Author Reading: Katherine Palmer Gordon

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Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Since 2004, journalist Katherine Palmer Gordon has interviewed dozens of First Nations people living in British Columbia. Her book, We Are Born With the Songs Inside Us: Lives and Stories of First Nations People in British Columbia (Harbour Publishing, $24.95), collects sixteen stories gleaned from those interviews. Come celebrate the release of this inspiring collection, along with the author and some of the people featured in the book, at a reading and signing in Meeting Room A of the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library (90 Commercial St) at 6:30pm on Wednesday, October 16. Books will be available for sale courtesy of Nanaimo Maps and Charts.

We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us gathers the thoughts and hopes of young First Nations people living in twenty-first century Canada�artists and community leaders, comedians and consultants, musicians and lawyers, people who are household names and those known only within their own communities.

Among them is Kim Baird, former chief of the Tsawwassen First Nation, who negotiated the Tsawwassen Treaty; Gino Odjick, a former NHL star on the Vancouver Canucks; and Penny White, a marine biologist who works with coastal communities on resource management. Also included is Evan Adams, an actor and medical doctor; John Marston, a world-renowned artist and storyteller from the Chemainus First Nation; and Tewanee Joseph who was the executive director and CEO of the Four Host First Nations Secretariat for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

These are just a few of the people profiled in We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us, and a tiny fraction of the many stories of young First Nations people making tremendous contributions to the province.

As Shawn A-in-chut Atleo writes in the introduction, �There are thousands upon thousands of young First Nations people growing up today who, together with the kind of individuals whose stories are told in this book, represent a future for this country that is brighter than it has been for a long, long time.�

For more information about this free event, go to www.harbourpublishing.com or www.virl.bc.ca. To reserve a copy of the book, please contact Nanaimo Maps and Charts at (250) 754-2513. This event is made possible in part with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.