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SUMMARY:Writers Festival: Do the Right Thing
DESCRIPTION:The Ottawa International Writers Festival is back with a fresh spring lineup\, including Do the Right Thing\, featuring queer author\, Emily Austin.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin our host\, author Jennifer Whiteford\, for a conversation with three remarkable authors whose novels ask what it means to do the right thing\, what drives us\, and how do we know if we are making the right choice? \n\n\n\nEmily Austin returns with Is This a Cry for Help? a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story of grief\, love\, and the power of libraries. Through the support of her community\, colleagues\, and the personal growth that results from examining her previous relationships\, Darcy comes into her own agency and the truest version of herself.  \n\n\n\nHaunting\, original\, and as poetic as it is propulsive\,  At Sea  by Y.M. Abdel-Magied\, is a taut and gripping novel about principle\, prejudice\, and the capitalist endeavours that overlook the concerns of women—and of Mother Nature herself.  A female driller takes charge of an isolated offshore oil rig with an entirely male crew in this propulsive literary debut about ambition\, greed and the deadly consequences of ignoring Mother Nature. \n\n\n\nFrom Sharon Bala \, the bestselling author of  The Boat People\,  comes a page-turning moral drama about money\, the dark side of philanthropy\, and what happens when you try to change the world for all the wrong reasons. Claire Talbot is the publicist at Children of the World\, an international aid charity. Moving between Children of the World’s headquarters in Toronto and their compound in Central America\,  Good Guys  charts the charity’s rise and fall. Scathing yet compassionate\, the novel is a thought-provoking exploration of power\, philanthropy\, and the lengths we go to for redemption. Emotionally engrossing\, tightly paced\, and sharply observed\, it ultimately asks: Is it possible to do good in an imperfect world?
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/writers-festival-do-the-right-thing/
LOCATION:Library and Archives Canada\, 395 Wellington St.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1A 0J1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Literary,Ottawa
ORGANIZER;CN="Ottawa International Writers Festival":MAILTO:info@writersfestival.org
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SUMMARY:Ottawa International Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:Queer events in this fall’s Ottawa International Writers Festival \n\n\n\nWhat Dreams May Come True \n\n\n\nThursday\, October 23 at 8:00PM \n\n\n\nFeaturing Mona Awad and Sara Peters \n\n\n\nMore details \n\n\n\nOne Life to Live \n\n\n\nFriday\, October 23 at 6:30PM \n\n\n\nFeaturing Marc Bendavid\, Susie Taylor\, and Shani Mootoo \n\n\n\nMore details \n\n\n\nPlaylist  \n\n\n\nFriday\, October 23 at 8:00PM \n\n\n\nFeaturing Ivan Coyote \n\n\n\nMore details \n\n\n\nThis Love \n\n\n\nSunday\, October 25 at 1:00PM \n\n\n\nFeaturing Ziyad Saadi and Tracey Lindberg \n\n\n\nMore details
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/ottawa-international-writers-festival-3/
LOCATION:Library and Archives Canada\, 395 Wellington St.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1A 0J1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Market or festival,Ottawa
ORGANIZER;CN="Ottawa International Writers Festival":MAILTO:info@writersfestival.org
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SUMMARY:Ottawa International Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:The second half of the Ottawa International Writers Festival Spring Edition is back this week! Here at MAX\, we’re especially interested in Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me. \n\n\n\nAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity\, race\, and censorship. Peter Schneider sits down with author Mélikah Abdelmoumen\, and translator Catherine Khordoc for a discussion on their acclaimed book\, Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me . \n\n\n\nIn 1961\, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s guest house. The two wrote during the day\, then spent evenings confiding in each other and talking about race in America. During one of those conversations\, Baldwin is said to have convinced his friend to write\, in first person\, the story of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner. The Confessions of Nat Turner was published to critical acclaim\, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1968\, and also creating outrage in part of the African American community. \n\n\n\nDecades later\, the controversy around cultural appropriation\, identity\, and the rights and responsibilities of the writer still resonates. In Baldwin\, Styron\, and Me\, Mélikah Abdelmoumen considers the writers’ surprising yet vital friendship from her standpoint as a racialized woman torn by the often unidimensional versions of her identity put forth by today’s politics and media. Considering questions of identity\, race\, equity\, and the often contentious public debates about these topics\, Abdelmoumen works to create a space where the answers are found by first learning how to listen—even in disagreement. \n\n\n\nGet tickets to this event through the link below! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCheck out the full lineup here!
