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Five Little Indians: A Conversation with Michelle Good

Sat. March 23rd 2024 Vic Theatre $21.99

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Five Little Indians: A Conversation with Michelle Good

​Join us for an evening of enlightening conversation with the writer
Event can be attended in person In-Person Event
Literary Author Readings Cultural / Heritage First Peoples / Inuit / Métis
Sat. March 23rd 2024 + Add to Calendar Vic Theatre (No Minors)
6:00pm - 8:00pm From $21.99

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Michelle Good

Presented by:

Coastal Research, Education, and Advocacy Network (CREAN)

Event Description

​Join us for an evening of enlightening conversation with renowned author, poet, and lawyer Michelle Good. The conversation will explore her writing and her work to highlight residential schools, the sixties scoop, and other colonial violence impacting Indigenous women and youth. She will also discuss truth telling, resistance, and reconciliation - the focus of her most recent book.

The event will begin with a highlight of CREAN’s programming and youth performances. A short meet and greet will follow after the event concludes.

This event is hosted by Coastal Research, Education, and Advocacy Network (CREAN). CREAN is a non-profit organization that empowers vulnerable low-income and racialized youth through research, education, and advocacy.

The venue is wheel-chair accessible.




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Five Little Indians: A Conversation with Michelle Good

Details:

Saturday, March 23 2024

6pm

The Vic Theatre (808 Douglas St, Victoria BC)




Accessibility:

Email all accessibility requests to [email protected], or call 250-721-9611.

The Vic Theatre is wheelchair accessible.

An ASL interpreter is confirmed, but please email us by Friday, March 8 if you'll be needing this service so we can pre-arrange seating, etc.




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This conversation is the keynote event of CREAN’s Cracks in the Concrete Conference, March 22-24 2024. The Conference is a weekend of collaboration, creativity, curiosity, networking, and interactive discussions. Through hosting the Cracks in the Concrete Conference, CREAN hopes to spark interest in under-researched topics, strengthen research and education networks, and provide information to community members in an inclusive and accessible manner. Visit www.creansociety.ca/conference for more information.

Contact:

250-721-9611

[email protected]

www.creansociety.ca/conference




We respectfully acknowledge that this event takes place on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen (Chekonein, Chilcowitch, Swengwhung, Kosampsom, Whyomilth, Teechamitsa, Kakyaakan, Songhees, Esquimalt) and W̱SÁNEĆ (SȾÁUTW/Tsawout, W̱JOȽEȽP/Tsartlip, BOḰEĆEN/Pauquachin, WSIḴEM/Tseycum) Peoples.





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Michelle Good Biography:

Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for twenty-five years, she obtained a law degree and advocated for residential school survivors for over fourteen years. Good earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while still practising law and managing her own law firm. Her poems, short stories, and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada, and her poetry was included on two lists of the best Canadian poetry in 2016 and 2017.




Five Little Indians, her first novel, won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award, the Evergreen Award, the City of Vancouver Book of the Year Award, and Canada Reads 2022. It was also longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a finalist for the Writer’s Trust Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. On October 7, 2022 Simon Fraser University granted her an Honorary Doctor of Letters. Her new work, Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous life in Canada was released May 30, 2023, was a number one bestseller the next day and on October 4 2023 was a finalist for the Writers Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.

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808 Douglas St (at Humboldt)
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