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SUMMARY:A Caribbean Celebration: Rhymes & Riddim!
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 16\, 2024\, 8:00 pmLa Sotterenea (4848 St. Laurent Blvd\, Montreal)\n\n\n\nIntroducing the next edition of the Words & Music Show! \n\n\n\nA Caribbean Celebration: Rhymes and Riddim! will be a vibrant night brought to life by artists who embody the sound\, rhythm\, and spirit of the Caribbean. Join us in a celebration of Caribbean heritage and the history\, resilience\, and pride that come with it. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\n\nKym Dominique-Ferguson\n\n\n\nFaith Paré\n\n\n\nInGroove\n\n\n\nJason “Blackbird” Selman\n\n\n\n\nHosted and curated by the winner of the 2024 Fresh Pages Guest Curatorship\, Jayda Smith. \n\n\n\nTickets available at the door. \n\n\n\nAbout the Performers\n\n\n\n\nKym Dominique-Ferguson is a hard-working Montreal-based writer and spoken word artist whose work bridges literature and performance. As one of the four primary writers of BLACKOUT: The Concordia Computer Riots\, Ferguson significantly contributed to capturing the essence of the students’ point of view of the 1969 Sir George Williams affair\, offering a vital historical perspective. His debut solo play\, Dear Black Man\, supported by a Canada Council for the Arts grant\, explores themes of identity\, Black family and resilience\, with a successful stage reading showcasing his emerging prowess as a playwright. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his literary achievements\, Ferguson is the founder and Artistic Director of Madpoetix Productions\, a significant contributor to Montreal’s spoken word scene. Under his leadership\, the organization produced and hosted influential events like The Phenomenal 5IVE\, the Madpoetix Soirée Open Mic and their latest offering Inside Madpoetix Studios. His innovative spirit is also reflected in his recent works-in-progress such as the Caribo-Futuristic novel Echoes of Anancy and the theatre play Uncle Jimmy: A Discussion between James Baldwin and Trayvon Martin. Ferguson’s diverse contributions continue to enrich the spoken word community and the literary landscape. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFaith Paré is a poet of Afro-Guyanese ancestry. She has performed at national arts centres including the Art Gallery of York University\, La Centrale galerie Powerhouse\, and the Winter Garden Theatre\, and served as curator of the Atwater Poetry Project from 2021 to 2023. Faith is the winner of the 2024 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in Poetry from the Writers’ Trust of Canada\, and was the inaugural awardee of the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship under the guidance of Gillian Sze. She is currently at work on her first collection of poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInGroove is a musical formation firmly rooted in reggae\, dub & dancehall while branching off into different afro-Caribbean sounds. Joey Shanahan on keyboards\, Neil ”Bass-One” Benskin on bass\, and Jahsun on the drums round out this trio of experienced reggae ambassadors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJason “Blackbird” Selman is a Montreal-born spoken word artist\, poet\, and trumpet player. He is the author of The Freedom I Stole (2007\, Cumulus Press) & Africa as a Dream That Travels Through My Heart (2016\, Howl). He creates and facilitates poetry workshops in schools across the Montréal area and beyond. His work is inspired by music from the African diaspora\, surrealist expression\, love\, and intersectional masculinity. \n\n\n\n\nYour Host\n\n\n\n\nJayda Smith\, a Belizean international student in Montreal\, integrates her Afro-Caribbean heritage into her poetry and creative non-fiction\, reflecting her Belizean Creole roots. Jayda regularly attends open mic events hosted by McSway Poetry Collective\, a poetry club at McGill University of which she is an active member\, dedicated to fostering poetry spaces both on and off campus. Her love for poetry and performance has sparked an interest in event curation\, focusing on showcasing poetry\, spoken word\, and sound\, reflecting her cultural tapestry and commitment to artistic expression. She enjoys writing haikus to summarize each day.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/words-music-rhymes-riddim/
LOCATION:La Sotteranea\, 4848 Boulevard Saint-Laurent\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 1R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Words and Music
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Mitch Albom
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 17\, 2024\, 7:30-9:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nThe Chevra is honoured to present the internationally renowned and nine time NYT best-selling author\, journalist\, screenwriter\, playwright\, radio and television broadcaster and philanthropist\, Mitch Albom who joins us to speak about his latest book\, The Little Liar. \n\n\n\nMitch Albom is an internationally renowned and nine time NYT best-selling author\, journalist\, screenwriter\, playwright\, radio and television broadcaster and and philanthropist. His  books have collectively sold more than 40 million copies worldwide; have been published in 51 territories and in 48 languages around the world; and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television movies. In 2006\, he founded the nonprofit SAY Detroit\, an organization for major health\, housing and education initiatives for Detroit’s most underserved citizens\, which also includes a dessert shop and a gourmet popcorn line to fund them. He also operates a home and school in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, which he visits monthly. He lives with his wife\, Janine\, in Michigan.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/an-evening-with-mitch-albom/
LOCATION:Quebec
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn with Montreal Fringe
