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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 11:30 AM #52 |
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| SCIENCE THAT MATTERS | |
| This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Tijs Goldschmidt, a Dutch writer and an evolutionary biologist will present a public lecture celebrating the impact and legacy of Charles Darwin on western thought and culture. With Tijs Goldschmidt. Hosted by Julie Keith. Duration: 1:15 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - ST-LAURENT | ENGLISH - |
5,00 $
LECTURE |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 12:00 PM #53 |
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| FACE À FACE : DANIEL MENDELSOHN | |
| L'écrivain et critique littéraire américain, auteur du best-seller Les disparus et de L'étreinte fugitive, en conversation avec Elias Levy sur l'écriture d'un tryptique littéraire sur la mémoire et l'identité. With Daniel Mendelsohn. Hosted by Elias Levy. Duration: 1:15 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - VICTORIA | FRANÇAIS - |
10,00 $
ENTREVUE SUR SCÈNE |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 12:00 PM #54 |
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| UN APRÈS-MIDI DE LECTURE | |
| Des auteurs québécois et internationaux lisent des extraits de leur plus récent ouvrage. With Marie-Andrée Lamontagne, Laure Adler, Alain Farah, Nicolas Gilbert, Catherine Mavrikakis. Hosted by Patrick Coleman. Duration: 1:00 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - VERSAILLES | FRANÇAIS - |
GRATUIT / FREE
LECTURES |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 12:00 PM #55 |
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| free lutz! | |
| Projet interactif de poésie numérique de Johannes Auer, artiste Web allemand. À partir de mots tirés du Château de Kafka, l’œuvre free lutz! génère des phrases aléatoires. Ce texte aux accents Dada sera lu par Mathieu Lippé. Les spectateurs participeront à l'élaboration du texte par le biais des ordinateurs sur place ou en utilisant leurs propres téléphones cellulaires, assistants personnels de poche, etc. Les internautes pourront également co-écrire le texte et suivre la performance grâce à une retransmission en direct (www.freelutz-montreal2009.ca). Cette œuvre interactive permet de réfléchir sur l'évolution de la littérature électronique du premier texte généré sur ordinateur en 1959 par Theo Lutz à la culture numérique contemporaine.
With Johannes Auer, Mathieu Lippé. Duration: 0:30 Goethe-Institut, Laboratoire NT2 : Nouvelles technologies, nouvelles textualités |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - FOYER RÉGENCE | FRANÇAIS - |
GRATUIT / FREE
SPECTACLE LITTÉRAIRE |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 12:30 PM #56 |
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| BECOMING A WRITER | |
| This is one of the most popular of Blue Metropolis events, as writers share their stories about how they emerged as writers. Meet Miguel Syjuco, winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize for an unpublished first novel and Montreal writers with stories of inspiration and despair, sheer doggedness and accomplishment.
With Licia Canton, Claire Holden Rothman, Miguel Syjuco, Alice Zorn. Hosted by Jeanette Kelly. Duration: 1:15 CBC Blue |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - RÉGENCE A | ENGLISH - |
10,00 $
PANEL DISCUSSION |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 1:00 PM #57 |
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| WORDS THAT MATTER: WRITING LIVES | |
| Adrienne Clarkson is the author of a biography of Norman Bethune as well as the memoir Heart Matters, M.G. Vassanji has just written about Mordecai Richler, and Blema Steinberg's most recent book is biography of three great women leaders. What is it that makes books about other people's lives so interesting? With Adrienne Clarkson, Blema Steinberg, M. G. Vassanji. Hosted by Joel Yanofsky. Duration: 1:15 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - ST-CHARLES | ENGLISH - |
10,00 $
PANEL DISCUSSION |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 1:30 PM #58 |
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| METROPLIS AZUL : TALLER DE ESCRITURA | |
| Cet atelier offert en espagnol débutera par une réflexion sur les enjeux théoriques de la poésie mis en sène à travers la pratique littéraire des poètes. Cette méditation sur la poésie nous permettra d’aborder l’inspiration, la chance, la contrainte et les rituels ainsi que le rôle de l’édition, de la discipline et de l’engagement. Les participants seront invités à écrire des textes et à les partager avec le reste du groupe. Une expérience d’écriture en espagnol est fortement recommandée. A Spanish-language poetry workshop. Poetry writing experience in Spanish would be highly desired. With Mercedes Roffé. Hosted by Mercedès Roffé. Duration: 3:00 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - 528 | SPANISH - |
30,00 $
ATELIER |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 1:30 PM #59 |
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| WRITERS IN PERIL | |
| An opportunity to hear from festival participants who have first-hand knowledge of the dangers that writers and journalists face in bearing witness to the events of their day.
