Event

Making meaningful connections. Reaching a hand out to a stranger, or across the generational divide. Finding healing and peace with our past, our family and friends, our grief, and with ourselves. We need these things more than ever, and we invite you to join us for a special evening with celebrated author Ivan Coyote in conversation with CBC’s Shelagh Rogers.

 

In the early days of the Coronavirus lockdown, like every artist and creator, writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote was faced with a calendar full of cancelled shows and a heart full of questions around “what now?” To keep busy while figuring out what to write about next, Ivan began to answer the backlog of mail and correspondences that had come in while they were on the pre-pandemic road: emails, letters, direct messages on social media, soggy handwritten notes found tucked under the windshield wiper of their car after a gig, all of it. In Care Of, Coyote combines the most moving and powerful of these letters with the responses they've sent in the months since the lockdown. Topics include finding peace within a complicated family; struggling to figure out one’s identity and working to build and repair community; the challenges of being a teen, and of becoming an elder; grief, joy, and everything in between.