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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt">Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to announce this year’s virtual Benjamin Eby Lecture with Dr. Karen Sunabacka, entitled, "<i><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/events/lecture-series/benjamin-eby-lecture">Composing
Louis Riel's Dream: Exploring the history of the Red River Settlement through family stories and music</a></i>", on
<b>Thursday October 21<sup>st</sup> at 7:30 pm</b>! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/2021-benjamin-eby-lecture">register</a> to join us online for this virtual event!</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When Karen Sunabacka was 3 years old, her Métis grandmother gave her a book titled
<i>Riel’s People: How the Métis Lived </i>by Maria Campbell. Karen always knew she was Metis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Her Grandparent’s farm, near Selkirk, Manitoba, was a gathering place for the local English Métis community and Karen with her siblings spent countless hours dancing, fiddling, and exploring the rural prairie
landscape. As Karen’s love of music grew, she found herself being trained by and composing in the European Western Art Music Tradition. She was enthralled by this rich musical heritage and didn’t quite know how to bring this together with her Métis roots.
Yet her heritage is both Settler and Indigenous and her family sits at the intersection of two very different world views.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This can sometimes be an uncomfortable space. Her grandfather’s family was racist towards her grandmother’s family, and this dynamic was present in every generation of her family, beginning in the early 1800’s.
How does one make sense of this ever present conflict? A conflict that continues within the Canadian landscape, institutions, and social structures. In more recent years Karen has started exploring this intersection by telling family stories in her musical
compositions. This has brought her, and her audiences, a new awareness of the history of the Red River Settlement and her family’s place within it. During the Eby Lecture, Karen will discuss her heritage, a number of her compositions, her inspiration for the
pieces, her collaborations with her mother Joyce Clouston, her challenges, and the ways the pieces have been received. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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We look forward to having you <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/2021-benjamin-eby-lecture">
join us</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">__________________<br>
<b>Birgit G. Moscinski</b></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"><br>
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