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SUMMARY:Poetry Soirée
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Soirée\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on Monday\, April 7 for an evening of poetry at the Morrin Centre! \n\n\n\nDate:April 7\, 2025\nTime:19:30 – 21:00\n\n\n\n\n\nCalling all poets and poetry enthusiasts!\nThe Morrin Centre holds open-mic poetry soirées the first Monday of every month\, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Library. Come to read your poetry or come to listen! \nThese soirées are drop-in events. If you have any questions\, please contact library@morrin.org.
URL:https://veq.ca/event/poetry-soiree/
CATEGORIES:Morrin Center
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SUMMARY:Off-Imagination – Aimee Wall in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Off-Imagination – Aimee Wall in Translation\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: April 10\, 2025\nTime: 19:30 – 20:30\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis Off-Imagination event is presented in partnership with Éditions Perce-Neige. \nEnjoy a discussion between Aimee Wall\, author of We\, Jane\, and her two French translators\, Geneviève Robichaud and Danielle LeBlanc\, in this Off-Imagination event! \n  \nThe Author \nAimee Wall is a writer and translator originally from Newfoundland. Her essays\, short fiction\, and criticism have appeared in numerous publications\, including Maisonneuve\, Matrix Magazine\, The Montreal Review of Books\, and Lemon Hound. Wall’s translations include Vickie Gendreau’s novels Testament (2016) and Drama Queens (2019)\, as well as Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard’s novel Sports and Pastimes (2017). Her acclaimed debut novel\, We\, Jane\, was nominated for nine literary prizes\, including the Amazon Canada First Novel Award\, the BMO Winterset Award\, the ReLit Award for Fiction\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Wall lives in Montreal. \n  \nThe French Translators \nGeneviève Robichaud was born in Moncton and lives in Sackville. Her research and writings focus on translation as a poetic art. With Erin Wunker and Sina Queyras\, she is co-editor of Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader (Coach House Books\, 2020). She is also the author of a chapbook\, titled Exit Text (Anstruther Press\, 2016)\, and of a book on the poetry of translation\, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. She is a postdoctorate intern at the Institut d’études acadiennes de l’Université de Moncton. \n  \nDanielle LeBlanc was born and still lives in Moncton\, on unceeded Mi’kmaq territory. After managing the Frye Festival from 2010 to 2017\, she went back to school and completed a doctorate on minority translation in the acadian context at Trinity College Dublin. She continues to work in the literary and cultural fields in the Atlantic. Some of her translations were published in Cadence : Voix féminines / Female Voices (Frog Hollow Press\, 2020). \nHost: Julia Caron\, CBC Québec \n\n\n\n \nPhoto Credit: Richmond Lam
URL:https://veq.ca/event/off-imagination-aimee-wall-in-translation/
CATEGORIES:Morrin Center
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SUMMARY:Off-Imagination – Pistes Poétiques & Sonic Chambers
DESCRIPTION:Off-Imagination – Pistes Poétiques & Sonic Chambers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate:April 11\, 2025\nTime: 18:30 – 21:00\n\n\n\n\n\nThis Off-Imagination event is offered in partnership with Rhizome. \nVoicing 101 (6:30 to 7:30 p.m.) \nLooking to pick up some tips about reading your work in public? This practice-based one-hour workshop will present some of the basics and help you to explore your voice: learn about volume\, dynamics\, timing; how to warm up your voice; and how to explore different ways that your unique voice can embody texts. No previous public reading experience required. Simply come prepared to have fun and explore vocalizing work with others. \nIn English and French. Limited spaces available. \n  \n—————— \n  \nPistes poétiques & Sonic Chambers (8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.) \nA bilingual sonic performance of excerpts from two recent works by Oana Avasilichioaei—Chambersonic (Talonbooks\, 2024) and Huit pistes (Le Noroît\, 2024)—that explores poetic creation and mechanical\, vocal\, and electronic sound. \n  \n—————— \n  \nOana Avasilichioaei (www.oanalab.com) interweaves sound\, poetry\, performance\, and translation to expand and trouble ideas of language\, histories\, polyphonic structures\, and borders of listening. She has created many performance/sound works that mix electronics\, ambient textures\, noise\, and vocal play\, published seven collections of poetry hybrids\, including most recently Chambersonic (Talonbooks\, 2024)\, award-nominated Eight Track (Talonbooks\, 2019)\, and Limbinal (Talonbooks\, 2015)\, and written a libretto for a one-act opera\, Cells of Wind (FAWN Chamber Collective\, 2022–24). Based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal\, she was an artist-in-residence at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver\, 2018)\, OBORO (Montreal\, 2021)\, and Rhizome (Quebec City\, 2024). \n 
