Shoreline Press celebrates 15 years of independent publishing !!

Since 1991, Shoreline Press has been producing memoirs, biographies, books of local history and poetry collections by emerging authors. Shoreline is a volunteer-run book publisher based in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. The over 60 books in its catalogue are by writers from across Canada, from Vancouver to Charlottetown...

http://www.shorelinepress.ca

A great update from ICN member, Trina Wilko. Her first book, ‘The Lively Lines of Linus,’ is an inventive notion, featuring charming illustrations and play on words. It offers fun, creativity and learning.

From Left: Chip Chuipka as Mathias Gold, Marthe Turgeon as Chloé Giffard and Béatrice Picard as Mathilde Giffard in Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady on until May 14 at the Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre.

Mathias Gold arrives in Paris from New York intent on starting a new life by selling his recently inherited apartment. However, he discovers that his father has bequeathed the apartment to him complete with perpetual tenants: The wily, determined and very commanding ninety-somethng Mathilde and her bewildering and headstrong daughter, Chloe. Mysteries and histories unravel as these three learn how radically lives can change in one short week. In My Old Lady the themes of compassion, forgiveness and loss are expertly woven into a funny, poignant and moving drama.

The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre, 5170 Cote Ste. Catherine Rd.


Theatre Review by Christina Manolescu

The Uterine Stage

Prodigy

It is a feminine mystique that informs this play, three close-spun generations of female cocooning: grandmother Sofia (Karen Cromar), mother Lara (Nathalie Stechysin), and granddaughter Maya (Amelia Sargisson), a hermetic threesome — forged by links genetic, artistic and tribal — like classic painted Russian dolls fitting neatly one inside the other, united as one...

Theatre Review by Christina Manolescu

March 29 - April 9. 2006.
PERSEPHONE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

The English World Premiere of Nancy Huston's

Prodigy

Adapted for the stage by Gabriel Garran, Directed by Gabrielle Soskin


Théâtre Ste-Catherine
264 Ste-Catherine East, Montréal Qc
metro St.Laurent or Berri-UQUAM
Tickets: 514.481.1327
Adults $21
Students $16
Groups $15

Recently named to the Order of Canada, acclaimed author Nancy Huston wrote the English stage adaptation Prodigy based on Gabriel Garran's original French dramatization of the novella especially for Persephone Productions. Prodigy weaves the tale of three generations of a family of women who are further united through their talent as pianists, a passion for each other, and for the music they play. This deeply touching and sensitive play addresses the profound conflict between the journey of Motherhood and the burning need to express creativity in other ways.

More details at: http://www.persephoneproductions.org/eng/productions_cur.php

Time: 7pm - 10 pm
Venue: Mainline Theatre space
3997 St-Laurent Blvd, (upstairs)
Just below Duluth
Nearest Metro: St-Laurent, Bus 55

Read about ICN's 5-year history: http://www.invisiblecitiesnetwork.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=12


Welcome to everyone who joins us at the next meeting. Please bring any work-in-progress, whether it be music, spoken word, publishing project or other creative work that you may wish to share with the group. We begin the evening by briefly introducing all members present, then scheduling sufficient time for sharing our creative work.
Finally, we open the discussion to any current IC projects, reports or possible new initiatives and action plans we would like to implement. All welcome - we look forward to seeing you there.

Photo courtesy of Yasmin H.

Celebrating five years connecting writers and artists ...the Invisible becoming Visible

When the ICN started out in the year 2001, on April Fool's day, to be precise, over a coffee at the raucously noisy former "Porté Disparu Café" on the Plateau de Montreal, the idea was to try to connect with other writers and self-publishers, and hopefully to raise the profile of, and respect for self-publishing in the process. Five years later, I believe ICN is making some impact on the scene...

View image gallery: http://www.invisiblecitiesnetwork.org/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=1

Book Slam @ Divan Orange

A literary nightclub event as part of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival. Hosted by UK writer and music journo Patrick Neate, the evening will consist of bite-sized performances by award-winning novelists and spoken word artists, with space in between for talking, drinking, great music and general misbehavior.


UKULA Book Slam @ Divan Orange
MC: Patrick Neate
Performances by Luke Sutherland, Naila Keleta Mae and Kaie Kellough
& DJs Scott C. and Andy Williams

If you've ever dreamed of changing the direction of your life, but like most of us, put it off, don't miss Singer/Songwriter Barbara Lewis' solo musical theatre show Crossroads...an astonishing musical journey...


