An evening with Barbadian-Canadian writer and author Jasmine Sealy AND music by Caleb Hart.
Listen to a chat with the author, book reading, audience Q&A and book signing. There will be books for purchase.
Location: Baumann Centre at Pacific Opera Victoria (wheelchair accessible), 925 Balmoral Rd, Victoria, BC. The event is free but you must register at keynote-speaker2025.eventbrite.ca
Jasmine Sealy is a Barbadian-Canadian writer. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the UBC School of Creative Writing where she won the 2020 UBC/HarperCollinsCanada Best New Fiction Prize. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and included in Best Canadian Stories and the Journey Prize anthology. Her debut novel The Island of Forgetting was published in 2022. It was named a best book of 2022 by the CBC, The Globe and Mail and The Sunday Times in the UK. It was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. It won the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.
The evening will also be filled with the beautiful, acoustic sounds of musician Caleb Hart. His new album entitled Emancipation released in October 2024, and he has over 1175 performances to date. Caleb grew up in the twin island nation of Trinidad and Tobago; performer and songwriter; you will fall in love again with his blend of Gospel, Soul, Pop, Rock, Calypso, Soca and more than anything Reggae.
Doors: 6:30pm
Event is free (donations appreciated). Register here
Light refreshments (dessert and drinks) provided.
