MoD Talks with Waubgeshig Rice

The Museum of Dufferin presents MoD Talks with author and journalist Waubgeshig Rice next month. Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. His first short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, inspired by his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community, won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. His debut novel, Legacy, followed in 2014. A French translation was published in 2017. His latest novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was released in October 2018 and became a national bestseller.

Waub got his first taste of journalism in 1996 as an exchange student in Germany, writing articles about being an Anishinaabe teen in a foreign country for newspapers back in Canada.

He graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism program in 2002. He has worked in a variety of news media since, reporting for CBC News for the bulk of his career. In 2014, he received the Anishinabek Nation’s Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling. His most recent role was host of Up North, CBC Radio’s afternoon show for northern Ontario. He left CBC in May 2020 to focus on his literary career.

BookLore Orangeville will be on-site to sell his works: Moon of the Crusted Snow, Midnight Sweatlodge, Legacy, “Dust” in This is an Honour Song, “Indigenous Journalists Need Apply,” In the Winter We Danced and Drum Making: A Guide for the Anishinaabe Hand Drum.

The in-person event is at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10 and costs $25. Tickets can be purchased via www. dufferinmuseum.com.