Active Voice with Waubgeshig Rice
Please join us for an evening of reading and conversation, featuring author and storyteller Waubgeshig Rice, in conversation with writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote. This event is the third in an exciting creative partnership between Yukon University and Yukon Arts Centre, with media sponsorship by CBC North. Active Voice seeks to bring global voices to the Yukon, and foster intimate and authentic discussion between each artist and our communities. Our next guest is the incredible Waubgeshig Rice.
Waubgeshig will be welcomed and hosted by Yukon University’s Specialist in Creative Engagement and Expression, Ivan Coyote.
Tickets available at purchasing.yukonartscentre.com
Waubgeshig Rice grew up in Wasauksing First Nation on the shores of Georgian Bay, in the southeast of Robinson-Huron Treaty territory. He’s a writer, listener, speaker, language learner, and a martial artist, holding a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
He is the author of the short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge and the novels Legacy, Moon of the Crusted Snow, and Moon of the Turning Leaves.
Waubgeshig graduated from the journalism program at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2002, and spent most of his media career with the CBC as a video journalist and radio host. He aspires to share the language of his people and is currently enrolled in Anishnaabemowin and Program Development at Georgian College.
He lives in N’Swakamok, also known as Sudbury, Ontario, with his wife and three sons.