Hey Ottawa!
Join Publication Studio Guelph & Musagetes for a reading featuring:
Aedan Corey – KINAUVUNGA?
Emily Henderson – Hold Steady My Vision
Janice Grey – Cautionary Tales
Hosted by Taqralik Partridge
📍 Beandigen Café, 106-900 Exhibition Way, Ottawa
🗓 Friday, May 30 | 7 – 9 PM
Free event | Light refreshments served.
Books will be available for sale.
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Aedan Corey is a writer, visual artist, and Inuit tattooist from Iqaluktuuttiaq, Nunavut. Author and illustrator of the chapbook Inuujunga (Coven Editions, 2021) and short story Unikkaannguaq (Nipiit Magazine, 2020), they began creating art at a young age. Aedan’s work is heavily inspired by their lived experiences as a queer Inuk. Their goal is always to inspire and advocate for those within their communities through their artistic practices, letting others know that they are not alone. Aedan currently resides in Ottawa on the unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation with their partner and their two pets, Akla and Waffles.
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Currently based in Guelph, Ontario, Emily Laurent Henderson is a Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) and Settler writer, speaker, community organizer and consultant. A 2020 University of British Columbia graduate in Anthropology, Emily’s work and writing centres Inuit and Indigenous self-determination in the arts. She has appeared in titles such as the Inuit Art Quarterly, Azure, Studio Magazine, and more.
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Janice Grey is a Haitian-Inuk writer from Aupaluk, Nunavik. She draws inspiration from the land and her upbringing in the north while using stories as means to process the unique experiences of contemporary Nunavimmiut. The eldest daughter, auntie, and dog mom currently resides in Montreal as Editor of Tumivut Magazine.
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Taqralik Partridge is an artist, writer and curator originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. Partridge has held positions as Editor-at-Large for the Inuit Art Quarterly, Director of the Nordic Lab at SAW, Adjunct Curator at the Art Gallery of Guelph, and Associate Curator of Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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