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Reminder – call for colour photography photoEd magazine, DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: SEPTEMBER 20, 2024:

 

 

 

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Have you ever wondered HOW photoED magazine gets made?

 

 

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Quist is a new online magazine from the Quebec Writers’ Federation featuring the prose and poetry of Quebecers aged 14-21. Quist actively seeks young voices from diverse backgrounds, including BIPOC writers, LGBTQIA+ writers, those experiencing poverty and/or homelessness, writers for whom English is not their first language, as well as disabled and neurodivergent writers.

 

 

Deadline for the very first issue: October 1st, 2024. 


Submission Guidelines URL  https://quistlit.com/

 

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Events:


Abbondanza Farm: Celebrating the beauty of biodiversity - Heirloom plant varieties, workshops, sustainable farming and gardening, and more!

 

 

 

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The Fall Rib Festival returns to the Ormstown Fairgrounds and this year it includes a special art installation. Visual artist Alyson Champ tells us about her project that explores urban sprawl and its impact on the agricultural land of Montérégie-Ouest. She speaks with guest host Dionne Codrington.

 



September 20th, 21st and 22nd 

 

 

Alyson Champ – Visual artist: https://www.alysonchamp.com/ 

 

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La deuxième édition héritage de la quintessence chinoise par la troupe artistique jeunesse du collège McGill. « Rimes exquises à la Renaissance » Musique folklorique Opéra de Pékin.

 


Le 21 septembre à 19 h 00 au Théâtre Desjardins à Lasalle. SALLE JEAN-GRIMALDI.

 

1111 rue Lapierre, Arrondissement LaSalle, Montréal (Qc) H8N 2J4(dans le Cégep André-Laurendeau)

 

 

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At the McGill library Rare Books & Special Collections - Guided tour of the Blacker Wood Natural History Collection (in-person). Tuesday, September 24 from 12:00 - 1:00 P.M.

 

 

 

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Once Upon a Print: Cinderella’s Wood Block Magic -


McLoughlin Bros. 1863. Cinderella and the Little Glass Slipper. Fairy Moonbeam Series. New York: McLoughlin Bros., Publishers. Wood blocks used to print this edition. Both from the Sheila Bourke Collection, McGill Rare Books and Special Collections.

 

 

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Music:

 

Oliver Jones is 90 years young today! On his 90th birthday, Oliver Jones reflects on his connection to Oscar Peterson. In a Q interview, the Canadian jazz pianist looks back at his decades-long career.

 

 

Photo c/o Elaine Bacal 2013

 

 

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Deaf percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, wants to teach the world to listen. ‘Listening is the glue to humanity,’ the Scottish Grammy winner says in a Q interview:

 

 

Dame Evelyn Glennie is a Scottish percussionist who started losing her hearing at age eight. Her latest album, Another Noise, is a collaboration with the deaf poet Raymond Antrobus. (Chris Payne)

 

 

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When life throws you a bunch of lemons, make lemonade! Here’s how Brazilian pianist, Eliane Rodrigues, deals with a broken piano:

 

 

 

 

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“There’s a word in English that I love: Serendipity. That’s the story of my life.”  - Sergio Mendes.


Serendipity and joy are two common threads that weave throughout the staggeringly diverse tapestry of music that Sergio Mendes has created over his remarkable six-decade career.

 

 

Sergio Mendes passes at the age of 83.

 

Sérgio Mendes speaks at the event "Reel to Reel: Sérgio Mendes — In the Key of Joy" at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on March 11, 2020. Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

 

 

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Photography:

 

Rosemary Burd - My series of forest photographs integrates two very different practices: the energetic manipulation of the camera in my jerky iPhone photography, and the calm, repetitive movement of the needle in my meditative hand-stitching.

 

Rosemary Burd - photoEd Mag

 

 

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Jasper Doest says, “I try to use photography to bridge the gap between the natural world and ourselves.”

 

Photo: Bart Breet

 

 

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