BU Lifelong Learning Academy

Write Here, Write Now Spring 2023 Schedule

A Quick Note on Zoom Registration

Some participants have written to express concerns about Zoom links taking them to a registration page. WHWN events are promoted to a variety of online platforms accessible worldwide. This means WHWN has been able to welcome participants from all over the world, but it also involves risks to our community that it behooves our facilitators to mitigate.

To avoid having our meetings disrupted by Zoom bombers, Zoom may prompt you to register. Fortunately, registration is not an onerous process: you need only enter your name, surname, and email address. Once you click “Register” at the bottom of the form, you will be taken to another page with a unique, single-use link to access the meeting. You will not receive this link in an email. You do not need to register for workshops ahead of time. You can register for the meeting even after it has started. Not sure about Zoom registration? Don’t hesitate to reply to this email with your questions.

Estrie Kidlit

Calling all children’s writers in Montreal and the Eastern Townships! Do you write children’s books or are interested in doing so? Picture books, middle grade, young adults? Come along and meet other authors! Writing can be a lonely business no matter what stage of the process you are, whether published, self-published, querying, writing, or would like to write in this genre in the future. This get-together is designed so that children’s writers in the Eastern Townships can meet, make contacts, and support each other.

In this workshop, there will be a presentation on AI, AI writing tools, and the possible implications AI has for the business of writing and the publishing industry.

BULLA bulla@ubishops.ca is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Estrie KidLit
Time: Jun 3, 2023, 1:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Theme & Structure with Rebecca Welton

Although these workshops are part of a series, all workshops are stand-alone—please do come along even if you haven’t attended the other workshops.

Structure III

Wednesday, June 7th, 1:30-3:30

For the final workshop on structure, we will explore more structures that writers can use in their work, in order to simplify the writing process and create a piece of work that is tightly written and focused.

About the facilitator

Rebecca Welton is a writer and editor. She was shortlisted for the Fresher Prize in short stories, and currently runs creative writing workshops for WHWN and BULLA. She is the editor of Hope and Resilience in the Time of Covid, an anthology of community writing and artistry. Rebecca is both a developmental editor and a qualified copyeditor and works with writers to craft their work into the best version possible.

Zeroing In on Your Target

Friday, June 16th, 10 AM to noon

• More great reads
• Submission: baby in a basket of bulrushes
• Life after rejection: keep on!
• Life after acceptance: contract, payment, copyright, working with the editor
• The last word

About the facilitator

Rachel Garber (rawrites@gmail.com) is the editor of The Townships Sun, a non-profit community/creative magazine for the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. Writing non-fiction―memoir, travel, reviews, essays, interviews, research―has taught her the art of wrestling with porcupines. She has a B.Sc. in Communications, a B.F.A. in Studio Art, and an M.A. in Art Therapy.

The Drowsy Chaperone

May 28th through June 10th, 7:30 PM at the Turner Studio Theater

For the first time in Sherbrooke! Tap-dancing! Musical numbers! And comedy!

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Hailed by New York Magazine as “the perfect broadway musical,” The Drowsy Chaperone is a Canadian meta-musical, poking fun at all the clichés that characterize the musical theatre genre.

Presented in English with French surtitles. To reserve your ticket, email centh@ubishops.ca or call 819- 822-9692.

Show duration: 2 hours with one intermission
Presented in English with French surtitles.
Age: 12+
Music and Lyrics: Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
Book by/: Bob Martin and Don McKellar.
Directed by: Art Babayants
Musical Director: Fannie Gaudette
Choreography: Chantal Carrier
Set and costume design: Adam Provencher

See their web page for more information.

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DONATIONS

Can we boldly point out that BULLA accepts donations through Bishop’s Advancement Office?

The easiest way to donate to BULLA is through our Advancement Office’s online form.

For the “designation” you can simply choose “Other” and type in: BULLA.

If you prefer cheques, they can be mailed to the Advancement Office and made it out to “Bishop’s University Foundation” and note that it’s for BULLA.

Here is the address:
University Advancement Office
2600 College St.
Sherbrooke, QC J1M 1Z7

BISHOP’S UNIVERSITY LIFELONG LEARNING ACADEMY’S MISSION STATEMENT

To foster a lifelong learning community by offering organized, stimulating discussion groups on a range of topics that matter to adults, including: history, politics, literature, philosophy, fine arts, theatre, and information technology.

To promote lifelong learning and thoughtful exchange among English-speaking adults in the Eastern Townships/Estrie region and beyond.

To provide instruction and resources for daily fulfillment, focusing on mental, social, and physical health and wellness.

To encourage and support francophone adults participating in these activities.