Kingston Writersfest: Storytelling and Redemption, Thomas King & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson with Shelagh Rogers

Friday, September 27, 2013 - 4:30pm

Holiday Inn Waterfront- Islandview Room
2 Princess Street
Kingston, ON
K7L 1A2

Storytelling and Redemption

Friday, September 27, 2013
4:30–6:00 pm / Holiday Inn Waterfront, Islandview Room

Thomas King & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson with Shelagh Rogers
Readings & Conversation

Do stories have the power to heal? Thomas King surveys the history of native people in North America in his funny, highly idiosyncratic The Inconvenient Indian – storytelling “fraught with history.” Storyteller, teacher, and Idle No More activist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson retells Anishinaabeg tales in The Gift Is in the Making. Both explore the role of storytelling in reconciliation of aboriginal and non-aboriginal people with CBC’s Shelagh Rogers, an Honorary Witness to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Sponsored by Wawahte, by Robert P. Wells

General admission: $13.50/$17.00 onsite

See more at: http://www.kingstonwritersfest.ca/events.php