The Vancouver Writers Festival continues this week with a strong line up of authors to appear on livestream and recordings. But the event that I’m most excited for (and whether it is culturally pertinent you can be the judge of that) is the discussion with iconic Canadian singing duo Tegan and Sara. These two have sung their way into our hearts since the mid-90’s. Now having been in the music business for decades (decorated with Juno awards and a Grammy nomination) the LGBTQ icons have turned to writing by releasing their new memoir High School.
Tegan and Sara/ Facebook
This conversation will be hosted as a livestream over Zoom by Baharak Yousefi tomorrow evening (October 23) at 8 pm PT. So it is (what I think) the perfect way to ring in the weekend!
Their memoir is written about their formative years of high school (naturally) during the cultural time of grunge-punk. They discuss going through their parents divorce while trying to figure out their identity and sexuality. Themes of love, friendship, sex and drugs all come into play during this memoir making it extremely candid especially for two people who are so heavily in the spotlight.
Tegan and Sara/ Facebook
I personally will be picking up a copy of this book, as Tegan and Sara were a big part of the soundtrack of my adolescence with songs like I Was a Fool, Where does the Good Go and Closer. Their music is soulful and slightly angsty which made it easy to slide into my heart at 14 and stay there ever since.
This event is to pay what you can with an option to listen in for free. Click here to buy tickets. Click here to purchase their memoir.