October 12, 2005 Source: Laurentian University of Sudbury:
http://www.laurentian.ca/?file=newsrelease/2005/oct/oct12_dhaydentaylor_e.php Leading Native dramatist to present next Gkendasswin Trail lecture On Wednesday, October 19, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Drew Hayden Taylor, one of Canada's leading Native dramatist will present a public lecture on the Laurentian University campus as part of the Gkendasswin Trail (Trail of the Learned and Wise) series which is organized by Laurentian University's Native Programs and Services. His presentation, entitled "Tickling the Indigenous Funnybone: Shooting the rapids of Aboriginal humour", will be presented in the University of Sudbury's Canisisu Hall, located on the Laurentian campus. Everyone is invited to attend and admission is free. Drew Hayden Taylor, an Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations, has worn many hats in his literary career. Over the last two decades, he has been an award-winning playwright, a journalist/columnist, short-story writer, scriptwriter, librettist, and more recently, a director of documentaries on Native culture for the National Film Board. He has earned several significant awards and honours, among them the prestigious Chalmers Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award, the James Buller Award, the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award. The author of eleven books (soon to be thirteen), Drew Hayden Taylor is a writer in many genres and is well known for his plays about Native people. His published plays include: Toronto at Dreamer's Rock/ Education is our Right, The Bootlegger Blues, and its sequels, The Baby Blues, and The Buz'Gem Blues. Other published plays include Someday and its sequel, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, and The Girl Who Loved Horses. He has written, directed, or worked on many film and video documentaries about Native issues. Drew Hayden Taylor also spent a year and a half with CBC Radio as a Native affairs reporter and later dabbled with Maclean's, This Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Now Magazine, Southam News, and various other periodicals. More recently, Drew Hayden Taylor has been seen directing a documentary on Native humour titled, Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and researching a new one on Native erotica. The Strange Case of Bunny Weequod, a television mystery/drama written by Hayden Taylor, was filmed entirely in Ojibway, and aired on the CBC several times in 1999. Drew also directed Circle of All Nations, a documentary about Algonquin elder William Commanda and his spiritual conference. For more information, please contact Laurentian University's Native Programs and Services, at (705) 675-1151, ext. 1051. Reference:
Paul de la Riva
Public Affairs
Laurentian University
Sudbury, Ontario
(705) 675-1151, ext. 3406
pdelarivalaurentian.ca
www.laurentian.ca
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