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Tuesday Night in Cherry Brook

With Claudette Bouman, Ryad Assani-Razaki, and David A. Robertson

Tuesday, November 4
7:00PM – 8:30PM (Doors open at 6:30PM)
Black Cultural Centre (10 Cherry Brook Rd, Cherry Brook)
$0.00

Description

Hear three dynamic readings at the Black Cultural Centre, featuring Dartmouth’s own Claudette Bouman with her debut, Failing Forward in Saarland. Ryad Assani-Razaki presents a long-awaited English translation of The Hand of Iman, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s award in its original French. Plus, David A. Robertson introduces 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk With Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing. We always enjoy the warm hospitality and inspiring surroundings of The Black Cultural Centre—plan to arrive when the doors open at 6:30 and take in some of the history the centre reveals.

Speakers

  • Claudette Bouman lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with her husband. Their two adult children live in nearby Halifax. Claudette came to Canada from Barbados in the mid-eighties to pursue graduate studies in education culminating in a doctoral degree from UBC. She worked for a total of three decades as an educator in Barbados, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. Over the years she has written for publication. Failing Forward in Saarland (2024) is her first book.

  • Ryad Assani-Razaki was born in 1981 in Cotonou in the West African state of Benin. In 2009, his short story collection Deux cercles was awarded the Trillium Book Award. His debut novel La main d'Iman won the Prix Robert-Cliche in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 2012.

  • 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.