Events
Thank you for supporting the fundraising initiatives of grandmothers groups across the Campaign! Browse the calendar below to learn about the many online, in-person and multi-day events that grandmothers groups are organizing, as well as Campaign-wide events.
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A Tapestry of Food, Family and Forgiveness (Online)
10 March 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
A Tapestry of Food, Family and Forgiveness features Nigerian Canadian author Francesca Ekwuyasi and Canadian literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse sharing a conversation about Francesca’s debut novel “Butter Honey Pig Bread.”
Francesca is an author and a multidisciplinary artist from Lagos, Nigeria. Her novel, “Butter Honey Pig Bread” was long listed for the Giller Prize in 2020, and was voted one of the CBCs 10 Best Canadian novels of 2021. Our organization is very important to her as she was raised by her grandmother and she greatly respects all the work the SLF does for African grandmothers.
Donna focuses on Black Canadian literature and Black women’s writing. She is frequently heard on CBC’s radio show The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers. She is a literary journalist, lecturer, a critic for Book Television, and the author of two volumes of connected writing, “What’s a Black Critic to Do?” and the editor of Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing. Donna is currently working on a People’s History of Black Canada.