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Please join us for an evening of reading and conversation, featuring author and journalist Tanya Talaga, in conversation with writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote. This event is the second in an exciting creative partnership between Yukon University and Yukon Arts Centre, sponsored by CBC North. Active Voice seeks to bring global voices to the Yukon, and foster intimate and authentic discussion between each artist and our communities. Our next guest is the incredible Tanya Talaga.
Tanya will be welcomed and hosted by Yukon University’s Specialist in Creative Engagement and Expression, Ivan Coyote.
Tanya Talaga bio:
Tanya Talaga is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and raised in Toronto. She is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her mother was raised on the traditional territory of Fort William First Nation and Treaty 9.
She is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Seven Fallen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award. A finalist for the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the book was also CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 book.
Talaga was the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer. She is also the author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than 20 years she was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail. Tanya Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
300 University Dr, Whitehorse, YT, Canada, Yukon Y1A 5X9
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