The StFX Extension Department and Coady International Institute presented Dorothy and John with a beautiful fresh flower bouquet. Four HARP publications are among their donation of climate action/climate justice books, including Hope Unleashed by Sara avMaat (forthcoming), ReReading Catharine Parr Traill (https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/rereadingcpt/), Mi’kmaw Fiddler Joe Marble Plays to St. Anne (https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/mikmaw-fiddler-joe-marble-plays-to-st-anne/) and Illness and the […]
We have begun this year—in Chinese culture The Year of the Rabbit, symbolic of longevity, peace and prosperity—by naming HARP a movement. Because HARP The People’s Press is far more than an multi-media publishing press dedicated to the healing arts and health equity. HARP is a social enterprise, reaching out to every one of us, […]
Band Councillor Jeremy Paul and Elder John R. Prosper at the Feast of St. Anne, Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation, July 26, 2022, where Mi’kmaw Fiddler Joe Marble Plays to St. Anne was first released. Our healing arts publishing house—HARP Publishing the People’s Press (www.harppublishing.ca)—has just hit the four-year mark. As we reflect on what we’ve learned […]
We went on a plant-based diet eight years ago. Reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer and learning of the cruelty factory farming inflicts on animals was the decision point. It gave us a hearty health kick—a direct one to our aging bodies and an indirect one, we fervently hoped, to our planet. We ingested […]
Poking out of the top of my 2022 Christmas stocking was the book Peace by Chocolate: The Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey from Syria to Canada by change-maker/author Jon Tattrie. Also two dark chocolate bars—70% cocoa—from the Hadhad’s newly opened store on Main Street, Antigonish. Shortly after midnight on the first day of 2023, having blurted […]
Posted by Dorothy Lander https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29700/22074 Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary JournalVolume 7 Issue 2, 2022 A REVIEW OF “THE MARROW OF LONGING” BY CELESTE NAZELI SNOWBER Kathy Mantas Nipissing University kathym@nipissingu.ca Kathy Mantas’ review of Celeste Snowber’s The Marrow of Longing is like no review that I have ever experienced – and it truly is an […]
Click on the link for the podcast of the Truth and Reconciliation pilgrimage to the St. George’s Anglican Chapel in Gore’s Landing on the Rice Lake Plains on Sept. 30, 2022, building on the decolonizing memoir by Dorothy Lander, ReReading Catharine Parr Traill: Stranging the Familiar. Edited by the good folks at Northumberland community […]
Very exciting news. The restoration of St. Anne’s Church at Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation is underway. The photos taken by Elder John R. Prosper show that work has begun on the steeple. The pews have been removed to the sanctuary and supporting pillar and new floor boards installed. To keep the momentum going, HARP has initiated […]
Ken Kingston 89.7 FM Antigonish in conversation with Elder John R. Prosper and Settler Dorothy A. Lander about their recently released joint memoir, Mi’kmaw Fiddler Joe Marble Plays to St. Anne: A Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing Pilgrimage. https://tryhealingarts.ca/books/mikmaw-fiddler-joe-marble-plays-to-st-anne/ Mi’kmaw Fiddler sells for $25 of which $20 goes toward the St. Anne’s Church Restoration Fund. The book is […]
Equity? Not for a First-Time Indigenous Author & a Start-up Publishing House in Rural Nova Scotia We are committed to equity in all our activities, including the administration of our prizes and awards. https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/prizes/governor-generals-literary-awards The Canada Council’s equity statement emboldened HARP Publishing The People’s Press to nominate their latest title, a Truth-and-Reconciliation joint memoir entitled […]
