{"id":4595,"date":"2019-05-02T14:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T18:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.attlc-ltac.org\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2019-05-31T00:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T04:16:50","slug":"bluetmet2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.attlc-ltac.org\/en\/bluetmet2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Members Making Waves at the Blue Met Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>This Sunday, May 5, four of our members, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attlc-ltac.org\/en\/translator\/katia-grubisic-en\/\">Katia Grubisic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attlc-ltac.org\/en\/translator\/gagnepaul-en\/\">Paul Gagn\u00e9<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attlc-ltac.org\/en\/translator\/phyllis-aronoff-en\/\">Phyllis Aronoff<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attlc-ltac.org\/en\/translator\/howard-scott-en\/\">Howard Scott<\/a>, will be taking part in a round-table discussion at the 21st edition of the Blue Metropolis Festival. The panel, titled &#8220;The Power of Literature,&#8221; will seek to explore the transformative and galvanizing capacities of the written word. The 75 minute talk will take place in H\u00f4tel 10&#8217;s Salle St-Laurent and will begin at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>More details from the horse&#8217;s mouth:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Can literature change the world? Six Canadian writers &#8211; poets, novelists and translators &#8211; chosen among the 2018 Governor General\u2019s Award winners, answer this question, from both a personal and a literary perspective. This event has been organized jointly with the Canada Council for the Arts to celebrate the finalists and winners of the 2018 Governor General\u2019s Literary Awards.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Darrel J. McLeod, Karoline Georges, Micha\u00ebl Trahan, Sarah Henstra, Phyllis Aronoff \/ Howard Scott, Paul Gagn\u00e9, Katia Grubisic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Blue Metropolis Foundation, founded in 1997 by Linda Leith, has been hosting the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival since 1999. Since its inception, the non-profit organization has made great strides in building a bridge between the language divide, and, furthermore, has brought together different cultures from around the world through the pleasures of reading and writing.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the foundation and the festival, click <a href=\"https:\/\/bluemetropolis.org\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":4596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Members Making Waves at the Blue Met Festival - 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