APPLY TO HOST ALINA PETE (IN-PERSON)
Home Location: Surrey, BC
Creator Type: author/illustrator
Genres: Middle grade, young adult, graphic novels
Website: alina-pete.com
Tour Region: Yukon
Target Audience: Grades 1 - 12
Cost: $300* (for one 60-minute presentation OR two 30-minute presentations)
*(The author-illustrator collects $250 of the fee and $50 of the fee covers The Canadian Children's Book Centre's administration fees for coordinating Book Week).
Taxes charged on presentations: YES
Biography
Alina Pete is a nehiyaw artist and writer from Little Pine First Nation in Saskatchewan. They grew up urban but spent summers wandering in the Qu’Appelle Valley with their cousins from Cowessess First Nation. Alina is best known for their award–winning comics, but they also write short stories and poems, and their work has been featured in several Indigenous comic anthologies. They are the creator and editor of the comics anthology Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life. Alina lives on unceded Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen land with their partner.
Presentation Information:
Indiginerds! Indigenous Stories in Pop Culture (60 minutes)
Target audience: Grades 6 – 12
Preferred group size: 15-30 students
Maximum group size: 40 students
Think Indigenous people are still stuck in the past? Think again! Join Alina Pete, author and editor of the book Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life, as they talk about all the ways Indigenous people blend tradition and pop culture. From using video games to teach language skills, building cultural spaces in VR or battling depression in D&D, Indiginerds show that Indigenous people are still here and still building their own spaces in pop culture. Alina will guide the class through a roundtable chat about good and bad representation in media, and talk about the importance of
Required equipment: projector/large screen for slideshow
Required materials: none
Lost at Windy River: Using Indigenous know-how to survive a blizzard!
Target audience: Grades 1 – 4
Preferred group size: 20-30 students
Maximum group size: 40 students
Wonder how Ilse Schweder, a 12-year old Indigenous girl, survived when she got lost in the wilds? Alina Pete, an Indigenous artist from Litle Pine First Nation and illustrator of Lost at Windy River, will talk about how Indigenous knowledge teaches how to survive and keep hope in your heart even in the toughest of times. Then, Alina will lead the class through a guessing game of animal tracks, and tell a story about how one of Coyote’s tricks can lead you straight to the North Star!
Required equipment: Photocopier/printer (to make copies of animal tracks worksheet)
Required materials: Animal tracks worksheet, pencils
Bibliography:
Rathgeber, Trina, writer. Pete, Alina, Illustrator. Dolan, Jillian, illustrator. Lost at Windy River, Orca Book Publishers, 2024.
Pete, Alina, editor. Indiginerds: Tales of Modern Indigenous Life. Iron Circus Comics, 2024.
Pete, Alina. “Can’t Trust a Trickster”. Magic, Machines and Mayhem: A Shadowrun Anthology. Helfers, John and Brozek, Jennifer, editors. Catalyst Game Labs. 2024.
Pete, Alina. “Telling the Soul of Mars”. Augur Magazine Issue 7.2. Hagg, Frankie, editor. Augur Magazine Literary Society. 2024. pp 1-13
Gone Away to Die, A Howl: An Indigenous Anthology of Wolves, Werewolves and Rougarou. Native Realities Comics, 2022
Brain Gremlins, Through the Labyrinths of the Mind. Cloudscape Comics, 2021
Oceanic Tessalations, 10-year Anniversary Exhibition. Vancouver Comic Arts Festival, 2021
Pps-abilities, The Garden Club. Cloudscape Comics, 2020
River’s Story, Unity in Diversity. Diversity Comics, 2020
Hospital Corners, Comics in Transit. Cloudscape Comics, 2019
Ka-tepwa: Who Calls?, Moonshot: Volume 2. AH Comics Inc., 2019
Moon Time, Can I Pet Your Werewolf? Kel McDonald Comics, 2019
Cedar and Sage, Bones of the Coast. Cloudscape Comics, 2017
Thunderbird, Megafauna. Cloudscape Comics, 2015
We Need to Talk. The Downie Wenjack Fund. Writer and animator, short film, 2021
Echoes of the Plague Times. Summerworks. Writer and animator, short film, 2020
Your Best Game Ever. Monte Cook Games. Contributing writer, consulting expert, 2020
Rolled & Told Magazine. Lion Forge Games. Contributing writer, 2019
Ohunkakan: The Living Myth. Monte Cook Games. Co-Developer, TTRPG gaming supplement, 2015