Cabinet of Curiosities — Launch
March 30th 2026, 6:00 pm
Morrin Centre, Québec, QC
Morrin Centre presents
Imagination 2026 — Books & Wine
In-person Event
April 24th 2026
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm / Doors: 5:30 pm
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Do you love wine? Do you love literature? Books & Wine is perfect for you!
Sommelier Bianca Thériault will present wines that she has selected to perfectly complement three books featured at this year’s festival. The authors will discover which wine pairs with their book and learn how their stories inspired the sommelier. Participants will get to taste each wine alongside a delicious appetizer.
This is the perfect opportunity to become more familiar with books from the festival and to meet their authors!
The featured books are:
—My Thievery of the People by Leila Marshy
—John Candy: A Life of Comedy by Paul Myers
—Inner Space by Jakub Szamalek
***Please note: The Books & Wine tickets are sold separately from the Festival Pass. You can purchase tickets for this event right away, even if you intend to purchase a Festival Pass once they are available.
- Refunds
- No refunds
- Exchanges
- No exchanges
Do you love wine? Do you love literature? Books & Wine is perfect for you!
Sommelier Bianca Thériault will present wines that she has selected to perfectly complement three books featured at this year’s festival. The authors will discover which wine pairs with their book and learn how their stories inspired the sommelier. Participants will get to taste each wine alongside a delicious appetizer.
This is the perfect opportunity to become more familiar with books from the festival and to meet their authors!
The featured books are:
—My Thievery of the People by Leila Marshy
—John Candy: A Life of Comedy by Paul Myers
—Inner Space by Jakub Szamalek
***Please note: The Books & Wine tickets are sold separately from the Festival Pass. You can purchase tickets for this event right away, even if you intend to purchase a Festival Pass once they are available.
- Refunds
- No refunds
- Exchanges
- No exchanges
The Morrin Centre has no parking space. You will find metered parking in the surrounding streets and three underground parkings within a few minutes walk. Visit our website to learn more about parking options.
Leila Marshy
Leila Marshy is the author of The Philistine (LLP, 2018) and My Thievery of the People (Baraka Books, 2025), and is editor of the anthology Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada (Baraka Books, 2025). Daughter of a Palestinian refugee, Leila lived in Cairo during the First Intifada and worked for the Palestinian Red Crescent and the Palestinian Mental Health Association. She has been a community and political organizer, and notably founded a dialogue group with the Hasidic community in her local neighbourhood, helping elect the first Hasidic woman to public office in the world. Leila is editor at Baraka Books and lives in Montreal.
Paul Myers
Paul Myers is a Canadian writer and musician living in Berkeley, California. His previous books include The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy; the critically acclaimed A Wizard a True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio; It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues; and Barenaked Ladies: Public Stunts, Private Stories. The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy was adapted into Amazon Studios’ Canadian Scree Award–winning documentary The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks, on which Paul served as executive producer.
Jakub Szamalek
Jakub (Kuba) Szamalek is an author and video game writer. Born in Poland, he studied in the UK (at Oxford and then Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge Gates Scholar) and now lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his family. He wrote several best-selling and award-winning books, including the Hidden Web series—critically acclaimed in France and adapted into a major motion picture—as well as Inner Space, which was translated into English and French. Jakub is also the writer behind the international video game bestsellers The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, as well as the forthcoming Blood of Dawnwalker.
