Latest from Gloria Alamrew
Edmonton's Black Arts Matter is an unapologetic celebration of Blackness where you may not expect it
"The festival is a reminder that Black people exist and have existed everywhere, even in the northernmost metropolitan city in the world."
Point of View
Writing our own history: In celebration of Black writers and the endurance of our stories
"This is what art does: it creates permanence. You can quell revolutions and people, physical artifacts of time, but you can't destroy ideas."
Gloria Alamrew
"When I think of my life, I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude. Gratitude to the country that took my parents in and allowed them to build new dreams; and to my parents, who used what remained of their hopes from before to lay down a foundation that I could build my own life on. "