December 20th, 2016

LBP is Proud to host Ivan Coyote

Date:  Tuesday, January 10, 2016

Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm

Location:  Lester B Pearson Public School,

500 Chesapeake Drive, Waterloo, ON

All students in grade 6 and above, along with their parents, are invited to join us for an entertaining, informative, and thought provoking evening with author and storyteller, Ivan Coyote.  With a focus on bullying, acceptance and social justice for all, this is a great opportunity for our LBP community, and greater Eastbridge community, to step forward into being the change we wish to see in the world.

Ivan has been visiting schools for 15 years now, telling stories to encourage talking and action to foster safety and social justice in our hallways, gymnasiums and classrooms for everyone: students, teachers and all staff.

Ivan Coyote was born and raised in a large Irish Catholic family in Whitehorse, Yukon, and learned the craft of storytelling while gathered around their grandmother’s kitchen table on long northern winter nights. Ivan is the award-winning author of nine collections of short stories (including one especially for young adult readers), one novel, a collection of essays, three screenplays and three CD’s, and a renowned live performer.

Coyote’s work tackles the difficult subjects of family, class, gender identity, and social justice, always with the silver tongue of a master storyteller, an eye for the beauty found in what makes us all human, and an ear for the hilarity of life and love. Ivan’s first love is telling stories to a live audience, and over the last nineteen years Ivan has become an audience favourite at writer’s, storytelling, poetry, spoken word, and music festivals from Anchorage to Amsterdam.

Because much of their material grapples with life in between gender boxes, Ivan is also often asked to speak to labour activists, social justice advocates, university and high school students, health care providers and teachers all across the continent, and beyond. The Globe and Mail called Ivan “a natural-born storyteller” and Ottawa X Press said “Coyote is to CanLit what k.d. lang is to country music: a beautifully odd fixture.” Toronto Star praises Coyote’s “talent for sketching the bizarre in the everyday”, and Quills Magazine says Ivan has a “distinctive and persuasive voice, a flawless sense of pacing, and an impeccable sense of story.”

Ivan Coyote in the classroom has been a successful learning experience for the younger generation.”

To learn more about Ivan, check out their website:

http://www.ivancoyote.com/ivan-in-schools/