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SUMMARY:Spark: A Generative Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This generative workshop will provide sparks to ignite new projects and constructive feedback to shape your writing past the first draft stage. If this year has been one of repose and stillness the intention with this workshop is to ignite the dark; discover new connections and try exercises designed to improve your prose. We will read\, write and share (if you choose to) in the first session and the second will be devoted to giving feedback. Participants are encouraged to take some time to edit their drafts between sessions and to be prepared to give feedback to their peers. If you’ve been stuck in a rut or simply need to come to a writing space with intention where you can connect to other writers; this workshop is for you. Robert Frost said “writing a poem is discovering\,” with a series of exercises that celebrate the unexpected and play with language we will engage and create together. All levels welcome as we will all be working with fresh\, first drafts generated during the workshop.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/spark-a-generative-workshop/2021-06-27/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Mired 2 Moving: Getting Unstuck in Your Writing
DESCRIPTION:MONDAYs: June 14\, June 21\, and June 28\, 2021 – 10:00 am to 12:00 noon\n \nThis workshop is limited to 25 participants. \nMired 2 Moving is a deep listening and storytelling space where everyone comes in with what they are holding and where they want to get to. \nOur intention is to explore and strengthen your relationship with your writing. We work with elements of Journaling (awareness of\, attention to\, and honouring thought)\, loving kindness meditation (grounding and cultivating space within)\, social presencing theatre (getting unstuck)\, playback theatre (listening to self and other\, spontaneity\, creativity \, improvisation) and guided visualization (symbols and the unconscious). \nCome as you are\, bring what you hold. \nLisa and Joliane of Montreal Living Histories will help us reflect about and play with creativity\, the senses\, self-care\, pleasure\, and creating writing together. \nJoliane Allaire uses theatre techniques as pedagogical tools in education settings. For the last decade she has evolved with the Living Histories Ensemble where she explores intersections of Playback Theater\, Theater for the Oppressed\, Theatre for the Living\, and Developmental Transformation. \nLisa Ndejuru is a psychotherapist\, psychodramatist\, and theatre practitioner. Her research – creation explores survival and life\, stories and silence\, persecution\, genocide\, war and dislocation through deep listening\, storytelling\, and play. \nThis workshop is FREE. It will be held on ZOOM. Space is limited. To register: awe@atwaterlibrary.ca. \nThis online workshop is being produced in partnership with the Quebec Writers’ Federation. \nThe Atwater Library and Computer Centre is located on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka. \nGenerously supported by the Community Cultural Action Fund (CCAF) of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mired-2-moving-getting-unstuck-in-your-writing/2021-06-28/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writers Out Loud: Playwrights on Palestine/Israel
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, June 28 at 6 p.m. EDT for the first in a series of Writers Out Loud digital events exploring Palestine and Israel. \nPlaywrights Rimah Jabr\, Stephen Orlov\, and Samah Sabawi sit down with guest host Zachary Couture for a conversation about their arts practice and its connection to the situation in Israel and Palestine. This is the first in a series of two online events in 2021 exploring Israel and Palestine through the eyes and work of writers. \nClick here to register for the Zoom link. \n  \nAbout the Writers: \nRimah Jabr is a theatre director\, playwright and Ph.D. student in Theatre and Performance Studies at York University. Rimah studied theatre-making at the RITCS in Brussel. She wrote several plays that were produced in Belgium\, Canada and Palestine; Including “High Heels and Stuffed Zucchini”\, and ‘Raya’ for young audiences. In Toronto\, she co-wrote and co-performed “Two Birds One Stone” with Natasha Greenblatt. Rimah is currently an artist in residency at The Theatre Centre in Toronto to develop “Broken Shapes” with visual artist Dareen Abbas. She made an audio drama “This is Not what I want to tell you”\, wrote “Ghurba”- a play for children-\, and co-writes “When you are free\, I’ll be free” with Johnny Wideman. In film\, she is co-writing the feature film “Deluge” with filmmaker Grace Wang. During the pandemic\, Rimah made her first short film “The day I shall pray”\, and she created This Gen Podcast with Why Not Theatre launched in June 2021. \nStephen Orlov is an award-winning dramatist\, whose plays have been showcased in such theatre centres as London\, Chicago and Montreal.  He co-edited with Melbourne-based Palestinian playwright\, Samah Sabawi\, their award-winning Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas\, the first anthology worldwide of drama\, prose or poetry by Jewish and Palestinian writers. In 2018\, Stephen’s play Sperm Count\, was a finalist of QWF’s inaugural Drama Prize\, and its sequel\, Birthmark enjoyed sold-out shows during Teesri Duniya Theatre’s premiere run. In 2016\, Guernica Editions published Freeze\, his hit at the Centaur Theatre. Other plays include Isolated Incident\, co-written with Rahul Varma\, Salaam-Shalom\, and Bow Ties. Stephen is now completing Engagement\, Birthmark’s sequel and the third of his dual-Diaspora trilogy. Stephen has served on the executives of Playwrights Guild of Canada and Playwrights Canada Press. He leads workshops on script writing\, most recently for PGC\, QDF\, National Arts Festival of St. Lucia\, and Osher Institute at Dartmouth College. \nSamah Sabawi is an author\, playwright and poet. A recipient of multiple awards both nationally and internationally\, Samah’s theatre credits include the critically acclaimed and award-winning plays Tales of a City by the Sea and THEM. In 2020 Samah received the prestigious Green Room Award for Best Writing in the independent theatre category and was shortlisted for both the NSW and Victorian Premiere Literary Awards. Samah co-edited along with Stephen Orlov the anthology Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas\, winner of the Patrick O’Neill Award and she co-authored I Remember My Name: Poetry by Samah Sabawi\, Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso\, edited by Vacy Vlazna\, winner of the Palestine Book Award. Samah hosts the webinar/podcast series The Book Room and has recently received a Doctor of Philosophy from Victoria University for her thesis  ‘Inheriting Exile\, transgenerational trauma and the Palestinian Australian Identity.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/writers-out-loud-playwrights-on-palestine-israel/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
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