{"id":242,"date":"2017-11-13T16:26:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T00:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/?p=242"},"modified":"2018-07-09T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:28:13","slug":"242-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/242-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices from the Visual Volley: Filmmakers, Tar Sands and Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-243\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/11\/Voices_Visual_Volley2_624-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/11\/Voices_Visual_Volley2_624-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/11\/Voices_Visual_Volley2_624-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/11\/Voices_Visual_Volley2_624-1-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/11\/Voices_Visual_Volley2_624-1.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In recent years, several documentary films have attacked Alberta\u2019s stewardship of the bituminous (\u2018bit&#8217;-) sands as threatening the health of people, their communities and the environment. This short film draws on conversations with the creators of these films and blends their voices with images and with texts from interviews with officials from government and the oil industry involved in producing videos defending Alberta\u2019s stewardship, and from related public documents. In voicing disparate views on the bit-sands as a public-health concern, this arts-based research aims to encourage depolarization around a divisive public issue\u2014and ultimately, more responsible environmental policy in Alberta and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon to a small screen near you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Geo con Brio Productions in 2013<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, several documentary films have attacked Alberta\u2019s stewardship of the bituminous (\u2018bit&#8217;-) sands as threatening the health of people, their communities and the environment. This short film draws on conversations with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}