Bentboy Women and on into professions

and on into professions

Author Karen Hesse uses free verse poetry

The North-West is Our Mother by Jean Teillet

'Blackbird Song' is a slim book of beautiful poetry

Bentboy Women and on into professionsAn Anishinaabe theatre artist from Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Herbie Barnes is an accomplished playwright, performer, director and arts educator whose 30 year career spans stages across North America. Each pathway is created by the single steps of many who go before Deep in a forest, in another time, begins the story of a child called Bentboy. Hunched and hobbled by his curved back, Bentboy is cast aside by his villageuntil