Islands of Decolonial Love: A Reception and Readings

Join us on Friday, January 12, 6pm, in the Aboriginal Gathering Place for a reception and live monologues directly after Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Hopper Lecture Theories of Water: Using Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe Conciousness to dismantle the Present Moment in ECU’S Reliance Theatre.

In celebration of Simpson’s groundbreaking short story collection, writer and filmmaker Justin Duharme explores key excerpts that are points of influence and research for his upcoming directorial feature film debut Seventeen. Featuring live monologues by Shane Sable, Madelaine McCallum, Monday Blues and Tarene Thomas, selected and directed by Ducharme.

Presented as part of Research As… with Justin Ducharme.

Justin Ducharme is a writer, filmmaker and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. He was a fellow in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2022 Native Film Lab with his television pilot “Positions” adapted from his short film. He was the recipient of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Barry Avrich Fellowship and is an alumni of their 2021 TIFF Filmmaker Lab. Justin is also the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry published by Arsenal Pulp Press. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Sex Worker Wisdom, Room Magazine, Prism International and Filmmaker Mag. He currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.

Research As… is a public program that makes creative research visible. Artists, writers, curators, designers, performers, filmmakers, are invited to engage with ECU and the wider arts community in a series of public programs that present their research practices.