An Afternoon with Arielle Twist
March 13, 2019 @ 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm MDT
UPDATE: Arielle Twist was unable to make it for her scheduled talk, due to flight cancellations. We thought we might be able to reschedule for this afternoon (March 14th), but we’ve not been able to make it work. Sorry to disappoint! But you can still catch Arielle tonight at Shelf Life Books, 7pm. See you there!
Please join us at TIA House for An Afternoon with Arielle Twist: A conversation with Trynne Delaney, Paul Meunier, Kaitlyn Purcell & Joshua Whitehead.
Program:
Roundtable conversation with Arielle Twist and local writers Trynne Delaney, Paul Meunier, Kaitlyn Purcell, and Joshua Whitehead: 3:30-4:45
Break: 4:45-5:00
Reading: 5:00-5:30
Arielle Twist is a Nehiyaw, Two-Spirit, Trans Woman creating to reclaim and harness ancestral magic and memories. Originally from George Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan she is now based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Within her short career pursuing writing she has attended a residency at Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, has work published with Them, Canadian Art, The Fiddlehead, PRISM International, This Magazine, and CBC. Her debut collection of poetry ‘Disintegrate/ Dissociate’ is forthcoming March 2019 with Arsenal Pulp Press. Her poetry and other multi-media pieces have/are being
exhibited in art galleries country wide including The Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax, Toronto Media Arts Centre in Toronto, la galerie centrale powerhouse in Montreal, Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, The Art Gallery of Mississauga in Mississauga and work with The Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff.
Trynne Delaney is pursuing her MA in English and Creative Writing at University of Calgary. She is interested in representing multiplicities of identity on north-eastern landscapes. Her most recent work was collaborating on the design and writing of ASTIGMATISM zine, which highlights genre writing from BIWOC in the University of Calgary English Department. You can find her at home baking sourdough or on twitter @u_got_trynned.
Paul Meunier is currently an English PhD student at the University of Calgary, where he also completed Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in English, and creative writing. Paul’s poetry explores spaces between experimental form and subject representation, and his work has been published in NōD Magazine, filling Station Magazine, and The Anti-Languorous Project. Paul also studied photography at the Alberta College of Art + Design, back when chemical processing was still hip.
Kaitlyn Purcell is a Dene writer, artist, student, and storyteller. Kaitlyn plays with syntax and style, integrating poetry into prose to illustrate the chaos that comes with addiction, mental illness, and rehabilitation.
Joshua Whitehead is an Ojibwe-Cree, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer and Jonny Appleseed. Currently, he is an ABD doctoral student at the University of Calgary.
