This is event is hosted and sponsored by the University of Calgary Faculty of Arts

Session Description:

How do you know if the choices you make are helping? Join filmmaker, author and playwright Cheryl Foggo for an online screening of her film John Ware Reclaimed. Cheryl will introduce the film with a brief exploration of how the commitment of a small group of women on the University of Calgary campus played a role in getting the story to the screen. The streaming will be followed by a Question and Answer Period.

About the Speaker:

Cheryl Foggo is a multiple award-winning playwright, author and filmmaker, whose work over the last 30 years has focused on the lives of Western Canadians of African descent. In 2020 her NFB feature documentary John Ware Reclaimed premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival, where it received the Alberta Feature Audience Choice Award. Additionally, in 2020, the 30th anniversary edition of her book Pourin’ Down Rain: A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West was released by Brush Education Press and launched as an audiobook read by acclaimed actor Karen Robinson through ECW Press.

In 2019 she wrote and directed the short film Kicking Up a Fuss: The Charles Daniels Story, which screened alongside John Ware Reclaimed at CIFF. Her play John Ware Reimagined won the 2015 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Drama. Projects for 2021 include a short play called The Sender for Obsidian Theatre Company’s 21 Black Futures and a production of her play Heaven at the Citadel Theatre.

Contact

Ginger Rodgers
Faculty Experience Coordinator
grodgers@ucalgary.ca; 403-614-3015