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Getting to the Truth

With Tanya Talaga, Mercedes Peters, M G Vassanji, and Mary Lynk

Friday, November 8
7:00PM – 10:00PM (Doors Open at 6:30PM)
Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St, Halifax)

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Presented by North Star Immigration Law.

The Knowing, Tanya Talaga’s retelling of Canadian history, is both meticulously researched and deeply personal. Tanya joins Mi’kmaw historian Mercedes Peters in conversation. Then M G Vassanji presents his new work, Nowhere, Exactly, about how we create and recreate ourselves in new lands. This conversation with Mary Lynk will be recorded for CBC’s IDEAS. 

Accessibility Notes: ASL, free livestream

Speakers

  • Tanya Talaga is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent and was born and raised in Toronto. She is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her mother was raised on the traditional territory of Fort William First Nation and Treaty 9. She is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Seven Fallen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award. A finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the novel was also CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer. She is also the author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than twenty years she was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail. Tanya Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories.

  • Mercedes Peters (she/her) is a Mi’kmaw PhD Candidate in History at the University of British Columbia. Mercedes is a band member of Glooscap First Nation. While her research focuses on Mi'kmaw and Wolastoqey women's grassroots activism, she has a passion for all things horror.

  • M G Vassanji is the author of ten novels, three collections of short stories, a travel memoir about India, a memoir of East Africa, and a biography of Mordecai Richler. He is twice winner of the Giller Prize (1994, 2003) for best work of fiction in Canada; the Governor General's Prize (2009) for best work of nonfiction; the Harbourfront Festival Prize; the Commonwealth First Book Prize (Africa, 1990); and the Bressani Prize. "Nostalgia", his dystopian novel, was a finalist for CBC's Canada Reads. His work has been translated into Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and Swahili. In June 2015, MG Vassanji was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize for the Arts.

  • Mary Lynk is an internationally award-winning journalist and producer, with a keen interest in human rights coverage. Among her award-winning documentaries are Habtom’s Path (New York Festivals Gold/United Nations Award); The Road to Damascus (Gabriel Award); Canada’s Slavery Secret: The Whitewashing of 200 years of Enslavement (RTNDA), and I Will Never See the World Again: Ahmet Altan (Amnesty International Award. Mary is the host of The Kill List, a CBC podcast, and is a producer with CBC’s celebrated radio program IDEAS.