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Writing Resistance: In Conversation

With francesca ekwuyasi and Cooper Lee Bombardier

Thursday, November 6
2:00PM – 3:00PM (Doors open at 1:30PM)
The Carleton
$8.00

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Description

How and why do we continue to make art in what feels like a time of total ungrounded chaos? Join francesca ekwuyasi and Cooper Lee Bombardier in a conversation that explores how it is vital to keep making art as resistance and response, as way of understanding and witnessing, as an ongoing act of hope. Presented by the University of King’s College.

Speakers

  • francesca ekwuyasi is a writer, artist, and filmmaker born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging. Her writing has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Brittle Paper, Transition Magazine, the Malahat Review, Visual Art News, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and GUTS magazine. Her story "Orun is Heaven" was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. Butter Honey Pig Bread is her first novel; it won the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers; was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and a Lambda Literary Award, and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2021, Butter Honey Pig Bread was named runner-up in CBC's Canada Reads competition.

  • Cooper Lee Bombardier is a writer based in Kj'ipuktuk, Mi'kmaki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He is the author of Pass With Care: Memoirs, and teaches creative writing at University of King's College and Dalhousie University.