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SUMMARY:Indigenous Dramaturgies Exchange 2023
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Dramaturgies Exchange offers emerging Indigenous artists professional development and space for artistic exchange on a current or upcoming dramaturgy project\, with a focus on on-the-land engagement as a way of locating stories. \nThis program provides reciprocal mentorship and community building\, and you are encouraged to apply with a partner\, mentor\, or collaborator. \nIndigenous dramaturgies; as artistic ceremony\, as political resistances\, and as community-building\, are under studied and under supported. In this program we will discuss and explore your roles in deeper detail\, with the support of faculty and with cultural facilitators for on-the-land engagement sessions. This program includes daily check-ins as a group to share in creative processes and showcase your work in order to look to yourselves\, your cultural realities\, relationships\, and teachings as ways that navigate your artistic practice. \n*Financial Aid of up to 100% of tuition fee\, meal and accommodation fee is available for this program. All accepted participants will receive the financial aid package. \nProgram Dates: May 8 – 26\, 2023\nApplication Deadline: February 15\, 2023\nLearn more and apply online: http://bit.ly/3tPly6S
URL:https://qwf.org/event/indigenous-dramaturgies-exchange-2023/
LOCATION:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive\, Banff\, Alberta\, T1L 1H5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:The Art of Literary Translation
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, we will explore literary translation from French to English: fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and songs. \n\n\n\nWe will look at contemporary literature from Quebec and France\, as well as some older (nineteenth- and twentieth-century) texts. Sources may include Gabrielle Roy\, Anne Hébert\, Annie Ernaux\, and Samuel Archibald. We will start by looking at an excerpt of a literary text in French and reading a published English translation of it. What difficulties (such as euphony\, voice\, word play\, and verb tense) did the translator face\, and how successful were they? At each meeting\, there will be time to produce your own translations\, often in groups. We will read our work aloud and comment on difficulties and strokes of inspiration. \n\n\n\nParticipants will have the opportunity to translate a further passage from the same work (or from another) as a homework assignment for the next meeting. The corrected assignments provide individual feedback and lead to discussion of the issues encountered. \n\n\n\nDuring the course of the workshop\, you’ll be asked to present a passage you have translated from a work you have chosen\, commenting on the issues it presents\, and describing ways of solving these issues. This is an ideal opportunity to begin or pursue a project you intend to submit to a publisher. Jonathan Kaplanskywon a French Voices Award to translate Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux’s La vie extérieure (Things Seen)for the University of Nebraska Press. Recent translations include Jonathan Bécotte’s Like a Hurricane (Orca\, 2023) and Hélène Rioux’s The End of the World is Elsewhere (Guernica\, 2022). He has sat on the juries for the translation category of the Governor General’s Literary Awards and the John Glassco Translation Prize and recently translated the libretto of an opera by Hélène Dorion and Marie-Claire Blais entitled Yourcenar: An Island of Passions.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-art-of-literary-translation-2/2023-05-08/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Helen Molesworth in Conversation with Jarrett Earnest
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 11\, 2023 at 6 PMCinéma du Musée1379-A Sherbrooke Street WestPresented by ART SPEAKS\n\n\n\nArt Speaks is proud to present a conversation between Helen Molesworth and Jarrett Earnest\, which will focus on Molesworth’s impressive career and trajectory in the art world as a thinker\, writer and curator. \n\n\n\nHelen Molesworth is a writer and a curator based in Los Angeles. She recently hosted Death of an Artist a 6-part podcast about the intertwined fates of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta. She was the originating host of the podcast “Recording Artists” with The Getty. She is also the host of PROGRAM\, streamed interviews with artists and writers hosted by the David Zwirner Gallery. Her major museum exhibitions include: One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art; Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957; Dance/Draw; This Will Have Been: Art\, Love & Politics in the 1980s; Part Object Part Sculpture\, and Work Ethic. She has organized monographic exhibitions of Ruth Asawa\, Moyra Davey\, Noah Davis\, Louise Lawler\, Steve Locke\, Anna Maria Maiolino\, Josiah McElheny\, Kerry James Marshall\, Catherine Opie\, Amy Sillman\, and Luc Tuymans. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays and her writing has appeared in Artforum\, Art Journal\, Documents\, and October. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence\, in 2021 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2022 she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize. \n\n\n\nJarrett Earnest is a writer and curator living in New York City. He is the author of What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics (2018) and editor of The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York\, 1930-1955 (2020)\, Painting is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry\, 1980-1993 (2021) and Devotion: today’s future becomes tomorrow archive (2022). His criticism has been published in magazines and exhibition catalogs around the world\, and appears regularly in the New York Review of Books. His new collection of photographs and writing\,Valid Until Sunset\, will be out this fall.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/helen-molesworth-in-conversation-with-jarrett-earnest/
LOCATION:Cinema du Musée\, 1379-A Sherbrooke Street West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
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SUMMARY:T. Liem launches SLOWS:TWICE
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 11 at 7:00 pmLa Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\n\n\n\nJoin T. Liem at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly at 176 rue Bernard O at 7 pm on Thursday\, May 11th for the launch of their new poetry collection SLOWS:TWICE! The evening will feature readings by Trynne Delaney\, Alexe Perry-Cox and Lauren Turner\, a conversation\, Q&A and signing. \n\n\n\nThe event is free and open to all. Books will be available for purchase at the event and the author will sign copies of their book. \n\n\n\nPlease note that we are asking all guests to wear masks at this event. Masks will be available free of charge upon entry. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nBackward and forward: a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its forms. \n\n\n\nThis is a book of slow hours\, days\, and years—how they can collapse into one another\, how it can feel like we are living one day repeating itself. From within this collapse\, the speaker seeks connection everywhere. They visit their father’s birthplace\, Jogjakarta; they listen to a stranger’s phone call at the Motel 6 in Alberta; they linger in the so-called ethnic aisle of the grocery store. From all of these places the speaker is discouraged but tries to imagine a future joyously incomprehensible to the present. \n\n\n\nSlows: Twice is a collection of revisions and repetitions. Every poem in one half of the book has an alternate version\, or a mirror poem\, in the other half. Lines\, words\, images\, and forms are reused and reflected in a kind of palindrome\, so the book can be read from front cover to back cover\, or vice versa. In this way\, Liem considers how language shapes identity over time and how the speaker’s position in relation to language might be revised. The poems are tied to themes of work and labor\, consumption and waste\, family and home\, as other shapers of identity and relationships. The act of revising and repeating – slowly – is meant to be a resistance to efficiency\, a resistance to being an always-productive body under capitalism. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nT. Liem was born and raised in Vegreville\, Alberta\, and now lives in Montreal\, Quebec. They are the author of OBITS. (2018)\, which was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award\, and won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award as well as the A. M. Klein Prize. Their writing has been published in Catapult\, Apogee\, Plenitude\, the Boston Review\, Grain\, Maison- neuve\, Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and 2019\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\n\nOrganizers encourage the wearing of masks at events.\n\n\n\nEvent space uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance\, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside\, there are no additional steps.\n\n\n\nIt is not a sober space\, our events sometimes offer alcohol.\n\n\n\n\nPlease email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any questions!
