Our Keynote Speaker and special film screening

For this year's conference we would like to welcome . She is a Mohawk Canadian actress, director, and activist most known for her roles as Tanis on Letterkenny and The Deer Lady on Reservation Dogs. She was a panelist on Canada Reads in 2020, where she defended indigenous Canadian author Eden Robinson’s novel Son of a Trickster. Her directorial debut is the film Seeds (showing at the Toronto Film Festival 2024), a horror / comedy about protecting heirloom seeds. Horn’s work explores the intersection of Indigenous spaces and storytelling, focusing particularly on environmental issues. Her talk will be on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at 2 pm in the Anatol Center: “Seed keeping as language growing: land, language, and indigenous representation in pop culture.”

Special film screening! We will screen a showing of Horn's 2024 film Seeds on Wednesday night of the conference, in anticipation of her talk on Thursday. Popcorn provided! 

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movie poster for Seeds