Deconfining imaginaries
On November 14 and 15, 2020, Métropolis Bleu, éditions Mémoires d’Encrier and Espace de la Diversité combine their expertise to launch three live virtual events.
Parc-Extension, visible and invisible borders: vulnerabilities in Montreal
The Parc-Extension neighborhood is an extension of Outremont, with a wall separating Parc-Extension from Ville-Mont-Royal. Let’s visit Montreal and its fault lines. Its silences and zones of atrophy. Parc-Extension, a laboratory of exclusion, trapping its inhabitants in a ghetto between the highway, the walls and the rails. The literary voices of the neighborhood are heard by the writers who live there.
Mandela: I remember
Nelson Mandela. Memory and truth. What do we remember about Nelson Mandela? What dream, what desire to live together and what revolution was he the figurehead of? What remains of his voice and ideals? What has become of Mandela in our political imagination?
Poems to change the face of the world
A performance of poetry readings to free our imaginations. Let’s read our languages and our memories. Thirteen imaginations delivered in languages and music that are orphaned, misaligned and not heard enough. The world is so small and so big that we’ll be circulating in our own languages. The poets, accompanied by the kora, read and decreed texts and manifest pretexts.
