BOOK LAUNCHES
AND AFFILIATED ACTIVITIES
Book launches, readings, literary shows. To discover, know, start conversations,
build relationships and read, read again, and read more, with full knowledge of the facts.
• GOETHE-INSTITUT •
PROLL! + ELLY: GERMAN AUTHOR MAIKE WETZEL IN CONVERSATION WITH SHELLEY POMERANCE
Proll!: Murat, Juri and Cornelia are among the so-called “working poor” — as click workers, in a cardboard factory, and as freelance parcel deliverers, they are only linked by their low wages. Each one fights on his or her own. A film about those down at the bottom. A film about the loneliness of our time. Elly: Eleven-year-old Elly is missing. After an extensive police search she is presumed dead, and her family must learn to live with a gaping hole in their lives. Then, four years later, she reappears. But soon her parents and sister are plagued by doubts. Is this stranger really the same little girl who went missing? A gripping tale of grief, longing, and doubt, which takes every parent’s greatest fear and lets it play out to an emotionally powerful, memorable climax. Two short films and the opportunity to meet the writer after the screening.
In partnership with the Goethe-Institut of Montreal.
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION _ 90 MINUTES
Participant: Maike Wetzel
Host: Shelley Pomerance
FREE / ENGLISH, DEUTSCH
JOURNÉE DU POÈME À PORTER
(Toute la journée et en ligne et dans plusieurs librairies indépendantes et bibliothèques publiques)
La Journée du poème à porter célèbre la poésie de manière participative. À cette occasion, La poésie partout organise différentes activités et propose 10 textes inédits, disponibles en ligne et distribués sous forme de cartes postales dans plusieurs librairies et bibliothèques. Partagez un poème avec le mot-clic #poèmeàporter ce jour-là.
Pour plus de détails, visitez www.poemeaporter.com
Participants: Anick Arsenault, Marie-Ève Comtois, Denise Desautels, Valérie Forgues, Flavia Garcia, Marcela Huerta, Andrée Levesque Sioui, Camille Readman Prud’homme, Alasdair Rees, Charles Sagalane
Host: Mimi Haddam, Jonathan Lamy et Alice Rivard
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• ONLINE •
METONYMY PRESS LAUNCHES LOTE
Metonymy Press is proud to be publishing the Canadian edition of Shola von Reinhold’s award-winning debut novel LOTE. Join the Glasgow-based author for a reading followed by a conversation with Montreal bookseller, writer, and Weird Era podcast co-host Sruti Islam.
BOOK LAUNCH _ 60 minutes
Participant: Shola von Reinhold
Host: Sruti Islam
FREE / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •
LOOKING FOR ALICIA : THE UNFINISHED LIFE OF AN ARGENTINIAN REBEL
A conversation about Marc Raboy’s brand-new biography of a radical young idealist, her determination to make a difference in the world, and her disappearance in 1976, revealing the human cost and undying legacy of Argentina’s descent into right-wing madness.
BOOK LAUNCH _ 60 minutes
Participant: Marc Raboy
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
FREE / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle St-Laurent) •
LAUNCH LINDA LEITH PUBLISHING
Launch of English and French language books from Linda Leith Publishing, including titles from Fall 2021 to Spring 2022.
Authors and translators will be present.
BOOK LAUNCH _ 120 minutes
Authors: André K. Baby, Denis Coupal, Ariela Freedman, Jack Hannan, Leila Marshy, Marc Ménard, Tarah Schwartz
Translators: Joanna Gruda, Peter McCambridge, Rachel Martinez, Sophie Voillot
Host: Linda Leith, Leila Marshy
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• CAFÉ CLÉOPÂTRE (1230, boul. Saint-Laurent ) •
DIAL-A-POEM READING / LECTURE ALLÔ-POÈMES
Expozine celebrate its twenty years and, for the occasion, is presenting new poets to participate in Dial-A-Poem / Allô-poèmes! Come meet us and hear the latest voices from the community or save 514-558-8649 in your contact list, to hear a poem in the language of your choice, any time, any place.
Doors at 6:30PM!
