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Afterwords Literary Festival: Reading Deeply
October 3, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
$5Events Navigation
Novelists Shani Mootoo, Michelle Good, and Francesca Ekwuyasi in conversation with writer and journalist Evelyn C. White.
The AfterWords Literary Festival was co-founded by Ryan Turner and Stephanie Domet, and in the fall of 2019, AfterWords held its inaugural edition. In 2020, due to Covid-19, the festival will host live events online between September 30th and October 4th. AfterWords is primarily interested in presenting (and being in the audience for) conversations among writers about the ideas that push them forward, the experiences that formed them into writers, and what writing can tell us about how to be human. Our mission is to give those writers who choose to join us the very best experience that Halifax has to offer.
We will offer live captioning upon request to all of our online events.
We celebrate our festival on the unceded and traditional homeland of the Mi’kmaq People. We do land acknowledgements as a part of the reconciliation process. In order for this festival to exist, for Canadians to enjoy the lives that they have, Indigenous people were removed, displaced, and killed. This truth is an uncomfortable one, but one that is necessary to face if we, as fellow Canadians, are to understand our whole history. We honour the Mi’kmaq, whose stories have been shaped by Mi’kma’ki.
“If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities.” — Claire Messud. Life in all its possibilities abounds in new novels from Shani Mootoo (Polar Vortex), Michelle Good (Five Little Indians), and Francesca Ekwuyasi (Butter Honey Pig Bread). Hear these three novelists read from their new books, and join them in conversation with writer and journalist Evelyn C. White.
This event is presented with support from the Access Copyright Foundation.
Suggested donation of $5.00.
8:00-9:30 pm AST on Saturday, October 3rd.
Tickets available August 10th.