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SUMMARY:2021 Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival: The challenges of our times?
DESCRIPTION:April 24 to May 2\, 2021\, the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival will open its virtual doors for its spring program. \nOver a hundred national and international invitees to tackle a thought-provoking theme: the challenges of our times. \nOver fifty panels\, debates\, interviews—complete with fresh points of view on subject that interest you:\n– Writers of a wounded Lebanon\n– Souleymane Bachir Diagne: Africa and the West: Pacified Memories?\n– David Grossman: “Trenchant Witness”\n– Who are we? Where are we coming from? Indigenous voices of the moment\n– Life in SLOW motion: the world around the corner\n– Do writers ever really perish? Mathieu Lindon on Hervé Guibert\n– Javier Cercas: The novel in search of the past/Palabras que profundizan el pasado\n– All People Share the Same Rights\n– A Teen Author’s Take on Loving and Supporting a Sibling With Autism
URL:https://qwf.org/event/2021-blue-metropolis-international-literary-festival-the-challenges-of-our-times/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:The Lighter Side of Memoir Writing
DESCRIPTION:Workshop details TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-lighter-side-of-memoir-writing/2021-05-02/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Media Relations 101 for the Arts – The Basics in a Six-Hour Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Workshop details TBA!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/media-relations-101-for-the-arts-the-basics-in-a-six-hour-workshop/2021-05-04/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:True Reads Book Club - Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
DESCRIPTION:VIA ZOOM Meeting ID: 845 5830 7388\nPasscode: 024605 \nCome discuss the best new Non-Fiction books with our True Reads book club! This month\, we’ll be discussing Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin. \nWhere and How Can I purchase the book?\nFind the book here: https://bit.ly/3fSab8f \nMore info on our webstore here:\nhttp://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/posts/webstore-faq \nWe Ship Canada-wide!\nBy purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support 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. Your support is appreciated. \n//////////////////////////////////////////////\nGAY BAR: WHY WE WENT OUT\nStrobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses\, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression—whatever your scene\, whoever you’re seeking. But in urban centers around the world\, they are closing\, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar? How have they shaped him? And could this spell the end of gay identity as we know it?\nIn Gay Bar\, the author embarks upon a transatlantic tour of the hangouts that marked his life\, with each club\, pub\, and dive revealing itself to be a palimpsest of queer history. In prose as exuberant as a hit of poppers and dazzling as a disco ball\, he time-travels from Hollywood nights in the 1970s to a warren of cruising tunnels built beneath London in the 1770s; from chichi bars in the aftermath of AIDS to today’s fluid queer spaces; through glory holes\, into Crisco-slicked dungeons and down San Francisco alleys. He charts police raids and riots\, posing and passing out—and a chance encounter one restless night that would change his life forever.\nThe journey that emerges is a stylish and nuanced inquiry into the connection between place and identity—a tale of liberation\, but one that invites us to go beyond the simplified Stonewall mythology and enter lesser-known battlefields in the struggle to carve out a territory. Elegiac\, randy\, and sparkling with wry wit\, Gay Bar is at once a serious critical inquiry\, a love story and an epic night out to remember.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/true-reads-book-club-gay-bar-why-we-went-out/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Popular Writing for Academics with Colleen Kimmett
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is for scientists\, researchers\, and those who want to bring their specialized knowledge and expertise to a wider audience. Over four weeks\, you’ll learn about key differences in academic and popular writing\, tools for narrowing down and shaping ideas\, practical writing techniques\, and where and how to pitch non-academic writing. Participants have the option of joining an additional six-week intensive workshop focused on developing a specific piece from beginning to end. \nWorkshop sessions are online through Zoom videoconference. \nSchedule: Thursdays\, April 22\, 29\, May 6\, 13 from 4 pm – 5:30 pm
URL:https://qwf.org/event/popular-writing-for-academics-with-colleen-kimmett/2021-05-06/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sur Place Media":MAILTO:info@surplace.co
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SUMMARY:Librairie D+Q presents Lee Lai launching Stone Fruit
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of Lee Lai‘s debut original graphic novel\, Stone Fruit. Lee is joined in conversation by poet Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch.\nFind the book here: https://bit.ly/39pON6B\nMore information about the event here: https://bit.ly/3dhAS3p \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/librairie-dq-presents-lee-lai-launching-stone-fruit/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Argo Zoom Reading Series: Verse\, Prose & Song Thursday
DESCRIPTION:Argo Zoom Reading Series: Verse\, Prose & Song Thursday  \nMay 6\, 2021 7 PM to 9 PM Free \nFeaturing: Harold Hoefle\, Ilona Martonfi\, Gloria Macher\, Zoe Shaw\, John Kerkhoven\, Susan Doherty\, Sandra Sjollema\, H. Nigel Thomas \nHosts: Adele-Elise Prevost & Moti Lieberman 514.931.3442 \nCurator: Ilona Martonfi ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca \n\nPlease email events@argobookshop.ca for the Zoom link\n\nHarold Hoefle is a poet; his collection\, The Night Chorus\, was published in 2018 by McGill-Queen’s University Press.\nInternational Award Winner\, Gloria Macher has published 6 books and also in The Nashwaak Review\, In/Words Magazine and Kola Magazine.\nZoe Shaw is a writer and editor from Montreal. She is the Managing Editor of carte blanche.\nIlona Martonfi is an editor\, poet\, curator & activist\, her most recent poetry book is Salt Bride (Inanna\, 2019). Forthcoming\, The Tempest (Inanna\, 2022).\nJohn Kerkhoven is a blues and roots harmonica player and singer. Among his current projects is an exploration of fiddle tunes.\nSusan Doherty is the winner of the QWF’s Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction 2019 for The Ghost Garden (Random House Canada).\nSandra Sjollema is a widely published poet and the author of two poetry chapbooks\, including Life times two (Cactus Press\, forthcoming).\nH. Nigel Thomas is an award-winning author of dozens of essays and books. His latest book is the novel Easily Fooled.\n\nhttps://www.argobookshop.ca/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/argo-zoom-reading-series-verse-prose-song-thursday/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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