Airings and Endlings: Readings with Joanna Lilley and Ellen Bielawski

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Join Yukon authors Joanna Lilley and Ellen Bielawski for a free, gathering at the Yukon Arts Centre on Sunday September 27th 4pm - 5pm. Their readings will take place in the lobby of the Yukon Arts Centre. Share in their explorations of extinction and climate change in a tribute to the northern land on which we’re lucky to be locked down. Joanna will read from Endlings, her new book of poetry about extinct animals. Ellen will read fiction and non-fiction drawn from growing up surrounded by glaciers. There are 40 spots available.

Artist Bios:

Joanna Lilley's fifth book and third poetry collection, Endlings, was published by Turnstone Press in March 2020. She's also the author of a novel, Worry Stones (Ronsdale Press), which was longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award, and a short story collection, The Birthday Books (Hagios Press). Joanna's other poetry collections are If There Were Roads (Turnstone Press) and The Fleece Era (Brick Books) which was nominated for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. She has an MLitt degree in creative writing from the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and is a Humber School for Writers graduate. Joanna is from the UK and now lives in Whitehorse where she helped to set up the Yukon Writers' Collective Ink. She is grateful to the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council on whose Traditional Territories she resides.

Ellen Bielawski is the author of two non-fiction books (In Search of Ancient Alaska, 2007; Rogue Diamonds, 2003, awarded Best of the Year – Resources by Canadian Geographic) as well as numerous essays, reviews and technical papers (in The Globe and Mail; Arctic; and Orion Magazine, among others). She is a northerner by birth (Alaska) and choice (Yukon). She has worked on the land with Dene and Inuit and their relatives in Alaska, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon and Greenland. She was a Killam Doctoral Scholar (Arctic Archaeology). As a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, she was the first recipient to request and negotiate a maternity leave (two months without pay). She was also the Principal Investigator on many research grants, including a SSHRC-funded Cree Language Revitalization grant at the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, where she was dean for eight years. She has raised two independent young men who are not harming the world and tries daily to be a good neighbour to people and animals on Champagne and Aishihik traditional territory, where she now lives.

Participant Protocols for event:

All recommendations have been made based on information from the Yukon Legislation, and Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.

As recommended, people should NOT attend the event if they:

Have any flu-like symptoms; or

have an underlying health condition.

have traveled outside the Yukon in the last 14 days.

YAC recommends participants wear a mask if they have one.

No contact such as handshakes between the participants and the authors.

All participants should always adhere to the 2-arms length rule.

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Yukon Arts Centre

The YAC is proud to champion and promote artists and their stories in our community. We are honoured to be located on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council.