An Evening with Jordan Abel, David Chariandy & Stephanie Sinclair
Join us for an inclusive and expansive conversation about the past, present, and future of Canada’s literary landscape featuring Nisga’a poet and author Jordan Abel, winner of the Griffin Poetry […]
FNHL Presents: White water canoeing down the rivers of Indigenous Literature!?!? A Talk by Drew Hayden Taylor
The First Nations House of Learning presents a special talk by acclaimed Indigenous writer and humourist Drew Hayden Taylor, who will take you on a journey covering his literary career and […]
Re-mapping the Archive
The third event of the ‘Living Archives’ series explores the presence of archives as records of individuals and communities. Absences across archives, marginalized spaces, and attitudes towards languages will be […]
“Heaven Has Eyes”: Canadian Book Launch
Philip Holden’s short story collection Heaven Has Eyes spans three cities—Singapore, Vancouver, and London—exploring belonging across space, language, culture, and time. Its new North American edition contains new stories that consider the […]
Indigenous Relationality in the Grind of the Shitty Future
Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession (Duke University Press, 2025), Jodi A […]
Imagined Histories
In the first event of the series ‘Living Archives,’ Green College writer in residence Theresa Muñoz will be in conversation with novelist Madeleine Thien, discussing how to weave archives and research materials […]
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. A Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and scholar, Simpson’s work breaks open the boundaries between story […]
A 21st-century Lute Song Book: Crafting the Toronto Book of Ayres
Duo Oriana’s latest endeavour, the Toronto Book of Ayres, sets four texts commissioned from contemporary poets Martin Gomes and Melissa Davidson to music by lutenist Jonathan Stuchbery. Together, these four songs […]
Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen Reads “Roughly for the North”
Roughly for the North is Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen’s debut collection of poetry. It encompasses her love and longing for her ancestral home of Ugiuvak (King Island, Alaska). In the work, she […]
Women, Life, Freedom and the Power of Storytelling
What does it mean to tell a story that might otherwise be erased? Join us for an engaged dialogue with journalist and UBC Arts alumna Nilo Tabrizy, whose acclaimed new book For the Sun […]
