AGE, TIME, LITERATURE – A NEW OUTLOOK
Time: let’s give the past, present and future a new look. Literature: everything is possible.
People: there’s no 3rd age now, not even a 4th one. There’s only people that still and always have things to say and actions to carry out.
Is it wisdom? Stubborness? Let’s hear them out.
• ONLINE •
GLORIA STEINEM – A FEMINIST LIFE
Activist, journalist, and leader in the global feminist movement, Gloria Steinem continues to work to shape a juster world. In an intimate exploration of her past and present engagements, Steinem revisits her place in the struggle for equality and her hand in giving life to its future.
INTERVIEW _ 70 minutes
Participant: Gloria Steinem
Host:Chantal Maillé
FREE / ENGLISH
• EN LIGNE •
L’ITALIE ET SON HISTOIRE : RENCONTRE AVEC LA ROMANCIÈRE FRANCESCA MELANDRI
Rencontre avec la romancière italienne Francesca Melandri, dont l’oeuvre, en faisant se croiser l’intime et le collectif, interroge la difficile intégration de l’Alto Adige, le passé colonial de l’Italie fasciste et les années de plomb, épisodes violents encore refoulés au sein de l’Italie actuelle.
Avec le soutien de l’Institut culturel italien de Montréal
ENTRETIEN _ 75 minutes
Participante : Francesca Melandri
Animateur : Dominique Garand
GRATUIT / FRANÇAIS, ITALIEN
• EN LIGNE •
LE BIEN, LE MAL, PREMIERS ROMANS, PLONGÉE DANS L’ABÎME
Un homme, abîmé par une enfance marquée par la maltraitance, s’interroge sur les pouvoirs du démon. Une étudiante en lettres devient tueuse à gages et se spécialise dans les prédateurs sexuels. Dialogue entre Myriam Vincent (Québec; Furie, éditions Poètes de Brousse) et Dimitri Rouchon-Borie (France; Le démon de la colline aux loups, Le Tripode), primo-romanciers français et québécois qui, en plongeant avec brio dans la complexité humaine, ont séduit les lecteurs des clubs de lecture des Rendez-vous du premier roman.
En partenariat avec les Rendez-vous du Premier Roman et le Festival du Premier roman de Chambéry/Lectures plurielles.
CONVERSATION _ 75 minutes
Participants : Myriam Vincent, Dimitri Rouchon-Borie
Animatrice : Marie-Andrée Lamontagne
GRATUIT / FRANÇAIS
• ONLINE (Live) •
2022 HUGH MACLENNAN LECTURE – “THE BETRAYAL OF ANNE FRANK AND BEYOND “. THE PROCESS AND WORK OF ROSEMARY SULLIVAN
The Friends of the McGill Library in partnership with Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival are delighted to welcome Rosemary Sullivan as the 2022 Hugh MacLennan Lecture speaker. She is the author of fifteen books in the multiple genres of biography, memoir, poetry, travelogue, and short fiction, including Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen, which won a Governor General’s Award, The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out, Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession, Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape and a House in Marseille, Stalin’s Daughter, which won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize, the BC National Non-Fiction Award, and the RBC Charles Taylor Prize, as well as the International Plutarch Award in Biography. Her latest book, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, has been sold in twenty countries. In 2012, Rosemary Sullivan became an Officer of the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture.
The evening features a virtual conversation between Rosemary Sullivan and Anne Lagacé Dowson, the Montreal-based freelance journalist and commentator. The discussion address Rosemary Sullivan’s oeuvre, themes, and process.
Works by Rosemary Sullivan are available for purchase at Paragraphe Books.
The MacLennan Lecture is generously supported by Donald Walcot.
INTERVIEW _ 60 minutes
Participant: Rosemary Sullivan
Host: Anne Lagacé Dowson
FREE / ENGLISH
• LIBRAIRIE GALLIMARD
(3700 boulevard St Laurent) •
PREMIERS ROMANS : RENCONTREZ LES AUTRICES COUPS DE COEUR DES CLUBS !
