About this Event
Join Massy Books, House of Anansi Press, Salia Joseph, and Quill Christie-Peters for an unforgettable event that dives deep into On Wholeness by Anishinaabe artist Quill Christie-Peters. Through storytelling that weaves together the body, healing, and resistance, Quill redefines liberation and reconnects us to our ancestors. A journey of pain, survival, and transformation.
Saturday, January 24th at Massy Books. Doors open at 6:30, event starts promptly at 7 pm on the dot!
Books will be for sale at the event, followed by a book signing!
Registration is free but required.
Venue:
The event will be hosted at Massy Books, 229. E. Georgia St., Vancouver, BC. The venue has a gender neutral bathroom. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended. We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.
The Book:
A brilliant exploration embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation Through reflections on childbirth, parenting, creative practice, and expansive responsibility, Anishinaabe visual artist Quill Christie-Peters explores how reconnecting with the body can be an act of resistance and healing. She shows that wholeness-despite pain and displacement-is not just possible but essential for liberation, not only for Indigenous people but for all of us. In poetic and raw storytelling, Quill shares her own experiences of gendered violence and her father's survival of residential school, revealing how colonialism disconnects us from ourselves. Yet, through an Anishinaabe lens, the body is more than just flesh-it extends to ancestors, homelands, spirit relations, and animal kin. This fierce and enlightening book reimagines the way we understand settler colonialism-through the body itself. On Wholeness takes us on a journey that begins before birth, in a realm where ancestors and spirits swirl like smoke in the great beyond.
Author:
QUILL CHRISTIE-PETERS is an Anishinaabe educator and self-taught visual artist from Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation located in Treaty 3 territory. She is the creator and director of the Indigenous Youth Residency Program, an artist residency for Indigenous youth that engages land-based creative practices through Anishinaabe artistic methodologies. She holds a master's degree in Indigenous governance on Anishinaabe art-making as a process of falling in love. She has spoken at Stanford University, the University of Toronto, and California College of the Arts, and her written work can be found in GUTS magazine and Canadian Art. She is also a mother, beadwork artist, and traditional tattoo practitioner following the protocols of her community.
Moderator:
SALIA JOSEPH is from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Snuneymuxw First Nation’s on her father’s side and is British and Jewish on her mothers. She is a graduate from the critical Indigenous studies program at the University of British Columbia. Salia is the executive director of The Sníchim Foundation which is a Sḵwx̱wú7mes language revitalization non-profit. She is also the co-owner of Host Consulting Inc. which is a public art consultancy focused on elevating the presence, designs and work of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleilwaututh artists in their homelands. Salia is very grateful to come from such generous people and is always looking at ways to show reciprocity.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Massy Books, 229 East Georgia Street, Vancouver, Canada
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