For ages:

14 years and up

Room or location:

Online

Event Details:

Join us for a new author series exploring the experiences of Indigenous, Caribbean and African Peoples in Canada.  We are honoured to present author Adwoa Badoe.  She is the author of two young adult novels, Aluta and Between Sisters.  She has published the collection of folk tales, The Pot of Wisdom: Ananse Stories, and several picture books for children.  She is an oral storyteller, specializing in the folktales and legends of Africa.  In her former lives, she taught and performed African Dance and practiced medicine.  She will be showcasing her book Aluta.

Registrants will be emailed instructions for viewing, using the free and easily downloadable platform Zoom.

Ancestral Voices is funded by Newmarket Public Library's fundraising reserve.  If you would like to help the Library continue to pay for community partnership programming like this, please consider making a tax-deductible donation.

Presented in collaboration with Maxine Gordon Palomino, BA, LLB, LEC and Kim Wheatley, Anishinaabe Consultant

Categories:

• Online
• Adults
• Arts and Music
• Kids

Parking:

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