Blue Metropolis Literary Festival – May 2-5, 2019 LiveEvents April 26, 2019 1654 21st edition Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival Blue Metropolis 2019 highlights Social Inequality, Indigenous Voices and the Health of our Planet The planet is suffering. Inequality i...
Festival Accès Asie – May 1-30, 2019 LiveEvents April 25, 2019 2687 Festival Accès Asie is a Montreal-based arts festival that promotes Asian arts, cultures and histories through a diversity of artistic disciplines including the visual arts, dance, theatre, video, film, music, ...
First English work by Chinese writer Xue Yiwei wins Blue Met award Tracey Arial April 19, 2017 3907 Xue Yiwei wins Blue Met award Does immigrating make you a better writer? It might, if you write in a different language, says Xue Yiwei (pronounced shay yiway), the first Chinese winner of the Blue Metropol...
The Hockey Sweater: soon to be a musical at The Segal Tracey Arial March 23, 2017 3984 Roch Carrier’s childhood experience about being forced to wear a dreaded Maple Leaf jersey instead of the Canadiens hockey sweater he wanted has had multiple lives. It’s been featured in a radio piece in French...
Blue Met Announces Collaboration with The Walrus Foundation Linda Renaud March 23, 2016 5313 The 18th edition of Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival takes place April 11 to 17. A highlight is the presentation of The Walrus Talks Resilience on Wednesday, April 13, focusing on a range of pers...
Barbara Kay releases first novel: A Three-Day Event Linda Renaud March 15, 2016 7062 What propelled National Post columnist Barbara Kay to write a “revenge” novel, a novel she completed over a decade ago but only recently took out of a drawer at the urging of a colleague? With A Three-Day Even...
Oh, the places we wish to go! Julie Kalan November 21, 2013 6302 This #1 New York Times Best Seller by Patricia Schultz is a travel bucket list guidebook This paraphrasing of the title from one of Dr. Seuss’ beloved books is a succinct description of Patricia Schultz’s “1...