Book Appétit Brunch

With David A. Robertson and Jesse Wente

Sunday, November 2

11:00AM – 1:00PM (Doors open at 10:30AM)

The Carleton

$50.00

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$50 INCLUDES BRUNCH

Join us for The Carleton’s outstanding brunch, and hear David A. Robertson in conversation with Jesse Wente, about Robertson’s powerful new book All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety. Wente (Unreconciled) and Robertson are two leading indigenous writers/thinkers, and this conversation is sure to be rich and rewarding. Brunch is included in your ticket price!

Speakers

David A. Robertson

David A. Robertson is a two-time Governor General's Literary Award winner and has won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and the Writers' Union of Canada Freedom to Read award. He has received several other accolades for his work as a writer for children and adults, podcaster, public speaker, and social advocate. He has been honoured with a Doctor of Letters from the University of Manitoba in 2023, and a Doctor of Laws from the University of Lethbridge in 2025. He is a member of Norway House Cree Nation and lives in Winnipeg.
Jesse Wente

Jesse Wente is a husband and father, as well as an award-winning writer and speaker. Born and raised in Toronto, his family comes from Chicago and Genaabaajing Anishinaabek and he is an off-reserve member of the Serpent River First Nation. Jesse is best known for more than two decades spent as a columnist for CBC Radio’s Metro Morning. Jesse spent a decade with the Toronto International Film Festival as a curator, including leading the film and gallery programming at the Tiff Lightbox. Jesse was the founding director of the Indigenous Screen Office and is the first Indigenous person to serve as Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts. His award-winning first book “Unreconciled: Family, Truth and Indigenous Resistance” was a national bestseller. Jesse was recently named the Storyteller in Residence at Toronto Metropolitan University. His first children’s book, Danger Eagle, is being published by Tundra Books in November.