Love Letters, a commemorative project in the Wood Buffalo region, is calling upon residents to reflect on resiliency, strength, and hope in our community.
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the 2016 Horse River Wildfire and the first anniversary of the 2020 Spring Flood. While the economy, building structures and natural surroundings were impacted immensely by disaster reoccurrence, the reality is that the region’s residents harnessed the hardest of the hits.
To commemorate the significance of these anniversaries, Love Letters invites residents to focus on moving forward with positivity. The project aims to bring the community together in a new way to heal.
Residents of the region are invited to share their Love Letters. Submissions can be prose, poetry, or any other form of creative expression. Love Letters will be showcased virtually and celebrated in a community launch event to be determined. Submissions can be made at lovelettersymm.com/submit.html.
This project is made possible by a committee of community leaders and social profits organizations that aims to focus on how far we’ve come, to showcase our story of hope through adversity through the Love Letters commemorative project.
- Cat Jones, Mix 103.7 and 100.5 Cruz FM
- Emma Carter, YMM Media Group
- Dawn Booth, The Northern Canada Collective Society of Writers
- Dawn Sidoroff, Wood Buffalo Regional Library
- Guy Choquet, Canadian Red Cross
- Liana Wheeldon, Arts Council Wood Buffalo
- Linda Thompson-Brown, Canadian Red Cross
- Krista Balsom, YMM Media Group
- Tammy Plowman, Fort McMurray Heritage Society
- Therese Greenwood, Multicultural Association of Wood Buffalo
For more information on Love Letters, visit https://lovelettersymm.com/.
