Humber Black Box Session

David Bezmozgis

Humber Black Box Session

David Bezmozgis

2:30pm

Thursday, October 28, 2021

The Black Box session returns with a live-streaming of the Humber School for Writers Love & Defiance podcast. Author, filmmaker and Humber School for Writers Director, David Bezmozgis, will speak with Naomi Yano, a Humber student who has lived an extraordinary life and turned that experience into art. Does one need to live boldly and unconventionally to write? What conscious and unconscious decisions shape a life and make a writer? In the spirit of NPR’s StoryCorps and This American Life, join us for an evening of intimate and revealing conversation.

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The Black Box session returns with a live-streaming of the Humber School for Writers Love & Defiance podcast. Author, filmmaker and Humber School for Writers Director, David Bezmozgis, will speak with Naomi Yano, a Humber student who has lived an extraordinary life and turned that experience into art. Does one need to live boldly and unconventionally to write? What conscious and unconscious decisions shape a life and make a writer? In the spirit of NPR’s StoryCorps and This American Life, join us for an evening of intimate and revealing conversation.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

Conversation
Reading

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David Bezmozgis is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. He is the author of the story collections, Immigrant City and Natasha and Other Stories, and the novels, The Betrayers and The Free World. His books have been nominated for the Scotiabank/Giller Prize, The Governor-General's Award, the Trillium Prize and won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Born in Riga, Latvia, David lives in Toronto where he is the Creative Director of the Humber School for Writers.

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2:30pm

Thursday, October 28

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