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 18\, 202412:00-1:30pm ETOnline via Zoom (register for Zoom link)\n\n\n\nIntroducing Fringe Montreal! \n\n\n\nThe Montreal Fringe Festival is a festival that hosts a variety of live performances: theatre\, dance\, music\, comedy\, storytelling\, spoken word\, improv\, and more! This annual festival takes place every June\, with the lottery to determine next year’s roster taking place this November. There are over 800 performances and events\, and last year they returned over $3.2M in box office revenue to artists.   \n\n\n\nJoin Amy Blackmore\, Executive and Artistic Director of MainLine Theatre\, the company that produces the festival\, in QWF’s next Lunch and Learn. In this one-and-a-half hour presentation\, Amy will talk about what “fringing” is\, how one can take part in the festival\, and the benefits that joining gives to artists. \n\n\n\nEveryone is invited: whether you’re already in the literary performance scene as a playwright\, storyteller\, or spoken word artist\, or even if you’re mainly from the world of the written word curious about incorporating live performance to your work\, you will definitely learn more about one of Montreal’s most popular summer arts festivals. Several QWF members have found success from the festival\, from Nisha Coleman’s multi-nominated shows “Alright” and “Cornichon” to Kate Lavut’s touring play “A Little Bit Pregnant.” Who knows\, you might join that roster one day! \n\n\n\nFor more information: \n\n\n\nhttps://www.mainlinetheatre.ca/https://www.montrealfringe.ca/https://www.facebook.com/MainLineTheatre/https://www.facebook.com/FRINGEmtl/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister to Get zoom Link
URL:https://qwf.org/event/lunch-and-learn-with-montreal-fringe/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Africa Opened My Heart by Julie Dreyer
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 18\, 2024\, 6:00 pm\n\n\n\nJoin Montreal-based author Julie Dreyer Wang for the launch of her memoir Africa Opened My Heart.  \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nThis is a love story. Heading to Uganda to reinvent herself after her husband’s death\, the author sought a new sense of purpose. There\, she worked with AIDS orphans and found Ugandans open-hearted and welcoming. Subsequently\, in Benin\, West Africa\, while serving with the Peace Corps\, she found herself falling in love with one special man and wanting to share what she had with him. A memoir and travelogue\, Africa Opened My Heart provides a thought-provoking look at the challenges of building a more equal world and the joys of finding new love late in life. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nJulie Dreyer Wang was born in England\, and lived in five countries before the age of 21. She started her writing career at the Montreal Gazette\, then moved to New York City and founded Wang Associates Health Communications\, which specialized in health and medicine. She also became an adjunct professor of writing at New York University. \n\n\n\nOn the sale of her business\, realizing there was more to life than making money\, she trained as a landscape designer and designed gardens on the Blue Hill Peninsula of Maine\, as the owner of Blue Poppy Garden. Then\, when her husband died she first went to Uganda to work with AIDS orphans\, then joined the Peace Corps to work in Benin\, West Africa. \n\n\n\nAfrica Opened My Heart describes her time in Africa and the amazing open-heartedness of the people there who profoundly changed her life. She currently co-owns an organic farm in the north of Benin\, and with her partner\, Guillaume\, runs Bio-Benin\, a non-profit that empowers students to earn a living in restaurant cooking\, beer-brewing and organic farming. All proceeds of her memoir go to Bio-Benin.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-africa-opened-my-heart-by-julie-dreyer/
LOCATION:Christ Church Cathedral
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Jacob Wren Launches Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 19\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\n\n\n\nJoin Book*hug\, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, and Jacob Wren to launch his latest novel\, DRY YOUR TEARS TO PERFECT YOUR AIM. The author will appear in conversation with poet Alexei Perry Cox and the author will sign following the reading and conversation. \n\n\n\nWHEN: Thursday September 19th\, 2024WHERE: Espace Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Rue Bernard O \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim\n\n\n\nWhat are the best ways to support political struggles that aren’t your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim is a remarkably original\, literary page-turner that explores such pressing questions of our time. \n\n\n\nA depressed writer visits a war zone. He knows it’s a bad idea\, but his curiosity and obsession that his tax dollars help to pay for foreign wars draw him there. Amid the fighting\, he stumbles into a small strip of land that’s being reimagined as a grassroots\, feminist\, egalitarian utopia. As he learns about the principles of the collective\, he moves between a fragile sense of self and the ethical considerations of writing about what he experiences but cannot truly fathom. Meanwhile\, women in his life-from this reimagined society and elsewhere-underscore truths hidden in plain sight. \n\n\n\nIn these pages\, real-world politics mingle with profoundly inventive fabulations. This is an anti-war novel unlike any other\, an intricate study of our complicity in violent global systems and a celebration of the hope that underpins the resistance against them. