What is our country made of? As Canada marks the 150th anniversary of Confederation, Globe and Mail columnist Doug Saunders hosts a series of onstage conversations with pairings of uniquely situated guests who will look at the country from inside and outside, from past and future, with raised eyebrows and raised fists.
The most important parts of Canada’s history remain in the future. For a look beyond 150, we turn to two Canadian science-fiction visionaries. Drew Hayden Taylor is the author of Take Us To Your Chief, a new collection of First Nations science-fiction stories; he is also a pioneer in the “Native Vampire” and “Native Gothic” genres. Camille Turner is a Jamaican-born, Toronto-based media/performance artist and educator. Combining Afrofuturism with historical research, her interventions, installations and public engagements bring hidden and erased histories to life through place-based explorations.