Manitoba Indigenous Writers Festival 2014 l Manitoba Writers Guild Fundraiser with Jian & Jila Ghomeshi l Winnipeg Folk Festival in the City l Re:Reading l Freedom to Read l Books2Eat Returns

Manidoo-Giizis / Kinepisim: Manitoba Indigenous Writers Festival

January 16 to 18, 7 pm each night

Neechi Commons, 865 Main Street

Three days of stories, poems, laughter, shenanigans and more.

January 16 - Festival Opening Show
                   hosted by Niigaanwewidam Sinclair
                   members of the Indigenous Writers Collective
                   launch of Writing for Change
January 17 - New Stories for a New Generation
                   with Richard Van Camp
                   a showing of Mohawk Midnight Runners
January 18 - Cage Match 2014
                   Cree vs Anishinaabe: A Comedy head to head
                   Ian Ross, Rosanna Deerchild, Florence Spence,
                   Trevor Greyeyes and David McLeod
     

Saturday starts at 10 am with readings and panels all day at Millennium Library. 

• Family Story Time with celebrated Indigenous author Richard Van Camp

Aboriginal Reading-in-the-Round (main floor), January 17 at 11 a.m.

• Public workshops, second floor, January 18

Carol Shields Auditorium

10 a.m. – noon: Panel on Indigenous Children’s Literature 

2 – 4 p.m.: Panel on Indigenous Graphic Novels

Aboriginal Resources Area
1 – 2 p.m.: Readings from emerging Indigenous writers
4 – 5:30 p.m.: Reading by emerging Indigenous writers with special guest Joanne Arnott

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Special In Dialogue Event - MWG Fundraiser with Jian & Jila Ghomeshi
January 18, 7:30 pm
Gas Station Arts Centre, 445 River Avenue

The Manitoba Writers’ Guild is proud to present an evening of dialogue between two sibling powerhouses: Jian Ghomeshi, host of CBC’s Q and author of 1982, and his sister Jila Ghomeshi, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba and author of Grammar Matters: The Social Significance of How We Use Language.

Tickets $25 OR $15 with a subscription the In Dialogue Reading Series.
Any questions  204-944-8013

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All of the following events at the Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street

Winnipeg Folk Festival in the City

Saturday workshops for all music lovers. Reader Services  

• January 25 at 1:30 p.m. All in the Family, with Rusty Matyas (Imaginary Cities), 

                 Slow Leaves and Jess Rae Ayre (Sweet Alibi) 

• February 22 at 1:30 p.m. Stories Untold with Demetra, Scott Nolan, and Oshima 

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Carol Shields Auditorium Saturday, February 8

Re:Reading - A Public Forum on the Art and Joy of Reading

Join readers for a series of casual talks on reading. Hosted by 

Méira Cook, WPL’s Writer-in-Residence and author of The House on Sugarbush Road

11 a.m.: 

• Re:Reading with Alison Gillmor, journalist and reviewer

1 p.m.:

• The Reluctant Reader with David Robertson, writer and graphic novelist

• bush boy reads with Peter Kulchyski, head of Department of Native Studies, U of M

• Bookish: Women and Reading in Art with Christabel Wiebe, curator and writer

• Seeking and Serendipity with Danielle Pilon, head of Reader Services, Millennium Library

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Freedom to Read Week is February 24 – March 2

Main floor, March 1 starting at 2 p.m.

Participants to include:

• Méira Cook, WPL Writer-in-Residence and author of The House on Sugarbush Road
• Al Rae, with Funny Gets Serious, on our right to crack wise and the comics who made it so

• Prof. Adina Balint-Babos, UWinnipeg Modern Languages & Literatures department,
               on Simone de Beauvoir’s view of the American Experience

• Dr. David S. Churchill, Associate Professor of History, U of M,
         on books as weapons in struggles for social change

• David Camfield, Associate Professor & Acting Coordinator of Labour Studies, U of M
• Local filmmakers Quinn Greene and Nick Christie, on challenges to the books they love

• Members, Manitoba Writers’ Guild 

• Members of the Writer’s Collective of Manitoba

You are also welcome to read at this event! Please call 204-986-6779 to sign-up. 

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April 5, 1 - 4:30 p.m.    Books2Eat Returns

Create your own edible book-related piece of art and enter to win prizes, or just come out to see the amazing entries on display – plus talks by local foodies, and a children’s storytime. Some entries will be served at the end of the day, so bring your appetite!