Mâmawi: Selena Boan in Conversation with Samantha Nock

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Come and visit with Cree poet Selena Boan and Cree-Metis writer Samantha Nock. Growing up, visiting with kin was an essential part of childhood. Watching aunties and uncles sit at the table and share news, gossip, and jokes over a hot cup of Red Rose is a key memory for Samantha, and she wants to invite her kin to simply visit with her. Join them as they discuss Selena's poetry book debut, Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions), being young urban Indigenous women in the city, and being an Indigenous poet. This is less an interview and more an intimate look at two friends getting to sit down and visit after a long time apart, and you're invited.

Curated and moderated by Samantha Nock

This event will have captioning for in-person and livestream options

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Victoria Festival of Authors

Since 2016, Victoria Festival of Authors (VFA) has been the largest celebration of books and book lovers on Vancouver Island. Each fall we invite authors from across Canada to share their books and ideas with Victoria’s readers. VFA has also included school-based programs since 2019.

Our traditional five-day festival includes author readings, panels, workshops, and master classes, as well as events that fuse literature with other art forms, such as dance, music and visual arts. The Victoria Festival of Authors showcases established and emerging poets, prose writers, and other storytellers. Artistic achievement, creative innovation and a diversity of voices drive our mandate. Victoria Festival of Authors achieved charitable status in 2019.

In 2021, we have taken what we learned last year, at our first virtual festival, and combined it with the strengths of past programming to deliver a hybrid festival. We are excited to present seven in-person events to small but necessary audiences. You can also take part from the comfort of your living room since all in-person programming will be live-streamed for free. These events celebrate the writers from our region: Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. In addition, we will have four Zoom events, featuring authors from across Canada.

We gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support of the BC Arts Council, Canada Council, the CRD, the City of Victoria, United Way and the Government of Canada's Emergency Community Support for ensuring live-streaming and Zoom-based events are free.

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