I am so excited to share this with you! It’s been two years now since the graphic novel collection, “This Place: 150 Years Retold” was released, and it remains one of the most amazing experiences I’ve had as a writer. It provided an opportunity to collaborate with so many amazing creative people, and resulted in the creation of something much richer than we could have produced individually. Now, it’s been given a new form as a CBC podcast.
Host Rosanna Deerchild did a wonderful interview about the project in June. When I was first contacted about the project, I couldn’t envision how it would be possible to adapt these stories to spoken stories, but I trusted that the all-Indigenous production team of Eva Grant, Jacquie Black and Rosanna Deerchild, would find a way, and did they ever!
I waited until the final chapter (my own, kitaskînaw 2350) was completed before sitting down and letting myself absorb the book in this new format. Each adaptation is followed by an interview with the author of that particular chapter, providing more context and insights than are possible in the physical text alone.
The voice actors are sublime, and the changes made to account for lack of visuals to guide us enrich these stories so well. I am captivated by this version; and just as when Tara Audibert began illustrating the story I had written, it has become so much better than anything I could have done on my own.
I think you’re going to love this too, so grab some tea, find a comfortable seat, and let yourself travel through hundreds of years of history and futurity in this place, the lands on which we all live.
THIS PLACE PODCAST: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1020-this-place
6 Comments
sukhy · August 26, 2021 at 5:45 pm
look forward to listening to it soon
Hattie Dawn Bell-Jack · August 27, 2021 at 5:19 am
Is there a hard copy being sold somewhere?
âpihtawikosisân · August 27, 2021 at 11:48 am
Absolutely, you can buy it from the publisher here: https://www.portageandmainpress.com/Books/T/This-Place2
faunawolf · August 27, 2021 at 10:07 am
OooOOOO! Gonna buy me a copy of the book! I’d never heard of it before now!
mctrmt · August 27, 2021 at 12:55 pm
Fabulous! Can’t wait to get in in my ears.
Bobbie Harrington · September 10, 2021 at 9:32 pm
loving these podcast stories from the past. the true history not only exposes colonialism, but introduces us to some amazing indigenous and meti’ people of the past.