INDIGENOUS LITERATURES

• HÔTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •

INDIGENOUS LITERATURES: TRANSLATION IN CONTEXT

Translation at its best may always be a dialogue, even moreso where settler and Indigenous practices are concerned. Join award-winning translators and authors Arianne Des Rochers, Sarah Henzi, and Véronique Hébert in a conversation about the rise of a new era for Indigenous literatures in translation and decolonial approaches to challenges it harbours.  

In partnership with Le Festival de poésie de Montréal.  

PANEL _ 75 minutes

Participants: Sarah Henzi, Arianne Des Rochers, Véronique Hébert  
Host: Catherine Ego

$7 / ENGLISH, FRENCH

• McCORD MUSEUM (Auditorium) •

TRANSMETTRE LES LANGUES AUTOCHTONES

On estime à environ 300 le nombre de langues autochtones parlées en Amérique du Nord avant l’arrivée des Européens. Cinq siècles plus tard et au Québec seulement, dix langues autochtones sont recensées. Cette vision accablante du passé laisse pourtant un espoir pour l’avenir à en juger par le nombre de jeunes gens, autochtones et allochtones, qui sont de plus en plus nombreux à vouloir apprendre une langue autochtone. Comment transmettre les langues autochtones ? Anne-Marie St-Onge André, bachelière en enseignement de la langue innue à la retraite, et Véronique Hébert, qui prépare un doctorat en recherche-création sur le nitaskinan (territoire atikamekw), échangent sur la richesse des langues autochtones et les défis posés par leur transmission.

ENTRETIEN _ 70 minutes

Participantes : Anne-Marie St-Onge André, Véronique Hébert
Animatrice :  Laura Perez-Gauvreau

7 $ / FRANÇAIS

• McCORD MUSEUM (Auditorium) •

PRIX LITTÉRAIRE DES PREMIERS PEUPLES METROPOLIS BLEU / BLUE METROPOLIS FIRST PEOPLES PRIZE  
EDEN ROBINSON     

 Haislan/Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson receives the 2022 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, presented in partnership with the Indigenous Voices Awards for the first time. Awarded to an established Indigenous author, the Prize recognizes Robinson for her body of work, including her collection of short stories, Traplines, and the three novels of the Trickster series.
The award ceremony will include a short word from Jonathan Lainey, curator, Indigenous Cultures, at the McCord Museum, and will be followed by an onstage interview with the laureate and book signing.   

CEREMONY AWARD _ 60 minutes

Participants: Eden Robinson, Jonathan Lainey
Host: David Bradford
Interviewer: Sarah Henzi

$10 / ENGLISH

• McCORD MUSEUM (Auditorium) •

PRIX LITTÉRAIRE VIOLET METROPOLIS BLEU PAR AIR CANADA / BLUE METROPOLIS VIOLET LITERARY PRIZE BY AIR CANADA 
TOMSON HIGHWAY

Author and musician Tomson Highway, best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing as well as the bestselling novel Kiss of the Fur Queen, receives the 2022 Blue Metropolis Violet Literary Prize. The Prize is awarded annually to a Canadian LGBTQ+ writer for their body of work.
The award ceremony will be followed by an onstage interview and book signing.    

CEREMONY AWARD _ 60 minutes

Participant: Tomson Highway
Host: Christopher DiRaddo
Interviewer: Ange Loft

$10 / ENGLISH

• HÔTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •

THE PAST AT PLAY: OLD STORIES, NEW TALES 

For Eden Robinson, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Norma Dunning, the pull of the past is an important and fruitful one. Whether folkloric, personal or historical, what came before has a way of tensioning the weave of many stories yet to come.  Join the three renowned novelists in a conversation about the roles of histories and inheritances that come to life in their work. 

PANEL _ 75 minutes

Participants: Eden Robinson, Norma Dunning, Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Host: Dimitri Nasrallah

$7 / ENGLISH

• GRANDE BIBLIOTHÈQUE (Auditorium) •

LIFE OF THE STORY: TOMSON HIGHWAY AND EDEN ROBINSON  

Two world-renowned Indigenous authors join us for an intimate, retrospective conversation. Tomson Highway, laureate of the 2022 Violet Prize, and Eden Robinson, laureate of the 2022 First Peoples Prize, will take the stage for a special encounter between mediums, between literatures and lives, mourning and joys, reminiscences and what lies ahead.  

CONVERSATION _ 90 minutes

Participants: Tomson Highway, Eden Robinson 
Host: Bimadoshka Pucan 

$10 / ENGLISH

• McCORD MUSEUM (Auditorium) •

RIGHT ON TIME: QUEER ERAS, QUEER WRITING 

Emerging, established, legendary—marking the occasion of Tomson Highway’s 2022 awarding of the Violet Prize, leading LGBTQ+ writers consider past, present and future eras of queer literatures. Join Olivia Tapiero, Helen Chau Bradley, Walter Scott and Highway himself for a conversation around what writing while queer has been, is, and could be moving forward.  

PANEL _ 75 minutes

Participants: Tomson Highway, Olivia Tapiero,
H Felix Chau Bradley, Christopher DiRaddo
Hots: Leila Marshy 

$7 / ENGLISH