URL:https://qwf.org/event/t-liem-launches-slowstwice/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Susan Lloy Launches: Nothing Comes Back
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 7:30 PM on Thursday\, May 11th\, for the launch of Susan Lloy’s new short story collection\, Nothing Comes Back!The event will take place in-store\, and is free. Please note that we still ask people to wear masks in the Argo. As seating is limited\, RSVPs are encouraged; click here! \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nAge is the great divider. One side fused of fire and lust\, the other undetected like fallout. The characters in this collection have been plucked and blown through time like pollen on the wind\, often rooting themselves in foreign landscapes both beautiful and adverse\, sometimes altered\, yet always unyielding\, ripe for transformation. Nothing Comes Back is a deeply captivating collection by a major literary talent working at the top of her craft. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nAuthor of the two short story collections But When We Look Closer (2017) and Vita (2019)\, as well as the children’s book Coo and the Loo (2021)\, Susan E. Lloy has dozens of international publication credits to date. Currently working on a fourth collection\, Susan continues to write about characters existing on the edges of ordinary life. She lives in Montreal.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/susan-lloy-launches-nothing-comes-back/
LOCATION:Argo Bookshop\, 1841A Ste-Catherine St. West\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 12\, 6:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Choosing Joy Collective pleased to invite you to join us\, and share with your platform\, a one-time documentary screening of the award-winning documentary Seeds of Vandana Shiva\, which tells the remarkable story of an ecofeminist activist and her plight for global food justice. The screening will take place May 12th at 7:00pm at the Caribbean Food Factory.   \n\n\n\nAbout the Film\n\n\n\nHow did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become Monsanto’s worst nightmare? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva\, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of industrial agriculture\, rose to prominence in the seed saving and organic food movements\, and is inspiring an international crusade for change. \n\n\n\nThe Seeds of Vandana Shiva documentary shows how the battle against multinational agribusiness has become an international struggle between two visions for feeding the world: The first\, a multinational corporate model of chemically dependent monoculture that rewards a capitalist imperative of profit and growth. And the other: ‘Earth Democracy\, that honors ecology\, biodiversity\, sustainability and community—what Dr. Shiva demonstrates is the only way forward for the future of food. (Vandanashivamovie.com\, 2021)  \n\n\n\nDoors open at 6pm\, the screening begins at 7 pm.   \n\n\n\nLight food & snacks will be available for purchase.  \n\n\n\nTickets are available at the door in limited quality. To guarantee a seat\, buy your ticket on Eventbrite.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/film-screening-the-seeds-of-vandana-shiva/
LOCATION:The Caribbean Food Factory\, 5311 Boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4A 1Z5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 13\, 10:00 am-12:30 pmOnline via Zoom—RSVP below to receive the Zoom link \n\n\n\nLooking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \n\n\n\nRegister below to do all that writing you’ve been meaning to do. Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25 minute bursts\, with 5 minutes break in between. \n\n\n\nThis event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member. Please note that you have to be logged in for the registration link to show up. A Zoom link will be sent out a few days before the session. \n\n\n\nPlease note as well that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n1000 – 1025: Writing 11025 – 1030: Break1030 – 1055: Writing 21055 – 1100: Break1100 – 1125: Writing 31125 – 1130: Break1130 – 1155: Writing 41155 – 1200: Break1200 – 1225: Writing 5
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-25/
LOCATION:Online – Please RSVP to receive a Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Community Events,QWF Events,Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:The Many Definitions of Family: Reflecting and Journalling with Christopher DiRaddo
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 13\, 12:00-1:30 pmFree\, online via Zoom\n\n\n\nFamily is such an important part of our culture; it plays a large role in the stories we tell. But which family stories are not being told? And what does it mean to be a part of a family? How do we create honest depictions of those we share our lives with? In this workshop\, we will reflect on what makes a family and explore what more can be done to expand that representation.  \n\n\n\nMontrealer Christopher DiRaddo is the author of the novels The Geography of Pluto and The Family Way. He is also the founder and host of The Violet Hour Reading Series & Book Club. \n\n\n\nOffered by Accenti Magazine as part of the Workshops to Express Creativity: Engaging Canadian Seniors series.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/the-many-definitions-of-family-reflecting-and-journalling-with-christopher-diraddo/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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