Soup & Storytelling
Posted: January 10, 2023
Thursday, Jan. 26, noon–2 p.m.
Casey Commons
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In her novel The Porcupine Year, Louise Erdrich tells us that the Ojibwe view winter, when few Animal Beings are listening, is the time for storytelling. When winter comes in the book, the grandmother begins telling her family stories “to keep up their spirits.”
She told stories to teach them, to heal them. She could tell the stories of the old times... because the frogs and snakes were frozen in the ground. So as the little family mourned and recovered, she told stories to help them gain their strength and laugh again.
In this spirit of powerful winter storytelling, the Indigenous Peoples Institute and the Center for Jesuit Education invite members of our little Seattle University family to a Soup and Storytelling lunch. If you’ll bring a bit of your own story to share, we will provide some soup to eat and some time to be together.
Questions? Please e-mail dominick@seattleu.edu.