URL:https://veq.ca/event/off-imagination-pistes-poetiques-sonic-chambers/
CATEGORIES:Morrin Center
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SUMMARY:Beethoven and Romanticism
DESCRIPTION:This special concert on the theme of Romanticism invites the audience members to discover two magnificent and historical spaces at the Morrin Centre as well as chamber music works composed by Beethoven\, Schubert\, and Ravel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, April 12\, 7 p.m. \nThis special concert on the theme of Romanticism invites the audience members to discover two magnificent and historical spaces at the Morrin Centre as well as chamber music works composed by Beethoven\, Schubert\, and Ravel. \nThe evening program will be presented in three parts and will feature 16 musicians of the Orchestre symphonique de Québec who will take turns performing in different chamber music ensemble combinations. \nWhile a string trio will play in the Library\, a septet will play in the College Hall\, thus dividing the audience in two. Two texts from Quebec and Canadian poets will be read by actor Maureen Roberge. After the first part\, every artist and audience member will meet in the College Hall where the evening will continue with performances by an octet\, quartet\, and septet\, and the reading of Beethoven’s touching Letter to the Immortal Beloved (Brief an die Unsterbliche Geliebte\, 1812). To round off the evening\, the audience will once again be divided between the two spaces to listen to the other of the two programs performed at the beginning: the trio in the Library or the septet in College Hall. \nDuring the evening\, music director Clemens Schuldt will address the audience and present the theme of romanticism in Beethoven’s works. \nPLEASE NOTE: The audience will not be seated during the concert in the Library\, and will need to stay standing during this part of the performance (20 minutes). \nARTISTS \nMaureen Roberge\, actor\nClemens Schuldt\, music director\nCatherine Dallaire\, violin\nJulie Tanguay\, violin\nCaroline Béchard\, violin\nAnne-Sophie Paquet\, violin\nFrank Perron\, viola\nMary-Kathryn Stevens\, viola\nÉtienne Chénard\, viola\nBlair Lofgren\, cello\nRyan Molzan\, cello\nCarmen Bruno\, cello\nJean Michon\, double bass\nJacinthe Forand\, flute\nStéphane Fontaine\, clarinet\nMarlène Ngalissamy\, bassoon\nMikhailo Babiak\, French horn\nThomas Zimmer\, harp \n  \nPROGRAM \nBeethoven: Serenade in D major for String Trio\, Op.8\, Marcia\nReading: Soir d’hiver by Nelligan (in French)\nBeethoven: String Trio in E-flat major\, Op.3\, Adagio\nReading: After Rain by Lampman (in English)\nBeethoven: Serenade in D major for String Trio\, Op.8\, Allegretto alla polacca\n—\nBeethoven: Septet Op.20\, Adagio et Scherzo\n—\nSchubert: Octet in F major\, D.803\, Allegro Vivace – Trio\nReading: Letter to the Immortal Beloved by Beethoven\nBeethoven: String Quartet Op.59 No.1\, Adagio molto e mesto\nRavel: Introduction et Allegro \nTo learn more about the Orchestre symphonique de Québec and the Festival Beethoven\, click here.
URL:https://veq.ca/event/beethoven-and-romanticism/
CATEGORIES:Morrin Center
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SUMMARY:Off-Imagination – Breakfast with Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:Off-Imagination – Breakfast with Lauren Groff\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: April 13\, 2025\nTime: 10:30 – 11:30\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis Off-Imagination event is offered in partnership with Éditions Alto. \n  \nEnjoy a presentation with author Lauren Groff\, with some pastries and hot drinks\, in this Off-Imagination event! \n  \nThe Author \nLauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton\, Arcadia\, Fates and Furies\, Matrix\, and The Vaster Wilds\, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won the Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2024 she was named one of the “TIME 100 most influential people.” Groff ’s work regularly appears in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville\, Florida\, where she and her husband run an independent bookstore\, The Lynx. \n 
URL:https://veq.ca/event/off-imagination-breakfast-with-lauren-groff/
CATEGORIES:Morrin Center
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