DAY 3 - Sun Dec 5
2:00pm
Sovereign Words
Event Type:
Virtual
Poetry Readings from Billy Ray-Belcourt, Janet Rogers, Timimie Märak
followed by a conversation between the poets moderated by Liisa-Ravna Finbog.
Each writer breaks open wounds we may not want to face, and stitches us up with a beautiful vision of an Indigenous future that is Queer, grounded in culture, revolutionary, visionary and unafraid. Coming together from Mohawk/Tuscorora, Sami, and Cree Nations the conversation will be moderated by the brilliant Sami scholar Liisa-Ravna.
About the Artists
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. A 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, he earned his PhD in English at the University of Alberta. He was also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds an M.St.... Read more
January Rogers
January is a Mohawk/Tuscarora poet, media producer, performance and sound artist. She lives on her home territory of Six Nations of the Grand River where she operates Ojistoh Publishing and Productions. She has seven published poetry titles and wrote and produced a comedy web series, NDNs on the Airwaves (2022) and a published play Blood Sport... Read more
Timimie Gassko Märak
Speaker, poet and word weaver.
The first to hold the title of "Poet In Residence" at the Venice biennale and
together with ‘The Sámi Pavilion’ curators Beaska Niillas and Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Märak is also one of the three founding members of Hásstuheaddji collective, a Sámi led think-tank that gather thinkers, performers and artists to dialogue and reflect.
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