Dean's Public Lecture: Julian Brave NoiseCat
Join us for an evening with Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author Julian Brave NoiseCat. He will share a creative performance and talk about his first book We Survived the Night, which weaves together Indigenous oral history, journalistic accounts of this land’s First Peoples, and personal memoir. He will also discuss his experience co-directing Sugarcane (2024), a documentary regarding the Williams Lake First Nation’s investigation of the Saint Joseph Indian residential school in British Columbia. Confronting colonial erasure with powerful storytelling, NoiseCat's work revisits the past and braids together new stories.
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and a descendant of the Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Yorker. He is a champion powwow dancer, student of Salish art and history, and avid hockey player. His writing and filmmaking have been nominated for and received many awards.
A reception with snacks will begin at 6:00pm, followed by a performance and moderated Q&A by NoiseCat at 7:00pm. A book signing will follow, with books available to purchase from Blue Heron Books.
Please register at the Regent website for free tickets.