Last chance (for a bit, anyway!) to check out the Aboriginal Writers’ Collective of Manitoba at the library. Join us for the last evening show of AWCM and Winnipeg Public Library’s groundbreaking Readers’ Series 2011 – 2012. This time enjoy these great talents in the fabulous, new(ish… but it’s still gorgeous!) West End Library.
In Progress…
Looking for a chance to listen to established and emerging Aboriginal writers share their latest work? From poets to storytellers, comedians to screen writers, members of the Aboriginal Writers’ …
Last chance (for a bit, anyway!) to check out the Aboriginal Writers’ Collective of Manitoba at the library. Join us for the last evening show of AWCM and Winnipeg Public Library’s groundbreaking Readers’ Series 2011 – 2012. This time enjoy these great talents in the fabulous, new(ish… but it’s still gorgeous!) West End Library.
In Progress…
Looking for a chance to listen to established and emerging Aboriginal writers share their latest work? From poets to storytellers, comedians to screen writers, members of the Aboriginal Writers’ …
wed, jun 29 @ 8pm – come on down to the Windsor Hotel (187 Garry Street, Winnipeg) and watch the Aboriginal Writers Collective launch its new collection of poetry and prose - xxx ndn: love and lust in ndn country… and yes, it’s rather erotic shhhhhhh
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have a one night stand with the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba! (duncan made me put that in)
we are launching our new book xxx ndn. the book features poetry and prose from the awcm and friends
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tomorrow nite! wed, jun 29 @ 8pm – come on down to the Windsor Hotel (187 Garry Street, Winnipeg) and watch the Aboriginal Writers Collective launch its new collection of poetry and prose – xxx ndn: love and lust in ndn country… and yes, it’s rather erotic shhhhhhh
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have a one night stand with the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba! (duncan made me put that in)
we are launching our new book xxx ndn. the book features poetry and prose from the awcm
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as an Aboriginal person, i am often asked by non-Aboriginal people to explain points of Aboriginality (yes it’s a word, it’s actually one of my favourites). tho i appreciate interest in my culture and honest, earnest questions, sometimes i grow tired of constantly putting on the “ambassador hat” as i call it. … but the last thing i want to do is discourage questions.
the Winnipeg Public Library has recently partnered with the Aboriginal Writers Collective to try and build up the library’s collection of …
on the eighth day of writemas kate starts to realize that this is a bigger project than she originally thought ….
and shares one of her favourite poems by Ms Elizabeth Denny!!!
(the last of my Aboriginal Writers Collective submissions – unless of course those members former and current who “FORGOT” or “DIDN’T CHECK THEIR EMAIL” suddenly remember to send me something!!!!!)
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Elizabeth Ann Denny is a proud Metis writer from Winnipeg. Her writing which takes many forms, can be found most recently …
… my true love …. yadda yadda yadda
a GREAT poem from Shayla Elizabeth!
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as you might have noticed, I’ve been sending shouts out to my dear friends in the Aboriginal Writers Collective. Shayla is one such dear friend, her bio reads as follows: storyteller/poet/emerging playwright/writer/sometime journalist/repatriated cross-cultural adoptee from the 60′s scoop/Ininew (Cree)–mixed blood/mother–mama/partner/lover.
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chief miska muskwa
(on the occasion of the chief big bear monument unveiling)
mama, am I Cree?
yes baby girl you are of the People
to be Cree/Iniwe …
OOOO this’ll be fuuuuuun… join the ABORIGINAL Writers Collective of Manitoba for a little irreverence, AQUA BOOKS – 274 Garry Street, Friday, September 24th, 10:30-11:30 PM. It’s a late night AfterWords show for Thin Air – the Winnipeg International Writers Festival….
“Wherever members of Winnipeg’s Aboriginal Writers Collective gather, there’s bound to be incisive observation and raucous laughter—often in equal measure. This is First Nations storytelling for the twenty-first century!”
Performing at THIN AIR 2010 are Duncan Mercredi, Jordan Wheeler, Shayla Elizabeth, Maeengan Linklater, Marie …
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