An Evening with the Author
On April 23rd at 7 pm, join author Chris Bergeron and CBC’s Mattea Roach for a conversation about the One eRead 2025 book: Valid. As H Felix Chau Bradley of Montreal Review of Books say, “Valid draws a canny portrait of one very real trans woman in a world full of compromise, punctuated by energizing moments of corporate-algorithm-busting truth”. Join thousands of fellow Canadians as they read and discuss this year’s selection. Attendees of the event will have the opportunity for a question and answer session at the end of the discussion. Watch the livestreamed event from your home.
Chris Bergeron, accomplished publicist, committed speaker and now acclaimed author of the novels Valide, Vaillante and Vandales.
Chris works at the Ad agency Cossette and was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of Montreal’s Voir, cultural magazine. She offers speaking engagements on leadership, diversity, inclusion, and trans rights.
Mattea Roach is the host of Bookends, an author interview show airing on CBC Radio and major podcasting platforms. They previously hosted The Backbench, a federal politics panel show, for Canadaland.
Prior to becoming a journalist, Mattea appeared on the game show Jeopardy!, winning 23 consecutive games at age 23 and becoming the most successful Canadian contestant to ever appear on the program.
This program is presented in partnership with the Canadian Urban Libraries Council, Ottawa Public Library, and the CBC.
A One eRead Canada French language event with Chris Bergeron and hosted by Katerine Verebely from Radio-Canada on April 24 at 7:00pm in partnership with Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. More information is available from BAnQ’s website.