Graphic History

with Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Katherena Vermette

Hosted by JF Martel

In Person Fiction Politics Non-Fict History Free

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Friday

Oct , 2019

12:00pm

Eastern

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Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm Katherena Vermette

An illuminating, self-assured graphic novel anthology in which every panel reads like a radical act.

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Author and screenwriter J.F. Martel sits down with Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Katherena Vermette, two of the contributors to a groundbreaking anthology, This Place: 150 Years Retold, for a conversation on Canada’s colonial past and present and a look at how history and current affairs translate to a graphic novel format.

Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in This Place. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through Indigenous wonderworks, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since the first contact with Europeans.

Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs.

The Authors

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm is a writer, poet, spoken-word performer, librettist, and activist from the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. She is the founder and Managing Editor of Kegedonce Press which was established in 1993 to publish the work of Indigenous creators. Kateri has written two books of poetry, was a contributor to the graphic novel anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold, was editor of the award-winning Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing, and has also released two poetry and music CDs. Kateri’s work has been published internationally, and she has performed and spoken around the world.

Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette (she/her) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Vermette received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs. Her first novel, The Break, won several awards including the Amazon First Novel Award, and was a bestseller in Canada. Her second novel, The Strangers, won the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, named Indigo’s 2021 Book of the Year, and was a #1 national bestseller. Her work in children’s literature includes the graphic novel series A Girl Called Echo. Vermette lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River.