May 20 7:30 pm
Riverbed Reading Series, 7:30pm ET
A new interdisciplinary arts series launches!
With Conyer Clayton, Emily Kellogg, David Ly, & Linsey Wellman.
More info & link here.
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May 21 8:00 pm
House House Press: Quarantine Reading Series on IG Live
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May 22 5:00 pm
#CanadaPerforms presents Lindsay Wong, 5pm EDT
Link to the reading here.
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May 22 8:00 pm
Sound On InstaReading Series | Jillian Christmas and Lauren Turner, 5pm PT (8pm ET)
Link to IG Live here!
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May 25 7:00 pm
Virtual Launch – David Ly launches Mythical Man, 7pm ET
Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly hosts David Ly on Instagram Live for a virtual launch of Mythical Man. More info here & IG here.
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June 5 8:00 pm
Sound On InstaReadings Series, 5pm PT in Vancouver (8pm ET in Montreal)
Sound On InstaReadings Series presents Conyer Clayton reading from WE SHED OUR SKIN LIKE DYNAMITE (@guernicaeditions) and Mercedes Eng reading from MY YT MAMA (@talonbooks). Tune in on IG live here: https://www.instagram.com/soundonreadings/.
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June 6 9:00 pm
Resonance Cafe Livestream, with all donations go to the NAACP and to First People Justice Center of Montreal.
More info here.
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June 7 1:00 pm
The 2020 QWF Mentorship Reading – ONLINE, 1pm ET
RSVP here for a link to the reading here – and read more about it below.
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June 11 6:00 pm
Tact, Distance, Excavation: An Evening with Jason Camlot, Avleen K. Mokha, and Kim Trainor, presented by Poetry Matters (McGill)
More info here.
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June 11 8:00 pm
House House Press presents the last reading of the Quarantine Reading Series, 8pm ET
With Alize Zorlutuna and Shazia Hafiz Ramji!
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June 12 7:00 pm
House Party Poetry Series #1, 7pm ET
“Join Editors Canada and Ottawa’s poetry community for a Zoom poetry reading Friday, June 12, 2020 from 7–9 p.m. Poets are Ellen Chang-Richardson, Conyer Clayton, Chris Johnson, Christine McNair, and Pearl Pirie, who will each share a poetry-editing tip as well as invite us into their space (virtually) for some show and tell.” More info here.
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June 18 5:30 pm
Metonymy Press and L’Euguélionne present Poetry for the Summer Soul
With Kama La Mackerel, Powetik, and Shanice Nicole. Full info here.
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June 25 4:00 pm
Feminist Futures Presents: Deanna Radford & Alisha Dukelow
Feminist Futures Presents: Deanna Radford & Alisha Dukelow, co-presented by the Concordia Community Solidarity Co-op Bookstore with hosts Tara McGowan-Ross and Sina Queyras.
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June 26 8:00 pm
Sound On InstaReadings Series, 5pm PT (8pm ET)
The final show of the season is happening this Friday, June 26 @ 5PM PT (8pm ET), sponsored by @readlocalbc! Betsy Warland and Alison Acheson will read from their latest books. Tune in on IG live here: https://www.instagram.com/soundonreadings/
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July 7 6:30 pm
Art Song Lab 2020 Poetry Reading, 6:30 PDT (9:30 EDT)
Join Art Song Lab 2020 Guest Poet Aislinn Hunter and the 2020 ASL poets for an evening of poetry readings online through Massy Books!
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July 9 6:00 pm
Book Launch: All Flowers Bloom by Kawika Guillermo, 6pm PDT (9pm EDT)
Massy Books presents a special online book launch in celebration of Kawika Guillermo’s All Flowers Bloom with a reading and discussion moderated by Doretta Lau. This free event will be hosted online via Zoom.
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July 9 7:30 pm
Virtual Voice & Verse: Amplifying Black & Indigenous Voices
Presented by Montreal’s Mcsway Poetry Collective – hosted by Brandon Dawson-Jarvis (of Grove Campus) and featuring Billie the Kid – the next Virtual Voice & Verse is dedicated to amplifying Black and Indigenous voices. All proceeds will be donated to AfriqueauFéminin and Native Friendship Center of Montreal-Centre d’Amitié Autochtone de Montréal.
Sign-up, tickets & more info here!
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July 14 8:00 pm
A reading with Domenica Martinello, 8pm EDT
For the second reading in this summer series, join Domenica Martinello for a poetry reading, followed by a Q&A.
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July 23 8:00 pm
Across the Platform: An Open Mic – online, 8pm EDT
The Quebec Writers’ Federation and ARTS By The People present…
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July 30 7:00 pm
Black Writers Out Loud, hosted by the Quebec Writers’ Federation, 7pm EDT
Diane Roberts, Tali Taliwah (aka Nantali Indongo), and Nigel Thomas in conversation with Deborah Forde.
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