Inspirational, touching, and entertaining...A buffet of musical styles...from Broadway to opera to jazz to cabaret....

Nothing can change the world like a great song. Aung San Suu Kyi

Info and Reservations: (514) 487-8779

WORLD PREMIERE AT CENTAUR THEATRE

HAVE A HEART

BY DAVID SHERMAN

From the pen of Centaur’s Playwright-In-Residence comes a comedy that will have you rolling in the aisles or falling off your stretchers depending on your point of view. At last, a homegrown look and laugh at our grief-stricken health system and the people waiting in line...

Ukula has quickly established itself as an independent media source for the artistic communities of Music, Fashion, Literature and Film. The magazine's main aim is to give exposure to alternative and independent artists and movements. The people that we cover will be individuals who have led or lead their respective scenes, had the courage to break free from mainstream trends and as a result helped shape that mainstream.

With 10,000 free issues published on a quarterly basis, and targeted distribution in Toronto and Montreal, our mandate to provide a platform from which to promote leading-edge talent has been widely accepted. The Ukula project has received exceptional support from established artists in their field: from Guy Berryman (Coldplay) to Don Paterson (TS Elliot award winning writer).

We hope that you will join the community, all are welcome.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: http://www.ukula.com

The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre presents

A Doll House

By Henrik Ibsen, Translated by William Archer
Adapted and directed by Peter Hinton

February 5 - 26, 2006

From left: Andreas Apergis as Torvald Helmer and Alison Darcy as Nora Helmer. The photographer is Lydia Pawelak

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Contact Shaun at (514) 989-1698

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Time: 7pm - 10 pm
Venue: Mainline Theatre space
3997 St-Laurent Blvd, (upstairs)
Just below Duluth
Nearest Metro: St-Laurent, Bus 55

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Sat. April 1, 2006
Sat. May 6, 2006
SUMMER BREAK

Dear Invisible Cities friends,

Hello and happy holidays! My name is Daniel Cox. It was great to meet some of you at the December gathering, and I look forward to eventually meeting the rest of you. I'd like to share some exciting publishing news with you...

Please visit: http://www.dfmenow.blogspot.com

Off the top of my head, from the bottom of my heart, ...

Hi, I am known as "Peter Green" acrosss North America and around the World by countless tens of thousands of people that I have met...

I was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and travelled extensively, meeting people, telling stories - singing songs & writing poems.

Thank you in either retro-active and/or anticipatory inspiration - for your inspiration! Please let me know what you think

http://re.s5.com

http://www.invisiblecitiesnetwork.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=80

Vernissage

Kimberly Bourgeois cordially invites you to celebrate the exhibition of her paintings at Sève Café, 3868 Hochelaga. Montréal, QC. Métro Joliette

Expozine 2005
4th Annual Small Press, Comic and Zine Fair
Saturday, November 26th,
from 11 am to 6 pm
5035 St-Dominique (church basement),
between Laurier and St-Joseph

http://www.expozine.ca

Montreal, November 9, 2005. Accenti, the Canadian Magazine with an Italian Accent, is announcing today that it will resume publication in 2006, with the relaunch issue slated for January.

Accenti is an English-language, upscale publication aimed at the 1.5 million Italian Canadians across the country and italophiles in Canada and all over the world. Its mission is to inform and entertain with content inspired by the convergence of cultures..

A Flor de Piel

(Skin Deep)


After a long break from painting I am back with the muses, riding my horse through white gesso landscapes. How can my creation affect the world I inhabit? What can I do besides criticize and join the choir of dormant complainers...?

Galerie d'Art Richelieu, 7903, rue St. Denis. Tel: 514.381.2247
du mardi au dimanche, de 11h00 a 17h00.
Featuring artwork by Carolina Echeverria

Genetically Modified Theatre

Porte Parole is a theatre company founded in 1998 by Annabel Soutar and Alex Ivanovici. Its unique mandate is "to provide the community with an artistic forum in which to examine its public affairs"...and by extension.."to stimulate public discourse."

Their latest play, SEEDS, runs from November 4 to December 3, 2005. Monument National, 1182 blvd St-Laurent, Montreal