 participants. \n  \nThis workshop will help you adapt your ideas into scripts for TV\, Film\, Video\, Web series\, etc.\, and also show you how to craft pitches and other creative documents designed to attract producers and broadcasters to your material. In addition\, you will receive advice as to which avenues to venture down in terms of seeking potential funding and/or professional representation and/or producing partners for your projects. \n  \nTopics covered will include: \n  \nSetting realistic writing goals; how to break down and analyze a script; the importance of feedback; analysis of produced work; story\, structure\, conflict\, character\, dialogue; the importance of rewriting and how to go about it; pitching; riders\, indemnity waivers\, non-disclosure agreements; contracts\, agents\, lawyers; development funding; and budgeting (time & money). \n  \nRecommended reading: film scripts of all genres and lengths
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-from-idea-to-script-to-screen/2020-04-06/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014821
CREATED:20200213T165540Z
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SUMMARY:Gay Reads Book Club: Red At the Bone
DESCRIPTION:Join the Gay Reads book club to discuss classic and contemporary literature by LGBTQ2IA+ authors. We’ll read across genres to uncover queer sensibilities\, alternative canons\, and exciting new voices. The club meets every two months at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly with host Kathleen Fraser\, and is open to all. \nAt our next meeting April 7th\, at 7 PM\, we’ll discuss RED AT THE BONE by Jacqueline Woodson!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/gay-reads-book-club-red-at-the-bone/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T220000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014821
CREATED:20191210T202359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T202359Z
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - Inventing the Truth: The Art of Personal Writing
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this workshop is TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-inventing-the-truth-the-art-of-personal-writing/2020-04-07/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200408T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200408T200000
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CREATED:20191210T182338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T185051Z
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - Writing Long: The Novel
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this workshop is TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-writing-long-the-novel/2020-04-08/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200408T200000
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CREATED:20191209T183654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191209T183836Z
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - The Writer’s Tune-Up: Create with Courage
DESCRIPTION:For all those looking for a practical\, hands-on workshop of generative prompts to get your wheels turning\, your creative engine humming\, and new projects out of the blocks.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-the-writers-tune-up-create-with-courage/2020-04-08/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200409T180000
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CREATED:20191210T163738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T203143Z
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - Poetry Workshop: Tentacular Thinking & Writing
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URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-poetry-workshop-tentacular-thinking-writing/2020-04-09/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200409T200000
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CREATED:20191209T193533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191209T195712Z
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - Narrative Non-fiction: Creating Scenes
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is open to writers who have already taken a writing workshop or published at least one short piece of prose fiction or non-fiction. Limited to 12 participants.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-narrative-non-fiction-creating-scenes/2020-04-09/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200411T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200411T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014821
CREATED:20191210T175535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T175535Z
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SUMMARY:QWF Workshop - Get Your Words Out: A Primer on How to Publish
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this workshop is TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/qwf-workshop-get-your-words-out-a-primer-on-how-to-publish/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200411T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200411T120000
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SUMMARY:Marianne Dubuc launches Little Cheetah's Shadow - Storytime
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we launch the English translation of Marianne Dubuc’s L’ombre de Petit Guépard – Little Cheetah’s Shadow!\nMarianne will be reading from the book\, the kids will then be invited to draw with the author. \nSnacks will be served. \n///////////////////////////////////////// \nLITTLE CHEETAH’S SHADOW is missing. When Little Cheetah finds him and learns that Little Shadow is sad because he never gets to go first\, Little Cheetah is happy to switch places. As they travel about their neighborhood\, Little Cheetah is surprised to learn how hard it can be to follow. Eventually they decide that walking side-by-side is much better\, and when they go through a scary tunnel on the way home\, they discover they can face the dark together. Little Cheetah’s Shadow is a sweettale of friendship\, empathy\, and the importance of seeing things from a different perspective\, rendered in Marianne Dubuc’s warm and inviting illustrations. \nMARIANNE DUBUC is an award-winning author and illustrator of sixteen picture books\, including Otto and Pio and Up the Mountain Path. Beloved by children around the world\, her books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Montreal\, Quebec\, with her husband and their two children.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/marianne-dubuc-launches-little-cheetahs-shadow-storytime/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Storytelling
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