Write On! Chapbook Showcase and Breakout Sessions

Featuring work of Woodroffe HS students and youth with lived experience of homelessness

With Kagiso Lesogo Molope, Claudia Mitchell, Dr. Maya Shetreat and Jacqueline Kennelly

In Person Youth

General Admission

Free

Friday

Nov , 2019

1:00pm

Eastern

Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

355 Cooper St. • Ottawa

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Write On! Chapbook Showcase and Breakout Sessions

As you learn to express yourself through writing, you can open new doors for communication; with words as guides you can find strength, knowledge and freedom.

Marjorie Ford and John Ford

1:00pm–2:15pm

Write On! Chapbook showcase and Sharing hosted by Neil Wilson

After intensive writing workshops our young authors are ready to share the fruits of their labours.

Featuring the work of students from Woodroffe High School with teacher Sandra Ross Nguyen, 2019 Ottawa Book Award winner Kagiso Lesogo Molope and youth with lived experience of homelessness in conjunction with Carleton University’s Centre for Urban Youth Research. Guest presenters include Claudia Mitchell and Dr. Maya Shetreat and Jacqueline Kennelly.

2:30pm–3:30pm

Lead by Julie Garlen

Breakout sessions with young authors, teachers, writers and guest presenters: The Rights of Children and Youth and Future Challenges, including health and wellness, environmental change, technology and society, culture and identity.

The Authors

Claudia Mitchell

Claudia Mitchell is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University where she directs the Institute for Human Development and Well-being. As the founder of the Participatory Cultures Lab, a CFI funded unit which focuses on the study and practice of participatory visual methods, she is engaged in social research with girls and young women to address sexual and gender based violence. She currently leads a SSHRC-IDRC partnership grant Networks for Change and Wel-being: Girl-led ‘from the ground up’ policy making to address sexual violence in Canada and South Africa, and the Women and Gender Equity-funded study, More Than Words. She is a co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning journal, Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Dr. Maya Shetreat

Dr. Maya Shetreat, MD is a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, and author of The Dirt Cure: Healthy Food, Healthy Gut, Happy Child (Simon and Schuster, 2016), which has been translated into ten languages. She has been featured in the New York Times, The Telegraph, NPR, Sky News, The Dr. Oz Show and more. Dr. Maya is the founder of the Terrain Institute, where she teaches Terrain Medicine™, earth-based programs for transformational healing. She works and studies with indigenous communities and healers in Ecuador, and is a lifelong student of ethnobotany, plant healing, and the sacred. www.drmaya.com

Jacqueline Kennelly

Dr. Jacqueline Kennelly is an Associate Professor in Carleton University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her research examines the interactions between schools, state policies, and everyday cultural practices in reproducing or ameliorating marginalization for low-income and homeless young people. She has also focused much of her work on young people's responses to such marginalization, through social movements and citizenship engagement. She has written or edited four books exploring these issues (Lost Youth in the Global City (2010, with J. Dillabough); Citizen Youth: Culture, Activism and Agency in a Neoliberal Era (2011); Phenomenology of Youth Cultures and Globalization (2015, with S. Poyntz) and Olympic Exclusions: Youth, Poverty, and Social Legacies (2016)) and has published multiple articles in a wide range of international academic journals. She is the founding director of the Centre for Urban Youth Research (www.urbanyouthresearch.ca). www.jacquelinekennelly.ca

Kagiso Lesego Molope

Kagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous novelist and playwright of the San people of Southern Africa. She is the author of four other novels: Dancing in the Dust, which was on the IBBY Honour List for 2006; The Mending Season; Such a Lonely, Lovely Road; and This Book Betrays My Brother. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times. She is the winner of the 2014 Percy FitzPatrick Award, the 2019 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction, and the 2019 inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award. Across Southern Africa and in parts of Europe, her works are read in schools in several languages. She wrote the play Maya Angelou: Black Woman Rising, which was staged for five years at Oslo’s Nordic Black Theatre. She lives on the unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.