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SUMMARY:Unveiling the Queer Italian-Canadian Experience (Vernissage)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, Aug 8\, 5-7 pm\n\n\n\nJoin us for the launch of Unveiling the Queer Italian-Canadian Experience\, a creative\, intergenerational\, and cross-gender exploration of queer space from the perspective of a young queer writer (Montreal author/poet Liana Cusmano) and an older ally to the community (Toronto photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo). The launch of the exhibit will take place in the Galleria d’arte Rotonda of the Casa d’Italia (505 Rue Jean-Talon East) from 5 PM to 7 PM on Tuesday\, August 8.  \n\n\n\nTo attend\, please RSVP by writing to admin@italfestmtl.ca.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/unveiling-the-queer-italian-canadian-experience-vernissage/
LOCATION:Casa d’Italia\, 505 Rue Jean-Talon Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2R 1T6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Performance,Reading
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SUMMARY:Christopher Castellani: Leading Men
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 9th 2023\, 7 pmFree admission – RSVP Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal1200 Av. du Dr Penfield \n\n\n\nRescheduled from last month\, Christopher Castellani: Leading Men is an onstage interview with award-winning Italian-American author Christopher Castellani. Castellani is the author of five books\, most of which centre on the Italian and/or queer experience. His most recent novel\, Leading Men\, tells the story of Frank Merlo\, the somewhat forgotten working-class Italian-American who was transformational in the life and work of Tennessee Williams. Currently being adapted into a film by Matthew López (The Inheritance) and Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)\, the book is a breathtaking work of historical fiction\, blending together the real and imagined lives of the two men as they navigate the literary and film circles of 1950s Italy. \n\n\n\nFor the interview\, Castellani will be joined onstage by author Christopher DiRaddo. The two will discuss Castellani’s work\, as well as the generational tension that exists between immigrant and first-generation Italians and where it intersects with queer identity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Castellani has published five books\, most of which center on the Italian\, Italian-American\, and/or queer experience. His first novel\, A Kiss from Maddalena (Algonquin\, 2003) won the Massachusetts Book Award in 2004; its follow-up\, The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin\, 2005)\, was a BookSense (IndieBound) Notable Book; the final novel in the trilogy\, All This Talk of Love (Algonquin\, 2013)\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Literary Award. His most recent novel is Leading Men\, for which he received Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, MacDowell\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. \n\n\n\nA co-presentation between the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Montreal\, the Queer Studies in Quebec Research Group (ÉRÉQQ)\, Blue Metropolis and Violet Hour. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free. Click here to reserve your ticket.Books will be for sale onsite\, provided by Librairie Paragraphe Books.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/queer-and-italian-montreal/
LOCATION:Istituto Italiano di Cultura Montreal\, 1200 ave du Docteur-Penfield\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Panel
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 10\, 6:00 pm\n\n\n\nToronto author Anuja Varghesewill launch her debut book of short stories Chrysalis (House of Anansi\, 2023) at Librairie L’Euguélionne (1426 Rue Beaudry) on Thursday\, August 10 beginning at 6 PM. The event will be hosted by Brooke Lee and will also include a reading from Montreal writer H. Felix Chau Bradley.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Writers\n\n\n\nAnuja Varghese is a QWOC Pushcart-nominated writer whose work appears in Hobart\, The Malahat Review\, The Fiddlehead\, Plenitude Magazine\, Southern Humanities Review\, So to Speak Journal\, Flock Literary Journal\, and Corvid Queen: A Journal of Feminist Fairy Tales\, among others. Her work has been recognized in the PRISM International Short Fiction Contest\, the Pigeon Pages Fiction Contest\, and the Alice Munro Festival Short Story Competition. She writes literary fiction\, speculative fiction\, and erotica/romance—and combinations of all three—where women of colour get leading roles. In 2022\, Anuja has work included in When Other People Saw Us\, They Saw the Dead\, an anthology of BIPOC gothic horror from Haunt Press\, and Queer Little Nightmares\, an anthology of queer monster stories from Arsenal Pulp Press. Her debut short story collection titled Chrysalis\, exploring South Asian diaspora experience through a feminist\, speculative lens\, will be released in spring 2023 with House of Anansi. \n\n\n\nAnuja is also a professional grant writer\, book reviewer\, and editor and in 2021\, took on the role of Fiction Editor with The Ex-Puritan Magazine. She holds a degree in English Literature from McGill University and is currently pursuing a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Toronto while working on an adult fantasy novel based on medieval India. \n\n\n\nAnuja lives in Hamilton\, Ontario with her partner\, two cats\, and two kids. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nH. Felix Chau Bradley is the author of Personal Attention Roleplay\, a story collection that was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Kobo Rakuten Emerging Writer Prize in 2022. Their writing has appeared in carte blanche\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, the Humber Literary Review\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, the Montreal Review of Books\, PRISM International\, Weird Era\, Xtra and elsewhere. They live in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)\, and work as an editor for Metonymy Press\, This Magazine\, and Le Sigh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrooke Lee is an emerging writer from Windsor-Essex\, Ontario. She holds an MA in Education from McGill University\, and writes fiction under the pen name River Lee. Her work will appear in On The Run Fiction (Aug 2023)\, and she is currently completing her debut novel—a queer coming-of-age story about a musician who is chasing dreams and facing realities. When not writing\, you can find her playing guitar\, hiking\, or reading the latest book for the Violet Hour Book Club. Keep an eye out for her upcoming work on Instagram @riverlee_writer
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-chrysalis-by-anuja-varghese/
LOCATION:L’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 Rue Beaudry\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
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