VLACC is thrilled to welcome back our beloved Latin American Short Stories Reading Group, in collaboration with SFU’s Department of World Languages and Literatures.

Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Location: Britannia Community Services Centre (Conference Room) – 1661 Napier St, Vancouver, BC

This is a free event, but registration is required, and donations are always appreciated.
Reserve your spot here: LINK

This session will be facilitated by Camila Dilli, SFU Visiting Faculty, and will guide us through an inspiring journey into the Brazilian short work Ideas to Postpone the End of the World (2020), by Indigenous leader, writer, and activist Ailton Krenak. A member of the Krenak people of southeastern Brazil, Krenak has long been recognized for his role in Indigenous rights movements and his powerful reflections on humanity’s relationship with the planet. In this book, he weaves together philosophy, ancestral knowledge, and ecological awareness to challenge dominant ideas of progress and propose new ways of living that honour interdependence and sustainability.

For our discussion, we will focus on a few pages, where Krenak shares stories and provocations that invite us to imagine alternatives to the ecological and social crises of our times.

The stories are available in both the original Portuguese version and English translation. Discussions will be in English, and no prior knowledge of Latin American literature is required, just curiosity and a love for stories!

Please click on the following links to access the stories:

English Version:

KRENAK, Ailton. Ideas to Postpone the End of the World. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2020.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e6xI3jd_eAIzG0vHBABMhewWoVzpRIdY/view?usp=sharing

Portuguese Version:

KRENAK, Ailton. Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2019.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UYjFpdqD-5llOOc6cogLhSqYpch9AM2R/view?usp=sharing

About the Facilitator
Camila Dilli came to Canada to launch Portuguese language courses and to develop a Portuguese language curriculum for the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where she is a Visiting Faculty through the Guimarães Rosa Readership Program, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil.

With over 20 years of experience teaching in Scandinavia, North America, and South America, Camila has a passion for intercultural dialogue and creative pedagogy. She is the author of online language and teacher education courses and has also explored literary writing and oral storytelling, including the short story she published in 42 Praias, 42 Beaches, a collaborative book by Brazilian women centred on the theme of death.

Follow her work on Instagram: @leitoradoguimaraes.sfu

With the support of Britannia Community and Services Centre, Leitorado Instituto Guimarães Rosa, SFU World Languages and Literatures.