- 7:30 PM
- October 25, 2011
- Gryphon Theatre
- Barrie
- Cost: $10
Location information
Gryphon Theatre
1 Georgian Drive
Barrie L4M 6Z5
Please join us to celebrate the opening of the Centre for Health and Wellness where Georgian College’s Aboriginal Studies Centre will take its new home.
The evening will feature readings and a round table discussion by authors Jospeh Boyden, David A. Groulx, Drew Hayden Taylor and Lee Maracle. A Q & A period and book signing will follow. Hosted by TVO’s Cheryl Jackson.
Participants
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden (Canada) is the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning Through Black Spruce and Three Day Road, which received the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award. He is also the [...]
David A. Groulx
David A. Groulx (Canada) was raised in the Northern Ontario mining community of Elliot Lake. He studied creative writing at the En’owkin Centre, BC, where he won the Simon J Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry and was a co-winner [...]
Cheryl Jackson - Host
Cheryl Jackson (Canada) is host of TVOParents.com, a website geared to parents to help them help their kids succeed in school and life. She has a decade of experience in television and radio production and won the Canadian Investigative Journalism [...]
Lee Maracle
Lee Maracle (Canada) is the author of a number of critically acclaimed literary works, including Sojourner’s and Sundogs, Ravensong and I Am Woman. She is also the co-editor of a number of several anthologies, including the award-winning publication My Home [...]
Drew Hayden Taylor
Drew Hayden Taylor (Canada) is an Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations. A journalist, scriptwriter and award-winning playwright, Taylor has worked on more than 17 documentaries exploring Native experience. He is also the author of non-fiction works and a [...]