Ground Zero Productions (GZP) www.gzpedmonton.org is a 30-year-old registered charity with a mandate to create professional theatre, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Edmonton Arts Council. GZP develops works of creative non-fiction for the stage as live performances in non-traditional venues. Don Bouzek and Catherine C. Cole have been working together for more than a decade. Prior to these projects they collaborated on GWG: Piece by Piece, a multidisciplinary, award-winning community arts and heritage project that included archival and artifact collections, oral histories, a virtual exhibition, temporary displays, publications and presentations, a video ballad, and designation of the founding of the union as an event of national historic significance. They are also collaborating with visual artist Aaron Paquette on Mill Woods Living Heritage, a project in Southeast Edmonton that focuses on the history of Mill Woods.
GZP Founder and Artistic Director Don Bouzek, MFA works in theatre and video with projects ranging from broadcast programs for Access TV to web-based educational videos. Don is a founding director of the Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI), which collects, preserves and publicizes stories of Alberta’s workers. He has been instrumental in developing ALHI’s extensive collection of oral histories http://www.labourhistory.ca/default.asp?lang=eng&mode=oralhistory and created web videos for the Alberta Federation of Labour’s 100th anniversary http://www.labourhistory.ca/default.asp?mode=webpage&id=284. He worked with nurses to create 100 Years of Nursing http://www.100yearsofnursing.ca/english/frames.html a series of bilingual videos about the history of nursing in Saskatchewan and Alberta. He created two half hour programs, The Back Row and Three Strikes, about Alberta history for Athabasca University and Access TV.
GZP Founder and Artistic Director Don Bouzek, MFA works in theatre and video with projects ranging from broadcast programs for Access TV to web-based educational videos. Don is a founding director of the Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI), which collects, preserves and publicizes stories of Alberta’s workers. He has been instrumental in developing ALHI’s extensive collection of oral histories http://www.labourhistory.ca/default.asp?lang=eng&mode=oralhistory and created web videos for the Alberta Federation of Labour’s 100th anniversary http://www.labourhistory.ca/default.asp?mode=webpage&id=284. He worked with nurses to create 100 Years of Nursing http://www.100yearsofnursing.ca/english/frames.html a series of bilingual videos about the history of nursing in Saskatchewan and Alberta. He created two half hour programs, The Back Row and Three Strikes, about Alberta history for Athabasca University and Access TV.
