A Conversation with
 Lee Maracle, hosted by Tracey Lindberg – $20

[gdlr_button href="https://shop.artscommons.ca/single/selectSeating.aspx?p=11016&id=8AE13F3C-7D46-4775-A4C4-63ACB2A879E8" target="_self" size="medium" background="#358CCB" color="#ffffff" border_color="#999999"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button] Lee Maracle is the 2016 recipient of Wordfest's Anne Green Award, given annually to an artist whose work explores and challenges the traditional form of story and narrative. Maracle is an award-winning poet, novelist, storyteller and “knowledge keeper” of the Stó:lō Nation. This keynote event includes an on-stage conversation and readings from her new book Memory Serves, a collection of Maracle's oratories and lectures delivered and performed over a 20-year period. Hosted by Tracey Lindberg. [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ]

About Lee Maracle

Born in Vancouver, Lee Maracle grew up on the North Shore. Some of her critically acclaimed books include Sundogs, Daughters Are Forever, Ravensong, Celia’s Song, Sojourner’s Truth and Other Stories, First Wives Club: Coast Salish Style, Bent Box, Talking to the Diaspora, Will’s Garden, Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel and I Am Woman. Currently she is an instructor and student mentor in the Aboriginal Studies Program at the University of Toronto, as well as the Traditional Teacher for First Nations’ House at Toronto’s Centre for Indigenous Theatre. Maracle is the 2016 recipient of Wordfest's Anne Green Award, given annually to an artist whose work explores and challenges the traditional form of story and narrative. [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ] Presented with support from the Calgary Foundation [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ] [gdlr_button href="https://shop.artscommons.ca/single/selectSeating.aspx?p=11016&id=8AE13F3C-7D46-4775-A4C4-63ACB2A879E8" target="_self" size="medium" background="#358CCB" color="#ffffff" border_color="#999999"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button]