Fri, Oct 30  •  6:30pm

Imagining Resistance Beyond Colonies

Quill Christie-Peters, Nardi Simpson, and Jesse Wente

Part of the Festival of Indigenous Stories

Festival of Indigenous Stories
Conversation
Pass Required
Passes available
Imagining Resistance Beyond Colonies
Imagining Resistance Beyond Colonies

Fri, Oct 30  •  6:30pm

Imagining Resistance Beyond Colonies

Quill Christie-Peters, Nardi Simpson, and Jesse Wente

Part of the Festival of Indigenous Stories

Conversation
Festival of Indigenous Stories
Pass Required
Passes available

About

Across generations, Indigenous voices have carried language, memory, and connection to culture despite ongoing colonial violence. Today’s writers continue and reshape that work anew.

Through poetry, fiction, memoir, and experimental forms, these authors challenge dominant narratives and question the limits of “the master’s tools”. What does it mean to tell stories that refuse those tools, or remake them entirely? How do writers honour inheritance while imagining new futures?

Join Anishinaabe writer and artist Quill Christie-Peters, Yuwaalaraay storyteller, composer and singer/song-writer Nardi Simpson, and Anishinaabe writer Jesse Wente for a rich discussion of craft, sovereignty, and new creative horizons as the panel explores how contemporary Indigenous writing engages with grief, survival, and cultural continuity. Hear about the new modes of storytelling emerging as political work to push beyond convention, inviting readers to think differently about voice, form, and power. Moderated by award-winning Gunai writer and artist Kirli Saunders.

A brilliant exploration embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation Through reflections on childbirth, parenting, creative practice, and expansive responsibility, Anishinaabe visual artist Quill Christie-Peters explores how reconnecting with the body can be an act of resistance and healing. She shows that wholeness—despite pain and displacement—is not just possible but essential for liberation, not only for Indigenous people but for all of us.

Published by House of Anansi Press

From the award-winning author of Song of the Crocodile comes a lyrical and masterfully woven novel about women, creation, belonging and the precious fragility of a life. 'Mothers are experts at overflow . . . You may forget the words or kisses or gifts they give but that doesn't mean they didn't happen . . .

Published by Hachette Book Group

How do we heal from colonialism? What does healing from colonialism look like for First Nations?

Published by Penguin Random House Canada

Quill Christie-Peters is an Anishinaabe educator and self-taught visual artist from Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation located in Treaty 3 territory. She is the creator and director of the Indigenous Youth Residency Program, an artist residency for Indigenous youth that engages land-based creative practices through Anishinaabe artistic methodologies.

Nardi Simpson is a freshwater Yuwaalaraay storyteller and performer. She is a founding member of Australia’s longest-active all-female, all-Indigenous band ‘Stiff Gins’ who have been performing and touring nationally and internationally for 28 years.

Jesse Wente is a husband and father, as well as an award-winning writer and speaker. Born and raised in Toronto, he is an off-reserve member of the Serpent River First Nation.

Dates & Times

Fri, Oct 30
6:30pm
7:30pm
A book signing will follow this event

Tickets

Full Festival Pass
SOLD OUT
Regular $159
Under 30 $79
5-Day Festival Pass
Includes 5-day festival events. Excludes Masterclasses.
Regular $159
Under 30 $79
1-Day Friday
Includes all Friday events.
Excludes Masterclasses.
Regular $29
Under 30 $15
Pass Information
5-Day Festival Pass includes Barbara Kingsolver and East West Street: A Song of Good & Evil .
2-Day Weekend and 1-Day Passes do not include Winter Garden Theatre events.

Venue

Emmanuel College Chapel, Room 319

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