CBC Massey Lecture: Tomson Highway, Laughing With the Trickster

Friday, Sept. 9, 7-8 p.m.

D.F. Cook Recital Hall, School of Music

After a two-year hiatus, the CBC Massey Lectures are back on the road touring across Canada.

This year, Cree author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to his 2022 Massey Lectures, Laughing With the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions, published by House of Anansi. He explores five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death.

Throughout his lectures, Highway offers generous personal anecdotes, including ones of his beloved accordion-playing father, and plentiful Trickster stories. He reveals how Christian, Classical and Cree mythologies have given form and substance to Western thought, life, and culture – and points to how Indigenous mythologies provide unique solutions to our modern problems.

Tickets are on sale here.

Presented by CBC

Event Listing 2022-09-09 19:00:00 2022-09-09 20:00:00 America/St_Johns CBC Massey Lecture: Tomson Highway, Laughing With the Trickster After a two-year hiatus, the CBC Massey Lectures are back on the road touring across Canada. This year, Cree author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to his 2022 Massey Lectures, Laughing With the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions, published by House of Anansi. He explores five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death. Throughout his lectures, Highway offers generous personal anecdotes, including ones of his beloved accordion-playing father, and plentiful Trickster stories. He reveals how Christian, Classical and Cree mythologies have given form and substance to Western thought, life, and culture – and points to how Indigenous mythologies provide unique solutions to our modern problems. Tickets are on sale here. D.F. Cook Recital Hall, School of Music CBC