Years ago, seven regular members of the Manitoulin Writers’ Circle attended a special meeting to decide if it was possible for each member to find a companion from another artistic medium to complement our writing scenarios. It was agreed that we should try.
Our island had an abundance of busy quilters, artists, photographers, and sculptors, but finding an available partner proved more difficult than I expected. They all seemed to have very full agendas, and I soon wondered if we had been too eager to move into their artistic territory …
Bio:
After a long nursing career in the Arctic, Connie LeVert retired and relocated to Manitoulin Island, Ontario. She joined the Manitoulin Writers’ Circle for friendship and collaboration, and shared her Northern experience with a small group of writers who thought they already lived a Northern life. After the Cross Pollination Project’s initial success, she found herself overwhelmed with candidates for future collaborations.
[Image caption: Painting by Petra Wall, a member of the Cross Pollination Project]