Celia Haig-Brown, the youngest of the Haig-Brown children, has returned home.
Working with the Museum at Campbell River, Haig-Brown is part of the Living Legacy Project. Over a five-month period, she will invite the community to a series of conversations with Indigenous writers, artists, and other Haig-Brown family members to reflect on the lasting impact of the lessons passed down from her parents, Roderick and Ann Haig-Brown.
The series of conversations draws on the “Four Rs” proposed by Verna J. Kirkness and Ray Barnhardt. Using each of the Four Rs (Relevance, Reciprocity, Responsibility and lastly Return), sessions will focus on practical ways to work well together.
The first presentation in the series, “To Be In Good Relation: Relevance,” takes place on Jan. 25 at the Museum at Campbell River from 1 to 3 p.m. Haig-Brown will be joined by publisher, videographer, and co-author Wickee Cussee/Randy Fred of the Tseshaht Nation to discuss the significance of relationship in creative projects. The session will conclude with the short film, Pelq’ilc/Coming Home, co-directed by Haig-Brown and her niece, Helen Haig-Brown, an award-winning Tsilhqut’in filmmaker. Members of the public are invited to attend and participate, both through questions and through reflections on their own relationships to the creative process.
Haig-Brown is the author of several books, including Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School (1988, Arsenal Pulp Press) and Tsqelmucwílc: KIRS, Resistance, and a Reckoning (2022, Arsenal Pulp Press), and recently retired from York University in Toronto. She is the youngest daughter of Roderick and Ann Haig-Brown and is currently working on her fifth feature length film and a new work of fiction.
Admission for each of the lectures in the Living Legacy series is $12 per person, and tickets are available at the Museum at Campbell River website (https://crmuseum.ca) and at the door. Further details about the Living Legacy project with Haig-Brown can be found on the Haig-Brown House website.