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Storytellers

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Lorna Crozier

One of Canada’s most celebrated poets is also one of Canada’s biggest champions of nature. Lorna Crozier was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and...

Ian Brown

Every great story begins with curiosity: just ask Ian Brown. As one of Canada’s leading writers and storytellers, Ian has been satisfying his curiosity...

Dawna Friesen

How do you become a national news anchor? Sometimes, the best lessons come from growing up on a farm. Dawna Friesen is the long-time...

Poets

Andria Dawson and Angela Waldie

A poet and a mathematician sit down at a table. It sounds like the start of a lame joke, but it’s actually the story...

Anna Morgan

Can visual storytelling inspire ecological health? Anna Morgan is determined to find the answer. A veterinary surgeon by day, Anna is working towards her...

Lorna Crozier

One of Canada’s most celebrated poets is also one of Canada’s biggest champions of nature. Lorna Crozier was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and...

Screen Writers, Comic Book Writers

Maggie MacDonald

Punk rocker. Playwrite. Sci-Fi novelist. Comic artist. Political and environmental activist. This isn’t the line-up for an artist speaker series, it’s the biography of...

Mary Young Leckie

Ever dream of becoming a successful movie producer? Mary Young Leckie did and she made it happen. One of Canada’s most successful filmmakers and...

Miranda Andersen

Becoming an internationally acclaimed filmmaker takes time, but the long journey doesn’t have to start after school is over. Born and raised in a...

Journalists

Clive Jackson

There are good stories and then there are great stories. And no one knows a great story better than Clive Jackson. From being one...

Niki Wilson

If you think all scientists can't communicate, you’ve never met Niki Wilson. Born and raised and still calling home Jasper, Alberta, Niki lives immersed...

Salimah Ebrahim

If the future of work is entrepreneurial, it’s also multi-disciplinary. Just ask journalist and innovator Salimah Ebrahim. Born in East Africa and raised in...

Authors

Rick Antonson

Ever travel to Timbuktu for a haircut? Have you been to the top of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey? Rick Antonson has. The former...

Donna Kennedy-Glans

Our discourse is becoming increasingly polarized. How to move it beyond polarity? Lawyer, author and self-proclaimed recovering politician Donna Kennedy-Glans is trying to find...

Jim Bottomley

What in the world is a futurist? One answer: Jim Bottomley. Jim is as passionate about the past as he is about the future,...