Dialogue entre les trois primo-romanciers québécois, gagnante et finalistes, qui ont séduit les lecteurs des clubs de lecture des Rendez-vous du premier roman. Échange en présence des lecteurs, membres des clubs de lecture participants.
En collaboration avec l’UNEQ, le Festival du premier roman de Chambéry/Lectures plurielles et la librairie Gallimard.
CONVERSATION _ 90 minutes
Participants : Myriam Vincent, Chris Bergeron, Astrid Aprahamian
Animateur : Éric Simard
GRATUIT / FRANÇAIS
• HOTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •
ORAL/TRANS/MISSIONS: A PERFORMANCE RETROSPECTIVE BY DUBZZ/POET/AT-LARGE CLIFTON JOSEPH
In partnership with SpokenWeb, the Atwater Poetry Project presents Clifton Joseph, Juno Award finalist and winner of Best Dub Poet at the Canadian Reggae Music Awards. A founder of the Canadian dub tradition, Joseph will perform work from throughout his forty-year career before joining APP curator Faith Paré in conversation.
POETRY PERFORMANCE _ 90 minutes
Participant: Clifton Joseph
Host: Faith Paré, Jason Camlot
FREE / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •
JOLY OLE FICTIONS: THE 19th CENTURY’S PRESENT
From Dorothy Wordsworth’s due to Victoriana in verse, Kathleen Winter, author of Undersong, and Jason Camlot, author of Vlarf, have both taken to recesses of the Britain’s 19th century as careful, creative collectors. Join them as they explore the movement of their collections within their latest books.
CONVERSATION _ 75 minutes
Participants: Jason Camlot, Kathleen Winter
Host: Ronjaunee Chatterjee
$7 / ENGLISH
• GRANDE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU QUÉBEC (Auditorium) •
QUEL EST LE POUVOIR DU ROMAN AUJOURD’HUI? DIALOGUE ENTRE NANCY HUSTON ET ALAIN FARAH
Dans un paysage médiatique où l’offre de fiction est immense, quelle est aujourd’hui la place du roman dans notre vision du monde et dans l’imaginaire collectif ? Au-delà de son aptitude à saisir la « vie ordinaire », quelle mémoire ou quels mythes le roman peut-il encore mettre en œuvre ? Ce dialogue cherchera des réponses à la lumière des moyens concrets dont dispose l’écriture romanesque. À noter que la participation de Nancy Huston sera en visioconférence.
En partenariat avec l’Académie des lettres du Québec.
CONVERSATION EN DUO _ 90 minutes
Participants : Nancy Huston, Alain Farah
Animateur : Michel Biron
7$ / FRANÇAIS
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •
THE PAST AT PLAY: OLD STORIES, NEW TALES
For Eden Robinson, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Norma Dunning, the pull of the past is an important and fruitful one. Whether folkloric, personal or historical, what came before has a way of tensioning the weave of many stories yet to come. Join the three renowned novelists in a conversation about the roles of histories and inheritances that come to life in their work.
PANEL _ 75 minutes
Participants: Eden Robinson, Norma Dunning, Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Host: Dimitri Nasrallah
$7 / ENGLISH
• À L’HÔTEL 10 (Salle St-Laurent) •
VIOLENCE PHYSIQUE ET ROMANS : COMMENT L’ÉCRIRE ?
Maltraitance, guerres, attentats, meurtres: la violence physique est une réalité. Comment la traduire en littérature ? Sans complaisance, mais sans atténuer sa charge narrative. Les écueils sont nombreux. La nécessité, impérieuse. Y a-t-il un bon usage de la violence en littérature? Quatre romanciers, deux qui ont fait des débuts remarqués et deux chevronnés, discutent du pouvoir des mots confrontés au réel.
En partenariat avec les Rendez-vous du Premier Roman et le Festival du Premier roman de Chambéry/Lectures plurielles.
