Another Story Bookshop & Pages UnBound present:

Decolonial Love: An evening Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Gwen Benaway and Gregory Scofield

Featuring readings from their new books and a conversation with Susan Blight

Tuesday, May 30th @ 7pm

Gladstone Hotel - Ballroom

1214 Queen St West

Co-sponsored by Unifor

There will be no alcohol served at the event, or permitted into the Ballroom.

The venue is fully wheelchair accessible

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the intersections between politics, story and songbringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity.

Working for over a decade an independent scholar using Nishnaabeg intellectual practices, Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada and has twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education. She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba, is currently faculty at the Dechinta Centre for Research & Learning in Denendeh NWT and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University.

Leanne will read from her new novel This Accident of Being Lost April 2017, House of Anansi Press

Gwen Benaway is of Anishinaabe and Mtis descent. Her first collection of poetry, Ceremonies for the Dead, was published in 2013 and her second collection of poetry, Passage, was published by Kegedonce Press in Fall 2016. As emerging Two-Spirited Trans poet, she has been described as the spiritual love child of Tomson Highway and Anne Sexton. In 2015, she was the recipient of the inaugural Speakers Award for a Young Author and in 2016 she received a Dayne Ogilvie Honour of Distinction for Emerging Queer Authors from the Writer's Trust of Canada.

Gwen will read from her new book of poetry, Passage Jan 2017, Kegondance Press

Gregory Scofield is Red River Metis of Cree, Scottish and European descent whose ancestry can be traced to the fur trade and to the Metis community of Kinesota, Manitoba. He has taught First Nations and Metis Literature and Creative Writing at Brandon University, Emily Carr University of Art Design, and the Alberta College of Art Design. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in English at Laurentian University where he teaches Creative Writing, and previously served as writer-in-residence at the University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg and Memorial University.

Scofield won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1994 for his debut collection, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel. In addition to several volumes of poetry, Scofield is the author of the memoir, Thunder Through My Veins 1999, and his latest collection of poetry is Witness, I Am 2016. In 2016, The Writers' Trust of Canada awarded Scofield with the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize.

Gregory will read from his new book of poetry, "Witness, I Am" Harbour Publishing

Susan Blight is Anishinaabe from Couchiching First Nation. A visual artist, filmmaker, and arts educator, Susans films and video work have been screened at such venues as Media City International Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, and the ImagineNative Film and Media Arts Festival. Her most recent short film, Misaabe, was included in the 2015 ImagineNATIVE Film and Video National Tour. In addition, Susan has exhibited at Gallery 44, The Print Studio, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, and the Art Gallery of Windsor. Her writingfocused on Anishinaabeg resurgence, Indigenous resistance, and anti-oppressionhas been published in Shameless Magazine, the Humber Literary Review, Muskrat Magazine, the Globe and Mail, and on the Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society blog.