Mi’kmaq artist hosts Indigenous literature book club at Mile End’s Drawn and Quarterly – CBC
Jan 23, 2019
Tara McGowan-Ross invites Montrealers to explore vast world of Indigenous books
When Wolastoqiyik singer, musicologist and composer Jeremy Dutcher won the Polaris prize for his album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa last year, declaring “you are in the midst of an Indigenous renaissance,” Montrealer Tara McGowan-Ross was mesmerized.
She asked herself how her experience as an artist and a person of Mi’kmaq heritage would fit into this new renaissance.
Now McGowan-Ross is hosting the first Indigenous literatures book club at Drawn and Quarterly, an independent bookstore in Montreal’s Mile End.
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