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Our Stories: Indigenous Book Club with Indigenous Theatre is back as a podcast! Dive into the myriad of ways Indigenous writers are sharing their stories, from plays to poetry and everything in between. Join us every episode as we chat with the author and our guest-hosts about the book, their lives and what it means to be an Indigenous storyteller.
Latest episodes
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Episode 4: Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer
Indigenous Theatre Artistic Director and award-winning playwright Kevin Loring is joined in conversation with Deneh’Cho Thompson about his latest play Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer.
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Episode 3: Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future
Drew Hayden Taylor is an award-winning playwright, novelist, scriptwriter and journalist from Curve Lake First Nation in central Ontario. In this episode, he is joined in conversation with Kyle St Amour Brennan from Kitigàn-Zìbì Anishinàbeg First Nation.
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Episode 2: Voices of a Generation: Three Millennial Plays
Playwright and director Frances Koncan (Anishinaabe and Slovene) is joined by Anishinaabe theatre artist and arts supporter Brit Johnston in a conversation about Koncan’s play zahgidiwin/love, “a decolonial comedy about loss – of language, of love, of culture, of land, of knowledge – in the era of truth and reconciliation.”
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Episode 1: What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile
Author Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a small camp west of Inukjuak in northern Quebec. In this podcast, he is joined in conversation with Charlotte Qamaniq, a North Baffin Inuk performance artist, actor, and contemporary and traditional throat singer.
Our Stories reading list
Our Stories: Indigenous Book Club and the Children’s Indigenous Book Club are in partnership with Goodminds.com, a First Nations-owned family business. Check back later for upcoming books!
Looking to read along with us? Purchase your books from GoodMinds.com and use code NAC-CNA2022 to get free shipping!
MARCH – EPISODE 1
What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile by Larry Audlaluk
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APRIL – EPISODE 2
Voices of a Generation: Three Millennial Plays, with zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan
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MAY – EPISODE 3
Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future, edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
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JUNE – EPISODE 4
Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer by Kevin Loring
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NEW! Children’s Indigenous Book Club
Young readers, come read with us with the Children’s Indigenous Book Club! Every month we will be sharing a new book by an Indigenous author along with our corresponding activity sheet.
Reading list
Our Stories: Indigenous Book Club and the Children’s Indigenous Book Club are in partnership with Goodminds.com, a First Nations-owned family business. Check back later for upcoming books!
Looking to read along with us? Purchase your books from GoodMinds.com and use code NAC-CNA2022 to get free shipping!
Inuki’s Birthday Party by Aviaq Johnston
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You Hold Me Up/ê-ohpiniyan (Plains Cree), You Hold Me Up/Gimanaadenim (Anishnaabemowin) by Monique Grey Smith
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Nibi’s Water Song by Sunshine Tenasco
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This is What I've Been Told by Juliana Armstrong
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The Sharing Circle by Theresa Corky Larsen-Jonasson and Allison Parker
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