Poetry Activity: From the Spring to the River

Join us on July 30 for the event “From the Spring to the River,” where you can enjoy a poetry reading on the theme of the environment and take part in a discussion about what nature inspires in us, whispers to us, and calls out to us. In a warm and intimate atmosphere, artist and host Vanessa Bell will guide you through a special moment of artistic sharing.A poet, performer, artist, curator, and literary activist, Vanessa Bell is also the director of the poetry collection at Éditions du Quartz. Her practice in the literary arts has allowed her to present her work in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Australia. She is the author of the poetry collections *De rivières* (2019, La Peuplade) and *MONUMENTS* (2022, Le Noroît), as well as the book *Fendre les eaux* (2023, De l’Homme), and is co-editor of the *Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry in Quebec 2000 | 2020* (2021, Remue-ménage). Her writing is vivid and incisive, a whirlwind of audacity whose central themes are sisterhood, kinship, and real and imagined territories. She has won several grants and awards, including the Félix-Antoine-Savard Prize (2021, FIPTR), and was a finalist for the Prix de l’Institut canadien de Québec (2021) as well as the CALQ Prize – Artist of the Year in the Capitale-Nationale region (2023). Under the mentorship of Nicole Brossard, Vanessa Bell is the first Francophone Canadian to be supported by the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Rising Stars program (2022).This event is presented in collaboration with the Morrin Centre as part of the Extra-Muros – Le Morrin Centre en balade project, made possible by the Cultural Development Agreement between the City of Québec and the Government of Québec.