Join Indigenous storyteller Joseph Kakwinokanasum for a virtual author talk and Q&A.
This virtual event is being live-streamed on Youtube, with a question and answer period following the author talk.
You can choose to watch from home or visit the City Centre branch of Coquitlam Public Library or Michael Wright Art Gallery, #200-2253 Leigh Square in Port Coquitlam to watch the live-stream.
No registration required, just drop-in.
To watch the livestream, follow this link: [Livestream link will be posted on May.]
The Tri-Cities Writers Festival acknowledges the funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers' Union of Canada.
For more information about this Tri-Cities Writers Festival event, email ask@coqlibrary.ca.
JOSEPH KAKWINOKANASUM is a writer, storyteller, and member of the James Smith Cree Nation. A finalist for CBC’s 2020 Nonfiction Prize and selected by Darrel J. McLeod as a Writers Trust of Canada’s 2022 Rising Star, his debut novel, My Indian Summer, won the 2023-2024 First Nations Communities READ Award, and was shortlisted for the 2023 ReLit Fiction Award. For more about Joseph visit starblanketstoryteller.com.
The City Centre branch offers:
Poirier Branch
575 Poirier Street
Coquitlam, BC
V3J 6A9
604-554-READ (7323)
City Centre Branch
1169 Pinetree Way
Coquitlam, BC
V3B 0Y1
604-554-READ (7323)
