Events & Workshops

 

The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and Pink Cadillac & T-Bird Lounge are pleased to present Poetry & A Pint, an evening of celebrating poetry with Poet Laureate Peace Akintade and Youth Poet Laureate Dash Reimer. Guests include local poets Lisa Bird-Wilson, Mika Lafond, & Jay Semko.

 

Food and drinks are available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public (please note there is limited seating; first come, first served).

 

Presenters Biographies:

 

Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, Peace Akintade - is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Public Speaker, Chorus-Poem Playwright, and Thespian residing in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, dance, performance art, critical research, and the theatre world. She is the 11^th Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan from Aug 1, 2024, and runs until July 31, 2026.

 

 

 

Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laureate, Dash Reimer - is an artist and educator based out of Treaty 6 territory in Saskatoon. He works within the worlds of poetry and hip-hop and has a decade of experience performing on stages across Turtle Island, North Africa, South Africa and Turkey. He is passionate about community care, grassroots neighbourhood movements and baking his friends tasty treats. Dash has been an avid collaborator in playwriting, chapbook making, jazz combos, improv troupes, rap crews and everything in between. Dash is the current Youth Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan.

 

 

 

Lisa Bird-Wilson - is a Saskatchewan Métis and Cree writer whose work appears in literary magazines, newspapers, and anthologies across Canada. Her most recent book, Probably Ruby (2021), is published internationally and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, for the Amazon First Novel Award, and won two Saskatchewan Book Awards including Book of the Year. Lisa is a founding member and chair of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Writers Circle Inc (SAWCI)/ Ânskohk Indigenous Literature Festival. She lives in Saskatoon and is the CEO of the Gabriel Dumont Institute, Canada’s first Métis post-secondary education and cultural institute.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mika Lafond - is from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. She is a mother, author and teacher. She lives in Treaty 6 Territory in the city of Saskatoon. Mika completed her MFA in Creative Writing in 2014 completing a thesis in Cree and English. Her first book of poetry, nipê wânîn, was published in 2017. She has published short stories and poetry in several anthologies. She is currently an instructor at ITEP at U of S. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jay Semko - is the bassist with Western Canadian Music Association Hall of Fame members The Northern Pikes and is an award-winning music composer for numerous film and TV productions, including the syndicated series “Due South”.  He is considered one of Canada’s premiere singer/songwriters, with 10 solo albums released, and hosts The Songwriters, a weekly radio show on CFCR in Saskatoon. His first book, “The Poetry & Lyrics of Jay Semko”, was published in 2021, and he is currently working on his second.

 

 

 

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