This winter the Anti-Oppression Book Club (AOBC) will discuss the "One Book One Province" book for 2025 entitled Bread & Water: essays by dee Hobsbawn-Smith.
The AOBC will meet via Zoom on Thursday February 20th, Friday March 7th and Thursday March 27th from 2 pm to 3 pm.
The Author Event sponsored by the One Book One Province Program will be held on Monday April 7, 2025 (1 pm) @ The Innovation Place - The Terrace Rotunda, Regina.
From the One Book One Province Program website:
The Saskatchewan Library Association (SLA) introduced One Book One Province Saskatchewan in 2017 to give the province’s residents an opportunity to engage with a shared experience around a book. Each year, the SLA selects a title by a Saskatchewan Author that builds awareness and understanding in topics such as diversity, reconciliation, or an aspect of our provincial history.
dee Hobsbawn-Smith is an award-winning essayist, poet, fictionist, Red Seal chef, educator, and food writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith lives rurally on the remnants of her family’s farm west of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in Treaty Six Territory. Called an educator “blessed with whimsy and precision,” she has taught thousands of adults and kids to cook.
Contact Mary Chipanshi at mary.chipanshi@uregina.ca for more information about the Anti-Oppression Book Club.
The Author Event sponsored by the One Book One Province Program will be held on Monday April 7, 2025 (1 pm) @ The Innovation Place - The Terrace Rotunda, Regina.
From the Publisher - University of Regina Press
Awarded Gold at the 2022 Taste Canada Award The lyricism of Bread & Water interweaves culinary insights and literary essays to pose fundamental questions about how we live--and how we feed--the larger hungers that motivate our lives. When chef and writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith left the city for rural life on a farm in Saskatchewan, she planned to replace cooking and teaching with poetry and prose. But--as begin the best stories--her next adventure didn't quite work that way. Food trickled into her poems, her essays, her fiction. And water poured into her property in both Saskatchewan and Calgary during two devastating floods.
