Indigenous Horror Spotlight

Name: Indigenous Horror Spotlight
Start: 2024-9-29T11:15-5:00
End: 2024-9-29T12:00-5:00

29sep11:15 am12:00 pmIndigenous Horror SpotlightCheryl Isaacs, Adriana Chartrand, moderated by Drew Hayden Taylor11:15 am - 12:00 pm(GMT-04:00)

Event Details

The rise of Indigenous horror as a genre is doing more than adding amazing titles to our TBR piles; it’s also giving voice to the real horrors Indigenous people face every day. As Alicia Elliott commented in CBC Arts column Shelfies, “What more is there to fear when you’ve already faced governments who have tried for centuries to wipe you out, who have used biological warfare and forced starvation to create apocalypse for your people?” Join Cheryl Isaacs, Adriana Chartrand, and Drew Hayden Taylor as they discuss what it means to write fear, dread, and horror within an Indigenous context, and the power and resilience that can rise up from those depths.

Speakers for this event

Adriana Chartrand

Adriana Chartrand

Adriana Chartrand is a mixed-race Native woman from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her dad is Red River Metis (Michif) from St. Laurent and her mom is white. She speaks English and French and works in the film industry. She is based in Toronto.
Cheryl Isaacs

Cheryl Isaacs

Cheryl Isaacs is a Mohawk/white writer and the author of The Unfinished, a story born while running the trails of southern Ontario’s Carolinian forests. Cheryl educates by day, writes by night and is always on the lookout for delightfully creepy things.
Drew Hayden Taylor

Drew Hayden Taylor

Moderator
Drew Hayden Taylor is an award winning playwright, novelist, journalist and filmmaker. Born and living on the Curve Lake First Nation, Drew has done practically everything from performing stand up comedy at the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C. to being Artistic Director of Canada’s Premiere Indigenous theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts. Currently his 35th book, a novel titled COLD, published by McClellend & Stewart was recently released, and the third season of his documentary series on APTN, Going Native, will start at the end of August.

Moderator