Draft Launches Season 18 on February 26
Please join us at 3 p.m. Sunday, February 26 2023 for a wonderful afternoon of work-in-progress curated by Gloria Blizzard. Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/draft-181-tickets-510788962537.
This is the first in our Mixed Tongues season featuring work-in-progress which contemplates language(s). Mixed Tongues will be a hybrid, lexical, aural experience that builds bridges between Canada’s multilingual literary communities. Our goal is to stretch our minds and hearts by hearing other perspectives and various iterations of human expression.
Featured at the reading are Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Pamela Mordecai, Gabriel Osson and Ayelet Tsabari. For more information, please see their bios below.
Many thanks to the Ontario Arts Council as well as our generous audiences, for funding this reading. Thank you, East End Arts for all your support.
More information about the series is available on our website.
EVEN THOUGH THE EVENT IS TITLED “ONLINE” THIS IS A HYBRID READING.
A limited number of tickets are available for those who wish to attend in person at the St. Matthew Clubhouse, 450 Broadview Ave. Those who register for the in-person event will also receive the Zoom link. If you feel unwell, please attend on Zoom.
For the sake of accessibility, masks are required at the in-person event. Tap-water is available for you to fill your own water-bottle if you bring one. Thank you so much for helping make Draft a welcoming space for everyone!
MORE ON THE AUTHORS
Lorri Neilsen Glenn is the author and contributing editor of fourteen collections of poetry, creative nonfiction and scholarly work, and has received awards for innovative teaching, ethnographic research and her work in the arts. Her most recent book is the award-winning Following the River: Traces of Red River Women (Wolsak and Wynn, 2017). Halifax’s first Indigenous Poet Laureate, Lorri is a mentor in the University of King’s College MFA in Creative Nonfiction program and Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her essays are widely anthologized and her poetry has been adapted for libretti. Her bricolage memoir is forthcoming in late 2023. She lives in Nova Scotia.
Pamela Mordecai writes poetry, fiction and plays. Her poetry collections include Journey Poem, de Man, Certifiable, The True Blue of Islands, Subversive Sonnets, de book of Mary, Up Tropic, de book of Joseph, and A Fierce Green Place: new and selected poems. ECW Press has released Pink Icing and Other Stories (Insomniac, 2006) as an audiobook read by herself in its Bespeak Audio Editions. Her debut novel, Red Jacket (Dundurn, 2015), was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Award. El Numero Uno, a play for young people, had its world premiere at the Theatre for Young People in Toronto in 2010 and its Caribbean premiere at the Edna Manley School for the Performing Arts in Jamaica, in 2016. Her poetry is archived at https://mordecai.citl.mun.ca
Gabriel Osson ;Écrivain, poète et artiste peintre (franco-ontarien), Gabriel est né à Port-au-Prince, Haïti. Il vit à Toronto en Ontario. Gabriel siège sur de nombreux conseils d’administration dont l’Association Haïti Futur Canada à titre de Président. Distinctions : Hubert, le restavèk, publié aux Éditions David a été finaliste au prix Christine Dumitriu-van-Saanen en 2017. Le jour se lèvera, publié aux Éditions David lui vaut d’être lauréat du prix Alain-Thomas en 2021.
Writer, poet and visual artist (Franco-Ontarian) Gabriel Osson, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. Gabriel sits on several boards and is president of l’Association Haiti Futur Canada. Recent publications are listed below. He has received several awards including the Alain-Thomas Award in 2021 for Le jour se lèvera. His novel Hubert, le restavèk was a finalist for the Christine Dumitriu-van-Saanen prize in 2017.
Ayelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. She is the author of The Art of Leaving, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and has been published internationally. She teaches creative writing at The University of King’s College MFA.