Growing Room 2019: An Afternoon of Indigenous Brilliance (UBC Creative Writing)
An Afternoon of Indigenous Brilliance brings three of the authors from Growing Room’s day-long Indigenous Brilliance celebration to UBC’s Vancouver campus
Date/Time: Mar 12 2019, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Vancouver, BC Point Grey Campus, Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Room 1851961 East Mall
Tickets
Cost: Free
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How can academic settings expand their notions of brilliance through the work of Indigenous writers and thinkers? Eden Robinson, Arielle Twist, and Lindsay Nixon will read from their exciting new books. Come prepared to laugh! This event is open to the public.
Panelists
Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla, British Columbia. Her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Her latest novel is Trickster Drift.
Arielle Twist is an author and community educator from George Gordons First Nation, Saskatchewan. Disintegrate/Dissociate is her first collection of poetry with Arsenal Pulp Press.
Lindsay Nixon is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator, award-nominated editor, award-nominated writer, and McGill Art History PhD student. They currently hold the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art. Nixon has previously edited mâmawi-âcimowak, an independent art, art criticism, and literature journal, and their writing has appeared in Malahat Review, Room, GUTS, MICE, esse, Inuit Art Quarterly, Teen Vogue, and other publications. nîtisânak is their first book.
Moderator
Jessica Johns is nehiyaw and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in northern Alberta. She is currently living on the traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
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