Reading

For the third event of this lineup, join Jessica Johns in conversation with award-winning writer Selina Boan. Jessica Johns’s debut novel, Bad Cree, is a gripping story about intergenerational trauma that follows a Cree millennial who has haunting dreams about her dead sister and Kokum. It’s a horror novel that grapples with the effects of […]

Southam will walk through the arc of her book with a special focus on the case of Salt Spring resident Dr. Briony Penn. Briony and other Salt Spring understood the full implications of clearcutting the Garry Oak forests and rewrote its narrative. Their work inspired other island communities and contributed to positive social change. No […]