Literacy Unlimited

Michelle Good - April 13 (student)

Literacy UnlimitedSpend an evening with a Canadian novelist and raise funds to support free adult literacy tutoring in the West Island. Literacy Unlimited is proud to present virtual Under the Cover, a conversation with a Canadian author about books, the writing process, and topics of interest to the audience.  <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;line-height:27px">Under the Cover<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:27px"> is Literacy Unlimited’s annual fundraising event for helping adults in the West Island improve their English language literacy. The funds raised support Literacy Unlimited’s free one-on-one tutoring services and community programming.<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:27px">   At each online Under the Cover event, a moderator will interview an author for the first part of the evening. At the end of the evening, there will be time for questions to be answered. Two online Under the Cover Events are scheduled for 2023 and will be on Zoom:Tickets no Longer Available February 8 - Joanna Goodman, the author of six novels, including the #1 national bestseller, The Home for Unwanted Girls, which was on The Globe & Mail's Fiction bestseller list for more than six months, as well as The Forgotten Daughter and The Finishing School, both national bestsellers.<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:-66px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:20.7px">Moderator: <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:-66px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:20.7px">Trudie Mason<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:-66px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:20.7px">, reporter, journalist, and CHOM newscaster<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:-66px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:20.7px">  April 13 - Michelle Good, a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Five Little Indians, her first novel, won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award. It was also longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a finalist for the Writer’s Trust Award.<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:-66px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:20.7px">Moderator: <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:-66px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:20.7px">Kristy Snell<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:-66px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:20.7px">, award-winning multi-platform journalist, CBC newscaster (on leave), and Concordia University Journalist-in-Residence 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time. English presentations.A Zoom link will be sent to all ticket holders in advance. Tickets<ul><li>Tickets are $25 for each event.</li><li>Student tickets are $10.</li><li>Donation receipts will be provided for the entire amount of the ticket.</li><li>All proceeds will benefit Literacy Unlimited.</li></ul>With low or no literacy, we would not be able to enjoy these authors' timely books depicting Canadian history. With your support of our Under the Cover fundraiser, you are helping English-speaking adults in the West Island improve their reading skills enough to enjoy these authors' works in the future.  The Pointe-Claire independent bookstore Librairie Clio will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of select books by the featured Under the Cover authors to Literacy Unlimited for a limited time. Shop online at <a href="https://store.librairieclio.ca/" target="_self">store.librairieclio.ca/</a>. <a href="http://www.literacyunlimited.ca/" target="_self">Literacy Unlimited</a> is a community organization in Montreal's West Island dedicated to improving English language literacy through custom-tailored tutoring services and community education, programs, and partnership.

Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">Prénom, <div style="box-sizing:inherit"> Thank you for registering for one or more of Literacy Unlimited's Under the Cover series.</div><div style="box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="box-sizing:inherit">A link to the Zoom event will be sent to you a few days before the event. If you purchased a ticket(s) for someone else, we will send the information to the email you provided in the registration form. The events will be held from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time and will be in English.</div>Your tax receipt is included in this email.<div style="box-sizing:inherit"> </div>Feel free to send any questions to <a href="mailto:communications@literacyunlimited.ca">communications@literacyunlimited.ca</a>. <div style="box-sizing:inherit">Want to read the authors' books before your evening with them? You can get the books from our sponsor, Librairie Clio. </div> Joanna Goodman<ul><li><a href="https://store.librairieclio.ca/item/kQHiZI37AAsd2LNhI6-rVg" target="_blank">The Forgotten Daughter</a></li><li><a href="https://store.librairieclio.ca/item/cBeH0n3IZ8wbDVVKvi3iPg" target="_blank">The Home for Unwanted Girls</a></li><li><a href="https://store.librairieclio.ca/item/Cui38SNbWHhyPDMGwhejjw" target="_blank">The Finish School</a></li></ul>Michelle Good<ul><li><a href="https://store.librairieclio.ca/item/ihViYpG-txU0OAslmMRdTQ" target="_blank">Five Little Indians</a></li></ul><div style="box-sizing:inherit"> </div><div style="box-sizing:inherit">Thank you for helping us raise funds to support free adult literacy tutoring in the West Island.</div> <a href="https://literacyunlimited.ca/" target="_blank">Literacy Unlimited</a> <div style="box-sizing:inherit"> </div>

Literacy UnlimitedSpend an evening with a Canadian novelist and raise funds to support free adult literacy tutoring in the West Island. Literacy Unlimited is proud to present virtual Under the Cover, a conversation with a Canadian author about books, the writing process, and topics of interest to the audience.  Under the Cover is Literacy Unlimited’s annual fundraising event for helping adults in the West Island improve their English language literacy. The funds raised support Literacy Unlimited’s free one-on-one tutoring services and community programming.   At each online Under the Cover event, a moderator will interview an author for the first part of the evening. At the end of the evening, there will be time for questions to be answered. Two online Under the Cover Events are scheduled for 2023 and will be on Zoom:Tickets no Longer Available February 8 - Joanna Goodman, the author of six novels, including the #1 national bestseller, The Home for Unwanted Girls, which was on The Globe &amp; Mail's Fiction bestseller list for more than six months, as well as The Forgotten Daughter and The Finishing School, both national bestsellers.Moderator: Trudie Mason, reporter, journalist, and CHOM newscaster  April 13 - Michelle Good, a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Five Little Indians, her first novel, won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award. It was also longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a finalist for the Writer’s Trust Award.Moderator: Kristy Snell, award-winning multi-platform journalist, CBC newscaster (on leave), and Concordia University Journalist-in-Residence 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time. English presentations.A Zoom link will be sent to all ticket holders in advance. Tickets<ul><li>Tickets are $25 for each event.</li><li>Student tickets are $10.</li><li>Donation receipts will be provided for the entire amount of the ticket.</li><li>All proceeds will benefit Literacy Unlimited.</li></ul>With low or no literacy, we would not be able to enjoy these authors' timely books depicting Canadian history. With your support of our Under the Cover fundraiser, you are helping English-speaking adults in the West Island improve their reading skills enough to enjoy these authors' works in the future.  The Pointe-Claire independent bookstore Librairie Clio will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of select books by the featured Under the Cover authors to Literacy Unlimited for a limited time. Shop online at <a href="https://store.librairieclio.ca/" target="_self">store.librairieclio.ca/</a>. <a href="http://www.literacyunlimited.ca/" target="_self">Literacy Unlimited</a> is a community organization in Montreal's West Island dedicated to improving English language literacy through custom-tailored tutoring services and community education, programs, and partnership.

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