Cheryl Foggo is a playwright, author, and filmmaker, whose work over the last 35 years has focused on the lives of Western Canadians of African descent. Among her many works are the play Heaven, the documentary John Ware Reclaimed, John Ware Reimagined and the autobiographical Pourin’ Down Rain: A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West. Foggo is a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Outstanding Artist Award, The Doug and Lois Mitchell Outstanding Calgary Artist Award, the Arts, Media and Entertainment Award from the Calgary Black Chambers, the Women Making History in Alberta Award, the Alberta Order of Excellence and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal. In 2023, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Mount Royal University.
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