Permanent Astonishment: Tomson Highway

Tomson Highway  and Antoni Cimolino

Permanent Astonishment: Tomson Highway

Tomson Highway  and Antoni Cimolino

3:30pm

Saturday, October 30, 2021

Join one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers, Tomson Highway, as he shares his experiences being Cree, as detailed in his memoir, Permanent Astonishment: Growing Up in the Land of Snow and Sky. From culture to conquest and survival, Tomson’s personal story is an homage to his younger brother’s final words, “Don’t mourn me, be joyful.” Tomson is best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award.

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Join one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers, Tomson Highway, as he shares his experiences being Cree, as detailed in his memoir, Permanent Astonishment: Growing Up in the Land of Snow and Sky. From culture to conquest and survival, Tomson’s personal story is an homage to his younger brother’s final words, “Don’t mourn me, be joyful.” Tomson is best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award.

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Tomson Highway is a Cree author, playwright, and musician. His memoir, Permanent Astonishment, won the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He also wrote the plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, and the bestselling novel Kiss of the Fur Queen. Tomson Highway is a member of the Barren Lands First Nation and lives in Gatineau, Quebec.

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Antoni Cimolino is the Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival, a post he was named to in 2012, having served as General Director, Executive Director and General Manager, among other roles. He began at the Stratford Festival in 1988, as an actor, taking on his first directing projects in the mid-1990s. Highlights of his career include playing Romeo to Megan Follows’ Juliet; directing Richard Monette in Filumena, William Hutt in Twelfth Night, Brian Bedford in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Martha Henry in The Tempest; the creation of the multimillion-dollar Endowment Foundation; and the building of the glorious new Tom Patterson Theatre.

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