Event
Reading - Discover & Write from Natural History with Maureen Scott Harris
Sunday, May 5, 2019 13:00to15:00
McLennan Library Building
Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th floor, 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
Come discover and create with poet/essayist Maureen Scott Harris and the treasures of natural history in McGill's Blacker Wood Collection.
Readings by Maureen Scott Harris, and by participants from the Saturday workshop who choose to share their writing inspired by Blacker Wood items. Rare materials from the collection will be on display in exhibition cases.
Light reception with coffee, tea, and snacks.
In partnership with Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival.
Image: Sketch of Langsdorff's Thorn-tail (Gouldia langsdorffi) by Gould [1868]. McGill Blacker Wood Collection.
