EBY LECTURE: "Composing Louis Riel's Dream: Exploring the history of the Red River Settlement through family stories and music" with Dr. Karen Sunabacka - October 21st

[Birgit Moscinski]

Dear Faculty, Staff, and Friends,

Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to announce this year's virtual Benjamin Eby Lecture with Dr. Karen Sunabacka, entitled, "Composing Louis Riel's Dream: Exploring the history of the Red River Settlement through family stories and music<https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/events/lecture-series/benjamin-eby-lecture>", on Thursday October 21st at 7:30 pm!

**Please register<https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/2021-benjamin-eby-lecture> to join us online for this virtual event!

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Lecture topic:

When Karen Sunabacka was 3 years old, her Métis grandmother gave her a book titled Riel's People: How the Métis Lived by Maria Campbell. Karen always knew she was Metis.

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.

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.

We look forward to having you join us<https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/2021-benjamin-eby-lecture>!


Sincerely,
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Birgit G. Moscinski
Administrative Assistant to the Dean and Academic Program

Conrad Grebel University College
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