Critical Conversation: Continuing to Act: Reconciling, Not Reconciliation

Norma Dunning, Brandi Morin and Shiri Pasternak

Critical Conversation: Continuing to Act: Reconciling, Not Reconciliation

Norma Dunning, Brandi Morin and Shiri Pasternak

7:00pm

Sunday, October 2, 2022

Each day of the Festival, authors and industry experts will come together for candid, live conversations to examine a new facet of the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read.

The papal visit to Canada marks a significant moment in acknowledging the pain and trauma inflicted upon the Indigenous peoples of Canada through colonial rule, the Catholic church and the residential school system. Rather than drawing a line under the past, how can these political statements move to sustained, continued acts of reconciling to enable the personal wounds to heal? Through the presentation of their new books, Brandi Morin and Norma Dunning will discuss how two deeply personal stories lead to a journey of political change. Award-winning journalist Brandi Morin is one of Canada’s most prominent voices from the New York Times, CBC’s Power & Politics, and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network National News; Our Voice of Fire: a Memoir of a Warrior Rising tells of Morin’s journey to overcome enormous adversity and find her purpose, and her power, through journalism. Dr. Norma Dunning is an Inuk writer, scholar, researcher, professor and grandmother. Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother is Dunning’s journey to tell the story of those Inuit community members who experienced the Eskimo Identification Tag System first-hand.

Moderated by Shiri Pasternak.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: October 2 at 7pm ET
Where: Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 75 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Each day of the Festival, authors and industry experts will come together for candid, live conversations to examine a new facet of the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read.

The papal visit to Canada marks a significant moment in acknowledging the pain and trauma inflicted upon the Indigenous peoples of Canada through colonial rule, the Catholic church and the residential school system. Rather than drawing a line under the past, how can these political statements move to sustained, continued acts of reconciling to enable the personal wounds to heal? Through the presentation of their new books, Brandi Morin and Norma Dunning will discuss how two deeply personal stories lead to a journey of political change. Award-winning journalist Brandi Morin is one of Canada’s most prominent voices from the New York Times, CBC’s Power & Politics, and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network National News; Our Voice of Fire: a Memoir of a Warrior Rising tells of Morin’s journey to overcome enormous adversity and find her purpose, and her power, through journalism. Dr. Norma Dunning is an Inuk writer, scholar, researcher, professor and grandmother. Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother is Dunning’s journey to tell the story of those Inuit community members who experienced the Eskimo Identification Tag System first-hand.

Moderated by Shiri Pasternak.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: October 2 at 7pm ET
Where: Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 75 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Featured Authors

Norma Dunning
Dr. Norma Dunning is an Inuk writer as well as a scholar, researcher, professor and grandmother. Her short story collection Tainna: The Unseen Ones won the 2021 Governor General’s Award for literature, and her previous short story collection, Annie Muktuk and Other Stories (University of Alberta Press, 2017), received the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Howard O’Hagan Award for short stories and the Bronze Foreword INDIES Award for short stories. She lives in Edmonton, AB.

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Brandi Morin
Brandi Morin is an award-winning French/Cree/Iroquois journalist from Treaty 6, Alberta, Canada. For the last ten years Brandi has specialized in sharing Indigenous stories, which have influenced reconciliation in Canada’s political, cultural, and social environments. She is one of Canada’s most prominent voices on Indigenous issues. Morin has published or broadcast with the New York Times, National Geographic, the Guardian, the Toronto Star, Al Jazeera English, Vice, Elle Canada, CBC’s Power & Politics, and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network National News, among many other outlets. She won a Human Rights Reporting award from the Canadian Association of Journalists for her work with the CBC’s Beyond 94 project tracking the progress of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. She has worked with Journalists for Human Rights and has presented to various university campuses in Canada and the United States regarding her work as an Indigenous journalist and is in high demand for commentary and expertise on Indigenous topics.

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Shiri Pasternak
Shiri Pasternak is an assistant professor of criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. She was the co-founder and research director of the Yellowhead Institute from 2018-2021, the first Indigenous-focused think tank in the country, where she led the research on a number of major reports, including Land Back and Cash Back. She is also the author of the award-winning book Grounded Authority: the Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State, published in 2017 by the University of Minnesota Press, and many other articles and essays.

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7:00pm

Sunday, October 2

What to read

Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories by , Our Voice of Fire by , Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother by ,
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