Active Voice: featuring writer Cherie Dimaline

Please join us for an evening of reading and conversation, featuring author Cherie Dimaline, in conversation with writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote. Tickets: $10 (adult), $5 (senior/elder).

This event is the first in an exciting new partnership between Yukon University and Yukon Arts Centre. Active Voice seeks to bring global voices to our Yukon community, and foster intimate and authentic discussion between each artist and our communities. Our first guest is the multi-talented and prolific author Cherie Dimaline.

Cherie Dimaline is a member of the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Ontario. Her 2017 book, The Marrow Thieves, was named by TIME magazine as one of the best Young Adult Books of All Time. Marrow Thieves also won the Governor General’s Award, and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers.

Cherie published five books in 2023: VenCo, An Anthology of Monsters, Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, and Into the Bright Open. Her work finds its audience among young readers, and adults alike, and she also writes for film and television. She has won numerous awards for her work, and continues to be an important influence in writing stories from Indigenous perspectives, and re-telling colonial stories in order to redress cultural stereotypes and inherent racism.

Cherie will be welcomed and hosted by Ivan Coyote.