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Literary Readings
July 22 | 7 pm | ASL
See the video recording below to enjoy this event at any time for the duration of the festival.
Or, join us as we stream A Night for Storytelling a second time on Sun Jul 26 at our Pajama Party!
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- Official welcome from QAF
- A Night of Storytelling hosted by Danny Ramadan and features readings from Billy Ray Belcourt, Amber Dawn, jaye simpson, Jillian Christmas, and Erin-Brooke Kirsh.
Our presentations may include recording of live, unrehearsed ASL interpretation targeted to a specific audience. Interpreting services provided electronically are often subject to vagaries of the internet connection and, in addition, may include errors or omissions.
Readings curated by Danny Ramadan with readings presented by local, national, and international writers.
A Night of Storytelling is back for its fifth year and once again hosted by the much-beloved Danny Ramadan, this time around as a new online experience. Spend a night in with the talented LGBTQ2+ voices of the CanLit scene. Danny brings prominent writers from the Queer and trans community into your homes as they explore their identities through the medium of the written word. A Night of Storytelling features readings from Billy Ray Belcourt, Amber Dawn, jaye simpson, Jillian Christmas, and Erin-Brooke Kirsh.
Curator Danny Ramadan is an award-winning Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker and LGBTQ-refugees activist. His novel, The Clothesline Swing, won multiple awards. His children’s book, Salma the Syrian Chef, is out now.
Instagram: @dannyseesit
Amber Dawn
is a writer and creative facilitator living on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, Canada). She is the author of five books and the editor of three anthologies.
Instagram: @amberdawn_mononym
jaye simpson
is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux indigiqueer writer with roots in Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. they often write about being queer in the Child Welfare system, as well as being queer and Indigenous. their work has been featured in Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PRISM international, SAD Mag, GUTS Magazine and Room. simpson resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xwm0kwym (Musqueam), slilwta’ɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations peoples, currently and colonially known as Vancouver, BC.
Instagram: @jaye_simpson
Billy-Ray Belcourt
is from the Driftpile Cree Nation, and lives in Vancouver. He is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at UBC. His books are THIS WOUND IS A WORLD, NDN COPING MECHANISMS, and A HISTORY OF MY BRIEF BODY.
Instagram: @nakinisowin
Jillian Christmas
lives on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam people, where she served for six years as Artistic Director of Verss Festival of Words. An educator, organizer, and advocate in the arts community, utilizing an anti-oppressive lens, Jillian has performed and facilitated workshops across the continent.
Instagram: @msxms
Erin Kirsh
is a writer and performer. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared in dozens of literary journals internationally. Her greatest accomplishment to date is that one time she painted her nails without getting the polish all over the place.
Instagram: @the.losing.game
Off the Rail Brewing is also offering a 10% off discount on same-day beer delivery for the duration of the festival – just use code QAF2020 at checkout! Free Delivery.
