Thursday, October 15 at 4:30 pm, Saint Mary’s University presents Chris Benjamin, journalist and author of Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School. Where? At the Loyola Academic Complex (5865 Gorsebrook Avenue) – Room 175. Everyone welcome! “…a gut-wrenching and much-needed historical work…I’d like to see Indian School Road as mandatory reading in […]
Public Talk by Chris Benjamin author of Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School Winner of the 2013 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for Social Justice writing When: Wednesday, 13 October 2015, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Where: Nova Scotia Community College Port Hawkesbury Campus Theatre 226 Reeves St. Port Hawkesbury “This […]
To help Mount Saint Vincent University commemorate Mi’kmaq History Month (October), award-winning author Chris Benjamin will be speaking about his book, Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School (Nimbus, 2014). October 7 at 12:00–13:30 Mount Saint Vincent University (166 Bedford Highway, Halifax) in Seton Building, Auditorium D
The Indian School Road Fall 2015 University Book Tour continues with two events next week! Tuesday, Sept 29, 4:30 – 6:30 pm, at Dalhousie University’s McCain Arts & Social Sciences Building (6135 University Avenue), Room 2012, in Halifax, Chris Benjamin will give a talk on the Shubenacadie Residential School based on his book, Indian School […]
Two upcoming events on the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School: Friday, Sept 18, 12:00 noon until 2:20 pm, at the University of Prince Edward Island Main Faculty Lounge in Charlottetown. Chris Benjamin will give a talk on the Shubenacadie Residential School based on his book, Indian School Road. and Saturday, Sept 19, 1:00 pm until 2:00 […]
Date: Wednesday, Aug 26 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia offices, 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax Perks: COFFEE and snacks Admission: FREE Prince Edward Island-based author Jeff Bursey will be in Halifax launching his new novel, Mirrors on which dust has fallen. Joining him will be poet and short story writer Carole Langille, […]
I had the great honour to present at an event honouring survivors from the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School this month at the University of New Brunswick. CBC did a piece on the event:
Here’s a video of a talk by Chris Benjamin on the long road from getting bad advice from a guidance counsellor, through the St. Lucian rainforest, around Ghana and to becoming a journalist and author, most recently researching and writing Indian School Road:
Last week I saw on my Facebook wall that it was Colette Urban’s birthday. I wrote about Colette’s work, mostly in Newfoundland, as an inspiring, environmentally conscious artist, teacher, small-scale farmer and host of eco-tourists for my book, Eco-Innovators. But she wasn’t much of a Facebook user, so I was surprised, and very saddened, to […]
Sat Jan 31, 2:00 pm At the new Halifax Central Library (5440 Spring Garden Road) Authors Chris Benjamin and Jo Treggiari will talk about the peaks and valleys of writing about your own angst and woeful youth, like they each did for the Becoming Fierce anthology (one of Quill & Quire’s books of the year). […]
