SEVENTEEN Table Read
March 7, 6:30PM
Libby Leshgold Gallery
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Free!

Join us at the Libby Leshgold Gallery for a live table read of the script for SEVENTEEN, written by Justin Ducharme.

The table read is a standard practice in film, theater and television and is often an important step in the production process not usually made public. For this event, audience members will have an opportunity to attend the live reading and provide anonymous feedback about the script if they choose to.

Seventeen is a story that follows three urban indigenous people whose lives intersect over the course of seventeen hours through chaos, circumstance and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.

The cast for this table read includes jaye simpson, Tarene Thomas, Madelaine McCallum, Edzi’u, Shane Sable, Amber Dawn, Anoushka Ratnarajah, Naheed Jadavi and Emma Kuntz.

This event is being presented in a new program from READ Books and Libby Leshgold Gallery titled, Research As…From January to March 2024, writer & filmmaker Justin Ducharme will be programming events on campus at Emily Carr University sharing insight into the research practice behind his upcoming feature film project SEVENTEEN. He will be presenting screenings, leading a workshop and hosting discussions that highlight the research that goes into his own creative practice.

Justin Ducharme is a writer, filmmaker and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. He was a fellow in the Sundance Film Festival's 2022 Native Film Lab with his television pilot "Positions” adapted from his short film. He was the recipient of the Toronto International Film Festival's Barry Avrich Fellowship and is an alumni of their 2021 TIFF Filmmaker Lab. Justin is also the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry published by Arsenal Pulp Press. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Sex Worker Wisdom, Room Magazine, Prism International and Filmmaker Mag. He currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.