Wed, Oct 28  •  7:30pm

Sintering: Performances and Readings

Quill Christie-Peters, Nardi Simpson, Bebe Oliver, Jesse Wente, Jasmin McGaughey, and Jessica Johns

Part of the Festival of Indigenous Stories

Festival of Indigenous Stories
Performance
Pass Required
Passes available
Sintering: Performances and Readings
Sintering: Performances and Readings

Wed, Oct 28  •  7:30pm

Sintering: Performances and Readings

Quill Christie-Peters, Nardi Simpson, Bebe Oliver, Jesse Wente, Jasmin McGaughey, and Jessica Johns

Part of the Festival of Indigenous Stories

Performance
Festival of Indigenous Stories
Pass Required
Passes available

About

“Sintering is bonding; it is building coalitions with your neighbours.” — Theory of Water: Nishaabe Maps to the Times Ahead by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

From poetry, to fiction, to nonfiction, to everything outside of and in-between, this evening’s event is a celebration of the encompassing, expansive, and uncontained way we know Indigenous excellence, globally and locally, to exist. Join Indigenous artists from the stolen lands of Canada and Australia – Quill Christie-Peters, Kirli Saunders, Nardi Simpson, Bebe Oliver, Jesse Wente, Alicia Elliott, Jasmin McGoughey, and Joshua Whitehead – for a night of readings and performance. Each of the featured storytellers hold love and joy together as a testimony to their unique cultural knowledges and thought systems, and this event will celebrate the ways in which they have come together to share their art. Hosted by the Festival of Indigenous Stories co-curators Jessica Johns and Evelyn Araluen.

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

The Rot is a recalcitrant study of the decaying romances, expired hopes and abject injustices of the world. A liturgy for girlhood in the dying days of late-stage capitalism, these poems expose fraying nerves and tendons of a speaker refusing to avert their gaze from the death of Country, death on Country, and the bloody violence of settler colonies here and afar.

Published by University of Queensland Press

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

SHORTLISTED: 2026 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, John Marsden Prize for Writing For Young Adults There's something dangerous in the air. It shimmers in the night, wrapped in the warm, humid breeze.

Published by Allen & Unwin

A fearless and honest exploration of queer First Nations identity, and a vibrant celebration of imperfection and personal growth, if this is the end is a stunning exploration of what it means to work through childhood trauma and love yourself in the present. In a state of post-pandemic recovery, the author travels back to his hometown and grapples with all that comes with it, experiences the thrills of relationship drama and serious queer romance, works through his mental health issues and writes a love letter to Narrm from the perspective of a Kimberley man.

Published by Magabala Books

2024 CBC CANADA READS SELECTION AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLIST A CBC BOOKS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ALEX AWARD WINNER AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL SHORTLIST RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR LITERARY FICTION SHORTLIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER A haunting debut novel where dreams, family and spirits collide Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears.

Published by HarperCollins 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.

Bebe Oliver is a Bardi Jawi award-winning author, poet and illustrator. Moving across Country, memory and the layered realities of Blak and queer life, his writing celebrates grief, love, identity and survival with a voice both vulnerable and strong.

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.

Jasmin McGaughey is a Torres Strait Islander and African American writer. She the author of Ash Barty’s collection of children’s books (illustrated by Jade Goodwin) and Mary Fowler’s children’s books (illustrated by Cate James).

Jessica Johns is a queer nehiyaw aunty and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel, Bad Cree, was a Canada Reads finalist, and won the WGA Fiction Prize, Alex Award, and MacEwan Book of the Year Prize. 

Dates & Times

Wed, Oct 28
7:30pm
8:30pm
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 Wednesday
Includes all Wednesday 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

Victoria College Chapel
91 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 2C7

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