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SUMMARY:Poetry To See: Creating Visual Poetry Broadsides
DESCRIPTION:Participants will use text and image to create your very own visual poetry broadsides. \nA poetry broadside (or broadsheet) is one sheet of paper printed on one side with a poem. Visual poetry is a growing field wherein poets use linguistic fragments to create poems that are also works of visual art. \nParticipants will create original mixed-media works of art fusing your own poetic texts with your own original visuals\, making unique poem-objects that are both read and seen! \nThrough playful experimentation you will explore various text-making and image-making approaches\, resulting not in an illustrated poem\, but a poem that also derives its meaning and impact through its visual delivery. \nBoth the poetry and the visuals will be created from scratch during the workshop. No art experience necessary\, just a willingness to try things out. \nWe will use collage\, rubber stamps\, stencils\, dry-transfer lettering and any and all non-digital ways of making text. Materials can be found around the house and can be augmented by inexpensive store-bought items. We will provide a list of possible materials so you are prepared. \nThis workshop is FREE but space is limited. To register: awe@atwaterlibrary.ca. \nCo-presented with the Atwater Writers Exhibition\, and generously supported by the Community Cultural Action Fund (CCAF) of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-to-see-creating-visual-poetry-broadsides/2022-02-24/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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SUMMARY:SpeakUp: Night & Day) Dreams
DESCRIPTION:FREE EVENT\nSpeakUp: The Montreal Inter-Active Poetry Exchange\nPoets: Tamara Nazywalskj\, Bryan Sentes\, Derek Godin. \nA POETRY READING WITH A DIFFERENCE: AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT\nEach audience member receives a copy of the poems by email. The poems are also displayed on screen.\nPoet reads their poem\, followed by 15 to 20-minute discussion.\nPoet reads their poem a final time.\nVisit our Facebook page for more details.\nContact us to register and receive the Zoom link: MTLSpeakUp@gmail.com
URL:https://qwf.org/event/speakup-night-day-dreams/
LOCATION:Zoom\, https://bit.ly/35akIGi
CATEGORIES:Series
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220225
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poets' Retreat: Healing Ourselves and the Planet
DESCRIPTION:Join us February 25-27\, 2022 on Zoom for a Poets’ Retreat focussed on healing ourselves and the planet. \nExplore relationships between your writing practice and climate change in these gentle\, restorative\, and inspiring workshops with like-minded poets using their craft to promote change and right relationships between humans and the rest of Nature. Three workshops\, an exclusive poetry reading\, peer writing groups\, discussion with a publisher\, Qigong\, and an opportunity to read in the Authors and Artists festival. 10+ hours of programming: $225 CAD. Payment plans and one competitive\, needs-based scholarship for a BIPOC poet available. Workshops: Artistic Contemplative Practice for EcoJustice (additionally\, Qigong) by JuPong Lin\, performance poet and faculty at Goddard Collage; Tender Witness: Climate Grieving for Poets by Dina Stander\, end of life navigator and poet; Moon Botany by performance artist\, writer\, and disability culture activist  Petra Kuppers. All workshop providers are BIPOC\, as are all headline speakers in the co-occurring Authors and Artists online festival\, whose theme is Writing the Land\, tied to the WTL project (www.writingtheland.org). \nFor more on the Retreat: https://www.nature-culture.net/2022-poet-retreat \nFor more on the festival\, whose headline speakers include poet Ross Gay\, John Francis\, Dina Gilio-Whitaker\, Rahawa Haile and Latria Graham: https://www.nature-culture.net/authors-artists-festival
URL:https://qwf.org/event/virtual-poets-retreat-healing-ourselves-and-the-planet/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Copyright Conversation: Zong! The Politics of Translation with M. nourbeSe Philip
DESCRIPTION:PLEO is excited to announce the return of our Copyright Conversations series! Taking Our Voice: Copyright as a Tool to Achieve Equity\, will take a deep dive into the experiences of several artists as they work to navigate complex copyright issues. \nThe first of the series\, planned for Fair Dealing week\, will raise questions of fairness and equity when dealing with issues of translation. PLEO Founder and Legal Director Martha Rans will be joined by writer\, painter and scholar\, Stéphane Martelly\, and Toronto-based poet\, author\, and lawyer M. nourbeSe Philip to discuss Philip’s experience of having her book-length poetry cycle Zong! misrepresented as a result of the text being translated without her consultation. \nRegister Here! \n\n\nAbout M. nourbeSe Philip: \nToronto-based poet\, writer\, and lawyer\, M. nourbeSe Philip has been the recipient of Canada Council awards\, numerous Ontario Arts Council grants and was the recipient of a Toronto Arts Council award. In l988 Philip won the prestigious Casa de las Americas prize for the manuscript version of her book\, She Tries Her Tongue\, for which she also won the Tradewinds Collective prize (Trinidad & Tobago) in both the poetry and the short story categories. \nPhilip’s first novel\, Harriet’s Daughter\, was one of two runners-up in the l989 Canadian Library Association Prize for children’s literature\, and first runner-up in the Max and Greta Abel Award for Multicultural Literature. In 1990\, Philip was made a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and in 1991 became a McDowell Fellow. In l994\, Philip’s short story\, “Stop Frame” was awarded the Lawrence Foundation Award\, and in 1995 she was awarded the Toronto Arts Award in writing and publishing. \nM. nourbeSe Philip has been recognized for her work as “a revolutionary poet\, writer and thinker” by the Elizabeth Fry Society of Toronto which presented her their 2001 “Rebels for a Cause” award. That same year\, Philip was the recipient of the YWCA “Woman of Distinction” award in the Arts. In 2002 she was awarded a Chalmers Fellowship in Poetry and was featured on the Black Heritage Month poster. She has sat as the writer in residence at Toronto Women’s Bookstore and at McMaster University. \nPhilip’s short stories\, essays\, reviews and articles have appeared in magazines and journals in North America and England\, and her poetry has been extensively anthologized. Her work – poetry\, fiction\, and non-fiction\, is taught widely at the university level and is the subject of much academic writing and critique. \nIn 2008\, The Mercury Press and Wesleyan University Press published NourbeSe Philip’s collection of poetry\, Zong!