Join us at the Argo for a creative writing workshop led by Phoebe Tsang, playwright and author of "Setting Fire To Water"!
 

This workshop is for adventurous writers of all ages looking for a writing tool to enhance creativity, overcome writer’s block, generate stories, and further your writing goals.
 

Jump-start your Tarot reading skills, and learn to apply the practical wisdom of the Tarot to the creative process. This is a generative workshop with opportunities to share your writing for feedback and discussion, with a focus on deepening and supporting your writing practice. In addition, there will be a discussion of tarot reading techniques for developing character, plot, and narrative structure. You are encouraged to bring a work-in-progress!
 

* Suitable for fiction and nonfiction writers, poets, and playwrights, aged 14 and up.

* No prior tarot experience is required.

* You MUST obtain and bring a fully illustrated tarot deck. Please avoid "Marseilles" style decks where the “pip” cards are non-pictorial.

We are all made of stories, and the Tarot is a key that can help you unlock them! The Argo stocks a variety of decks, so you can always buy one when you arrive if you don't have one already!
 

This event is free, but limited to 15 participants! RSVP here on Eventbrite to reserve your spot.

About the host:
Phoebe Tsang is a Hong Kong-born Chinese, British, and Canadian poet, author, librettist and playwright. Her debut short fiction collection, “Setting Fire to Water” (Thistledown Press), was published in 2022. She is currently working on “Death of a Father,” a full-length play co-commissioned by Nightwood Theatre and Necessary Angel Theatre Co. Tsang is the author of the poetry collection “Contents of a Mermaid’s Purse” (Tightrope Books, 2009), and her original music can be found on Off record label (Belgium). Her libretti have been commissioned and premiered by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Sinfonietta, Continuum Contemporary Music, Tapestry Opera, and Hamilton Philharmonic. Find her at www.phoebetsang.com.

The Argo presents its February reading series event of local prose, poetry, and music, curated by Ilona Martonfi, in-person at the Argo, at 7 PM. The event is free and everyone is welcome. RSVPs are not required, but we do ask people to wear masks in the store! We look forward to seeing you at the event.

Susan Elmslie’s prize-winning poetry includes Museum of Kindness (Brick 2017) and I, Nadja, and Other Poems (Brick 2006)   www.susan.elmslie.org

Montreal writer Matt Risk writes for stage, screen, and game console. He has created canon for Dreamworks, Paramount, and Lucasfilm.

Maria Caltabiano graduated from Concordia University and was an editor at the CBC. Drawing Daybreak, (Guernica Editons, 2021) is her first poetry collection.

Drea Lake is a songwriter whose poetic songs range from folk to pop & neo soul. Her first two singles debuted on CBC. https://andrealake.ca/home
 

Jerome Ramcharitar is the author of the award-winning chapbook The Wrong Poem and Others Like It, published with Cactus Press.

Poet Deanna Radford performs regularly with her groups Cloud Circuit and the Tuned Air Trio. She is revising her first manuscript of poetry.

Harry Rajchgot, author Gravitational Fields and The Sweetness of Life. Managing Editor of JONAHmagazine. current project: Volkswagen Man, a novel.