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJACOB WREN makes literature\, performances\, and exhibitions. His books include Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed; Polyamorous Love Song (finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and a Globe and Mail best book of 2014); Rich and Poor (finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Globe and Mail best book of 2016); and Authenticity is a Feeling. He is artistic co-director of the Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART. Wren lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLibrairie Drawn & Quarterly would like to acknowledge that our events and bookstores are located on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Many of us refer to Montreal as our home\, but it is named Tiohtiá:ke. It has always been a gathering place for many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse population of Indigenous peoples. We are grateful that creating and sharing stories has been a part of this land for thousands of years. \n\n\n\nEspace Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:\n\n\n\n\nOur event 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\nThere is one non-gendered bathroom.\n\n\n\nIt is not a sober space\, our events sometimes offer alcohol.\n\n\n\nPlease email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate (for example\, saving you a seat if you have mobility needs) for you to be able to enjoy our events\, worry-free\, and feel free to contact us for any concerns you may have
URL:https://qwf.org/event/jacob-wren-launches-dry-your-tears-to-perfect-your-aim/
LOCATION:Espace Drawn and Quarterly\, 176 rue Bernard Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Shut Up & Write! with QWF (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 20\, 12:30 pm–3:00 pmFree\, In PersonQWF Office (Room 3\, 1200 Atwater Ave.\, Westmount)\n\n\n\nRegister for the session by filling out the RSVP form below. \n\n\n\nLooking for some dedicated\, quiet writing space? \n\n\n\nJoin us for an in-person Shut Up & Write session at the QWF office! \n\n\n\nDo all that writing you’ve been meaning to do\, and meet a few of your fellow QWF members. Using the Pomodoro technique\, participants write in 25-minute bursts\, with 5-minute breaks in between. \n\n\n\nThis event is for QWF members only. Not a member? Learn about becoming a member.  \n\n\n\nPlease note that these sessions are designed for silent writing\, rather than discussing or getting feedback on work. \n\n\n\n12:30–12:55: Writing 112:55–1:00: Break1:00–1:25: Writing 21:25–1:30: Break1:30–1:55: Writing 31:55–2:00: Break2:00–2:25: Writing 42:25–2:30: Break2:30–2:55: Writing 5 \n\n\n\nTo register\, RSVP below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting to the QWF Office\n\n\n\nOur office is located on the top floor of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, in Room 3. \n\n\n\nAddress: 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3Westmount\, QC H3Z 1X4 \n\n\n\nClosest Metro: Atwater Station \n\n\n\nClosest Bus lines: 24\, 63\, 90\, 104\, 138\, 144\, 150 \n\n\n\nAccessibility:\n\n\n\nThe QWF Office is fully accessible by wheelchair from the side entrance on Tupper Street. Once inside\, there is an elevator to the second floor\, where the QWF office is. \n\n\n\nLearn more about the office location and accessibility.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/shut-up-write-with-qwf-in-person-23/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Shut Up & Write!
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SUMMARY:Inherited Memories of Partition: A Conversation with Author Aanchal Malhotra
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 20\, 2024\, 6:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with author Aanchal Malhotra about the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. Based in Delhi\, Malhotra is the author of three acclaimed books: Remnants of a Separation\, In the Language of Remembering\, and The Book of Everlasting Things.Light snacks will be served. Presented by the Rang Collective\, Teesri Duniya Theatre\, the Bharat Bhavan Foundation\, and Montréal Serai Magazine.  \n\n\n\nPlease email rangcollective@gmail.com for more information.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/inherited-memories-of-partition-a-conversation-with-author-aanchal-malhotra/
LOCATION:Teesri Duniya Theatre\, 251 avenue des Pins Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2W1R5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: A Communist for the RCMP by Dennis Gruending
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 21\, 3:00-5:00 pm\n\n\n\nOn September 21st\, l’Euguélionne is welcoming author Dennis Gruending for a reading and Q&A about his new book A Communist for the RCMP. The discussion will be moderated by author Merrily Weisbord ! \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nFor decades until well into the 1970s\, the RCMP recruited informants to spy on Canadians\, especially anyone who could be considered left-wing or ‘progressive’: communists\, feminists\, gays rights activists\, unionists\, judges\, lawyers\, university professor and students\, indigenous activists\, members of the clergy\, peace activists\, and Quebecois separatists. A Communist for the RCMP: The Uncovered Story of a Social Movement Informant is the story of Frank Hadesbeck who was paid by the RCMP to infiltrate such groups from 1941 to 1978.  \n\n\n\nDefying every warning given to him by his RCMP handlers\, Hadesbeck kept secret notes. Using these notes\, author Dennis Gruending recounts how the RCMP spied upon thousands of Canadians. Hadesbeck’s life and career are in the past\, but RCMP surveillance continues in new guises. As Canada’s petroleum industry doubles down on its extraction plans in the oil sands and elsewhere\, the RCMP and other state agencies provide support\, routinely branding Indigenous land defenders and their allies in the environmental movement as potential terrorists. A Communist for the RCMP provides an inside account of Hadesbeck’s career and illustrates how the RCMP uses surveillance of activists to enforce the status quo.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-a-communist-for-the-rcmp-by-dennis-gruending/
LOCATION:L’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 Rue Beaudry\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
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