Open Education Week

Honouring Indigenous Writers - Author Reading with Brian Thomas Isaac

March 29, 2023, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Presenter: Christian Isbister, Brian Thomas Isaac
Location: Online

Join us for an evening discussion with Syilx Author Brian Thomas Isaac, who will be reading from his book All the Quiet Places. Image removed.

Story Description

All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person’s life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie.

Speaker

Brian Thomas Isaac was born in 1950 on the Okanagan Indian Reserve near Vernon, BC. After completing grade eight, he found work in the oil fields and in construction, and eventually retired as a bricklayer. At the age of fifty, without any formal training, he began to write and seventeen years later he completed his first novel, All the Quiet Places. His bestselling debut won the 2022 Indigenous Voices Award, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads. Brian and his wife live in West Kelowna where he enjoys time with his three grandchildren and is completing his second novel.

 

Location Details

Location:
*ONLINE*

If you have any questions, concerns, or accessibility needs please email open.ubc@ubc.ca.

This event is part of the Honouring Indigenous Writers series, which seeks to increase awareness of Indigenous authors. This year we have put together a schedule of author readings and workshops throughout the month of March, as well as asynchronous Wikipedia increase awareness of Indigenous literature, and improve the coverage of Indigenous writers on Wikipedia.

This event is online. Registrants receive the link 24 hours before the event. 

https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3718522


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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC's two main campuses are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xwmə0– kwəyˇəm (Musqueam) and Syilx (Okanagan) peoples, and that UBC’s activities take place on Indigenous lands throughout British Columbia and beyond.


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