Susan Aglukark, Author of Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing
Schedule
Mon Sep 08 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
124 Christina St S, Sarnia, ON N7T 8E1, Canada | Sarnia, ON
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We are excited to welcome Susan Aglukark to the Sarnia Library Theatre on Monday, September 8, 2025. Susan will be talking about her biography, Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased through the link here or online at https://sarniabookkeeper.com/lists/LoDEcGaLSAI0Tickets are also available at the store.
You can pre-order your copy of Kihiani at https://sarniabookkeeper.com/lists/LoDEcGaLSAI0
SUSAN AGLUKARK is a Juno Award–winning Inuk singer-songwriter. Born in Fort Churchill, Manitoba, but raised in Arviat, Nunavut, Susan now lives in Ontario. She is the first Inuk artist to win a Juno (four times) and a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for lifetime artistic achievement. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada, holds several honorary doctorate degrees, and has held command performances.
Profoundly honest and moving, Kihiani is the uplifting story of an Inuk artist’s journey to healing and self-discovery.
Born in Fort Churchill, Manitoba, but raised in Arviat, a predominantly Inuit community on the western edges of Hudson Bay, Susan and her six siblings grew up in a humble but loving home. But while living in Rankin Inlet, when she was eight years old, Susan’s life was disrupted by a life-changing event, a distinct separation that created a schism inside her for many years and from which she continues to heal.
At fifteen, she started writing poems that spilled out of her, and when Susan had the choice to leave her community, she grabbed it like a lifeline. Eventually, Susan was approached by a producer at CBC who was making a compilation album of Arctic artists and years later signed with a major label for her third album, This Child.
The disruption and milestones, the turmoil and joy, the devastation and healing—this is Susan Aglukark’s story of discovering her Inuk self.
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Where is it happening?
124 Christina St S, Sarnia, ON N7T 8E1, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
