Rae Spoon + Geoff Berner at Casa del Popolo

Rae Spoon is an award-winning Canadian musician, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and author. They have released eight solo albums spanning folk, indie rock and electronic genres over the past twelve years and have toured across Canada and internationally. Their live shows swing between audience singalongs and large danceable arrangements, which keep them playing everywhere from folk festivals and house concerts to rock concerts and theatres.

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Visual Arts Centre Readings

An Evening of Poetry & Prose & Music w/ Ian Ferrier, Deanna Radford, Stephen Morrissey, Cora Siré, Michael Carrino, Ilona Martonfi, Colleen Gray, Maxianne Berger, and music by Mike Di Sclafani.

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Véhicule Press Poetry Launch & Tribute to Alden Nowlan

Jim Johnstone and Marc di Saverio will read from their new collections, then six Montreal poets (Mark Abley, Geoffrey Cook, Charlotte Hussey, Sue MacLeod, Marc Plourde, and Derek Webster) will read their favourite poems by Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) for the launch of Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan, edited by Brian Bartlett.

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Speakup: The Montreal Inter-Active Poetry Exchange

“SPEAKUP is a new poetry reading series with a difference. And that difference is audience engagement. At each SPEAKUP event, three poets each read a single poem and the next half hour is devoted to a discussion of the experience of the poem between the reader and the audience. Listeners have copies of the poem as reference and a takeaway from the evening.”

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