With Nikahang Koswar, Margaret MacMillan, Linda Polman, Sergio Ramírez. Hosted by Dennis Trudeau. Duration: 1:15 Reporters Without Borders, Media@McGill |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - ST-LAURENT | ENGLISH - |
10,00 $
PANEL DISCUSSION |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 1:30 PM #60 |
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| TRANSLATION SLAM / LE DIRE AUTREMENT | |
| Découvrez ou redécouvrez la séance de traduction en direct, l'événement signature de la Fondation. Deux poètes, un francophone et un anglophone, sont chacun traduits par deux traducteurs. Two poets - one francophone and one anglophone - will each be translated by two different translators. With Nicole Perron-Martel, Oana Avasilichioaei, Marc-André Brouillette, Patricia Claxton, Louise Desjardins, Hugh Hazelton. Hosted by Émile Martel. Duration: 1:15 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - CARTIER AB | FRANÇAIS - + ENGLISH |
10,00 $
TABLE RONDE |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 2:00 PM #61 |
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| FACE TO FACE: A. S. BYATT | |
| One of the most distinguished and international of contemporary novelists, A.S. Byatt won the Booker Prize for Possession in 1990 and is now not only the winner of the 2009 Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand prix but is also launching her latest novel, The Children's Book, in Montreal during the festival. Her onstage conversation with Eleanor Wachtel is not to be missed.
With A.S. Byatt. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel. Duration: 1:30 CBC Blue |
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| REGENCE A - RÉGENCE A | ENGLISH - |
15,00 $
ONSTAGE INTERVIEW |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 3:00 PM #62 |
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| FACE TO FACE WITH TARIQ ALI | |
| Tariq Ali is a Pakistani Londoner who is one of the foremost -- and among the most forthright and engaging -- public intellectuals of our day. He meets Urdu-speaking Montrealers in Blue Met's first-ever event in Urdu.
With Tariq Ali. Hosted by Feroz Mehdi. Duration: 1:15 Kabir Cultural Centre |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - AUDITORIUM | URDU - |
5,00 $
ONSTAGE INTERVIEW |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 3:00 PM #63 |
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| REGARD SUR LES NOUVEAUX VISAGES D'ICI | |
| La littérature actuelle québécoise est en effervescence. De nouveaux lieux de diffusion (revues, observatoires, site web, blogues, maisons d'édition) se relaient pour promouvoir les jeunes auteurs contemporains. Marie-Andrée Lamontagne dresse un portrait de cette communauté en compagnie de l'écrivain Alain Farah, d'Amélie Paquet de la revue Salon double et de Jean-François Chassay, professeur de littérature à l'UQÀM. With Amélie Paquet, Jean-François Chassay, Alain Farah. Hosted by Marie-Andrée Lamontagne. Duration: 1:15 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - ST-CHARLES | FRANÇAIS - |
5,00 $
TABLE RONDE |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 3:30 PM #64 |
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| UN APRÈS-MIDI DE LECTURE | |
| Des auteurs québécois et internationaux lisent des extraits de leur plus récent ouvrage. With Stéphane Audeguy, Martine Batanian, Nicolas Dickner, Dominique Fortier. Hosted by Patrick Coleman. Duration: 1:00 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - VERSAILLES | FRANÇAIS - |
GRATUIT / FREE
LECTURES |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 3:30 PM #65 |
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| free lutz! | |
| Interactive digital poetry project with Johannes Auer, German Web artist. Using words taken from Kafka's The Castle, Free Lutz! generates random sentences. The Dada-accented text will be read by Kaie Kellough. The public will participate in creating the text by using onsite computers or their own cell phones, PDAs, etc. Thanks to a live broadcast (http://www.freelutz-montreal2009.ca/), Internet users will also be able to co-write the text and to view the performance. This interactive work allows us to reflect on the first computer-generated literary text in 1959 by Theo Lutz and contemporary digital culture.
With Johannes Auer, Kaie Kellough. Duration: 0:30 Goethe-Institut, Laboratoire NT2 : Nouvelles technologies, nouvelles textualités |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - FOYER RÉGENCE | ENGLISH - |
GRATUIT / FREE
LITERARY SHOW |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 4:00 PM #66 |
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| WORDS THAT MATTER: HISTORY - HANDLE WITH CARE | |
| History can help us, for example to understand ourselves and others, but it can also be dangerous when it is used to justify hatreds or wrong-headed policies. With Margaret MacMillan. Hosted by Ken Alexander. Duration: 1:15 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - CARTIER AB | ENGLISH - |
10,00 $
LECTURE |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 4:00 PM #67 |
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| WHY I WRITE | |
| The life of a writer is notoriously lonely, difficult, frustrating and uncertain. So why do people not only do it, but continue to do it? We ask accomplished contemporary writers for their answers.
