With Project Leaders Sue Sinclair & Elizabeth Effinger, University of New Brunswick, and Walls to Bridges alumni participants.

On June 2, project leaders Sue Sinclair & Elizabeth Effinger, of the University of New Brunswick, along with Walls to Bridges alumni participants, will be at the library to launch this special exhibit and discuss the project: what it is, why it is, who’s involved, and what ideas and relationships have emerged from the process.

On the bicentennial of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this exhibit showcases the result of an artistic collaboration that brings together university students and members of the Walls to Bridges Collective, a group of incarcerated and non-incarcerated women dedicated to creating collaborative and innovative learning communities within correctional settings. Participants each “erased” several pages of the novel, strategically blotting out words to create a new literary work of art: an “erasure,” a long poem piggybacking on Shelley’s original work.

 The novel has been reassembled into a rich and crinkly book. This will be on display at the library, as well as blown-up images of some of the individual pages and statements from participants.

 Find out more at wallstobridges.ca.