“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 […]
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What might it mean to build movements from a place of yearning? What forms of action become possible when we privilege stories of desire, connection, freedom, culture and joy over the stories of damage told about, but never for our communities? Bringing together four Indigenous writers from the stolen lands of Canada and Australia, this […]
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, […]
Across generations and geographies, Indigenous peoples have always communicated stories, knowledge, memory, law, dreams and relationships through an extraordinary range of forms and technologies. Alongside immemorial traditions of song, dance, weaving and inscription that embody systems of relation to land, ancestors, community and the more-than-human world, Indigenous storytellers have inherited another set of stories: the […]
Indigenous writers’ works are often defined in ways different to how they themselves would define them. Dreamed worlds are considered speculative, ghosts are called horror, creation stories and deities are deemed mythology. But what if these imagined worlds have already happened, or are in the process of happening? What if a ghost in a story […]
Join one of Canada’s best and most beloved authors, Thomas King, creator of the Thumps Dreadful Water series, writer non-fiction like Indians on Vacation. In this special event, he discusses his new book Aliens on the Moon: A Novel. The bestselling author takes realism and turns it on its head it when an extraterrestrial presence […]
Dive into a conversation with Tracey Lindberg and katherena vermette as they discuss they discuss their respective works. katherena vermette’s procession is a gripping collection of poems use 80s childhood imagery and different generational voices to question the reason for existence. She challenges what it means to be a descendant and future ancestor simultaneously. Bestselling author […]
Join us for an event with two powerful storytellers and stories that span generations. In her debut novel To the Moon and Back, Eliana Ramage explores family, belonging, and identity with luminous prose that reveals the ties binding us across generations. Brian Thomas Isaac presents Bones of a Giant, a haunting and resilient tale rooted […]
Join two of Canada’s notable Indigenous authors as they discuss their two non-fiction titles geared towards Indigenous education and healing in the community. Inuk artist Susan Aglukark dicusses her memoir, Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing, and her experience healing from a traumatic event and how music helped the process. From bestselling author of the Misewa […]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED What are the Canadian books that shape us as readers and writers? Join three of Canada’s most eloquent authors Claire Cameron, David Chariandy, Niigaan Sinclair, and Stephanie Sinclair to interrogate and celebrate the complexities of this nation’s literatures, and explore what it takes to make a classic. Each has contributed […]