READINGS _ 60 minutes
Participants: Claudie Bellemare, Marcela Huerta, Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Lucile de Pesloüan, Symon Henry, H. Nigel Thomas, Polyplotte, David Bradford
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• HOTEL 10 (Hall) •
POETRY BY MEMORY: A RECORDING BOOTH
SpokenWeb, a research program that preserves literary sound recordings, will run a booth on site where festival attendees will be invited to recite lines from a poem they know by heart into a microphone for preservation on a reel to reel tape. This will contribute to a project that records the poems we carry around with us, sometimes since childhood, and reflects on why we memorize poems. All languages welcome
WORKSHOP _ 120 minutes
Participants: SpokenWeb research team members
Host: Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• PARC ETHEL STARK (corner Prince Arthur and Clark) •
LÉA ROBACK: PIONEER OF THE PICKET LINE
From sweatshops to picket lines, discover the stories of Léa and her comrades–factory workers, union organizers, radicals–who paved the way for the modern labour movement and workers’ and women’s rights in Montréal.
Starting point: Parc Ethel Stark, corner Prince Arthur and Clark; Ending Point: av. Mont-Royal
WALKING TOUR _ 120 minutes
Host: Melanie Leavitt
$7 / ENGLISH
• À L’HÔTEL 10 (Terrasse) •
SAVOIR LES MARGES : EXPLORER LES MARGINALITÉS EN RECHERCHE CRÉATION
Quelles sont les potentialités de la recherche-création? Comment les situations de marginalité influencent-elles les pratiques de recherche-création? Comment la recherche-création permet-elle de reprendre l’agentivité de son récit? Nicholas Dawson et Marie-Claude Garneau, qui ont codirigé l’ouvrage collectif, Savoir les marges (éd. Du Remue-ménage), discutent de ces questions au cœur de l’enseignement et de la pratique des arts.
En partenariat avec les éditions du Remue-ménage.
TABLE RONDE _ 75 minutes
Participants : Nicholas Dawson, Marie-Claude Garneau
Animatrice : Marie-Pier Lafontaine
GRATUIT / FRANÇAIS
• À LA 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 Executive) •
SPOKENWEB LISTENING PRACTICE
Working with Spokenweb’s digital archives of historical litearary sound recordings, this session will introduce ideas and methods of listening to sound archives, and will lead participants in listening to and discussion of a selection of clips of recordings that document Montreal poetry readings from 1960s to the present.
WORKSHOP _ 75 minutes
Participants: Deanna Fong, Klara du Plessis, Frances-Grace Fyfe, Salena Wiener
Host: Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod
FREE / ENGLISH
• GRANDE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU QUÉBEC (Auditorium) •
CABARET LITTÉRAIRE DE L’AUTRE MONDE
Six artistes LGBTQ+ vont livrer sur scène de courts textes de science-fiction, de fantasy et de réalisme magique qui mettent en lumière des enjeux et des personnages queers. Quoi de plus naturel que de marier la diversité sexuelle et de genres à des littératures réputées pour leur ouverture? Non seulement les personnes queers ont l’habitude de redéfinir le monde au quotidien, mais elles ont aussi la capacité de faire vibrer le public avec leurs voix singulières.
SHOW _ 90 MINUTES
Participants: Jeanne A. Debats, Chris Bergeron, Peter Dubé, Su J. Sokol, Ayavi Lake, Neil Smith
Host: Samuel Larochelle
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• HOTEL 10 (Terrasse) •
NO STARS IN THE SKY
No Stars in the Sky (House of Anansi) is new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz, shining a light on the crises that concern her most: the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and the generalized racial and domestic violence that has turned life into a constant struggle for survival.
BOOK LAUNCH _ 75 minutes
Participant: Martha Bátiz
Host: Gina Beltrán
FREE / ENGLISH, SPANISH
• À L’HÔTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •
LES NOUVEAUX COURANTS DE LA LITTÉRATURE QUÉBÉCOISE
La revue L’Inconvénient souligne la parution de son numéro 88 en invitant des écrivaines et des écrivains à lire des extraits de leurs ouvrages emblématiques des nouveaux courants de la littérature québécoise.
LECTURES _ 75 minutes
Participants : Patrick Nicol, Audrée Wilhelmy, Patrice Lessard
Animateur : Mathieu Belisle
GRATUIT / FRANÇAIS
• ST JAMES UNITED CHURCH •
NEW IDEAS NEED OLD BUILDING
The role of an historic building like St. James United in the larger Montreal community will be discussed on a panel with Montreal entrepreneur and management consultant Félix-Antoine Jolicoeur, along with members from the MCM and St. James community of friends who will share their experiences and work, and discuss the idea of being people of various faiths in a “post-secular” world.
