The Future of Quebec Writing
Weekend Forum on Quebec writing at the Grande Bibliothèque.
Take Home an Original is a live auction of eighty original illustrations from Canadian picture books that will be held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Tuesday, October 16th.
The event is preceded by a five-week exhibition of the illustrations September 14th to October 14th, and there are workshops and other family activities on weekends. This exhibit is the first by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to honour the art of children's picture books. Half of the donated art was created by Quebec illustrators, and proceeds from the auction go to the Canadian Children's Book Centre.
For more detailed information and images you can check out the CCBC website here and contact: Holly Kent 416 975-0010 ext. 221, holly@bookcentre.ca;
In Quebec: Chantal Vaillancourt 514-272-9608, cjmvaillancourt@yahoo.com
Weekend Forum on Quebec writing at the Grande Bibliothèque.
The more our lives as writers and readers are spent online, the more we appreciate what the literary festival – of whatever size – has to offer: not only personal contact with other writers and readers, but also friendliness, warmth, and the kind of intimacy that conversations about good books bring out in people who love reading. When the festival is small, these priceless qualities are all the more concentrated. And when a superb setting is added to the mix, the small festival becomes irresistible.
Kenneth Radu remembers New York while reading Ariela Freedman's Brooklyn-set A Joy To Be Hidden.
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