Dear friends of the UMIH,
A reminder about our event for tomorrow:
-Poetry Reading
“A poetry reading and conversation with Rosanna Deerchild”
Conversation facilitated by Dr. Charlene Diehl (Creative Director, Alan Klass Program in Health Humanities)
Tuesday, November 3rd
1- 2:30 pm
409 Tier
Coffee/tea to follow
Join award-winning poet, playwright, and journalist Rosanna Deerchild for a reading and conversation exploring the intersections
of poetry, grief, and healing.
Rosanna Deerchild (She/Her) is Cree, from O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation. She has been a storyteller for almost 30 years, as a journalist, broadcaster, poet and playwright. As the host of Unreserved (CBC Radio
One, Sirius XM, US Public Radio and Native Voice One), Rosanna shares Indigenous community, culture and conversation. Rosanna has written three collections of poetry: this is a small northern town (winner of the 2008 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry),
calling down the sky (winner of the 2016 Pat Lowther Memorial Award) , and she falls again (winner of the 2025 Indigenous Voices Award). Her first play, with Winnipeg’s RMTC’s Pimootayowin Creators Circle, The Secret to Good Tea was the first Indigenous-written
play to debut on their mainstage for their 2023 season. It was produced by The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario and Ottawa’s NAC Indigenous Theatre in the 2025 season. She is currently at work on her second play. A community builder, Rosanna co-founded the
Indigenous Writers Collective of Manitoba to make space for Indigenous creative writing. Rosanna now lives and works in her found home of Winnipeg.
Rosanna’s conversation partner is Charlene Diehl, creative director of the Alan Klass Program in Health Humanities at the Max Rady College of Medicine and recently retired director of Plume Winnipeg (formerly Winnipeg
International Writers Festival). Charlene is the author of Out of Grief, Singing: A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss and
lamentations.
This event is organized by the UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief, and Mourning
And mark your calendar for next week’s event:
-Writing Workshop
“Mapping Our Grief”
Jodie Schoenbeck (Student Support Case Manager)
Tuesday, Nov. 10
1-3pm
409 Tier
Grief mapping provides space to process and contain our experiences of loss. The workshop invites participants to choose a lived
experience of grief and create a visual map. The creative process will allow participants to engage where they are comfortable, whether through imagination or through locating events in a time and place. The workshop is a starting point: Participants can
take what they make in the workshop and continue to develop the grief map on their own or use it as inspiration for writing. Examples of grief maps will be provided within the workshop.
This event is organized by the
UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief and Mourning
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Director, Institute for the Humanities
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University of Manitoba
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