PANEL _ 60 minutes
Participants: Rev. Paula Kline, Rev. Arlen Bonar, Anwar Alhjooj, Félix-Antoine Joli-Coeur
Host: Royal Orr
FREE / 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 (Hall) •
POETRY BY MEMORY: A RECORDING BOOTH
SpokenWeb, a research program that preserves literary sound recordings, will run a booth on site where festival attendees will be invited to recite lines from a poem they know by heart into a microphone for preservation on a reel to reel tape. This will contribute to a project that records the poems we carry around with us, sometimes since childhood, and reflects on why we memorize poems. All languages welcome
Workshop _ 120 minutes
Participants: SpokenWeb research team members
Host: Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• HOTEL 10 (Terrasse) •
SOUNDING UNDERNAMES, A SPOKENWEB POETRY READING AND CONVERSATION
How does poetry sound undernames, the words forgotten or overwritten by colonialism and diaspora? Languages are often superimposed, overdubbed, or remapped, but deep listening in writing may help unearth what has been silenced. This reading and discussion with three poets who write across languages and cultures brings the marginal to the forefront of poetics.
Participants: Carlos A. Pittella, Faith Paré, Klara du Plessis
Host: Katherine McLeod
READINGS _ 75 minutes
FREE / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •
OUR RADICAL ROOTS
Two Quebec writers explore the dramatic birth of labour activism, socialism, and communism in Quebec and Canada. In the novel Léa (2022) by Ariela Freedman, and the much-anticipated revised edition of Merrily’s Weisbord’s classic The Strangest Dream, we bear witness to the legacy of Canadian communists. Their beliefs and struggle for a better world inspire and resonate today.
PANEL _ 75 minutes
Participants: Ariela Freedman, Merrily Weisbord
Host: Josh Freed
$7 / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Saint-Laurent) •
THE JOURNALISM MANIFESTO
Focusing on the relevance of elites, norms and audiences, media scholars Zelizer, Boczkowski and Anderson reveal how these previously integral components of journalism have become outdated in this authoritative manifesto, arguing that journalism has become decoupled from the dynamics of everyday life in contemporary society and outlines pathways for fixing this essential institution of democracy.
BOOK LAUNCH _ 90 minutes
Participants: Pablo Boczkowski (Northwestern University), Carrie Rentschler (McGill University), Sandra Gabriele (Concordia University)
Host: Ingrid Bejerman
FREE / ENGLISH
• ESPACE CIDIHCA (430 rue Sainte-Hélène, suite 405 ) •
GESTES, REGARDS ET PAROLES DE JEUNES DE QUARTIERS MARGINALISÉS
L’exposition réunit des photographies, dessins et propos de jeunes de quartiers marginalisés issus de quatre villes du monde : il s’agit ici des quartiers nord de Montréal, de Grigny (Paris, France), Delmas 2 (Port-au-Prince, Haïti) et enfin, de Rocinha (Rio de Janeiro, Brésil). De jeunes qui vivent la précarité, le racisme, la violence et la discrimination. Bien que marqués par leurs origines et leurs quartiers, ils s’engagent pour la transformation du monde qui les a vus grandir. Par les images qu’ils ont produit lors de marches et d’ateliers, ils montrent la beauté de ce qu’ils sont et de leur milieu, leur désir de justice et leur droit à la beauté du monde qui est aussi la leur. Leurs regards et leurs paroles évoquent les méfaits des préjugés qui blessent et la recherche d’une cohabitation nouvelle entre les villes-centre et les « villes d’à côté ».
Une exposition présentée par le CIDIHCA.
infocidihca@gmail.com
EXHIBITION
Commissariat : Francine Saillant, Sarah Bourdages Duclot, Frantz Voltaire
FREE
May 5 to June 5, 2022
• PARC J.A.T COALLIER (Contrecoeur) •
MARCHE LITTÉRAIRE – CONTRECOEUR, DANS MES YEUX, DANS MA TÊTE
Pour la première fois, Culture C s’associe à Metropolis Bleu pour une activité toute spéciale : le 14 mai, enfilez vos espadrilles pour un circuit littéraire à travers la ville de Contrecoeur. Accompagné des auteurs contrecœurois Myriam Vincent, Bernadette Renaud et Philippe Mollé, nous visiterons ces lieux qui les ont inspirés.
En partenariat avec Culture C
CIRCUIT LITTÉRAIRE _ 180 minutes
Participants : Myriam Vincent, Bernadette Renaud et Philippe Mollé
Animatrice : Laurie Pagé
GRATUIT / FRANÇAIS
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
