Posts tagged duncan mercredi

xxx ndn book launch

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

Midnight Sweatlodge Book Launch

Midnight Sweatlodge Launch

Author Waubgeshig Rice,

 

with Rosanna Deerchild and Duncan Mercredi

Wednesday June 15, 2011

7:00 p.m. at Aqua Books

 

Midnight Sweatlodge tells the tale of family members, friends and strangers who gather together to partake in this ancient healing ceremony. Each person seeks traditional wisdom and insight to overcome pain and hardship, and the characters give us glimpses into their lives that are both tearful and true. Rice captures the raw emotion and unique challenges of modern Aboriginal life. It’s a …

Waub Rice Wrote a Book!

Midnight Sweatlodge Launch

Author Waubgeshig Rice,

 

with Rosanna Deerchild and Duncan Mercredi

Wednesday June 15, 2011

7:00 p.m. at Aqua Books

 

Midnight Sweatlodge tells the tale of family members, friends and strangers who gather together to partake in this ancient healing ceremony. Each person seeks traditional wisdom and insight to overcome pain and hardship, and the characters give us glimpses into their lives that are both tearful and true. Rice captures the raw emotion and unique challenges of modern Aboriginal life. It’s a …

Highway, LaRoque, McLeod, and Mercredi

On Thursday, May 19th, please join the Centre for Creative Writing & Oral Culture at Aqua Books as four of Canada’s best-loved Aboriginal writers celebrate the Cree imagination in story, drama and poetry.

Show starts at 7:30pm – come early, these folks draw a crowd!!!

Tomson Highway is an internationally renowned Cree dramatist, novelist and cabaret performer who is currently teaching a course on Cree Literature at the University of Manitoba.

Emma LaRoque is an award-winning Cree-Métis poet, nonfiction writer and professor based in the

The First Day of Writemas!

on the first day of writemas my true love gave to me

a new poem by duncan mercredi!


Glorified soldier

Duncan Mercredi/2010

Are you a glorified soldier  are you a glorified soldier

Taking orders from the man

Never trying to understand

Why you hold a gun in your hand

Are you a glorified soldier  are you a glorified soldier

Aiming the gun at your fears

All those lies told thru the years

The bible commands shall not kill

And your heart believes it stll

Are …

The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture presents, CREE STORIES.

The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture presents,

CREE STORIES: An Evening with JOSEPH BOYDEN, DUNCAN MERCREDI, AND LOUIS BIRD

Wednesday, August 11 – 7 pm,

Aqua Books – 274 Garry Street, Winnipeg!

Come out to hear these master storytellers and writers sharing the drama and the wisdom of Cree narratives!

EVERYONE WELCOME! ADMISSION IS FREE!!

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JOSEPH BOYDEN is a Giller Prize-winning Métis Novelist whose work is inspired by the Cree oral traditions of Northern Ontario.

DUNCAN MERCREDI is a celebrated Cree poet …