World in Other Words: Languages of Protest

Inger-Mari Aikio and Tyler Pennock

World in Other Words: Languages of Protest

Inger-Mari Aikio and Tyler Pennock

4:30pm

Friday, September 30

Stage in the Park, September 30 at 4:30pm ET

Meet storytellers from unique communities around the world and across the local neighbourhoods of Toronto in the World in Other Words. This event highlights the Sámi peoples’ connection to nature, culture, language and music through artistic expressions. North Finland Sámi poet Inger-Mari Aikio will give a wonderful performance of poetry, celebrating Sámi languages, joik and oral traditions. The performance will be followed by a moderated Q&A, with a focus on oral storytelling and oral literature as a form of protest, resistance and enduring survival in Indigenous communities across the globe.

Moderated by Tyler Pennock.

Duration: 60 minutes

This performance is presented as part of the free, outdoor events at #FestofAuthors22, taking place on the stage in the park and open to the general public. Find the venue on the map here.

This event is presented in partnership with the Sámi Artist Council, NORLA and the Norwegian Embassy.

NORLA logo    Embassy of Norway Logo

Stage in the Park, September 30 at 4:30pm ET

Meet storytellers from unique communities around the world and across the local neighbourhoods of Toronto in the World in Other Words. This event highlights the Sámi peoples’ connection to nature, culture, language and music through artistic expressions. North Finland Sámi poet Inger-Mari Aikio will give a wonderful performance of poetry, celebrating Sámi languages, joik and oral traditions. The performance will be followed by a moderated Q&A, with a focus on oral storytelling and oral literature as a form of protest, resistance and enduring survival in Indigenous communities across the globe.

Moderated by Tyler Pennock.

Duration: 60 minutes

This performance is presented as part of the free, outdoor events at #FestofAuthors22, taking place on the stage in the park and open to the general public. Find the venue on the map here.

This event is presented in partnership with the Sámi Artist Council, NORLA and the Norwegian Embassy.

NORLA logo    Embassy of Norway Logo

Featured Authors

Inger-Mari Aikio
Inger-Mari Aikio was born in 1961. She currently lives in Sápmi, Sámiland, North Finland. Poet, writer, translator and director and producer of documentary films and music videos. She worked as a journalist, radio host and reporter. She is the author of 12 books in Northern Sámi, eight of them poetry. Her poems have been translated into 15 different languages. She is the winner of Skábmagovat Film Award (2013), State Award for Children’s culture (2015) and Naji Naaman literary Creativity prize (2021). Inger-Mari Aikio appears as part of Nordic Bridges 2022.

Read more about Inger-Mari Aikio

Tyler Pennock
Tyler Pennock, author of Bones (2020), is a Two-Spirit Queerdo from Faust, Alberta, and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They were adopted from a Cree and Métis family, and reunited with them in 2006. Tyler is a graduate of Guelph University’s Creative Writing MFA program (2013), as well as the University of Toronto (2009). They have lived in Toronto for the past 25 years.

Read more about Tyler Pennock

4:30pm

Friday, September 30

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