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Robyn Sarah: NMA shortlisting, book reissue
Fri 17 May, 2013 - Member News
Robyn Sarah’s long poem, “My Shoes Are Killing Me”, published in The New Quarterly last spring, has been short listed for a National Magazine Award for poetry. The nomination is a timely one, as Sarah's out-of-print collection, Questions About the Stars (Brick Books, 1998), has just been reissued in a limited second printing.
Braganza appointed President
Wed 24 Apr, 2013 - Member News
ELAN member Cheryl Braganza has been appointed President of the Women's Art Society of Montreal. The WASM was founded in 1894 by two Montreal women, Phillips & Peck, and is one of the earliest organizations for women in the country. It's main purpose was to create a general interest and to encourage a higher standard in all the arts. Essentially, it paved the way for the integration of women into the art world.
Today, 120 years later, the general focus of WASM remains the same - which is to promote literature, music and the visual arts in Montreal, through lectures, concerts (traditionally at the McCord Museum) and exhibits (at Tudor Hall, Ogilvy's). Cheryl Braganza, herself a painter, a pianist and a writer, brings to the position, her experience on the Boards of the Montreal Council of Women, the Montreal Children's Library and her membership and collaboration with organizations such as DAM (Diversité Artistique Montréal), QWF (Quebec Writers Federation), ELAN (English Language Arts Network) & SEDE (Social Equity & Diversity - McGill).
"If any ELAN members wish to submit a proposal to present at one of our Tuesday daytime events, kindly contact me by email (cheryl@cherylbraganza.com) & I will be happy to provide more information".
Spring Tour for The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope
Mon 25 Mar, 2013 - Member News
Rae Marie Taylor will soon be heading south for a small tour in New Mexico with her book of essays, The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope. All are welcome- there or on the internet - to the following:
Read full...CBC Secures Canadian Rights to "My Mother, the Nazi Midwife and Me"
Sun 24 Mar, 2013 - Member News
"My Mother, the Nazi Midwife and Me” will air on CBC’s Documentary Channel in early May. Co-produced by Jane Hawtin and Gina Roitman, the documentary unearths a chilling story that time has almost buried – the systematic murder of 52 Jewish babies in a Displaced Persons camp in the American military zone after the end of the war.
Can You See Me? available now as an e-book
Mon 18 Mar, 2013 - Member News
Ami Sands Brodoff's novel, Can You See Me? is newly available as an ebook. What happens when the person you love most, best, falls prey to schizophrenia? Can You See Me? is the story of Sarah and Doren Solomon, a sister and brother so close, they share a secret place, imaginary world, and private language during childhood. Told in the alternating voices of Sarah and Doren, Can You See Me? is a powerful psychodrama portraying schizophrenia from the inside-out. A recommended book of The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and a Pushcart Prize nominee.
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