\, an extended 182-page poetry cycle\, composed entirely from the words in the case report\, Gregson vs. Gilbert\, related to the murder of Africans on board a slave ship at the end of the eighteenth century. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Stéphane Martelly: \nWriter\, painter and scholar\, Stéphane Martelly was born in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti. Through a profoundly transdisciplinary approach\, she confronts theory\, critical reflection and art in her work. She has published poetry [La Boîte noire suivi de Départs 2004)] and children’s tales [Couleur de rue\, 1999 and L’Homme aux cheveux de fougère\, 2002]. Her pictorial works are showcased in the digital art book Folie passée à la chaux vive (Madness spent in quicklime) (Publie.net\, 2010). \nHer scholarly work notably includes working in the Montreal-based Life Stories Of Montrealers Displaced By War\, Genocide And Other Human Rights Violations as a researcher and coordinator. She also wrote a monography on Haitian poet Magloire-Saint-Aude (Le Sujet opaque\, 2001) and several articles on Caribbean literature. Her latest essay in research-creation is: Les Jeux du dissemblable. Folie\, marge et féminin en littérature haïtienne contemporaine\, Nota Bene\, 2016. \nHer recent publications are La Maman qui s’absentait (Vents d’Ailleurs\, 2011)\, Inventaires (Triptyque\, 2016) and L’enfant gazelle (Remue-Ménage\, 2018). \nSince 2019 Martelly has held the position of Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Arts\, Languages and Literature at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/copyright-conversation-zong-the-politics-of-translation-with-m-nourbese-philip/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Creating a Universe with Words
DESCRIPTION:Two Saturdays: February 19 and 26\, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. \nAll are welcome. \nLimited to 12 participants \nI love what Albert Einstein once said about imagination. He said: “Imagination is intelligence having fun.” And that is what this workshop is indeed intended to be: a fast paced\, hands-on workshop based on a series of writing exercises where we will find and surpass the limits that contain our everyday writing universe. We will\, of course\, develop our imagination outside the box and have creative fun. \nSessions will be tailored to meet the needs and interests of the group. They will be combined with lectures to help you gain new insight to construct and complete your personal writing project. We’ll explore ways to reinforce the structure of your existing work\, gain deeper understanding of characters\, fix plot holes\, and tie up storylines. We’ll also work on developing another skill invaluable to any writer: the ability to pinpoint what might not be working—and cut or rework if need be. This workshop is designed to help you stay motivated and focused through the difficult parts of writing and aims to give you the tools to enjoy your writing process (again\, if you fear you are not enjoying it anymore).  The time will be split between discussing technique in published models\, and reading and discussing our own creations. \nCreating a Universe with Words will be a two-session workshop and is intended for experienced and beginner writers alike. You’ll need paper\, pencils and—most importantly—an eraser! We will keep things interactive\, giving short presentations to the group. \n  \nYou will receive links to the texts we will be using as models. Reading them before our start date is strongly recommended.  \n  \nAntolina Ortiz Moore describes herself as a citizen of the world. She was born in Mexico City in 1971. She studied at the French Licée in Mexico City and studied Philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana.  \nShe migrated to Canada in 2000\, then returned to México in 2009\, where she lived in the town of Coatepec. She founded an unschooling project and a non-profit organization that promoted ecological and cultural awareness without barriers. She coordinated the planting of over 11\,000 trees in a mist forest area. In 2017\, due to mounting violence in the area\, she decided to move back to Montreal. \nAntolina´s last novel\, Seda araña\, won the First Mexican Woman´s Short Novel Competition in Mexico (2019)\, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Romulo Gallegos Literary prize in Venezuela (2020) and the Nadal Literary Competition in Spain (one of the most important in Spanish Literature). Her first and second novels received the José Eufemio Lora y Lora & Juan Carlos Onetti international award (in Peru\, 2010). Her first published book was her social work thesis at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico\, with a prologue by Elena Poniatowska; it sold over fifty thousand copies. \nWeb page: https://antolinaortizmoore.com \nInstagram: oantolina \nTwitter: @antolina_ortiz \nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/antolina.ortiz/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/creating-a-universe-with-words/2022-02-26/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:2022 Authors and Artists Festival
DESCRIPTION:Free and Online: Authors and Artists festival February 26-27\, 2022 . Headline speakers: Ross Gay\, John Francis\, Jillian Hishaw\, Dina Gilio-Whitaker. Rahawa Hailie & Latria Graham. All BIPOC speakers on the topic of Writing the Land. Poets from the Writing the Land project include Alice B. Fogel\, Angela Vasquez\, CMarie Fuhrman\, Paul Richmond\, JuPong Lin\, Maiah Merino\, Katherine Hagopian Berry\, and Candace Curran. Please join us!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/2022-authors-and-artists-festival/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Performance
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