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A night of poetry and a conversation on writing that takes inspiration from the land, with books and magazines for sale from SK publishers!
Join us for a reading and book talk with award-winning author and kêhtê-aya Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer from her book of essays and poems wîhtamawik/ Tell Them: On a Life of Inspiration, which chronicles her childhood in a cabin on reserve, through the Indian Residential School system, and the reclamation of her nēhiýaw language, culture, and spirituality.
Louise will be joined by local authors Ken Wilson and Jesse Archibald Barber for a conversation about one of her muses, the prairies, what a kinship relationship with the land looks like, and how it can inspire and nourish a writer's practice.
The authors will be appearing at the Artesian on Tuesday, May 19th, at 6:30 pm. University of Regina Press' Editorial Director, Marcel DeCoste, will host the evening. Organized by the University of Regina Press.
After the book talk ends, browse books and magazines for sale from SK publishers, including Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, Gabriel Dumont Institute, Briarpatch, Éditions La Belle Plume, UR Press and Sask Books. The authors will be pleased to sign copies. Don't miss out on what promises to be a lively discussion!
This is a free event open to the public; all are welcome.
The Artesian is a fully wheelchair accessible venue with non-gendered accessible washrooms available. The main entrance facing Angus Street (west side of the building) is a single flight of stairs; a wheelchair accessible elevator is on 13th Avenue (north side of the building). Free street parking available.
Presenters:
Louise Bernice Halfe—Sky Dancer
Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer is an acclaimed nēhiýaw (Plains Cree) poet and writer from the Saddle Lake First Nation in Alberta. She has been the recipient of multiple awards and appointments for her work, including the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal, Saskatchewan Provincial Poet Laureate, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, King Charles III Coronation Medal, and Member of the Order of Canada.
Jesse Rae Archibald Barber
Jesse Rae Archibald Barber is from Regina and is a professor of Indigenous Literatures at the First Nations University of Canada. His publications include stories in The Malahat Review, MBC Magazine, and mitewâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling, as well as editing the award-winning anthology kisiskâciwan: Indigenous Voices from Where the River Flows Swiftly. His most recent work, acâhkos nikamowini-pîkiskwêwina – The Star Poems, is a contemporary adaptation of traditional star stories in both Cree and English.
Ken Wilson
Ken Wilson is a settler who grew up in the Haldimand Tract in southwestern Ontario. His writing has been published in The Malahat Review, Queen’s Quarterly, and The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada. He lives on Treaty 4 territory in oskana kâ-asastêki (Regina, Saskatchewan), where he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Regina.
