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SUMMARY:Grove Campus Poetry Show
DESCRIPTION:Part 1 of 2 of the Grove Campus Art Series will be kicking off with a spoken word show on Sunday\, July 17\, 7:30-9:30 pm at Montreal Improv! \nThe event is FREE; please register in advance: https://grovecampus.com/blogs/experiences/grove-campus-art-series \nFacebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/507858631085969/507858634419302/?active_tab=about \nBe sure to check out Part 2\, a visual art show on Saturday\, July 30th. Registration and more info can be found at the same links listed above. \nThis event is made possible through #RisingYouth with support from Canada Service Corps\, the Government of Canada\, and TakingItGlobal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/grove-campus-poetry-show/
LOCATION:Montreal Improv\, 3716 Notre-Dame St W\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4C 1P7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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SUMMARY:Launch: Willow Loveday Little's Poetry Collection "(Vice) Viscera"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch party of Willow Loveday Little’s debut collection of poetry\, “(Vice) Viscera)” (Cactus Press 2022).  \nIt’s a collection of poems on the theme of the body—blood and guts\, vulnerability\, performance\, illness\, ugliness\, intuition. Hope to see you there. \nWillow Loveday Little is a Canadian writer whose work has appeared in such places as yolk literary\, on spec\, The Dalhousie Review\, and the Selkie’s Very Much Alive: Stories of Resilience. (Vice) Viscera is her first full-length poetry collection. \n Thursday\, July 21st 6:30pm at the MAI (Montréal\, arts interculturels)\, 3680 Jeanne-Mance St\, Montreal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/launch-willow-loveday-littles-poetry-collection-vice-viscera/
LOCATION:Montreal arts interculturels\, 3680\, rue Jeanne-Mance\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2X 2K5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Queer & Italian in Montreal 
DESCRIPTION:July 21 event to celebrate the contributions of  \n\n\n\nLGBTQ Italian-Canadians on the city’s cultural life and historyMONTREAL\, QUEBEC – Join us for a festive celebration of queer Italian-Canadian culture in Montreal on Thursday\, July 21\, 2022\, as Violet Hour\, in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Montreal\, Fierté Montréal Pride and Accenti Magazine\, present the event\, “Queer and Italian in Montreal.” \n\n\n\nThe event\, which is an official part of this year’s Fierté Montréal Pride celebrations\, will take the form of a screening of the recent documentary short\, “Creative Spaces: Queer and Italian Canadian” (2021)\, followed by a panel discussion about the past\, present and future of queer Italian-Canadian culture in the city. Speakers on the panel include Gaspare Borsellino (Gruppo Italiano Gay e Lesbico di Montreal)\, Vee DG (CIAO – Canadian Italians Against Oppression)\, and Steve Galluccio. The event will be hosted by author and literary events producer Christopher DiRaddo. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE FILM \n\n\n\n“Creative Spaces: Queer and Italian Canadian” (2021) \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to be queer and Italian Canadian? And what experiences do queer Italian Canadians have when their sexual orientation and gender identity come in contact with their cultural heritage and traditions? Director Licia Canton explores this topic with three Montreal writers—Liana Cusmano\, Christopher DiRaddo and Steve Galluccio—and comparative literature professor Domenico A. Beneventi. (Running time: 28 minutes) \n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \n\n\n\nGaspare Borsellino is the former President of the Gruppo Italiano Gay e Lesbico di Montreal\, a one-time social club for LGBTQ folks of Italian origin that played a significant role in queer cultural life in Montreal from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s. \n\n\n\nVee DG is a nonbinary multimedia artist & writer based on the unceded territory of Tiohtià:ke. Their work focuses on transnationalism\, historical revisionism and the personal\, and the inconsistencies of memory. They hold a degree in photography as well as a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University and currently work in documentary filmmaking. They are a founding member of CIAO (Canadian Italians Against Oppression). \n\n\n\nSteve Galluccio is a playwright and screenwriter. His first major stage play\, Mambo Italiano\, was turned into a movie which sold in more than fifty-three countries. He is also known for the Gemini award-winning TV series Ciao Bella and the movies Funkytown (2011) and Little Italy (2018). His new play “At The Beginning of Time” will be premiere in February 2023 at The Centaur Theatre. \n\n\n\nChristopher DiRaddo is the author of two novels: The Geography of Pluto (2014)\, and The Family Way (2021)\, which was recently nominated for the F.G. Bressani Literary Award. Since 2014\, he has worked to create a space for LGBTQ literature in Montreal—producing and hosting the Violet Hour reading series and book club\, which has to date featured more than 200 writers. He has also curated literary events for Never Apart\, and programmed Violet Metropolis\, the LGBTQ leg of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival (2018-2020). In 2018\, he co-founded with Blue Metropolis the Violet Prize\, Canada’s first LGBTQ literary prize to be awarded to a Canadian writer for their body of work. He is also past president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation (2018-2021). \n\n\n\nDETAILS \n\n\n\n“Queer & Italian in Montreal” will take place on Thursday\, July 21\, 2022\, at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Montreal\, located at 1200 ave du Docteur-Penfield (Peel Metro). \n\n\n\nThe event will be in English and will run from 7 PM to 9 PM. Entrance is free\, but participants are asked to RSVP at:https://iicmontreal.esteri.it/iic_montreal/en/gli_eventi/calendario/2022/07/queer-e-italian-montreal.html \n\n\n\nFor more information about the film\, as well as the Queer & Italian Canadian project\, please visit www.queeritaliancanadian.com.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/queer-italian-in-montreal/
LOCATION:Istituto Italiano di Cultura Montreal\, 1200 ave du Docteur-Penfield\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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SUMMARY:Identifying (with) the Erotic
DESCRIPTION:In this three-hour workshop\, with references to work by Anaïs Nin\, James Baldwin\, Martin Amis\, M NourbeSe Philip\, and Ruel Johnson\, among select others in prose\, poetry\, and comics\, we will explore what makes the erotic\, well… erotic. Creating sexy characters and scenes with sensual language seems only part of the process. Telling a story that stimulates your reader’s imagination\, exciting more than the body\, is at least one of the goals of this life-affirming genre. \n\n\n\nIf birds do it and bees do it\, you as a writer should be able to write it.  And just as openly.  By the end of the session\, participants should come away with: \n\n\n\na wider definition of erotica;more confidence in how to approach writing and reading erotica; andless of an urge to apologize to family or friends for what comes naturally and\, more significantly\, narratively to them.\n\n\n\nRobert Edison Sandiford is the author of several books\, among them The Tree of Youth\, winner of Barbados’ Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts; And Sometimes They Fly\, recipient of a BMA “Brands of Barbados” Award; and Sand for Snow\, shortlisted for the Frank Collymore Literary Award.  His erotic graphic novels for NBM Publishing have been called “imaginably simple [yet] also imaginatively complex” by the poet George Elliott Clarke.  In 2003\, he founded with Linda M. Deane the Barbadian cultural resource ArtsEtc Inc.  He has worked as a publisher\, teacher and\, with Warm Water \n\n\n\nProductions\, producer.  His stories have appeared in numerous journals\, magazines and anthologies.  Fairfield from DC Books is his most recent title. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will happen in-person at the QWF Office\, with virtual slots available for interested participants living outside Montreal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/identifying-with-the-erotic/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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