Kingston Hall Room 200
This year's Page Lecture will feature author Rita Wong. About Rita's talk:
"Rivers are wondrous beings, magnificently and humbly enabling life to continue along their shores. Rivers are to be celebrated and honoured, but rivers have also been under a colonial onslaught that violates their freedom and dignity. In following rivers to their oceans, Wong has inevitably crossed paths with colonial pipelines and mega dams that steal the rivershed’s vitality through massive clearcuts & industrial scale invasion. As an unsettler poet-scholar of Cantonese descent who gratefully lives on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh peoples, she asks what it means to listen to these rivers and their peoples, and how this offers a fuller story than what colonization would have consigned us to"
The Page Lecture is made possible by the generous support of The Page Lecture Fund, in honour of Joanne Page. Visit the online Joanne Page Gallery
A reception will follow this talk at The Grad Club at 4:15.
Accessibility information about Kingston Hall can be found here. This event will be filmed and photographed [flash photography].
