May 28 Morning Presenters
Barb Byers
(Secretary Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress, and board member for the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre)
Barbara Byers is the Canadian Labour Congress’ Secretary-Treasurer, bringing a wealth of experience to the job as a labour leader committed to inclusiveness and as a “Prairie Populist."
Barb has fought for the underdog all her life: first as a social worker, then as President of the Saskatchewan Government Employees Union (SGEU) and as Saskatchewan Federation of Labour President (SFL). http://canadianlabour.ca/about-clc/our-officers/barbara-byers-secretary-treasurer
Barbara Byers is the Canadian Labour Congress’ Secretary-Treasurer, bringing a wealth of experience to the job as a labour leader committed to inclusiveness and as a “Prairie Populist."
Barb has fought for the underdog all her life: first as a social worker, then as President of the Saskatchewan Government Employees Union (SGEU) and as Saskatchewan Federation of Labour President (SFL). http://canadianlabour.ca/about-clc/our-officers/barbara-byers-secretary-treasurer
Dot Tuer
(theorist and historian, OCAD University, Toronto)
Dot Tuer is a writer and cultural historian whose research focuses on Canadian and Latin American art of the contemporary and modern periods with a speciality in new media, photography, and performance. She also has a scholarly interest in colonial Latin America and transcultural exchange. Her current writing and collaborative projects address the relationship of social memory and witnessing to political agency in the Americas.
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Loraine Leeson
(artist, Senior Research Fellow at University of Westminster and Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University)
Dr. Loraine Leeson is a visual artist particularly known for her 1980’s cultural campaigning in support of the communities of London’s Docklands and subsequent collaborative and participatory work in East London. In 2011 she was Fulbright Scholar in Residence at University of Washington and is currently Senior Research Fellow at University of Westminster. She has also recently developed a new MA in Art and Social Practice at Middlesex University. Loraine is director of the arts charity cSPACE where her work with young people has attracted a Media TrustInspiring Voices award and Olympic Inspire Mark. Her public artwork The Catchinvolving 300 children, college and university students, was voted a London 2012 Landmark. Current and recent projects include Active Energy, an arts/engineering collaboration with seniors’ group The Geezers, developing tidal technology along the River Thames, and Lambeth Floating Marsh with scientists addressing issues of biodiversity in urban rivers. www.cspace.org.uk
Leaf Watson & Sanjit Dhillon
(curators of the contemporary response to Beveridge & Condé's It's Still Privileged Art 1976, OCAD University, Toronto)
Don Bouzek
(activist video/ theatre director, Groundzero Productions, Edmonton)
Don creates theatre on a variety of social issues. For the last decade, he has been collaborating with Banner Theatre from Birmingham in the UK to produce a series of Video Ballads. Their most recent work includes Embedded with the Bankers which was commissioned by the National Union of Journalists and presented for their convention in London last fall. With Eyes Wide Open recently premiered in Birmingham, is currently on tour in the UK, including being featured at the UNISON national convention.
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