[Personal_archives] Edna's archive

[Hobbs, Catherine]

Hi Everyone,
I've just come across this project by way of an article in Canadian Theatre review.

Andrew Houston, a theatre professor at the University of Waterloo created a performance with his students based on a bankers box of documents marked "Edna Bear" which was found next to a dumpster in Toronto in 2005.  Bear was a former Kitchener resident.  The theatre class created a project which links Edna's documentation and a downtown site in Kitchener in a meditation on memory and place but also on abandonment and effacement of both personal life and historical place.

http://www.ednasarchive.ca/

Catherine