Rainbow Reads with Joshua Whitehead

Rainbow Reads is excited to welcome Joshua Whitehead to the 2025 Elk Valley Pride Festival!

On Friday September 19th enjoy a literary discussion and reading led by esteemed local author Angie Abdou, with Canadian icon Joshua Whitehead. This evening event is sure to encourage conversations and delight.

Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer, Jonny Appleseed, Making Love with the Land, and Indigiqueerness: a Conversation About Storytelling as well as the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Whitehead is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary (Treaty 7) where he is housed in the departments of English and International Indigenous Studies and is currently a Research Excellence Chair.

FREE to attend, we will have a cash bar, complimentary charcuterie, and books for sale. This event is 19+ event in accordance with our liquor license.

You may also like the following events from Fernie Pride Society:

• Next Wednesday, 17th September, 04:30 pm, Pride Ride Bike Parade Decorating Pick-Up in Fernie
• Next Wednesday, 17th September, 07:00 pm, History With a Drag Queen - The Villain Edit with Karla Marx in Fernie
• Next Thursday, 18th September, 12:30 pm, Lunch & Learn - Inclusive Culture with Victoria Bucholtz in Fernie

Also check out other Arts events in Fernie, Literary Art events in Fernie, Festivals in Fernie.