Art, Race and the Future: Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan and Rinaldo Walcott

Art, Race and the Future: Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan and Rinaldo Walcott

8:00pm

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Esi Edugyan presents her latest book, inspired by her 2021 CBC Massey Lectures, Out of the Sun: On Art, Race and the Future. Join one of the most celebrated authors of the past decade to explore challenging new perspectives, as Edugyan analyzes the relationship between race and art. This live, moving meditation through visual art, literature, film and her own lived experiences will guide you through what can happen when we begin to consider stories at the margins. Q&A to follow.

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Two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Esi Edugyan presents her latest book, inspired by her 2021 CBC Massey Lectures, Out of the Sun: On Art, Race and the Future. Join one of the most celebrated authors of the past decade to explore challenging new perspectives, as Edugyan analyzes the relationship between race and art. This live, moving meditation through visual art, literature, film and her own lived experiences will guide you through what can happen when we begin to consider stories at the margins. Q&A to follow.

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Featured Authors

Esi Edugyan
Esi Edugyan is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Victoria and was raised in Calgary, Alberta. She is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Washington Black, which was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Man Booker Award and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her novel Half-Blood Blues was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Man Booker Prize and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She is also the author of Dreaming of Elsewhere, which is part of the Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Rinaldo Walcott
Rinaldo Walcott is a professor and writer. His most recent books are The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom (Duke, 2021) and On Property (Bibiloasis, 2021) which was shortlisted for the Toronto Book award.

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8:00pm

Wednesday, October 27

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