Letter to the Future is a collaborative work that brings together different perspectives in a work carried by ice and time. The contributors have written their letters by hand with archival materials. Each author has chosen their language, some have made drawings.
CINDY BLACKSTOCK
Gitxsan Activist, Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
ROSI BRAIDOTTI
Author of The Posthuman; Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, Netherlands
PATRICIA COCHRAN
Executive Director, Alaska Native Science Commission
ᐅᑲᓕᖅ ᐃᔨᑦᓯᐊᖅ E7-1865 OKALIK EEGEESIAK
Former Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council
MARY GIAIMO
Poet
BRIAN GREENE
Theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist; Director of Columbia University’s Center for Theoretical Physics, Author of The Elegant Universe
STEVEN GUILBEAULT
Environmentalist and Minister of Canadian Heritage, House of Commons of Canada
ROSHI JOAN HALIFAX
Buddhist, Ecologist, Civil Rights Activist, founder of Upaya Zen Center, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality
JENNIFER HOUSTON
Midwife
ANNE MICHAELS
Poet and Novelist, Author of several books including Fugitive Pieces
MALI OLE KAUNGA
Director of the Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT), Kenya
ARVO PÄRT
Composer
MAYA PINDYCK
Poet, artist, and assistant professor and director of Writing at Moore College of Art & Design
ROSENCLAIRE
Collaborative artist duo
CARLO ROVELLI
Theoretical Physicist and author of several books including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time
GAVIN SCHMIDT
Climatologist; Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York
LISA SPEER
Director of International Oceans Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council
CHARLENE SPRETNAK
Feminist and Ecological Activist; Author of several books including States of Grace; Cofounder of the US Green Party Movement
ROSE TREMBLAY
Primary school student at École Laurier who loves our planet Earth
BERNARD VOYER
Polar Explorer
MARGARET WERTHEIM
Founder of The Institute of Figuring; Author of several books including Pythagoras' Trousers
Zoé Tremblay
Primary school student at École Laurier who loves animals