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Heather Zwicker
Heather teaches literature and cultural studies in the UofA's English and Film Studies Department. She is the editor of Edmonton on Location: River City Chronicles (NeWest, 2005), a columnist for Unlimited Magazine, and board chair for Exposure: Edmonton's Queer Arts and Culture Festival. She's in the early stages of a multi-media web installation on representations of Edmonton.
We Are The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Actively Narrating Our Futures
Leslea Kroll and Heather Zwicker read excerpts from Leslea's recent play Swallow. Set on the shore of a toxic tailings pond, Swallow featured two sisters, displaced migrant workers from the fictional submerged island of Aluvut. Staged one month prior to the drowning deaths of 500 ducks in Northern Alberta, Swallow invited audiences to consider the environmental impacts of the tar sands industry. Leslea and Heather invite discussion on the ways in which language frames our perceptions, and how cynicism and apathy can be actively channeled through creative commentary.
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