Disruption: a break or interruption in the normal course or continuation of some activity, process, etc.
Disruptor: to break apart: RUPTURE
The Sackville Commons, 18 Lorne Street, Sackville. Everyone welcome. Free.
**We are creating a safe environment for all. Please mask.
Generously funded by the League of Canadian Poets.
An Evening with Jesse Thistle at the Imperial Theatre.
Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 7:30pm
Tickets: free [limit of 6]
If you would like a complimentary copy of Jesse’s book click here.
Indigenous Rights Advocate and bestselling author of From The Ashes, Assistant Professor of MĂ©tis Studies at York University
Jesse Thistle is a MĂ©tis-Cree Ph.D. Candidate in the History program and Assistant Professor at York University, Toronto. Currently, he is working on theories of the intergenerational and historical trauma of the MĂ©tis people. Jesseâs work involves reflections on his own previous struggles with addiction and homelessness and has been recognized as having a wide impact on both the scholarly community and the greater public.
Thistle was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. In 1979 he and his two brothers were removed from his family home and moved to Brampton, Ontario to be brought up by his paternal grandparents. During his late teens and twenties, Thistle struggled with addiction, homelessness, and served several brief stints in jail for petty theft. After an unsuccessful robbery attempt in 2006, Thistle turned himself in to police custody and entered a drug rehabilitation program. In 2012 he entered the undergraduate history program at York University.
Thistle is a Trudeau Scholar, a prestigious award administered by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, a Vanier Scholar, and was awarded a Governor General’s Silver Medal in 2016. He has won numerous other awards, including the Odessa Award in 2014 and the Dr. James Wu prize in 2015 for his paper “We are children of the river: Torontoâs Lost MĂ©tis History,” and in 2019 became an Atlohsa Peace Award Honoree.
In 2019, Jesse published his autobiographical and acclaimed book âFrom the Ashes: My Story of Being MĂ©tis, Homeless and Finding My Way,â which went on to be a #1 bestseller as well as nominated for Canada Reads. Jesse is the author of the Definition of Indigenous Homelessness in Canada published through the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, and his historical research has been published in numerous academic journals, book chapters, and featured on CBC Ideas, CBC Campus, and Unreserved.
Thistle is married to Lucie Thistle and they have a daughter, Rose.
The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada’s International Literary Journal, sponsored a life writing workshop for newcomers to Canada at the Multicultural Association of Fredericton in September 2018. On November 2nd, at 7pm in the Alumni Memorial Lounge (13 Bailey Drive) at UNBF we will be launching a chapbook, Arrivals & Departures: The Stories We Tell, which will feature some of the writings created in this workshop. Authors will read from their works, chapbooks will be available for purchase, and light refreshments will be served. This is a free event; all are welcome to attend.
Friends of the Fredericton Public Library fundraiser to support library collections and programs.
Join us, after hours, at the library, 12 Carleton Street, for cocktails, nibbles, special guests and music. 19+ event.
Tickets $65.00 each available at Fredericton Public Library – Downtown or Nashwaaksis and Westminster Books.
The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada’s International Literary Journal, will be hosting a series of literary events on August 25th at the Fredericton Public Library. Tuscarora writer Alicia Elliott will be offering a workshop “Digging Deep: How to Get the Most Out of Your Creative Nonfiction” at 10am in the Wolastoq Boardroom. Mi’kmaq spoken word artist Rebecca Thomas will be offering her workshop “Writing Your Guts Out” at 2pm also in the Wolastoq Boardroom. Both Alicia and Rebecca along with local writer Anthazia Kadir will be reading at our evening event from 7pm-830pm in the River Reading Room, which will be followed by a casual reception with light refreshments (ASL Interpreters will be present). All events are free and open to the public. Registration for the workshops is required as space is limited. To register please email: thefiddlehead@gmail.com.