Naturalist and author K. Linda Kivi will be in Toronto on January 19th to promote her latest book, The Inner Green: Exploring Home in the Columbia Mountains.

The Tartu College Estonian Studies Library in association with the Tartu Institute and the University of Toronto Chair of Estonian Studies has organized an evening with K. Linda Kivi, beginning at 7 PM in the Tartu College Hall.

K. Linda Kivi was born in Toronto and raised in the local Estonian community. Upon reaching adulthood she broke with the past of her culture of origin in search of her own sense of belonging and place. She has travelled extensively in Africa, Central America and Europe. For the last 15 years she has been a resident of the Columbia Mountains and lives on a land co-op in the Kootenay River valley.

The Inner Green records Kivi’s and co-author Eileen Delehanty Pearkes’ homecoming journey to the Columbia Mountains, a journey with an inward spiral.

En route they found that the “connection to place can draw each and every one of us toward the inner green, a heart-vision of the living natural world.”

This journey of personal discovery is expressed through reverent respect for the beauty and uniqueness of the Interior Temperate Rainforest ecosystems of the fourth largest watershed in North America via observation, adventure and personal experience.

Kivi’s Estonian heritage makes its presence felt throughout the book. A few examples are to be found in her exploration of the weight of her name, in celebrating Ussipäev, and recognizing the exuberant power of singing one’s heart out, be it as a simple wren or as a nation freeing itself from the Soviet system through the “Singing revolution”.

Coffee and discussion after readings from the book. The Inner Green will be avilable for purchase from the author. A lottery of recently arrived books from Estonia will also take place, proceeds to support the TC Estonian Studies Library.

Admission by voluntary donation.

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