Join Shauntay Grant for a reading of her newest picture book Africville at Halifax's Word On The Street Festival, followed by a book signing. Come learn about the community of Africville from former residents.
Shauntay Grant is a writer and storyteller from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches creative writing at Dalhousie University, and as Halifax's third Poet Laureate she organized Canada's first national gathering of Canadian Poets Laureate. (click here to read more)
Africville Book Launch
Join Shauntay Grant for the launch of her newest picture book Africville - a collaboration with illustrator Eva Campbell - on Thursday September 13th, 11:00AM - 12:30PM at the Africville Museum (for details please contact event hosts Prismatic Arts Festival).
Shauntay will also be joined by former Africville residents for a special presentation of her book at Halifax's annual Word On The Street Festival. Stop by the Halifax Central Library from 2:00PM - 2:50PM on Saturday September 15th, and stick around afterwards for a book signing.
Africville is available for purchase online at Groundwood Books, Chapters Indigo, and Amazon, and locally at bookstores.
NS Public Libraries Summer Tour
Africville now available for pre-order
Shauntay Grant's newest picture book, Africville (Groundwood Books), is available for pre-order from Chapters Indigo and Amazon.
When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like —the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football, the pond where all the kids went rafting, the bountiful fishing, the huge bonfires.
Africville was a vibrant Black community for more than 150 years. But even though its residents paid municipal taxes, they lived without running water, sewers, paved roads and police, fire-truck and ambulance services. In the 1960s, city officials decided to demolish the community, moving people out in city dump trucks and relocating them in public housing. Today, Africville has been replaced by a park, where former residents and their families gather each summer to remember their community.
The Walking Bathroom book launch
The Bridge: a work-in-progress showing
February 7, 2016 – 2b theatre presents a work-in-progress showing of The Bridge, a new play in development by Shauntay Grant. Click here for more details.
Shauntay Grant announced as 2b playwright-in-residence
September 1, 2016 – 2b welcomes award-winning writer and educator Shauntay Grant as the company’s 2016-2018 playwright in residence. Over the next few years, Ms. Grant will work with 2b theatre company to develop her new play, The Bridge. Click here to read full announcement.Stitched Stories: The Family Quilts
Stitched Stories: The Family Quilts opens Thursday Sept 1 at 7PM at the Dalhousie Art Gallery (6101 University Ave., Halifax, Nova Scotia). The exhibition will be on display at the gallery until November 27.
Curated by Shauntay Grant, the exhibition features a handful of quilts selected by Grant from the heritage holdings of her family, prominently those of her grandmother, the Reverend Alfreda Smith. Grant’s own creative response to the quilts – and equally, the stories they keep – will produce a new ‘poetic patchwork’ developing inside the Gallery over the course of the exhibit.
Click here to read a Metro News article about the exhibit and to view some of the work on display.
Shauntay Grant writer-in-residence at Berton House
April 2016 – Shauntay Grant begins a three-month writing residency at historic Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon. Click here for more details.Previous events
Shauntay Grant shares songs and stories from her spoken word recording Say Sumthin as part of Dalhousie University's 200th Anniversary Stage at Halifax's Word On The Street Festival.
Join Shauntay Grant for the launch of her newest picture book, Africville (Groundwood Books), at the Africville Museum. This event is presented by the 2018 Prismatic Arts Festival.
Nova Scotia Public Libraries Summer Tour
Berwick and District Library, 236 Commercial Street, Berwick
Shauntay Grant shares stories and reads from her picture books as part of a series of free shows for young people and families in public libraries.
Nova Scotia Public Libraries Summer Tour
Annapolis Valley Regional Library, 10 Main Street, Hantsport
Shauntay Grant shares stories and reads from her picture books as part of a series of free shows for young people and families in public libraries.
Shauntay Grant reads from her forthcoming children's picture book Africville. The book is set for a Sept 1st release from Groundwood Books.
Shauntay Grant shares stories and reads from her picture books as part of a series of free shows for young people and families in public libraries.
Nova Scotia Public Libraries Summer Tour
Halifax North Memorial Public Library, 2285 Gottingen Street, Halifax
Shauntay Grant shares stories and reads from her picture books as part of a series of free shows for young people and families in public libraries.
Nova Scotia Public Libraries Summer Tour
Shauntay Grant shares stories and reads from her picture books as part of a series of free shows for young people and families in public libraries.
Nova Scotia Public Libraries Summer Tour
Sackville Public Library, 636 Sackville Drive, Lower Sackville
Shauntay Grant shares stories and reads from her picture books as part of a series of free shows for young people and families in public libraries.
Spoken Word and the Academy: Championing Performative Genres
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Harbourfront Centre (Market Tent A), 235 Queens Quay W, Toronto
Shauntay Grant moderates a discussion at the Canadian Writers Summit in connection with the annual conference of Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs.
The Edmonton Poetry Festival welcomes internationally-acclaimed poets Shauntay Grant, Ahmed Knowmadic, and Alessandra Naccarato for ALCHEMY, a show that embraces the daring, magical potential that is revealed whenever poetry and music collide.
Shauntay Grant reads from her poetic children's picture books in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Shauntay Grant reads from her children's picture book The Walking Bathroom.
Author Reading
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Cole Harbour Public Library, 51 Forest Hills Parkway, Cole Harbour, NS
Shauntay Grant reads from her children's picture book The Walking Bathroom.
"The Walking Bathroom" Author Reading
Keshen Goodman Library, 330 Lacewood Drive, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Join Shauntay Grant for a reading of her new children's picture book "The Walking Bathroom" at Keshen Goodman Library's Halloween Fest.
Book Launch, Author Reading, Activities, & Book Signing.
"The Walking Bathroom" Book Launch, Author Reading, Activities, & Book Signing.
Author Reading & Book Signing