Hello,
The Vancouver Public Library is pleased to offer ASL interpretation for two upcoming literary events at the Central Library.
Wednesday, November 15th @ 7 p.m.
Louise Bernice Halfe & Joanne Arnott
In Burning in This Midnight Dream poet Louise Bernice Halfe records her journey to reconnect with her Cree heritage, and to reconcile her own connections to a legacy of colonization and residential schools.
Joanne Arnott, a local Métis/mixed heritage writer and arts activist, will share the stage. Arnott’s Halfling Spring explores how people’s deepest connections unveil depths of pain and identity.
With moderator Angela Sterritt, CBC reporter and award-winning Gitxsan journalist.
Wednesday, December 13 @ 7 p.m.
Omar El Akkad Presents American War
Omar El Akkad’s American War imagines a United States at the outbreak of a second Civil War triggered by an environmental catastrophe. El Akkad is an award-winning Canadian journalist of Egyptian background.
El Akkad is joined by Geoff Dembicki, local journalist and author of Are We Screwed? Dembicki’s writing highlights societal shifts created by millennials in response to climate change.
Please feel free to contact me for more details.
Barbara Edwards
Librarian |Â Programming & Learning Services
Vancouver Public Library | Central Library
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6B1
t: 604-331-3687 | email
