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Wander through events from past programming!
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Nooner with Raymond Beauchemin
We’re excited to bring back our half-hour Nooners series, this time online! Prefer to log in from home? We’ve got something for you too! We’re excited to bring back our half-hour Nooners series, this time online. Join us on your lunch break and learn about your new favourite books! This series is free, with required…
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Free Press Book Club with Greg Kearney
Plume Winnipeg (formerly WIWF) is teaming up with the Free Press Book Club and McNally Robinson Booksellers to present September’s Book Club as a part of THIN AIR Festival! Originally designed to help ease some of the isolation-related boredom, the Winnipeg Free Press runs a monthly book club which will run completely online and is…
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Winnipeg Poetry Slam ft. Apollo Jenna
This year, THIN AIR / Livres en fête 2024 is teaming up with the Winnipeg Poetry Slam to showcase a fantastic new poetry voice, Apollo Jenna. Following Apollo’s performance, stick around for the Slam, a competition between some of the best spoken word artists this city has to offer. Sign up at 6:00pm if you…
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Writing Craft with Chimwemwe Undi
Writing Windows A poetic practice requires a practice of noticing the world around us. In this generative poetry workshop, we will read and discuss contemporary poems that notice and name what often goes unnamed – poems that cast new light and new shadows onto our shared every-day. We will then write and share our own…
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Reading & Beading
Join us for a celebration of poetry, art, and community with Marilyn Dumont & Cathy Mattes. Join us for a celebration of poetry, art, and community. This event will include a reading from acclaimed poet Marilyn Dumont, a presentation about beading and Métis art by the esteemed academic Cathy Mattes, and a casual conversation between…
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Cabaret littéraire flyé
Prestations multidisciplinaires pour mettre en lumière les mots et les talents de nos artistes locaux et invités. Poésie, cinéma, chant, conte, danse, humour et surprises en vue! Suite au lancement de l’anthologie Poésie franco-ouestienne 1974-2024, certains des écrivain.e.s s’étant déplacé à Winnipeg pour l’occasion livreront des prestations multidisciplinaires qui mettront en lumière leurs mots et…
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Signature Series with Jenny Heijun Wills
Join Jenny Heijun Wills for the launch of Everything and Nothing At All: Essays (Knopf Canada). Co-presented by McNally Robinson Booksellers as part of THIN AIR 2024. Featuring a conversation hosted by Lindsay Wong, followed by a book signing. The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also…
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Lancement de l’anthologie Poésie franco-ouestienne 1974-2024
Livres en fête est fier d’être partenaire de l’évènement culturel de clôture du Colloque interdisciplinaire Un demi-siècle des Éditions du Blé: Une littérature qui se fait Lancement anniversaire de l’anthologie Poésie franco-ouestienne 1974-2024 Les Éditions du Blé vous invitent à participer au lancement anniversaire de l’anthologie Poésie franco-ouestienne 1974-2024, réalisée par J. Roger Léveillé, dans le…
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Writing Craft with dennis cooley
making do with what’s at hand A still prominent understanding of poetry expects the original expression of inner thoughts and feelings. Another kind of practice turns to working with what is “out there,” including “unpoetic” material. The found poem would provide a familiar instance of the alternative. Its making do acknowledges, or finds, or positions…