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RAWQ Christmas Card Fundraiser

Published Nov 23, 2022

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Mark Christmas cards off your list by supporting the RAWQ's Christmas Card Fundraiser.☃️
Spread some holiday cheer with your loved ones this season by sending them a card. Thank you to Anne-Marie Major, Eileen Barry, Sally Keindel, Jan Eastaugh, Lisa Twolan, and William Dale for capturing and entering such lovely scenes across the Outaouais region!
Cards can be purchased at both of our offices. For more information, please email: oec@westquebecers.ca

We’re all Storytellers: Learning the Craft of True Life Storytelling Workshop Series

Published Nov 10, 2022

QWF StoryScaping Fall 2022

The Regional Association of West Quebecers is pleased to partner with the Quebec Writers' Federation's StoryScaping project to offer a 3-part workshop series, We’re all Storytellers: Learning the Craft of True Life Storytelling, with Nisha Coleman. Join us on Tuesdays, December 6, 13, & 20 from 6:30-8:30 pm. Free virtual series! All are welcome.

This dynamic online workshop aims to reconnect the participants with their natural storytelling selves. Participants get to know each other and understand quickly that they are already storytellers. With a segment on story structures, building tension, layered meanings, scenes, sensory details, and beginnings and endings, participants begin to conceptualize the story they want to tell by the end of the class and gain valuable insight by working in pairs and small groups. An additional segment on performance techniques equips them not only for their final “performance” but to be a better communicator in their lives at home, school, or work. Nisha will record video of all who are willing, providing them with a lasting souvenir of the workshop.
The workshop dynamic is supportive, safe, and welcoming, allowing participants to be vulnerable, open, and honest
 
Nisha Coleman is a writer of fiction and memoir and an award-winning storyteller. Her memoir, Busker: Stories from the Streets of Paris, was released in 2016 by Radiant Press and was chosen as one of the 2016 Best Books of the Year by Pickle Me This. Her stories have been broadcast on The Moth Radio Hour, Risk, PBS, and CBC. Her solo storytelling show, Self-Exile, was featured at the Centaur Theatre for the 2017 Wildside Festival and won the 2016 Montreal Best of Fringe as well as the Sarasolo Festival Award of Excellence.
 
Space is limited!

Inquiries can be directed to aco@westquebecers.ca or 819-682-9602

Gatineau Anglophone Writing Group

Published Nov 9, 2022

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A new English Language writing group is starting soon. The Gatineau Anglophone Writing Group (GAWG) in partnership with the Regional Association of West Quebecers (RAWQ) will meet in person in the RAWQ board room located in the Aylmer Mall (181 rue Principale Unit A-11, Gatineau), with plenty of free parking and on several STO bus routes. There is no cost to attend. You merely have to register. Sometimes, the best things in life are FREE.

Come one, come all and bring your English language short stories, personal essays, poems, flash fiction, or even your movie script! Together in an informal group of writers, we will listen to everyone's stories and ideas. We will then share feedback in a safe and positive atmosphere while enjoying each other's company and making new friends.

Drop-ins will take place in November and December and resume in January 2023!

November 

-Option A: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 from 10:00 am- 12:00 pm

-Option B: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 from 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm

-Option C: Thursday, November 24, 2022 from 10:00 am- 12:00 pm

-Option D: Thursday, November 24, 2022 from 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm

December

-Option A: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 from 10:00 am- 12:00 pm

-Option B: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 from 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm

-Option C: Thursday, December 8, 2022 from 10:00 am- 12:00 pm

-Option D: Thursday, December 8, 2022 from 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm

 Linda Sparks will facilitate the drop-in sessions, to learn more about Linda, click here.

This is a great opportunity to let your creative writing energy flow and to be prepared to be inspired in a warm and energetic environment. Please join us by registering below.

Inquiries can be directed to aco@westquebecers.ca or 819-682-9602.
*3-5 people are needed to run each session*

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Events

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We’re all Storytellers: Learning the Craft of True Life Storytelling Workshop Series 6:30-8:30 pm

Dec 6, 2022

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Gatineau Anglophone Writing Group- Drop-in Sessions 10:00 am- 12:00 pm or 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm

Nov 24, 2022

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Gatineau Anglophone Writing Group- Drop-in Sessions 10:00 am- 12:00 pm or 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm

Nov 22, 2022

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