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/ottawa-international-writers-festival-2/
CATEGORIES:Educational
ORGANIZER;CN="Ottawa International Writers Festival":MAILTO:info@writersfestival.org
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SUMMARY:Ottawa International Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:Here’s what we have our eyes on! \n\n\n\nBlack Lives\, Policing\, and Safety for All\n\n\n\nWith Sandy Hudson\, hosted by Erika Shaker \n\n\n\nSaturday\, May 3 – 5:30PM \n\n\n\nJoin Sandy Hudson\, multidisciplinary creator\, writer and activist\, and the founder of Black Lives Matter Canada\, for a fiercely argued case for defunding the police. \n\n\n\nIn  Defund: Black Lives\, Policing\, and Safety for All \, she elucidates what defunding the police actually means and why it matters\, by exploring today’s criminal landscape and the patterns and structures that result in safer\, well-resourced communities.  \n\n\n\nHudson explores the origins of commonly held ideas about police and safety to show how police-related social policies are based more on a sensationalized idea of safety than on outcomes and data. She examines the destructive effects of policing on scores of people\, arguing that investment in community resources and infrastructure rather than law enforcement is the key to making us safer. \n\n\n\nGet Tickets! \n\n\n\nInheritance\n\n\n\nWith Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and Iryn Tushabe\, hosted by Suyi Davies Okungbowa \n\n\n\nSaturday\, May 3 – 7:00PM \n\n\n\nJoin us for a taste of two of the year’s most acclaimed debut Canadian novels\, celebrated stories set in Uganda\, and a conversation on the ways we are shaped by–and in opposition to–our histories and cultures. \n\n\n\nWe\, the Kindling is the acclaimed debut from Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize-winner Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and is centred around the unforgettable voices of schoolgirls in Uganda captured by the Lord’s Resistance Army in the 1990s. Those who survive bear the physical and psychological weight of these experiences—often within communities that wish only to forget or ignore them. \n\n\n\nEverything Is Fine Here \, the debut from Journey Prize-winner Iryn Tushabe is a coming of age story set in Uganda. \n\n\n\nEighteen-year-old Aine Kamara has been anticipating a reunion with her older sister\, Mbabazi\, for months. But when Mbabazi shows up with an unexpected guest\, Aine must confront an old fear: her beloved sister is gay in a country with tight anti-homosexuality laws. \n\n\n\nGet Tickets! \n\n\n\nEverything Everywhere\n\n\n\nWith Emily Austin\, Matthew James Jones and Georgia Toews\, hosted by David Currie \n\n\n\nSunday\, May 4 – 8:30PM \n\n\n\nLearning to cope and thrive in a world seemingly hell-bent on disorienting\, distracting and destabilizing us\, provides the momentum behind three very different novels whose authors join us to talk fiction\, resilience and the many ways we struggle to find ourselves. \n\n\n\nWe Could Be Rats\,  the latest from Emily Austin\, the bestselling local author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is the story of two very different sisters\, and a love letter to childhood\, growing up\, and the power of imagination. Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal. She did not graduate high school\, preferring to roam the streets of her small town with her best friend Greta. Her older sister Margit is baffled and frustrated by Sigrid’s inability to conform to the expectations of polite society. As Margit sets out to understand Sigrid and the secrets she has hidden\, both sisters\, in their own time and way\, discover that reigniting their shared childhood imagination is the only way forward. \n\n\n\nPredators\, Reapers\, and Deadlier Creatures  from poet\, novelist\, and veteran Matthew James Jones\, is the story of a drone operator stationed in Kandahar\, Afghanistan. As he monitors Sahar\, a teenager and suspected terrorist\, Jones commits the ultimate crime: he cares. In Kandahar\, there’s a monster in every window. And there’s also one in every mirror. \n\n\n\nNobody Asked for This by Georgia Toews is a razor-sharp dramedy following a twenty-something comic as she navigates family grief\, dysfunctional friendship\, and a date gone very wrong. In between working the rounds of Toronto’s small comedy club circuit and auditioning for paper towel commercials\, Virginia is tiptoeing around her depressed roommate and childhood friend\, Haley\, and having biweekly dinners with her bereaved stepdad\, Dale\, while trying to manage her own grief at the loss of her mother. \n\n\n\nGet Tickets!
URL:https://maxottawa.ca/list/ottawa-international-writers-festival/
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