TABLE RONDE _ 75 minutes
Participants : Myriam Vincent, Dimitri Rouchon-Borie, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Perrine Leblanc
Animateur : Guillaume Asselin
7 $ / FRANÇAIS
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •
DEFLECTED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: ON FAMILY AND SEEKING A SENSE OF HOME
Three writers — from United States, from Brazil, from Canada — share a deep connection to Argentina including a family history of finding refuge in another country and questions that remain unanswered. Julián Fuks, Marc Raboy and Pablo Boczkowski discuss the impact of this sense of displacement on their writing, and their quest to fill in the blanks.
Avec le soutien du Consulat général de France à Québec et du Consulat général du Brésil à Montréal
PANEL _ 75 minutes
Participants: Julián Fuks, Marc Raboy, Pablo Boczkowski
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
$7 / ENGLISH
• McCORD MUSEUM (Auditorium) •
THE FACE OF ANTISEMITISM TODAY
Anne Frank’s diary has moved the whole world. However, anti-Semitism has not disappeared. What forms does it take today? Is everyone’s awareness of this issue as sharp as it was in the aftermath of the Second World War, when readers discovered the confined world of little Anne in Amsterdam and her tragic end? Rosemary Sullivan and Yishaï Sarid discuss the face of the antisemitism today.
PANEL _ 75 minutes
Participants: Rosemary Sullivan, Yishaï Sarid
Host: Ariela Freedman
$7 / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Terrasse) •
LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF ANTI-RACISM (AR), ANTI-OPPRESSION (AO) AND DECOLONIZATION (DC)
This panel explores the relationship between literature and AR/AO/DC movements. How do writers from Indigenous, diasporic, and other marginalized backgrounds reflect elements of AR/AO/DC in their works? Beyond revealing the impact of colonialist power, can literature itself play a role in dismantling it?
In partnership with the Quebec Writers’ Federation.
PANEL _ 75 minutes
Participants: Rana Bose, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Yves Sioui-Durand
Host: Deborah Forde
FREE / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle St-Laurent) •
RAW MEMORY / MÉMOIRE À VIF
With new knowledge and updated visions, our stance on the past continues to evolve. In recent years, various perspectives (postcolonial, feminist, Indigenous) have profoundly impacted our reading of history. Novelists, who translate life, and essayists, who reflect on the questions it brings up, inevitably echo this shift. Four writers, also laureates of the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Awards, discuss that contentious subject: with what spirit should we revisit the past? What are the present’s blind spots? Simply put, how might we translate life, life in all its complexity?
This event is organized in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts to celebrate the finalists and winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards.
PANEL _ 75 minutes
Participants: Mishka Lavigne, Fanny Britt, Norma Dunning, Sadiqa de Meijer
Host: Katia Grubisic
$7 / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• McCORD MUSEUM (Auditorium) •
RIGHT ON TIME: QUEER ERAS, QUEER WRITING
Emerging, established, legendary—marking the occasion of Tomson Highway’s 2022 awarding of the Violet Prize, leading LGBTQ+ writers consider past, present and future eras of queer literatures. Join Olivia Tapiero, Helen Chau Bradley, Walter Scott and Highway himself for a conversation around what writing while queer has been, is, and could be moving forward.
PANEL _ 75 minutes
Participants:Tomson Highway, Olivia Tapiero,
H Felix Chau Bradley, Christopher DiRaddo
Host: Leila Marshy
$7 / ENGLISH
THANKS TO THE BLUE METROPOLIS FOUNDATION’S MAJOR PARTNERS WHO SUPPORT THE 2022 FESTIVAL AND OUR 2021-2022 EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS
MERCI AUX PARTENAIRES MAJEURS DE LA FONDATION METROPOLIS BLEU QUI SOUTIENNENT LE FESTIVAL 2022 ET NOS PROGRAMMES ÉDUCATIFS ET SOCIAUX 2021-2022
