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Remembering the life of George Hill George Hill passed away. This is the full obituary where you can express condolences and share memories. Published in the Montreal Gazette on 2024-06-14.

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Next week Wednesday our $1000 Older Writers Grant opens to the public. If you are at least fifty years of age, and you're starting out on your writing career, then you are welcome to apply! It's free, easy, and straightforward! Visit bit.ly/olderwritersgrant to learn more about the grant and its guidelines.

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EDITING TO ADD: Hi, folks. SLF director, Mary Anne Mohanraj, here. This grant has received far more visibility than any of our other grants (that we've given for 20+ years, giving out over $100,000 in funds so far). I think that must be due to the conversation over this graphic pushing the post up in the Facebook algorithms. (Not a deliberate strategy on our part, I promise you!)

As a result, I suspect our volunteer jurors are going to get flooded with subs this time around, which will be an interesting challenge for us; we may need to take a little more time to read before announcing a winner this year. We'll see! Please be patient with us, and note that we're mostly volunteer run, with a few part-time staffers.

But let me take this opportunity to note that if you're eligible for this grant, you're probably eligible for other grants of ours -- at least the travel grant, which is open to all. We also have diversity grants, a working class writers' grant, and a S. Asian grant (given in memoriam of a father who loved literature). We hope you apply.

And if you're seeing this and are in a financial position to join as a member ($30 / year), details are on our website, and membership growth is the best way to help us continue giving out more grants into the future. I'd love to have a strong enough base that we could offer multiple Older Writers' Grants every year, for example. Something we're working towards. If you're interested in donating a larger sum towards a new grant, or towards one of our existing grants, please get in touch!

Do check out our other writerly offerings -- our podcast, interviews, and charted Deep Dives with writers, editors, game designers, and more. We periodically offer classes and workshops as well, so sign up for the newsletter to stay informed!

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engAGE, Concordia University's Centre for Research on Aging, invites you to a second “joyshop” in honour of Black History Month.

Join us for "Feeling the Music: Embodied Listening Through Haptics, workshop led by Warsame Isse that invites you to feel the music via touch.

Warsame is a Masters student in Media Studies at Concordia, and a student affiliated with engAGE, who is studying listening as a multisensorial experience.

This workshop is group-listening session where participants will listen and feel the vibrations of songs from various artists from the Black Diaspora and Montreal’s rich Black jazz history. Participants will be encouraged to recommend songs they would like to listen to.

We will not simply listen to the music but listen to each other as we share memories we have related to these songs.

Feeling the music will take place on Thursday, February 22, from 4 to 6 p.m., at 2155 Guy St. 6th Floor (room ER 661). It is free. Snacks and beverages will be served.

Registration is required as space is limited.

Register by emailing: [email protected]

Part of a series of similar works, Finnegan Shannon’s blue bench "Do you want us here or not" (2020) is a response to the scarcity of seating found in some art museums and galleries. Shannon is an artist long active in conversations and actions that raise awareness of issues around access and disability in public spaces.

This work is part of the MFA's "Please Be Seated" program, which invites artists to make seating for the Museum that is also acquired as part of our permanent collection. Now on view, our exhibition "Tender Loving Care" in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art features eight "Please Be Seated" locations ❤️

🎨: Finnegan Shannon, "Do you want us here or not" (2020), Baltic birch, poplar wood, Formica. Fabrication by Walter Zanetti, Anthony Dewar and Paul Durocher, School of Industrial Design and Brant Lucuik, School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University. Produced by Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada. © Finnegan Shannon.

Said Tom Mulcair:

63 per cent of its members are seniors who live alone, 43 per cent are living in poverty, 23 per cent don’t have access to home-cooked meals and 20 per cent don’t have access to technology, according to the agency’s annual report for 2022-2023.

“It’s a place where we want our members to age with dignity and not one person is forgotten,” says the director of The Teapot, Tamara Peel.

“We support adults 50 plus in being a valuable and connected part of their community and we tackle the issues of social isolation and loneliness, which have a profound impact on the health and well-being of older adults.”

The Teapot is committed to its deep roots in the community, its ability to innovate and work in collaboration with other partners and its actions based on individual autonomy.

https://montrealgazette.com/sponsored/life-sponsored/living-alone-places-seniors-at-a-greater-risk-of-social-isolation-and-poverty?fbclid=IwAR1Ujiqwvg7V-p-4kgmX_vA_Mm6xVkghznub_COxPQjFaoVOhTeLmlOSP_I

Living alone places seniors at a greater risk of social isolation and poverty Centraide of Greater Montreal provides financial support to a network of agencies that work every day to build a more inclusive society.