Pine Tree Talk: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Building: Gzowski College
Room: 114
Poet, writer, musician, intellectual. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a leading Indigenous resurgence theorist, activist, and performer. She won the 2014 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. She will show a film Biidaabin (21 minutes), her collaboration with filmmaker Amanda Strong. There will be a talk, film showing and Q & A.
Free -- Open to the public
Co-sponsors: Pine Tree Talk - Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies and Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies
The TIFF Trailer describes the film as follows:
“Accompanied by a 10,000-year-old shapeshifter and friend known as Sabe, Biidaaban sets out on a mission to reclaim the ceremonial harvesting of sap from maple trees in an unwelcoming suburban neighborhood in Ontario. Driven by the words of Anishinaabe writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Amanda Strong’s mesmerizing stop-motion animation intricately weaves together multiple worlds through time and space, calling for a rebellion.”
CONTACT INFO:
Lynne Davis - lydavis@trentu.ca
Posted on December 5, 2019