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Tuesday Night in Cherry Brook

With Atharv Mahajan, Andrea Currie, and Charlene Carr

Tuesday, November 5
7:00PM – 8:30PM (Doors Open at 6:30PM)
Black Cultural Centre (10 Cherry Brook Rd, Cherry Brook)

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Description

Hear three dynamic readings at the Black Cultural Centre. The evening will begin with one of the participants of our youth mentorship program, Atharv Mahajan, followed by Andrea Currie (Finding Otipemisiwak) and Charlene Carr (We Rip the World Apart).

Speakers

  • Atharv Mahajan was one of the participants in the first annual AfterWords Youth Mentorship Program this year. Atharv has always loved being on a stage because this is the place where he feels seen and this is the place he considers home, and he dreams of working in movies as an actor and a writer one day. He lives in Halifax with his ever encouraging and supportive parents.

  • Andrea Currie’s debut book Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves is a weaving of memoir, essay and poetry that illustrates the depth and breadth of the impact of the Sixties Scoop, the love between a brother and a sister, the challenges of living with profound cultural loss, and the healing that is sometimes possible. The pieces range from bluntly honest critique of the colonial practices that permeate child welfare agencies to tender accounts of two children’s vulnerability in childhoods defined by that system. In this timely work of narrative non-fiction, Currie asks as many questions as she answers.

  • Charlene Carr studied literature at university, attaining both a BA and MA in English, including a study program at Oxford. She has independently published nine novels and her first agented novel, Hold My Girl, sold to HarperCollins Canada, and three international publishers. It was shortlisted for both the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award and has been optioned for adaptation to the screen. Charlene received grants from Arts Nova Scotia and Canada Council for the Arts to write and revise her most recent novel, We Rip The World Apart, and is working on her next novel. She lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with her husband and young daughters.