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Final poetry reading of EAC- AHC 2019 Artist in Residence Luciana Erregue

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On September 26, 2019 from 12-1 pm Luciana Erregue performed her final poetry reading titled, "Knowledge Translation" a series of lyric essays and poems about office work, her final poetry reading as she wraps up her tenure as Edmonton Arts Council Artist in Residence at Action for Healthy Communities.

Luciana was selected as the 2019 Artist in Residence through a partnership between AHC and the Edmonton Arts Council. Luciana is a Canadian-Argentinian multilingual poet (Spanish-English-Italian), art historian (MA 2016, University of Alberta), and educator. She will be with us as an Artist in Residence until October 1st, 2019.

During her time at AHC she has hosted a number of spoken word and poetry reading, facilitated art workshops for children and youth, and provided guided tours at the Alberta art gallery for our program participants. We enjoyed having Luciana share her love for art and poetry with our team and look forward to following her journey.

View pictures from the event below.

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