Saturday December 7th, 2024, 2 pm and 4 pm
In collaboration with the Festival de poésie de Montréal, join us for an afternoon of poetry celebrating Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: its residents, its housing cooperatives and its poets!
2 pm: Poetry workshop – At the heart of the housing cooperative. In the company of poets virginie fauve and Maude Veilleux, learn more about the creation of housing cooperatives and participate in the creation of texts and poems related to the proposed themes. Learn tips and tricks for writing and explore your talent as a writer. A proposal in the colours of the residents of the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood!
4 pm: Poetry reading – The poets of Hochelaga. Attend a poetry reading by Hochelaga-Maisonneuve authors. Participants in the preceding workshop will also be invited to share their texts. In collaboration with Bibliothèque Maisonneuve and its Poètes du quartier collection.
With: virginie fauve, Maude Veilleux, Hélène Bughin, Julia Guy-Béland and Maude Lafleur.
Free, no reservations required.
Participants are not obliged to attend the workshop in order to participate in the poetry reading, and vice versa; you are welcome to attend either activity.
This event is supported by the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve arrondissement.
Facebook event linked here.
Originally from Abitibi, virginie fauve lives and works in Montreal. Her first collection of poetry, La poussière nous cerne parce qu’elle nous ressemble, was published by Lézard amoureux. A volatile literary artist, she works in poetry and prose, in magazines and fanzines, sometimes in the form of events or performances. She is interested in the text-image relationship and independent publishing. In recent years, she has organized poetry events in housing cooperatives and presented the coopté-es project as part of Dare-Dare’s Écritures publiques program.
Photo credit: Mathieu Grenier.
Maude Veilleux is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from the Beauce region. She is developing a practice at the frontiers of writing, digital literature and performativity. She writes collections of poetry and novels. Over the years, her work has been presented at institutions and festivals in Canada, Europe and West Africa. More recently, Le Marchand de feuilles published an anthology of her poetic texts.
