Conversation with Artist Cheryl L'Hirondelle
b"Cheryl L'Hirondelle is a community-engaged Alberta-born, Cree/Metis, interdisciplinary artist, singer/songwriter and curator. Since the early 1980s, L\\u2019Hirondelle has created, performed and presented work in a variety of artistic disciplines, including music, performance art, theatre, performance poetry, storytelling, installation, and new media. Her creative practice investigates a Cree worldview (n\\xeahiyawin) in contemporary time-space. L\\u2019Hirondelle has developed endurance-based performances, interventions, site-specific installations, interactive net.art and new media projects and keeps singing, making rhythm, writing songs and telling stories/giving voice whenever and wherever she can. Currently based in Toronto, she has performed and exhibited her work widely both in Canada and abroad, and her previous musical efforts and new media work have garnered her critical acclaim and numerous awards."