Where the Waves Take Us: Art, Identity, and the Sea

Water Binds Me to Your Name

In this final public event of Clara Kumagai's residency, she will welcome Saeed Teebi, a writer and lawyer based in Toronto, in conversation. His 2022 debut collection of short stories, Her First Palestinian was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award. His forthcoming book is a work of personal non-fiction titled You Will Not Kill Our Imagination.

 

This event will be followed by a reception in the Piano Lounge, Graham House.

 

November 19, 2025
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Coach House

6201 Cecil Green Park Rd

Speakers

Saeed Teebi, writer and lawyer
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We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

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