Montreal Cultural Calendar

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Dance & Dream présente :

L’Apéro Ska – Les mardis 5 à 7 dansant!

Avec SKATTON CLUB – Ska Jazz Rocksteady
& Invité spécial de novembre: Thibaud de Corta

Mardi 19 novembre 2024
Quai des brumes (4481 rue St-Denis, coin Mont-Royal)
De 17h à 19h30
Entrée : contribution volontaire (15$ suggéré)

Skatton Club est un groupe Ska Jazz & Rocksteady de huit musiciens, jazzy, funky et irrésistible. On se retrouvera par moment projeté dans le charme des années 60, avec des compositions françaises, anglaises et instrumentales et des reprises bien sentis de classiques du genre.

Le son de Montréal, métissé et dansant comme on l’aime !

Charmante et intemporel, la musique du Skatton Club évoque tellement d’images fortes, de couleurs éclatantes et d’ambiances chaleureuses qu’on peut autant s’imaginer dans une fête de quartier que vêtu de ses plus beaux costumes pour une soirée dansante dans une magnifique salle de Bal.

www.skattonclub.ca

Avec:
Némo Venba Babin – Batterie
Simon Dolan – Basse
Bruno Rouyère – Guitare
Ons Barnat – Claviers
Yves Turgeon – Sax Alto
Elias Kokou Damawou – Trompette
Laurent Cauchy – Trombone
André Désilets – Sax Ténor / Voix & Animation

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Dance & Dream presents :

L’Apéro Ska – Dancing Happy Hour!

With SKATTON CLUB – Ska Jazz Rocksteady
& November special guest: Thibaud de Corta

Tuesday November 19th 2024
Quai des brumes (4481 rue St-Denis, corner Mont-Royal)
From 5pm to 7h30pm
Volontary contribution. (15$ suggested)

Skatton Club is a Ska & Rocksteady eight pieces group, jazzy, funky and irresistible. You will often find yourselves immersed in the charm of the 60s.

Skatton Club fully reflects the sound of Montreal, culturally diverse and filled with dance!
With French, English, and instrumental compositions, with some classic covers, their music is charming and timeless, Skatton Club evokes strong images, dazzling colors and warm atmospheres. It feels like a neighborhood party as much as a magnificent ballroom chic affair.

www.skattonclub.ca

Join author Julie Sedivy, in conversation with Gretchen McCulloch, as they discuss her new book, Linguaphile! This event will be hosted in person at the Atwater Library's Adair Auditorium. Attendance is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP on TicketSource.


https://www.instagram.com/p/DA6lNp4PiGr/
Free; RSVP at https://www.ticketsource.us/argo-bookshop/t-jzdenno


ABOUT THE BOOK

A celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.

If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, signed, understood, and misunderstood, in all its infinite glory. In this ingenious, lyrical exploration, Julie Sedivy draws on years of experience in the lab and a lifetime of linguistic love to bring the discoveries of linguistics home, to the place language itself lives: within the yearnings of the human heart and amid the complex social bonds that it makes possible.

Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love follows the path that language takes through a human life—from an infant’s first attempts at sense-making to the vulnerabilities and losses that accompany aging. As Sedivy shows, however, language and life are inextricable, and here she offers them together: a childish misunderstanding of her mother’s meaning reveals the difficulty of relating to other minds; frustration with “professional” communication styles exposes the labyrinth of standards that define success; the first signs of hearing loss lead to a meditation on society’s discomfort with physical and mental limitations.

Part memoir, part scientific exploration, and part cultural commentary, this book epitomizes the thrills of a life steeped in the aesthetic delights of language and the joys of its scientific scrutiny.


ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Julie Sedivy has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University and the University of Calgary. She is the author of Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self and Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, as well as the coauthor of Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says About You. She lives in Calgary, Canada.

Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist and author of the New York Times bestselling Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. She’s been the Resident Linguist at Wired and The Toast and is the co-creator of Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. She lives in Montreal, but also on the internet.