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The Magic Among Us: Myth Music and the Stories That Transform Our World with Amal El-Mohtar and Charles de Lint
Sun, Oct 18
|Motel Chelsea
What happens when myth and memory meet the everyday world? How do stories, music and imagination open doors to other ways of seeing—and transform the way we understand ourselves and the world around us?
Time & Location
Oct 18, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Motel Chelsea, 1418 Rte 105, Chelsea, QC J9B 2H7, Canada
About the event
Award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Charles de Lint invite us into worlds where the boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary begin to blur. Through her luminous, genre-defying storytelling, El-Mohtar explores the intersections of myth, love, memory and time. Fresh from her win of the Hugo Award for Best Novella for The River Has Roots, Amal brings this celebrated new work, and her remarkable imagination, to the conversation. De Lint, an acclaimed pioneer of contemporary urban fantasy, draws on folklore, music and the magic woven into everyday life to create stories in which the extraordinary feels tantalizingly close at hand. He will share from his newest book, Dog Sisters, bringing another captivating story from his richly imagined world to the festival.
In conversation with Kate Heartfield, they will explore:
~ How myth, folklore and music continue to shape the stories we tell—and the ways we understand ourselves.
~ Where magic…