With Donald Antrim, Catherine Mavrikakis, Daniel Mendelsohn, Nino Ricci. Hosted by Joanne Vrakas. Duration: 1:15 CBC Blue |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - RÉGENCE A | ENGLISH - |
10,00 $
PANEL DISCUSSION |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 4:00 PM #68 |
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| QUEL AVENIR POUR LE THÉÂTRE QUÉBÉCOIS | |
| Table ronde sur le théâtre québécois en compagnie de dramatuges qui ont tous marqué leur génération et la scène théâtrale d'ici et d'ailleurs. With Justin Laramée, Suzanne Lebeau, Jean-Claude Germain. Hosted by Winston McQuade. Duration: 1:15 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - VICTORIA | FRANÇAIS - |
5,00 $
TABLE RONDE |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 5:00 PM #69 |
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| FENCES IN BREATHING | |
| Lancement et lecture. Reading of Fences in Breathing (La Capture du sombre), an novel by Nicole Brossard translated by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood.
With Nicole Brossard, Suzanne de Lotbinière-Hartwood. Hosted by Oana Avasilichioaei. Duration: 2:00 Coach House Books |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - LES COURANTS | FRANÇAIS - + ENGLISH |
GRATUIT / FREE
LAUNCH |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 5:00 PM #70 |
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| LA FORCE DES MOTS : INSTRUIRE OU DIVERTIR | |
| Quel est le rôle des auteurs : instruire, divertir ou un peu des deux ? Comment réconcilier ces deux conceptions opposées de la littérature ? With Anne Plantagenet, Nicolas Dickner, François Vallejo, Michel Vézina. Hosted by Caroline Morin. Duration: 1:15 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - VERRIÈRE AB | FRANÇAIS - |
5,00 $
TABLE RONDE |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 5:30 PM #71 |
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| WORDS THAT MATTER: PAKISTAN | |
| Blue Metropolis's South Asian programming this year includes a focus on Pakistan, with a conversation with Pakistan-born Tariq Ali, whose most recent book is The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power.
With Tariq Ali. Hosted by Paul Kennedy. Duration: 1:15 CBC Blue |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - RÉGENCE A | ENGLISH - |
10,00 $
ONSTAGE INTERVIEW |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 5:30 PM #72 |
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| WORDS THAT MATTER: HUNGARY | |
| Eighteen years after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Hungary has passed through a period of massive social, political, and cultural change. Join two accomplished young writers and one of the new generation of literary publishers to explore how this history impacts writing in Hungary today.
With Janos Lackfi, Miklós Nagy, Krisztina Tóth. Hosted by Linda Leith. Duration: 1:15 Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - ST-LAURENT | ENGLISH - |
5,00 $
PANEL DISCUSSION |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 6:00 PM #73 |
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| MON PAYS MÉTIS : QUELQUES VÉRITÉS AU SUJET DU CANADA | |
| John Ralston Saul poursuit son exploration de la psyché canadienne et convie le public à découvrir dans cet essai original et audacieux l'idée que nous formons une société métisse d'inspiration amérindienne. With John Ralston Saul. Hosted by Maurice Forget. Duration: 1:15 |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - CARTIER AB | FRANÇAIS - |
10,00 $
CONFÉRENCE |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 6:00 PM #74 |
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| ECRIVAINS EN PÉRIL: LE JOURNALISME CULTUREL ET LITTÉRAIRE EN AMÉRIQUE LATINE / PERIODISMO CULTURAL Y LITERARIO EN AMERICA LATINA | |
| La tradition et la pratique du journalisme culturel et littéraire latino-américain sont intimement liés avec la tradition littéraire -- et avec la politique. La tradición y la práctica del periodismo cultural y literario en América latina caminan de manos dadas con su tradición literaria -- y con la política.
With Juana Libedinsky, Sergio Ramírez, Carol Zardetto. Hosted by Ingrid Bejerman. Duration: 1:15 Reporters sans frontières, Média@McGill |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - ST-CHARLES | SPANISH - |
5,00 $
TABLE RONDE |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 7:00 PM #75 |
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| LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE BIBLE! | |
| The greatest story ever told gets a comic makeover by novelist (Lenny Bruce is Dead) and host of CBC Radio’s WireTap Jonathan Goldstein, in conversation with Jian Ghomeshi. Seriously.
With Jonathan Goldstein. Hosted by Jian Ghomeshi. Duration: 1:15 CBC Blue |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - RÉGENCE A | ENGLISH - |
10,00 $
ONSTAGE INTERVIEW |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2009 @ 7:00 PM #76 |
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| LA FORCE DES MOTS : SYRIE | |
| Des écrivains syriens, vivant à Damas et à Londres parlent de la situation actuelle de l’édition en Syrie.
With Abdul Nabi Isstaif, Zakaria Tamer. Hosted by John Asfour. Duration: 1:15 The British Council |
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| DELTA CENTRE-VILLE - VERSAILLES | ARABIC - |
5,00 $
TABLE RONDE |
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