A FREE EVENT at the Oakdene Centre. Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 1-3 pm
1913 Clementsvale Road, Bear River NS.

Join author Andrea Currie for the launch of her new book, Finding Otipemisiwak, at Oakdene Community Centre in Bear River, NS. Come for a reading, an audience Q&A, and a book signing (books available for purchase).

ABOUT THE BOOK: A Sixties Scoop survivor’s journey back to her Nation and the truth of who she is.

“Weaving myriad forms—poetry, family history, personal essay, cultural criticism—Andrea Currie tells her story with mercy and force, revealing the warp and weft of the racist system that codified the robbery of Indigenous children through the Sixties Scoop and the devastating consequences for those children, their families, and their communities.… Finding Otipemisiwak is a necessary, searing, and luminous gift of a book.” —Rebecca Silver Slayter, author of The Second History

ANDREA CURRIE is a writer, healer, and activist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently living in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She is a psychotherapist working in Indigenous mental health and has accompanied the We’koqma’q Residential School Survivors on their healing journey for the past twenty years.