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Salon Series: Dionne Brand

The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario

Award winning author of 23 books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, Dionne Brand, joins us to discuss her new novel, Salvage - her first work of non-fiction since the release of her groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return over twenty years ago. In Salvage, Brand interrogates the colonial, racist tropes found in …

Free

Cross-Pollinations: Jeffrey Ansloos & Liz Howard

Zoom

Join the League of Canadian Poets, the Health Arts Research Centre, and the Canadian Association for Health Humanities for the next iteration of the Cross-Pollinations Virtual Rounds Series. Join us on September 25th for a Cross Pollinations event on the theme of Indigenous health and place-based care. This event will feature a …

Free

Going to Mars with Nikki Giovanni & Fred Moten

Florida State University

The ‘Princess of Black Poetry’ Nikki Giovanni and MacArthur Foundation Fellow Fred Moten will bring their genius to Tallahassee for two days of musing about the future of Black artistic expression and activism, including a talk from Moten, a screening of the Sundance-winning GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT …

Free

Self-Portrait of Translation: George McWhirter in Conversation

The Nest Festival House, 1398 Cartwright St 3rd Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia

Poet, translator, and teacher George McWhirter was Vancouver’s first Poet Laureate, and holds a startlingly impressive list of awards and honours since then, most recently as translator from Spanish of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner, Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence by Mexican novelist, activist, and journalist Homero Aridjis. In conversation with author …

$27

2024 CBC Massey Lectures: What I Mean to Say – Ian Williams

Koerner Hall Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario

Enough small talk. Let’s get right to it: Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation? In the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures, Giller Prize-winning novelist and poet Ian Williams wants to start a conversation about conversations. …

$25